A practical guide to help families prevent harmful technology use and support children in the digital environment.
Developed by our member UNAF - Unión de Asociaciones Familiares, the guide frames digital education as a form of care and protection.
Read more about here: bit.ly/4mKYrFd
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✨ Missed it live? Watch it now!
Our recent webinar with the Union of Hungarian Women Association (UHW) explored initiatives supporting rural women through entrepreneurship, health, and community-based programmes, and you can now watch it on YouTube!
📽️ Catch up here: youtu.be/4rOFQgr3HR0
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Strengthening basic skills is key to children’s future.
But schools cannot do it alone.
Research shows that parental engagement plays an important role in learning outcomes and wellbeing.
🔗 Read the full opinion piece: bit.ly/4cDudzt
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Our Belgian member, @liguedesfamilles.bsky.social, is campaigning for equal parenting.
The campaign calls for stronger policies for equal parenting from birth, highlighting how current family leave systems continue to reinforce gender inequalities.
Find more here: bit.ly/41B9Ygr
📢 NEW POSITION PAPER
Harmonising personal insolvency laws: Supporting over-indebted families across the EU.
It provides concrete recommendations to protect families and ensure that financial protection systems are inclusive, fair, and sustainable.
Read the full paper here: bit.ly/4rSz7yU
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COFACE President Antonia Torrens closing the conference.
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Thank you to everyone who joined us in Athens for Families in the age of Artificial Intelligence.
Together with partners, experts and civil society, we explored how AI can support families while safeguarding rights, inclusion and equality.
Find more information here: coface-eu.org/event/famili...
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📍 Today in Athens!
We are kicking off the European expert meeting Families in the age of Artificial Intelligence: Rights, inclusion and empowerment.
The goal: ensuring that the digital transition works for all families.
🔗Find more information about the event here: coface-eu.org/event/famili...
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Today COFACE Families Europe is bringing together its member organisations for our Administrative Council and General Assembly.
Strong networks are built through dialogue, cooperation and shared commitment. Good to see our members together today. 🤝
Quote from Antonia Torrens, President of COFACE Families Europe: "Artificial intelligence is not only transforming economies and institutions. It is quietly transforming familiy life. How can artificial intelligence strengthen families, rather than deepen inequalities or vulnerabilities?"
COFACE President Antonia Torrens will open the discussion at our European expert meeting on Families in the age of Artificial Intelligence: Rights, inclusion and empowerment.
📅 17 March | 📍 Athens
🔗 coface-eu.org/event/famili...
#ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalRights #FamilyPolicy
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On 17 March in Athens, experts, policymakers and civil society will gather for the European meeting:
“Families in the age of Artificial Intelligence: Rights, inclusion and empowerment.”
Discover the full agenda and more: coface-eu.org/event/famili...
#AI #SocialInclusion #Families #DigitalRights
We are proud that Dr. Antonia Torrens, President of COFACE Families Europe, has joined a European Commission special panel on child safety online, hosted by President Ursula von der Leyen.
Read more: coface-eu.org/coface-presi...
#ChildSafetyOnline #SaferInternet #Families
Yesterday it was International Women’s Day, yet women in Europe still face labour market discrimination because care work isn’t shared. COFACE calls on the EU to act & make 20 March European Work-life Balance Day. 📖 Read more: coface-eu.org/unequal-care...
#IWD2026 #GenderEquality #WorkLifeBalance
We are at the #EUSocialForum today in Brussels to take stock of the latest trends in EU social&employment policies. Key question asked today: How can the upcoming EU Quality Jobs Act help address work-life balance of workers? Telework and the right to disconnect are key elements of job quality.
🌟 COFACE Disability Platform in Paris At our event in Paris, hosted by @unapei.bsky.social, participants from across Europe discussed pressing disability issues and shared new initiatives. 🎥The video highlights interviews, discussions, and collaborative ideas shaping disability policy and support.
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Today on Zero Discrimination Day, we celebrate all types of families without discrimination.
Help us build societies where all families are valued, supported, and included.
#ZeroDiscriminationDay #AllFamiliesMatter #SocialRights #InclusiveSocieties
📢 NEW POSITION PAPER!
Families and climate change: Paving the way for a family-oriented climate policy in Europe. It provides recommendations to ensure that climate action is inclusive, fair, and future-proof.
🔗 Read the full paper here: bit.ly/4kBly3O
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🛜Today, on the Safer Internet Day, we call on providers of social media platforms to make sure that their platforms are safe, secure and respect people's privacy and human rights.
Read our media release:
➡️ coface-eu.org/can-social-m...
#SaferInternetDay #SID2026 #humanrights
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Discussions from the conference.
Today, the final conference of PATHS2INCLUDE is taking place in Brussels. We are focusing on vulnerable groups in the labour market and on concrete recommendations to prevent discrimination.
🔗 Read more about Paths2Include: Paths2Include.eu
#paths2include #labourmarket #equalopportunities
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BREAKFAST BYTES WEBINAR | Empowering rural women, strengthening families: Community-based solutions in practice.
With speakers from the Union of Hungarian Women Association (UHW).
🗓 3 March 2026 | 🕓 9:00 – 11:00 CET | 🌐 Zoom
Info & reg: bit.ly/4t6Yf5Z
#Equality #Womensrights #WomenEntrepreneurs
Happy International Day of Education!
💡Did you know?
In 2022, COFACE Families Europe and KMOP Education Hub joined forces to create the L.I.N.K. programme.
Check out the platform and register for free here: education-hub.kmop.org/l-i-n-k/
LINK is yours to explore. Happy learning!
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Pictures of the meeting
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Pictures of the meeting
We had the first 2026 meeting of the European care alliance this week where we planned out our actions for 2026 to help strengthen care systems across the EU.
🖇️ Check out more here: coface-eu.org/european-car...
We will continue to act as a bridge between families, civil society, and European institutions, ensuring that policies better reflect the diversity, needs, and strengths of families across Europe.
Thank you for the continued support and partnership!
#familieseurope #socialrights #community
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📊 New Policy Brief Alert!👨👩👧👦
“Making Families Visible: Closing EU Data Gaps for Better Policies” is out now!
Better data = better policies for families of all types.
👉Read the policy brief here: coface-eu.org/policy-brief...
#familiesmatter #PolicyDiscussion
Front page of the EU Policy Review.
Today on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we release our new EU Policy Review with a spotlight the realities of working parents with disabilities.
Read the full review 👉 coface-eu.org/eu-policy-re...
#IDPD #DisabilityRights #Equality #ParentsWithDisabilities
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💙 A heartfelt thank you to all who joined the #WorldChildrensDay event at the European Parliament!
Child-led, inspiring, and full of ideas for a fairer, safer Europe for every child.
Let’s keep listening to children every day.
#WorldChildrensDay #ChildRights #CRAG
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Powerful child-led discussions today at the European Parliament on:
💬 Inclusion of children with special needs/disabilities
💬 Bullying & cyberbullying
Children’s voices must guide EU policies - not just today, but every day.
#WorldChildrensDay #CRAG #Childrights
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