The European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion seeks to achieve the following objectives:

• Recognition of rights: Make visible and recognize the right of people experiencing poverty and social exclusion to live with dignity and to play an active role in society and to participate in the policies developed.
• Upholding share responsibility and participation: Promote the social support for the social inclusion policies emphasizing the collective and individual responsibility and promoting the commitment and the participation of all actors, public and private, in the fight against the poverty and social exclusion.
• Promoting social cohesion: Work for a more cohesive and joint society in which nobody doubts of benefits that the eradication of the poverty has for whole society, in the framework of a guaranteed sustainable development and equal opportunities.
• Commitment and action: Renew the commitment of the European Union and its Member States to the fight against poverty and social exclusion and involving all political levels to achieve poverty eradication, promoting further the action of Member States and the European Union in this field.