Our Core Values
COFACE – FAMILIES EUROPE is a network promoting the well-being, health and security of families and their members in a changing society and serves as a trusted entity for family mainstreaming and for the voice/needs of families in the EU and beyond. COFACE Families Europe is rooted in a set of six core values: Non-discrimination, Equal opportunities, Respect of human rights, Empowerment, Social inclusion, Solidarity.
Our key activities
We advocate for families of all types without discrimination, bringing their voice to the table of European Union decision-making, ensuring that EU policies and legislation work in the general interest. We support transnational exchanges between COFACE members (civil society organisations representing and supporting families) in the form of expert meetings, trainings, campaigns, conferences, webinars and more. We regularly update COFACE members and partners via the Families Corner newsletter, and interact with our social media communities.
A New Deal for Families of Today – COFACE highlights priorities for 2020-2024
This list of key short-term demands to be achieved by the new European Commission from 2020-2024, are to be seen as concrete steps to meet the long-term goals of the European Pillar of Social Rights and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
HIGHLIGHTED NEWS
Latest articles
New report shedding light on the S.H.I.F.T. towards meaningful inclusion in Europe
Media release for International Day of Persons with DisabilitiesBrussels, 3rd December 2021 On this International day of persons with disabilities, the COFACE Disability platform for the rights of persons with disabilities and their families presents its new report...
Towards an economy which cares: COFACE Economic Principles
Given the present social and economic situation, with the combined shocks caused by the coronavirus crisis and climate change, COFACE-Families Europe is concerned about the social and environmental sustainability of the current economic system which is under severe...
Health – Gender Equality Index 2021
Last 28th October, the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) presented the results of the sixth edition of the Gender Equality Index (GEI) in an online conference which focuses this year on “Health”, taking in account the consequences of the pandemic Covid-19...
Explore more of our work
COFACE develops different types of publications, including position papers, studies based on feedback from families, briefs on family and EU policies, meeting reports. Our latest publications include a list of economic principles to help build an economy that cares.
You and the EU
The European Union develops different actions and laws to ensure family and child well-being, and we at COFACE try to shape these actions based on our core values. They include key guidelines and laws for national governments to strengthen their social and family policies (European Pillar of Social Rights, EU work-life balance directive), different long-term action plans to support governments (on early childhood, better internet, child rights, disability rights, gender equality, digital education), funding mechanisms to boost NGOs and families (European Union programme for employment and social innovation, the European Social Fund Plus).
European Family Lab
Family support in COVID-19 times
Family supports are an essential part of making social rights a reality, and civil society has grown over decades to create a wide range of supports to families and children to ensure health and well-being. Now, more than ever, it is important to connect professionals in real time through transnational exchanges in order to tackle the social impacts of COVID-19 on families and children. We believe the European Family Lab can be the place to connect them, serving as an innovation incubator for ideas and cross-country knowledge transfer to help family professionals deliver the best possible supports for Europeans.
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Events
Family mediation: addressing conflicts between parents and children in adolescence
Family mediation: addressing conflicts between parents and children in adolescence
By Gregorio Gullón, Mediator and Family and Couple Therapist. Expert in Psychological Disorders in Children and Adolescents. Adolescence in children can be a time of crisis in the family. They get stuck in their life cycle,
The position of larger families with children in society: strengths and barriers
The position of larger families with children in society: strengths and barriers
Using the COFACE Child Compass as a starting point, this European expert meeting focuses on the features of large families and the challenges they experience in Europe today, taking stock of the situation in different countries and collecting good practices.
