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Eurofound puts the spotlight on some of the pressing challenges facing the EU over the next five years.
Challenges for the EU over the next five years
Eurofound's research offers valuable insights into some of the more pressing social policy challenges facing the EU institutions. Read our series of blog posts which put the spotlight on these challenges and also visit our digital story showcasing our latest research on Living and working in Europe.
The Commission’s ambitious goals for 2024–2029 are guided by seven key priorities. These goals are designed to ‘create a faster, simpler, and more united Union – one that supports its people and businesses, takes decisive action where it can make the greatest impact, and advances shared ambitions.’
Explore the seven Commission priorities and where Eurofound’s research topics and findings can contribute.
This priority focuses on Europe as a continent of economic growth, enterprise and innovation by ensuring competitiveness, prosperity and fairness.
It includes the following initiatives:
This priority focuses on meeting Europe’s security and defence challenges, and enhancing preparedness and crisis management.
It includes the following initiatives:
This priority focuses on promoting social fairness, increasing solidarity in our society, and ensuring equal opportunities for all.
It includes the following initiatives:
This priority focuses on building a competitive and resilient agriculture and food system, safeguarding biodiversity, and preparing for a changing climate.
This priority focuses on putting citizens at the heart of our democracy to empower all to help shape the future of our European Union.
It includes the following initiatives:
This priority focuses on our wider neighbourhood to tackle global challenges and promote peace, partnerships, and economic stability.
It includes the following initiatives:
This priority focuses on a modern and reinforced EU budget, and ambitious reform agenda to deliver on our goals.
It includes the following initiatives:
To measure job quality, as part of our long-standing European Working Conditions Survey, Eurofound developed seven indices to represent various dimensions of job quality based on work characteristics that have an independent influence on health and well-being.
Seven dimensions: Physical environment; Work intensity; Working time quality; Social environment; Skills and discretion; Prospects; Earnings
Essentially, those characteristics of work that protect and promote our health and well-being ensure good job quality, while those that erode our health or well-being contribute to poor job quality.
Read our blog: Job quality is pivotal in addressing today’s workplace and societal challenges (2023)
Eurofound’s work directly feeds into a number of these key areas and aims to inform effective policies that can lead to recovery and resilience in creating a strong social Europe. This work falls under four main topic areas of research activity in our 2025–2028 programming period.
