The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) is an

agency of the European Union The agencies of the European Union (formally: ''Agencies, decentralised independent bodies, corporate bodies and joint undertakings of the European Union and the Euratom'') are bodies of the European Union and the Euratom established as juridica ...

which focuses on managing research, gathering information, and communicating its findings. It was set up in May 1975 by the

European Council The European Council (informally EUCO) is a collegiate body that defines the overall political direction and priorities of the European Union. It is composed of the heads of state or government of the EU member states, the President of the E ...

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 Loughlinstown () is a southern Dublin suburb, located in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, on the N11 national road. Loughlinstown is the location of St. Columcille's Hospital, which serves both south Dublin and Wicklow. The European Foundation for ...

County Dublin "Action to match our speech" , image_map = Island_of_Ireland_location_map_Dublin.svg , map_alt = map showing County Dublin as a small area of darker green on the east coast within the lighter green background of ...

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

Role and mission

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

Organisation

It maintains a number of specialized operations monitoring and measuring conditions in Europe, including: * th
European Observatory of Working Life (EurWORK)
* th
European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC)
* th
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
* Regular surveys on European working conditions, quality of life, and company policies on working time issues (the first working conditions survey was carried out in 1990): �
European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS)
�
European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS)

European Company Survey (ECS)
The offices of Eurofound are located a
Loughlinstown House
Wyattville Road, Loughlinstown, Co. Dublin, D18 KP65, Ireland.

Governance

The foundation is overseen by a Management Board, executive director, and deputy director. The Executive Board meets once a year to set budgets and policy, and to decide on one-year and four-year work programmes. The current director,

Ivailo Kalfin Ivaylo Georgiev Kalfin ( bg, Ивайло Георгиев Калфин; born 30 May 1964) is a Bulgarian politician. A three-term deputy, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria and Deputy Prime Minister from 2005 to 2009 in the Stanishev ...

, was appointed in June 2021. The deputy director is Maria Jepsen. The foundation budget (21,8M euros in 2021) comes from the general

European Commission The European Commission (EC) is the executive of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with 27 members of the Commission (informally known as "Commissioners") headed by a President. It includes an administrative body o ...

budget.

Role and mission

Organisation

Governance

References

External links