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  • AGF EuropaNews November 2024

    AGF EuropaNews November 2024

    The November edition of our AGF EuropaNews was published today. It contains the latest news from Europe’s various institutions, such as the confirmation of the new European Commission. Meanwhile, two-thirds of the EU Child Guarantee progress reports are available and World Children’s Day was celebrated in November. As usual, this issue also contains numerous references…

  • AGF comments: The current discussion on measures proposed by the European Commission to prevent and combat the sexual abuse of children on the internet

    AGF comments: The current discussion on measures proposed by the European Commission to prevent and combat the sexual abuse of children on the internet

    Background Combating child sexual abuse (CSA) is an important objective of the EU. In this connection, the Internet as an environment in which children spend a great deal of time poses a particular challenge. Despite its efforts to date, the EU is clearly failing to protect children from becoming victims of online sexual abuse. The…

  • AGF EuropaNews October 2024

    AGF EuropaNews October 2024

    The October edition of EuropaNews was published today. Summer time has been changed to Winter time, so the month was an hour longer than usual. The hearings of the designated College of the EU Commission have begun in writing, and we have summarised the responses relevant to family policy. Long-term care is the subject of…

  • Job offer

    Job offer

    AGF is looking for a project manager / policy officer starting at 1 February 2024 in Berlin. It is required to be fluent in German (oral and written). Applications are welcome until 30 November. As it is required to have fluent German language skills, the job description is only published in German: Die Arbeitsgemeinschaft der…

  • AGF director Sven Iversen elected to Board of Trustees of German Youth Institute

    AGF director Sven Iversen elected to Board of Trustees of German Youth Institute

    In the general members’ assembly of the German Youth Institute, which took place on 10 and 11 December 2024 in Munich, current topics and research projects of the DJI were discussed. In particular, the focus was on the findings of the educational reporting. In addition to topical debates, a number of formal and institutional tasks…

  • AGF EuropaNews September 2024

    AGF EuropaNews September 2024

    Today we present the September edition of EuropaNews. The summer break is long behind us, work is in full swing and several elections have passed. We present the family policy-relevant innovations in the EU Commission and the EU Parliament, as well as new proposals to combat sexual abuse on the internet and data on its…

  • AGF Director Sven Iversen confirmed as Vice-President of COFACE – Families Europe

    AGF Director Sven Iversen confirmed as Vice-President of COFACE – Families Europe

    Berlin, 26 September 2024 – Sven Iversen, director of the German National Association of Family Organisations (AGF), was re-elected as Vice President of COFACE Families Europe on 26 September 2024. The General Assembly and other COFACE committee meetings took place in Vilnius, Lithuania, from 24 to 26 September 20024, accompanied by an international symposium on…

  • World Breastfeeding Week 2024: Breastfeeding mothers need better support

    World Breastfeeding Week 2024: Breastfeeding mothers need better support

    The AGF supports the World Breastfeeding Week 2024 and draws attention to the press release of the ‘Healthy start to life’ network (Netzwerk “Gesund ins Leben”. This year, AGF became a member of the network that brings together institutions, professional societies and associations to jointly promote early childhood health – from pregnancy to infancy. The…