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News
OPINION – One-parent families and the fight to escape violence
A few days before March 8th, Macedonia was shaken by a case that exposed the most painful and darkest side of the systemic neglect toward women and children who are victims of domestic violence.
European Commission launches Citizens’ Energy Package to improve access to affordable clean energy
The European Commission has unveiled a new Citizens’ Energy Package aimed at making clean and affordable energy more accessible to households across Europe.
COFACE Families Europe participates in Cyprus EU presidency event on child well-being
COFACE speaks at High level event hosted by the Cyprus Presidency of the European Union. The topic was “No Child is Left Behind: Promoting Child Well-Being and Combating Child Poverty”.
Events
Campaigns
Sharing care, closing gender gaps: EIGE’s second CARE Survey highlights persistent inequalities across Europe
The second wave of the European Institute for Gender Equality CARE Survey offers one of the most comprehensive pictures to date of how unpaid care responsibilities continue to shape everyday life across the European Union.
European Parliament calls for stronger family dimension EU Disability rights Strategy
The European Parliament has adopted a report on the EU Disability Strategy post-2025. The text was adopted on 27 November 2025. It includes a chapter on families.
Projects
COFACE Families Europe builds projects with its members (NGOs) and partners (research and policy), in order to deepen our actions in specific domains and strengthen the research-policy-practice triangle.
By building partnerships between practitioners, policy-makers and research institutions, we aim to support evidence-based practice and policy-making. We have been involved with a wide range of European projects, as both advisory board members and impact managers, funded by Erasmus+, Horizon 2020 and the European Research Council. We use the research to feed into EU and national policies under review and under preparation, and disseminate the results to our wide network of family organisations, inserting the research into practice via different programmes to support families which are run by COFACE members.
Opinions
OPINION – One-parent families and the fight to escape violence
A few days before March 8th, Macedonia was shaken by a case that exposed the most painful and darkest side of the systemic neglect toward women and children who are victims of domestic violence.
OPINION – Home and school: a powerful duo to develop children’s basic skills
Strengthening basic skills - literacy, mathematics, science, digital competencies and citizenship - is key to preparing pupils for their future. These five basic skills support individuals in developing critical thinking, engaging with their communities, staying healthy, adapting to a rapidly changing job market, and navigating today's complexities, including digital tools and artificial intelligence (AI).
Media Releases
Preventing Family Poverty: A pillar of social and economic resilience
For the International Day of Families 2026, COFACE Families Europe calls on its members and partners to support implementation of the EU Anti-Poverty Strategy, to drive real change for families in poverty and at risk of poverty.
The Artificial Intelligence Act is failing European families: Experts convene in Athens to call for a family-centred approach to AI
Hosted by COFACE Families Europe and KMOP, European and international community leaders and AI experts from 20+ countries met in Athens on 17th March to take stock of the state of play of artificial intelligence today, while also looking towards the future and its impact on families.
Unequal care, Unequal work: Structural discrimination against women in the labour market
On this 2026 International Women’s Day, COFACE Families Europe highlights key recommendations to move towards gender equal labour markets, and calls on the EU to adopt a European Work-life balance day on 20th March every year.