Brussels, 17 September 2025 – Insights on Family Policies is published by the European Observatory on Family Policy, a joint initiative by COFACE Families Europe and Odisee University, presenting evidence in dossiers on integrated approaches to family support.
A final product of the rEUsilience project, developed in collaboration with our Policy Lab stakeholder panellists including many COFACE members, is a roadmap for boosting the rights and resilience of European families.
Since 2022, COFACE has been working in a consortium of 7 partners across 6 European countries on the rEUsilience project funded by the EU’s Horizon Europe programme and Innovate UK.
To mark the United Nations International Day of Families on the 15th May, we are pleased to share rich insights into the policy reforms necessary to better promote family resilience across European countries.
A newly published working paper by rEUsilience takes a closer look at how EU and national policies can better support family resilience through practical and research-informed reforms.
This research report focuses on the capacity of policies to attenuate the link between risks and poor outcomes.
As “resilience” is increasingly used in European policy circles, it is important to acknowledge structural inequalities that are present in the capacity of families to be resilient.
On 27th September 2023, COFACE intervened at a conference organised by the Spanish presidency of the Council of the European Union on the topic of social protection of families.The Spanish Ministry of Social Rights and 2030 Agenda and Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations brought together a wide range of Spanish, European and international speakers to look at existing data on family models and explored different policy solutions.
rEUsilience, a Horizon Europe research initiative spanning from 2022 to 2025, is a collaborative effort involving renowned universities such as Oxford, Stockholm, Barcelona, Warsaw, KULeuven, and Zagreb, with COFACE as an integral partner. The first working paper from rEUsilience maps how resilience is being used in the EU policy discourse, noting how there is a lack of a clear conceptualisation of how it applies to families.
