Despite the European Commission’s continued promise to earn a social AAA rating, necessary reforms to achieve a meaningful shift towards upward social convergence, social investment and equality are absent. This event is meant to enhance the debate between policy makers, academia and civil society about alternative European structural reforms that help to rebuild our Social Europe.Two years after the launch of our tool for monitoring social progress at national level, the SOLIDAR Social Progress Watch 2015 (SPWI) shows once more the drastic impact of one-sided policy reforms focused on budget discipline and fiscal consolidation at national and regional level. Not only Greece, Portugal and other Troika-ridden countries have reached the limit of what is left of their social welfare states. But also economically prospering countries report declining situations for workers, unemployed, youth and other groups.The edited volume “Progressive Structural Reforms. Proposals for European reforms to reduce inequalities and promote jobs, growth and social investment” presents the results of the SOLIDAR Social Progress Lab 2015 – a thinking space for academics, policy-makers and civil society about necessary strategies and policies to achieve a more social and inclusive Europe. It collects the analysis by 10 academic scholars from across Europe with a focus on identifying and targeting inequalities, shaping social investment and European policies affecting social safeguards, and thereby seeks to enrich the policy debate at European and national level about alternative structural reforms.