2017 EESC Civil Society Prize – Rewarding excellence in civil society initiatives – Innovative projects to promote quality employment and entrepreneurship for the future of work
"DUO for a JOB" (Belgium)
The EESC presented the winners with their prizes at an awards ceremony in Brussels on 7 December 2017. "DUO for a JOB" is one of the winner projects.
2017 EESC Civil Society Prize – Rewarding excellence in civil society initiatives – Innovative projects to promote quality employment and entrepreneurship for the future of work
"Discovering Hands" (Germany)
The EESC presented the winners with their prizes at an awards ceremony in Brussels on 7 December 2017. "Discovering Hands" is the first winner project.
2017 EESC Civil Society Prize – Rewarding excellence in civil society initiatives – Innovative projects to promote quality employment and entrepreneurship for the future of work
The 2017 Civil Society Prize recognised initiatives which support the labour market integration of groups requiring specific support.
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) has been advocating for organised civil society and citizens at global, national and subnational levels to be fully involved in the development, review and, above all, implementation of the Paris Agreement. With the general framework agreed at the COP21 in Paris, it is now also the role of non-state actors, including civil society, to work together to implement it. Multi-level and multi-stakeholder climate governance is the strong focus of our work in 2017 and beyond.
The study carried out by the European Citizen Action Service (ECAS) aims to provide an analysis of the current consultation practices at the European Commission as well as to examine the potential of an intermediary body, such as the EESC, and organised civil society, in improving this tool for participatory democracy in the EU.
