Given that civil society actors play a major role in combating poverty and alleviating the consequences of material deprivation, the specific objective of the prize is to reward initiatives in areas such as:social support, housing, education and health; in-work poverty; energy poverty; child poverty; homelessness; financial exclusion and over-indebtedness; cooperation with public authorities.

Cafébabel Brussels journalists participated in two major meetings between European institutions and civil society: The closing of the European Year of the Citizen in Vilnius on 12 - 13 December 2013 organized by the European Commission and the European Day for Civil Society on 18 March 2014 hosted by the European Economic and Social Committee. On the eve of European elections, what is the state of the dialogue between European civil society and the European Union?

"Transatlantic negotiations: what is at stake for consumers and farmers"