COFACE 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
COFACE 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.
Furthermore, 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.
COFACE members are regularly updated 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 COFACE NEWS
Latest articles
New report shedding light on the S.H.I.F.T. towards meaningful inclusion in Europe
New report shedding light on the S.H.I.F.T. towards meaningful inclusion in Europe.
COFACE Families Europe Strategic Framework 2021-2030
In this COFACE Strategic Framework, we provide a comprehensive, integrated, and long-term strategy to develop appropriate 21st-century policies to support the achievement of 8 positive outcomes for all families.
OPINION: It’s our collective responsibility to protect children – and tech has a key role to play
As a parent and child safety expert, I see great value in how the internet can help children grow. Finding relevant information can be transformational but it’s important that this is done in a way that is safe, protects their privacy, and puts minors in control of their data.
Explore more of COFACE 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. These actions include:
- key guidelines and laws for national governments to strengthen their social and family policies;
- different long-term action plans to support governments;
- funding mechanisms to boost NGOs and families.
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.
COMING UP with COFACE
Events
A Closer Look at Single Parenting – every day challenges and solutions
A Closer Look at Single Parenting – every day challenges and solutions
Save the date for the first breakfast byte on 25th January 2022 from 9.30-11.00 CET focusing on two-generation supports to single-parent families in Hungary. The talk will be given by Anna Nagy, Head of the Single Parent Centre (egyszulo.hu) in Hungary.
#FacturasImposibles – A campaign calling for an energy system that puts families before profit
#FacturasImposibles – A campaign calling for an energy system that puts families before profit
This breakfast byte will focus on a campaign of Isadora Duncan which highlights how rising energy prices are affecting families in Spain and across Europe, and the need to launch public debates on access to energy as a basic citizenship right.
Expert meeting: The position of larger families with children in society: strengths and barriers
Expert meeting: 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.