Event highlights 2023
Eurofound open day 2023
Eurofound held its first open day on 9 June 2023 in collaboration with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. The event was an opportunity to showcase our work on living and working in Europe, show guests around our premises, and provide participants with an opportunity to meet and talk to the team.
Below are some pictures from the event.
European Commissioner visit
Mairead McGuinness, European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and the Capital Markets Union, visited Eurofound on 7 July 2023.
Below are some pictures from the event.
Eurofound's annual lecture 2023
On 11 May 2023, Professor Brigid Laffan, Emeritus Professor at the European University Institute, delivered an address at the inaugural Eurofound annual lecture in Government Buildings, an event organised in collaboration with the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs. In her lecture, Professor Laffan reflected on the challenges and opportunities facing the European Union, with a particular spotlight on Ireland.
Below are some pictures from the event.
European Commissioner addresses joint event
Nicolas Schmit, European Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights, addresses the joint event ‘How to ensure decent work and job quality for essential workers’ hosted by Eurofound and the ILO in Brussels in October 2023.
Webinars
Eurofound runs a series of webinars on hot topics during the year allowing participants to interact directly with our inhouse experts.
In September 2023, our experts hosted a live interactive webinar on 'How to help workers struggling with inflation?', with a live Q&A.
The discussion focused on the impacts of inflation on real terms pay across Europe, as well as the broader societal implications of declining purchasing power and the role of public services in building resilience across the EU.
Podcasts
The Eurofound Talks podcast series covers many key topics related to living and working in Europe today. Host Mary McCaughey talks to inhouse experts about the findings of their research, as well as guest speakers.
In 2003, we recorded six podcasts:
The work–life challenges of women and men
Brussels briefings
On 15 November 2023, as part of its new Brussels Briefing series, Eurofound held a face-to-face briefing on the different issues that can help tackle the root causes of the EU’s persistent gender pay gap with its own expert and MEP Maria Walsh.
More on the event: Brussels Briefing: Equal pay for women and men – It’s not just about the money
These briefings are a chance for stakeholders to access experts and policymakers in an informal setting.
Barbara Gerstenberger, Head of the Working Life unit at Eurofound (left), and Maria Walsh, Member of the European Parliament, in discussion at the Brussels Briefing, Equal pay for women and men – It’s not just about the money, in November 2023.
Barbara Gerstenberger, Head of the Working Life unit at Eurofound (left), and Maria Walsh, Member of the European Parliament, in discussion at the Brussels Briefing, Equal pay for women and men – It’s not just about the money, in November 2023.
EU presidencies
Every six months, an EU Member State takes on the presidency of the Council of the EU, helping to ensure the smooth running of the EU legislative process.
Eurofound collaborates with the rotating trio of presidencies of the Council of the EU, providing evidence-based knowledge and expertise at various levels, coordinating closely with Ministry colleagues in the Member States.
In line with the priorities of each presidency, Eurofound can provide valuable evidence from a range of its ongoing research topics linked to employment, social and work-related policies.
Eurofound Executive Director Ivailo Kalfin (second from left) participates in a panel at a high-level meeting on the future of work and of social dialogue held as part of the Spanish EU Presidency in September 2023.
Eurofound Executive Director Ivailo Kalfin (second from left) participates in a panel at a high-level meeting on the future of work and of social dialogue held as part of the Spanish EU Presidency in September 2023.
Visiting Eurofound
Eurofound operates a busy schedule of visits during the year to its offices and conference centre in Loughlinstown, Co. Dublin.
Among the many visits from various organisations to Eurofound in 2023, on 20 October, Eurofound welcomed a group of 20 journalists, press and advisors from Norway's largest employee organisation, LO Norway. The purpose of the visit was to connect with Eurofound and to gain more insights into our work, our role and audiences, and to get a flavour of some of the current key research topics.
On 16 August 2023, Eurofound welcomed a group of scholarship students from the Hans Böckler Foundation - Summer Academy.
The students were interested to learn more about Eurofound's mission, vision and role, as well as gain a deeper understanding of our research findings on working conditions and an overview of activities in industrial relations and social dialogue, including minimum wages across the EU.
The Hans Böckler Foundation is a member of the consortium representing Germany as part of the Network of Eurofound Correspondents.
Reaching out to our local community, on 12 October 2023, Eurofound had the pleasure of welcoming a group of members from Bray's University of the Third Age (U3A).
The purpose of the visit was to gain insights into Eurofound's work, our role and mission, and to get a flavour of some of the research topics that we cover. The group's mission is to promote and practice lifelong learning and active, creative, ageing for senior citizens in local communities.
'We found the presentations engrossing, sometimes surprising and highly informative and I hope that you could see how heartening it was to all of us to glimpse the work being conducted at Eurofound. It is reassuring to know that those who develop policies which affect us all have access to such meticulous and solid research and it is no small matter of pride that Eurofound is based in Ireland.'
Virtual Visits
As part of our Virtual Visits initiative, Eurofound organises exclusive online events
with its experts as part of our ongoing efforts to reach out to the national-level stakeholders and ensure widespread dissemination and dialogue with respect
to its research findings.
Four Virtual Visits took place in 2003: Malta, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden. In the photo opposite, on 10 November 2023 the participants in the Netherlands joined our experts to discuss the topic of job quality and tackling labour shortages.
More Virtual Visits are planned in a range of Member States in 2024.
Internal seminars
In November 2023, Eurofound had the pleasure of hosting acclaimed Harvard sociologist Prof. Michèle Lamont to present and disucss with us the main ideas in her most recent book: ‘Seeing Others: How Recognition Works - and How It Can Heal a Divided World’.
Linking in with Eurofound research, the discussion also focused on the recognition gap among rural and urban areas in Europe.
Credits
Title section: Tina Weber © Eurofound, Octavian Carare 2023
Open Day, Annual Lecture & Mairead McGuinness images: © Eurofound, Rafael Photography, 2023
EU presidencies: © Spanish Presidency of the Council of the EU 2023
Commissioner Nicolas Schmit © Eurofound, Juha Roininen/EUP-IMAGES 2023
Other story images: © Eurofound 2023
Chapter tiles: Unsplash; Chapter 2 © Victor/Adobe Stock; Chapter 7 © focusandblur/Adobe Stock
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