The European Documentation Centre has mounted an exhibition on the European Pillar of Social Rights which can be visited in the Hall of the Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso University Library (BUNS) until 14 November.
The aim is to once again bring European policies and guidelines closer to the university community so that they have first-hand information and can find out what Europe does for its citizens.
On this occasion, the aim is to raise awareness of the European Pillar of Social Rights, adopted by the three European institutions (European Commission, European Parliament and Council of the European Union) in 2017, which aims to offer better living and working conditions in the European Union.
It sets out twenty key principles and rights framed in three blocks:
- equal opportunities and access to the labour market
- fair working conditions
- social protection and inclusion
The social pillar serves as a reference framework for monitoring the performance of EU Member States’ employment and social policies through a social scoreboard and incorporates a new approach to broad social priorities across all EU policies.
In 2021, the Commission adopted the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan. The plan has three main objectives to be achieved by 2030:
- at least 78% of the population aged 20-64 should be in employment;
- at least 60 % of adults should participate in training every year;
- the number of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion must be reduced from at least 15 million.
The plan also identifies a number of actions to be carried out in the areas of improving employment, skills, equality, social protection and inclusion.
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This exhibition will close on the 14th with a new euroencUEntro. On this occasion we will have the presence of the researcher Lena de Bottom Fernández, PhD in Sociology from l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris and currently a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Barcelona.
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