Enrico Rossi, president of the Tuscany region, CoR Member and rapporteur for the forthcoming CoR Opinion on an EU Programme for Social Change and Innovation, invites you to provide preliminary feedback on this new EU Programme. Your input will contribute to his draft opinion, to be adopted by the CoR's Commission for Economic and Social Policy (ECOS) on 8 February 2012.
 
Your feedback will also feed into the 3rd CoR Monitoring Report on Europe 2020, where it will be acknowledged. This annual report gives an account of how Europe 2020 is implemented on the ground before the European Commission adopts its Annual Growth Survey.

The EU Programme for Social Change and Innovation (PSCI) is being proposed as an instrument to support employment and social policies. It is part of the Commission's proposal for EU regional, employment and social policy for 2014-2020.
 
The PSCI integrates three existing programmes: Progress (Programme for Employment and Social Solidarity), EURES (European Employment Services) and the European Progress Microfinance Facility and extends their coverage. It will enable the Commission to increase the policy coherence and impact of its instruments, thus contributing to the Europe 2020 Strategy.

The PSCI will support policy coordination, sharing of best practices, capacity-building and testing of innovative policies, with a view to up-scaling the most successful measures with support from the European Social Fund.

Please send your replies to europe2020@cor.europa.eu
They can be written in any EU language in Word format (doc),using the spaces provided immediately below the questions,

To download the Questionnaire: ENGLISH

BG - CS - DA- DE- EL - EN - ES- ET- FI - FR- HU - IT- LT- LV- MT- NL- PL- PT- RO- SK- SL- SV

The questionnaire will be available in all languages at the end of November.

Deadline: 19 December 2011

For any questions about this survey, please contact europe2020@cor.europa.eu