The ESF should improve employment opportunities, strengthen social inclusion, fight poverty, promote education, skills and life-long learning and develop active, comprehensive and sustainable inclusion policies in accordance with the tasks entrusted to the ESF by Article 162 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), and thereby contribute to economic, social and territorial cohesion in accordance with Article 174 TFEU. In accordance with Article 9 TFEU, the ESF should take into account requirements linked to the promotion of a high level of employment, the guarantee of adequate social protection, the fight against social exclusion, and a high level of education, training and protection of human health.
Ba cheart do CSE deiseanna fostaíochta a fheabhsú, cuimsiú sóisialta a neartú, bochtaineacht a chomhrac, oideachas, scileanna agus foghlaim ar feadh an tsaoil a chur chun cinn agus beartais ghníomhacha, chuimsitheacha agus inbhuanaithe cuimsithe a fhorbairt i gcomhréir leis na cúraimí arna leagan ar CSE le hAirteagal 162 den Chonradh ar Fheidhmiú an Aontais Eorpaigh (CFAE), agus sa dóigh sin rannchuidiú le comhtháthú eacnamaíoch, sóisialta agus críche i gcomhréir le hAirteagal 174 CFAE. i gcomhréir le hAirteagal 9 CFAE, ba cheart do CSE na riachtanais a chur san áireamh a bhaineann le hardleibhéal fostaíochta a chur chun cinn, le cosaint shóisialta leordhóthanach a ráthú, leis an gcomhrac i gcoinne eisiaimh shóisialta, agus le hardleibhéal oideachais, oiliúna, agus cosaint na sláinte daonna.