European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
Agency overview
Formed 2 June 1975
Jurisdiction European Union
Headquarters Loughlinstown, Dublin, Ireland
Agency executives Juan Menéndez-Valdés, Director
Jerzy Ciechański, Chair of the Governing Board
Key document Council Regulation (EEC) No 1365/75
Website www.eurofound.europa.eu

The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) is an agency of the European Union which focuses on managing research, gathering information, and communicating its findings.

It was set up by in May 1975 by the European Council to help improve living and working conditions across Europe, and was one of the first bodies established to work on a specific subset of EU policy. It is headquartered in Loughlinstown, County Dublin, Ireland.

Role and mission

The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions describes its role on its own information page as follows:

To provide information, advice and expertise – on living and working conditions, industrial relations and managing change in Europe – for key actors in the field of EU social policy on the basis of comparative information, research and analysis.

Organisation

It maintains a number of specialized operations monitoring and measuring conditions in Europe, including:

The offices of the Foundation (map) are located at Loughlinstown House, Wyattville Road, Dublin 18.

Governance

The Foundation is overseen by a Governing Board, Director, and Deputy Director. The Governing Board meets once a year to set budgets and policy, and to decide on one-year and four-year work programmes. The current Director, Juan Menéndez-Valdés, was appointed in December 2010. The Deputy Director is Erika Mezger. The Foundation budget (20.2M euros in 2007) comes from the general European Commission budget.

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