On 13-14 March 2025, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) will bring together nearly 100 young participants and 37 teachers from EU Member States, candidate countries and the UK for its annual Your Europe, Your Say! (YEYS) event. This year, YEYS will focus on the role of young people in collectively shaping a resilient future. It aims to equip them to engage in civic action and continue to contribute to participatory democracy activities in their communities and beyond.
AI's impact on the labour market - A contribution to the Global Coalition for Social Justice
Location
Rue Belliard 99, 1040 Bruxelles/Brussel
Brussels
Belgium
This high-level conference is organised by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO).
The event will focus on ensuring that artificial intelligence benefits the world of work and advances social justice.
It will feature high-level speakers, including Gilbert F. Houngbo, Director-General of the ILO, Oliver Röpke, President of the EESC, Labour Ministers of EU countries and partner countries of the Global Coalition for Social Justice, representatives of EU and international institutions and of organized civil society.
The agenda and all information regarding this plenary session will be available 8 days prior to the event. You will be able to follow the debates by web streaming. Web streaming
Public hearing with Polish civil society and policy makers
Event type
Public hearing
Location
Online event
ul. Wspólna 2/4
00-926 Warszawa
Warsaw
Poland
In the context of the ongoing exploratory opinion, requested by the Polish Presidency, to examine how civil society actors can make use of a results-orientation approach in cohesion policy in the next programming period, the EESC is organizing a hearing in Warsaw on 17 January 2025. The hearing will be important as the EESC will explore how civil society and local actors understand the concept of a results-orientation approach to cohesion policy, to which degree they are prepared and if they have the administrative capacity to implement it.
The hearing will be co-organized with the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU. The venue will be the premises of the Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy of Poland.
The ECO section is organising a high-level debate on Defence Funding in the EU. This topic is of utmost importance in the current political debate, particularly given the new geopolitical context, the new EU institutional and legislative cycle that is just starting, and the preparations for the post-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework.
The EESC is organising this public debat to discuss how civil society partners can use a results-orientation approach in cohesion policy for the next programming period. The principles of multi-level governance and shared management are contradictory or complementary to the results-focused cohesion policy ?
The Second Macro-Regional Citizen Agora, organised together with European House (EH), a Budapest-based pro-European civil society organisation, is the concluding event of the 2024 Annual Programme of European House Budapest titled „Stronger.Together – The magic of macro-regions 2024”. It builds on the results of four preparatory events organised in Budapest on 29 February – 1 March for the Danube, in Lyon on 2-3 May for the Alpine, in Zagreb on 14 May for the Adriatic-Ionian and in Visby on 29-30 October for the Baltic Sea macro-regions.
