About PROGRESS

The EU set up PROGRESS to accompany Member States efforts to promote more and better jobs and equal opportunities for all. The public are looking to the EU to strengthen social Europe so that it can deliver growth and more jobs and fight poverty and social exclusion. Member States have set targets as part of the European Employment Strategy and explained the paths they will follow to achieve them in their national action plans.

The EU carefully designed the new programme to support this policy development and its delivery in five areas:

1. Employment, 

2. Social inclusion and protection,

3. Working conditions,

4. Non-discrimination,

5. Gender equality.

PROGRESS has six general objectives:

1. To improve the knowledge and understanding of Member states situation through analysis, evaluation and close monitoring of policies;

2. To support the development of statistical tools, methods and common indicators in the areas covered by the programme (broken down by gender and age group where appropriate);

3. To support and monitor the implementation of Community law and policy objectives in the Member States to assess their effectiveness and impact;

4. To promote networking and mutual learning and identify and disseminate good practice and innovative approaches at EU level;

5. To enhance stakeholder and general public awareness about each policy area;

6. To boost the capacity of key EU networks to promote, support and further develop EU policies and objectives. 

To read further information on the PROGRESS Programme, click HERE