Information strategies for changing European living and working conditions

The article outlines the work of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Con ditions against the author's perceived background of informa tion needs in a changing Europe. After a short description of the Foundation's role in the Community, there is a detailed examination of its information strategy for the complex Euro pean multilingual and multicultural markets. Measures of audience identification and selection, resource allocation and sharing, dissemination and, to some extent, assessment of the value and effectiveness of its information programmes, are discussed.