The European Commission published a Recommendation on the recognition of qualifications of third- country nationals on 15 November 2023, with the purpose to streamline and speed up recognition processes. These measures would aim to bring the EU’s recognition system closer to the one in place for EU mobile citizens. As acknowledged in various EU instruments,…
SOLIDAR has a diverse membership of over 50 civil society organisations based in 26 countries. Our member organisations include popular education associations, trade unions, independent think tanks, migrant-led organisations working to advance social justice through a just transition. One aspect of our vision for social justice is a governance of migration based on the respect of fundamental rights and solidarity,…
Global Citizenship Education (GCE) has been a central topic to the work of the SOLIDAR Foundation membership across Europe and beyond. A common frame that reunites the membership of SOLIDAR Foundation is the fact that each one of them is striving to achieve social justice through education, ensuring that all learners have access to quality,…
History is judging us all, Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General, in an appeal for aid to Gaza. This statement was updated on November 16th 2023. More than 40 days after Hamas’ horrific attack and Israel’s massive and ongoing counterattack, the situation is more dire and tragic than ever. The situation in Gaza has turned into…
July 20, 2023 As part of their mission to advance a socially and environmentally Just Transition in Europe and beyond, FEPS, SOLIDAR, Movimiento por la Paz, el Desarme y la Libertad (MPDL) and Asamblea de Cooperación por la Paz (ACPP) hosted an event on 11 July 2023 in Valladolid, Spain that gathered Progressive stakeholders from Spain, other EU Member States and…
On the occasion of the informal meeting of EU Ministers of Environment and Energy on 10-12 July 2023 in Valladolid (Spain), SOLIDAR and over 30 partner organisations are calling on the Ministers, as well as on other national and EU leaders, to create a New Social Contract and to place a socially and environmentally Just Transition at its heart….
Today the European Year of Skills (EYS) kicks off with the European Year of Skills Festival. The EYS will run until May 2024, and aims to tackle the mismatch between unemployment and education. SOLIDAR Foundation applauds the attention that EYS will bring to education, training and lifelong learning. However, SOLIDAR deplores the way the European…
November 28 2022 The latest IPCC report, published in early April 2022, confirmed that, unless humanity puts in place rapid, deep and immediate cuts in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, we’ll exceed the limits to stay within 1.5C within the next ten years or so – well ahead of the 2100 milestone set by the Paris…
November 25 2022 On 21 November, together with Social Platform, Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), SOLIDAR held a policy discussion on the issues of energy poverty and a just energy transition in Europe. Energy prices are soaring. Poverty is increasing. Already before the energy price crisis, millions of Europeans lived in energy poverty, now…
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