Overview
Lobbying Costs
1,125,000€
Financial year: Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
11 Fte (12)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Observatoire social européen, asbl (OSE)
EU Transparency Register
578408218330-43 First registered on 28 Jul 2015
Goals / Remit
The European Social Observatory (OSE) was founded in 1984 and is nowadays a leading centre for research, information and training, specialised in the social dimension of the European Union. It has a forward-looking approach and operates as a think-tank, identifying issues as they emerge.
Since 2016 the OSE has been ranked every year among the top 100 social policy think tanks worldwide by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) of the University of Pennsylvania. The think tanks in this category provide ‘superior innovative research and strategic analyses’ on topics pertaining to social issues and challenges.
The OSE is a partner organisation in several European Research Programmes and is actively involved in some major networks of academic excellence in Europe and North America. The OSE works closely with the Belgian and European public authorities, as well as with trade unions (including in the context of TURI).Main EU files targeted
- The social dimension of the EU's economic governance (incl. the Social Dimension of EMU and the socialisation of the European Semester);
- Contract welfare in the European Union: the changing role of social partners;
- National welfare state reforms and the crisis;
- The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP);
- The EU's anti poverty strategy, incl. the European Platform against Poverty;
- The Pillar of Social RightsAddress
Head Office
Rue Paul Emile Janson, 13
Brussels 1050
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
12
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 9 75% 2 50% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
11
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
Regular interns provide important additional human resources in terms of research assistance and boosting the OSE social media strategy.
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
IV - Think tanks, research and academic institutions
Subcategory
Think tanks and research institutions
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Networking
Affiliation
Not Applicable
Member organisations
Not Applicable
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
1,125,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
277,530 € (Source: CESE (CES/CSS/10/2017/24701+03/2018/26365); Re-INVEST (H2020-649447); INVTOUNES (VS/2017/0439); EFISTU (VS/2017/0436))
Other financial info
The category 'National sources and infranational sources' is composed of two subcategories: 'project funding' (INAMI; SPF Social Security) and 'Subsidies' (ACTIRIS and BELSPO)
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
- Annual Conference on 'Social policy in the European Union: state of play' at the European Economic and Social Committee and the European Parliament;
- Regular OSE Lunchtimes Sessions on issues topping the EU agenda;
- Organisation both major conferences and smaller events – amongst other things, within the framework of European Framework Programmes (FP6 and 7; H2020) and other EU-funded research such as INVOTUNES and PROWELFARE.
- Annual production of a range of articles, book chapters and papers, as well as edited volumes, digests, book reviews and opinions.
- The OSE Working Paper series, encompassing three different publications: ‘Research’, ‘Briefing’ and ‘Opinion’ papers;
- The Health Care Newsletter (EN, FR and NL), providing regular summaries of current EU developments that might affect national health care systems.Other activities
Bart Vanhercke has been a member of the 'High Level Group on Social Union' set up by Friends of Europe in 2014.
Meetings
Meetings
2 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 28 Jan 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Panel intervention at the webinar: Social policy in the EU 2020. Role of EGD on the SDGs. Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Sarah Nelen (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 16 Sep 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject European Semester Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen Portfolio Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility Attending - Stefaan Hermans (Cabinet member)