Since 2007 EGF has received more than 100 applications from 20 EU member states for programs that would support more than 100,000 workers who either lost their jobs due to globalization (56%) or as a result of the global economic and financial crisis (44%).
O congreso celebrouse coa asistencia de 140 delegados que representaban a 162 sociedades obreiras de 70 localidades (35 delas de Cataluña).