Ensuring Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in the EU
Location
Room VMA 22, EESC building, rue Van Maerlant 2, 1040
Brussels
Belgium
The EESC's Permanent Group on disability Rights is organising a hybrid public hearing on "Accessible and Affordable Housing for All: Ensuring Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in the EU " on 15 September 2025 from 10 am to 1 pm.
This event will feature insights from EU institutions, showcase good practices at the local level, and highlight recommendations from civil society and disability organisations.
At the initiative of the EESC’s Civil Society Organisations’ Group, this exhibition showcases projects that have been coordinated by the Danish architecture firm BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group.
Conference in the framework of the Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU
Event type
Conference
Location
The Danish Society of Engineers (IDA), Kalvebod Brygge 31-33
Copenhagen
Denmark
This event is an in-person conference that will be live streamed on our website. Registration for in-person participation is closed. We invite you to follow our webstreaming.
Services of General interest for affordable and accessible housing
Location
Warsaw
Poland
All European residents should have the opportunity to access decent, affordable and accessible housing. This is why the EESC Permanent Group on Services of General Interest met and discussed in Warsaw on 6 March 2025 at a seminar during the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU, co-organized by the EAPN Poland, the role of quality services of general interest in meeting needs in the field of housing.
This event is an in-person conference that will be live streamed on our website. Registration is closed. We kindly invite you to follow the live webstream.
Today Europeans and particularly for the most vulnerable groups are increasingly concerned about the availability, accessibility and sustainability of decent housing. Many EU citizens and households face excessive housing costs, with housing being their main consumer expenditure and an excessive burden, to the detriment of other basic needs. However, access to affordable and decent housing is both a social need and a social right, and one of the 20 essential principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights. Yet it is constantly being called into question by the various crises the EU has faced in recent years.
The European Economic and Social Committee is organising the 3rd edition of its conference on energy poverty on 18-19 July 2023 in Brussels. This follows on from the EESC's conferences in 2021 and 2022 on this important issue.
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) has looked into the advantages of modern industrial wooden construction at the request of the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The EESC adopted an exploratory opinion focusing on how EU proposals such as sustainable carbon cycles, the bioeconomy strategy and the New European Bauhaus can be used to drastically reduce the huge amounts of construction-related CO2 emissions, store CO2 and make construction more efficient.
RADISSON BLU LATVIJA CONFERENCE & SPA HOTEL, Elizabetes iela 55
Riga
Latvia
This conference was co-organised by the European Economic and Social Committee and the Ministry of Economics of Latvia and brought together local, national and European actors to discuss the challenges and solutions of building sustainable and affordable housing. A special focus was put on the role of civil society organisations and local authorities on the ground in achieving ownership, bottom-up participation in housing policies, proper information to the direct beneficiaries and financing facilitation.
The webinar on "Bauhaus at the service of citizens" aims at inserting the values of services of general interest in relation with social and health services, assistance for the elderly, etc. into the Bauhaus project approach. This does not only concern the building, but also the destination of this building and its insertion in the living environment of European citizens: health services or services for the elderly will not be the same, and in the same buildings.
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) will hold a major online conference on Energy poverty at the crossroads of the European Pillar of Social Rights and the European Green Deal on 20 April 2021 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
