Foundation Forum 2025: Europe’s social model – the key to competitive growth
On 19–20 November 2025, Eurofound is organising its 8th Foundation Forum at IMMA Venues. It is the agency’s quadrennial high-level flagship event which has been running for the past 20 years and is organised in cooperation with the Irish Government.
Foundation Forum 2025: Europe’s social model – the key to competitive growth
20 November 2025
Start
09:00
End
13:00
Start
10:00
End
14:00
Event background
Forum 2025 will mark the agency’s 50th anniversary – a key milestone celebrating five decades of evidence-based contributions to social, employment, and work-related policies across the EU. This landmark event offers an opportunity to reflect on Eurofound’s legacy while looking ahead to the challenges and opportunities that will shape the future of work and society.
Forum 2025 will kick off with a gala dinner event on the evening of 19 November followed by a half-day on 20 November, held alongside Eurofound’s Management Board meeting.
The programme will feature a keynote address, presentations and parallel thematic panel sessions encouraging for discussion audience engagement, as well as a closing plenary session.
The plenary sessions will be livestreamed on our website, with the full event available online after the Forum.
Speakers
We’re delighted to welcome a distinguished line-up of speakers, including:
Micheál Martin
Daniel Susskind
The Mercers’ School Memorial Professor of Business, Gresham College, Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford University
Roxana Mînzatu
EVP for Social Rights and Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness, European Commission
Li Andersson
Brigid Laffan
Ivailo KalfinAgenda
Contact
For more information, please contact Cristina Arigho.
Cristina Arigho
Senior Communication ManagerCristina Arigho is Senior Communications Manager and Stakeholder engagement and Promotions Lead in the Information and Communication unit at Eurofound, having joined the Agency in 2012. Previously, she spent almost 20 years in Brussels working in various roles, many of them at the European Commission, including as spokesperson for DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (2010–2012) and for DG Budget (2007–2009). Before joining the Commission’s spokesperson’s service, she was press officer at DG Employment (2005–2007) and speech writer for the Commissioner and Director General at the time (2003–2005). Prior to her years at the Commission, she worked for RTÉ radio and television (Irish national television) in Brussels as a production assistant and researcher, and later as news producer. Cristina is a graduate in Applied Languages from the University of Ulster at Coleraine, Northern Ireland.
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