The Giacomo Brodolini Foundation has put labour at the centre of its activities - from research to cultural promotion- with the aim of exploring and discussing the most topical and pressing issues concerning employment, labour protection and social security, adopting a rigorous scientific methodologies and an interdisciplinary approach.

19/12/2011 Lab2020 is a workshop on the new programming of the 2014-2020 European Social Fund, conceived from the evaluation of ESF programs conducted in recent years by Fondazione G. Brodolini and the Institute for Social Research
Lab2020-New Challenges of the ESF for 2014-2020 aims to support the institutional actors involved in the planning process and create an informal space to share information, knowledge, approaches and proposals.
19/12/2011 The Fondazione G. Brodolini on behalf of the European Commission coordinates the network European Network of Expert in the Field of Gender Equality (ENEGE).
The general objective of this Network is to contribute to the development of European-level policy on gender equality.
15/11/2011 On 17 and 18 November 2011 Conference held in Rome to celebrate the 40 anniversary of Fondazione G. Brodolini
Two-day conference to celebrate the history and research and cultural promotion of the Fondazione.

Economia e Lavoro promotes debate among those social, political, cultural and economic sectors committed to social change and democratic development. It represents a way to continue the thinking of the father of the Statute of the Workers, and for scholars it represents a laboratory for the analysis and interpretation of changes in society and in the labour market.

The book "Una stagione del riformismo. Giacomo Brodolini a 40 anni dalla sua scomparsa." has been published and is now available in "Le Culture del Socialismo, Quaderni della Fondazione Brodolini, n° 2, 2010."