European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions


The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions is an agency of the European Union which focuses on managing research, gathering information, and communicating its findings.
It was set up by in May 1975 by the European Council to help improve living and working conditions across Europe, and was one of the first bodies established to work on a specific subset of EU policy. It is headquartered in Loughlinstown, County Dublin, Ireland.

Role and mission

The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions describes its role on its own information page as follows:

Organisation

It maintains a number of specialized operations monitoring and measuring conditions in Europe, including:
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The offices of Eurofound are located at , Wyattville Road, Loughlinstown, Co. Dublin, D18 KP65, Ireland.

Governance

The Foundation is overseen by a Management Board, Executive Director, and Deputy Director. The Executive Board meets once a year to set budgets and policy, and to decide on one-year and four-year work programmes. The current Director, Juan Menéndez-Valdés, was appointed in December 2010. The Deputy Director is Maria Jepsen. The Foundation budget comes from the general European Commission budget.