Framework Partnership Agreement between the European Commission and the ETUI 2022-2025

2026-07-22

The European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) is a research and training centre for European knowledge and competence on matters pertaining to the world of labour, with the requisite expertise to support, in particular, workers’ organisations. The ETUI is conducting research, develop expertise and provide scientific and technical support for European trade unions in a spirit of concern for excellence and adherence to the fundamental values of the European labour movement. ETUI also contributes to the definition, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of EU policies and thus creates an added value for the decision-making process at EU-level and facilitate social partners contribution in bring into being a Social Europe and to foster cooperative modes of policy development, thereby promoting upwards social convergence, international solidarity, justice, prosperity and welfare. ETUI engages in intensive dialogue and cooperation with trade union representatives, as well as with academics and other research institutions. In terms of the content of this work, research, education and health and safety matters are strongly interrelated, so that activities will continue to be developed in an integrated, efficient and innovative way in the years to come. The global objective for the multi-annual activities is to facilitate capacity building through information, training and research at European level, and improve the degree of involvement of workers’ representatives in European governance through providing an accurate analysis of current and longer term economic and social developments, the assessment of working conditions and public policies, the issuing of technical and political recommendations, and the promotion of educational activities and training programmes designed to strengthen a European trade union identity.

Belgium

2025-12-15