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Untermenü:

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• HLG Gender Mainstreaming
• Informal Meeting of the Employment and Social Ministers
• Demographic Challenges
• Workshop on alternative dispute Resolution
• Effective Legal Redress
• Board Meeting of the European Disability Forum
• European Consumer Day
• Informal Meeting of Youth Ministers and Youth Event
• Informal Meeting SPC
• Social Services
• L'Europe de l'Enfance
• Fifth Meeting of People Experiencing Poverty
• MISSOC-Meeting
• Conference Ageing and Disability
• eInclusion
• European Social Services Conference
• Meeting General Directors Youth
• Informal Meeting CWG Youth

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Fifth European Meeting of People Experiencing Poverty –
co-financed by the European Commission,
Brussels, 12 – 13 May 2006

The first European meeting of people experiencing poverty was held in December 2001 at the initiative of Belgium. The meeting took place in the framework of applying the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) to combat poverty and social exclusion. One of the aims of the OMC is to activate all stakeholders and to involve those affected. Since 2003 all Presidencies of the first half-year have organised meetings of this kind. Austria will continue this tradition in the first half of 2006.

The events have the following general objectives:

·        exchanging experience;

·        promoting dialogue between people with experience in poverty, NGOs and representatives of European institutions;

·        promoting the involvement of people with experience in poverty in the development of National Action Plans;

·        making a contribution to the strategy of social inclusion at European level.

The meeting during the Austrian Presidency will be dedicated to the subject "How do we cope with every day life?". The focus will be on the question how to cope with every-day life with an income corresponding to the respective national risk-of-poverty threshold. The aim of the meeting is to continue and intensify the dialogue between those affected.

The event is organised with the support of the European Commission, the Social and Economic Committee, the Committee of the Regions and in close cooperation with the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN).

On the website of EAPN you can find information on the exhibition "Do you see what I see?", which was created by the participants of the Fourth Meeting. In the following you can download the programme of the Fifth Meeting, the exhibition catalogue as well as summeries of the past meetings of people experiencing poverty.

Downloads:

• infonote09682.06.en.pdf (50 KB)
  Information on the Fifth Meeting from the Presidency to the Council
• programme_final_en.pdf (94 KB)
  Programme of the Fifth Meeting
• exhibition_do_you_see_what_i_see1.pdf (937 KB)
  Catalogue on the exhibition 'Do you see what I see ?', which was created by the participants of the Fourth Meeting before and during the conference on the topic 'Images and perceptions of poverty'
• summary_4.meeting.pdf (618 KB)
  Summary of the Fourth Meeting
• summary_3.meeting.pdf (1576 KB)
  Summary of the Third Meeting
• summary_2.meeting.pdf (1510 KB)
  Summary of the Second Meeting

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