The Conference taking place in Brussels on the 5-6 May 2008 is organised by the European Commission to meet the following objectives;

• To provide a platform for a social policy dialogue that is responsive to new challenges in European societies.
• To open a discussion aimed at public engagement and consensus building in the context of new social realities in ensuring the best way forward.
• To produce input that will ultimately feed into the preparation and definition of the renewed Social Agenda in mid-2008.

The two plenary sessions in the morning of the 5th of May and in the afternoon of 6th of May will be webstreamed on the following link: http://scic.ec.europa.eu/streaming/char