FEPS Events

Meeting with the foundations of Europe

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:02:00 +0100

This one-day session aims at designing the action plan of FEPS with a view to ensuring as much synergy between national and European agendas within the lines of action of FEPS. The elaboration in common will try to ensure better linkage between FEPS and its member foundations and think tanks, thus fostering European coherence and giving wider resonance to progressive thinking.

Next Left Focus Group: “A progressive socio-economic paradigm for Europe”

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:00:00 +0100

The FEPS Next Left Focus Group, which is honourably chaired by Dr Alfred Gusenbauer, former Chancellor of Austria, will meet for its third meeting this year. This time, the session is devoted to the subject of “A progressive socio-economic paradigm for Europe”, on which invited scientists, academics and experts from the member foundations will reflect both through their written contributions, and also through an extensive, and undoubtedly exciting debate in Brussels. The meeting is organized with a kind support of the Renner Institut and more information can be obtained here on our website or through Dr Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Policy Advisor ania.skrzypek@feps-europe.eu

Next Left Focus Group meeting: “Mobilizing for International Solidarity”

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:24:00 +0100

On 17th November, the FEPS Next Left Focus Group will gather for the fourth and final meeting of the year. The session, which will be presided over by the Focus Group’s Chair Dr Alfred Gusenbauer, former Chancellor of Austria, and which will be held with the support of Renner Institut, will be devoted to issues of internationalism, international solidarity and global social justice. Participants – experts from the worlds of academia, national thinks tanks and foundations, as well as trade unions and politics, will shake and shape this very vital debate through their written contributions, and through presentations and discussion at the meeting itself. More information can be obtained through our [website] or through Dr Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Policy Advisor ania.skrzypek@feps-europe.eu

3rd Young Academics Network Meeting

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:10:00 +0100

Thanks to the hospitality of Renner Institute, the group will meet in Vienna to review and discuss its research papers, which will be published at the end of the year and which are currently being elaborated upon within three working groups: Employment and Welfare; European Identity and public sphere; Europe in the world. Furthermore, the Network’s members will take time to reflect on the future developments of the network, whose work in this regard will be facilitated by an expert trainer Michael Holzhauser. More information can be found on our [website]. However, you may also make direct contact with Dr Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Policy Advisor or Ms Yolanda Fernandez Romero, FEPS Junior Policy Advisor – who are in charge of the FEPS YAN project.

"Flourishing society | A new vision for Ireland"

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:42:00 +0100

After great debates in Sofia, London, Barcelona and Berlin, the following “Next Left” Round Table...

Social democratic solutions to the economic crisis

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:19:00 +0100

This international conference of FEPS - the first to be organised with the support of its...

Etats généraux du renouveau

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:40:00 +0100

FEPS will be taking part in two sessions of this three-day symposium organised by two leading...

EU-Latin America relations: priorities, challenges and opportunities

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:13:00 +0100

This high-level international conference aims at fostering reflection on the role played today by...

EU4U conference

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:24:00 +0100

With the ambition to bridge the gap between European citizens and the European institutions, FEPS,...

"Stimulating recovery"

Mon, 31 May 2010 13:18:00 +0100

Croke Park Conference Centre | Jones’s Road

This seminar aims to bring together experts and other key stakeholders, in advance of preparations for Budget 2011, in order to discuss the role of an investment strategy in stimulating economic recovery and generating sustainable job-rich growth. The aim of this event is to generate debate on current economic policy, drawing on wider experience across the EU on the role of alternative strategies in responding to the economic and fiscal crises.

The event will be chaired by Paul Sweeney (Chair, TASC Economists’ Network) and speakers include Professor Ray Kinsella (Smurfit Business School, UCD), Michael Burke (independent economic consultant, London) and Sinéad Pentony (Head of Policy, TASC).

Registration to [jwilcox@tascnet.ie] by the 4th June. Places are limited and early registration is advised.