Educational Programme 2010 European Social Dialogue Group of themes 3 STRUCTURAL CHALLENGES IN THE LABOUR MARKET The effects of the financial and economic crisis on workers is the crisis an opportunity for workers' organisations? The current financial, economic and employment crisis has definitively jolted people s belief in the free market s ability to regulate itself and the worldwide recession makes it increasingly necessary to provide sustainable protection for workers. There also remains the question as to whether the current crisis situation cannot also be seen as an opportunity to strengthen trades unions and workers representatives and to bring them together. For this reason, it should be investigated, across various levels, how much workers representatives could be empowered by the crisis in order, as strong social partners, to promote the common good. 03-01-10-SE Arbeiter-, Freizeit- und Bildungsverein (AFB) Heidi Rabensteiner Tel.: +39-0471 - 25 41 99 E-mail: info@afb-efs.it Brixen (South Tyrol), Italy 04 06 June 2010 Languages: de, en, it 1 / 8
Information and Communication Technologies: Ethics, Job Security and Workers' Participation This seminar was set up as a consequence and expansion of the seminar held in May 2009 on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and their effects on Workers. The seminar aims to determine the significance of current ICT for the EU given the recently validated Lisbon Treaty and a sustainable development strategy, as well as highlighting the effects of ICT on the areas of worker participation, gender equality, citizens rights and job security. In addition, a five-year plan will be defined, which allows workers to make their day-to-day work more efficient and base it on their future needs. 03-02-10-SE Academy for the Development of Democratic Environment (AZAD) Carmen Vella Tel.: +356-21 24 75 15 E-mail: admin@azad-malta.com Malta 14 16 May 2010 Languages: de, en, es, fr, it The Post-Lisbon Strategy dimensions in relation to employment sector policies The dimensions of the post-lisbon Strategy jobs-sector policy dimensions and the question of which target can be used to form European employment policy in the next decade lie at the heart of the seminar. Successful models, such as how more work and employment can be created on the basis of a social dialogue and the integration of disadvantaged groups (women, older workers and migrants) into the jobs market can be enhanced, are due to be presented and core elements of such models defined for the three groups researched. In addition, the question must be asked as to what effects a European employment policy will have on the social policy of the individual EU states. 03-03-10-SE Arbeitnehmer-Zentrum Königswinter (AZK) Karsten Matthis Tel.: +49-22 23-73 120 E-mail: karsten.matthis@azk.de Königswinter, Germany February 2011 Languages: de, en, fr 2 / 8
Poverty and impoverishment in Europe the social effects of the financial and economic crisis Within the context of 2010 - The European Year for Tackling Poverty and Social Marginalisation, the ENAIP is looking at the social effects of the economic crisis. Workers in Europe, especially those with insecure jobs, are threatened by the consequences of the economic crisis, such as unemployment and the resulting poverty. This is why ENAIP considers that it is particularly important to promote the Social Dialogue. The crisis effects, as well as the development perspectives for a European social protection system are to be debated during the seminar, to enhance social welfare systems within the EU and to promote the stimulation of an international debate regarding the European social model. Ente Nazionale ACLI Istruzione Professionale (ENAIP) Lidia Borzì Tel.: +39-06 - 584 03 39 E-mail: europa@acli.it Paris, France 11 13 November 2010 03-04-10-SE Languages: en, fr, it Demographic transition and opportunities of lifelong learning (LLL) How can problems caused by the ageing of the European jobs market be counteracted? ETÖK would like to respond to this question by means of an analysis of the problems caused by demographic change and the situation of lifelong learning in Estonia and the project partner countries. In this regard and in particular, examples of best practice from various European countries were called upon. The aim of the seminar is to develop recommendations for negotiation for workers representatives in the individual countries. Eesti Tööküsimuste Keskus (ETÖK) Anne Taklaja Tel.: +372-604 44 60 E-mail: anne@etok.ee Tallinn / Estonia 04 06 February 2011 03-05-10-SE Languages: en, et, it, lt, nl 3 / 8
The priorities of the European Commission between now and the year 2020 Implementing a sustainable market economy The need for a standard, future-oriented EU development strategy, which links and develops the existing strategies, represents one of the basic challenges facing the European Commission in the next few years. Out of the Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Jobs, the renewed social agenda, the stability and growth package, the strategy for sustainable development and the strategy for climate change and energy must, in the future, become the strategies for a sustainable market economy, which aims to give more space to the social aspects and ensure the creation of sustainable employment for the European workforce. Within the context of the project, which is subdivided into three thematic workshops, there will be discussions regarding which concrete contributions can be made by trades unions and workers organisation to the implementation of such a strategy. ACW / Vlaams Centrum voor Werknemersvorming - Ter Munk - vzw (VCWV - Ter Munk) Sofie Put Tel.: +32-2 - 246 37 31 E-mail: sofie.put@acw.be Brussels, Belgium Date not yet defined 03-06-10-SE Languages: not yet defined The current employment situation within the rural economy what challenges are facing the codetermination of employees within small and mediumsized businesses? FEDER.AGRI. tackles the challenges of the new jobs sector, by contrasting workers representation in small and medium-sized companies. The jobs sector in agriculture is in a state of constant change and new laws and guidelines for workers are being drawn up by the EU. The seminar has been set up to look into what means can be used to promote the Social Dialogue in small and middle-sized companies in the agricultural sector. In addition, the effects of the economic and financial crisis with regard to new challenges facing professional training and employment will be looked at within this context. Federazione Nazionale per lo Sviluppo dell'agricoltura (FEDER.AGRI.) Alfonso Luzzi Tel.: +39-06 - 700 56 10 E-mail: feder.agri@mcl.it Bari, Italy 07 09 May 2010 03-07-10-SE Languages: de, en, es, it 4 / 8
The State of the Welfare State anno 1992 in EU 15 years later passing the financial and economic crisis The fourth conference on the situation of the welfare state aims to highlight and document the situation in the 27 member states after the 1992, 1997 and 2002 conferences. In particular, the current financial, economic and employment crisis offers an opportunity to analyse the situation of the welfare state in the individual countries before the crisis and the subsequent changes. At the same time, the conference will also be the closing event of the 2009 EZA integrated project on the financial, economic and employment crisis, which looks at the regional differences of the crisis in Western Eastern and Southern Europe and makes concrete recommendations for negotiations for workers organisations from the various regions up to this point in time. 03-08-10-SE HIVA - Onderzoeksinstituut voor Arbeid en Samenleving Patrick Develtere und Jozef Pacolet Tel.: +32-16 - 32 43 58 (Develtere) +32-16 - 32 31 49 (Pacolet) E-mail: patrick.develtere@hiva.kuleuven.be Leuven, Belgium 19 20 April 2010 Languages: not yet defined The economic and financial crisis and the quality of employment The effects of the financial crisis on the jobs market, the employment conditions and the quality of work will be investigated during the seminar. After analysing the situation, delegates will have to set out how the Social Dialogue will be promoted and how quality of work and the living conditions of workers can be achieved. The possibilities of a structural reform of working conditions, particularly with regard to ethical preconditions, are due to be expressed to allow space to a new European strategy for growth and employment. International Catholic Rural Association (ICRA) Vincenzo Conso Tel.: +39-06 - 69 88 71 23 E-mail: info@icra-agrimissio.org Torino, Italy 15 18 July 2010 03-09-10-SE Languages: en, it, pl 5 / 8
Towards our Dream: Young workers for a better future of work The precarious situation of young workers on the jobs market and its effects on it is the issue to be tackled by the JOC. In addition, there will be representatives of national movements, who have, themselves, been affected by limited or precarious working relations and are able to transfer the knowledge gained at the seminar to other young workers, who will expand on the theme in an analysis and make suggestions for negotiations. This should, in the long term, increase the number of young workers, who will ensure better quality of work. Centro de Formação e Tempos Livres (CFTL) João Paulo Branco Tel.: +351-21 - 812 07 20 E-mail: paulo.branco@fiat.com Bonn, Germany 27 30 January 2011 03-10-10-SE Languages: en, es, fr Preserving and retaining employment in the face of the effects of the financial crisis on the real economy The European Commission s proposal to release 19 billion Euros from the European Social Fund, to help people who are particularly affected by the financial crisis, primarily targets the promotion and maintenance of employment. The seminar has given itself the task of showing how jobs can be maintained and new ones created, particularly with regard to the dramatic rate of youth unemployment in individual member states. The seminar will investigate how business-friendly framework conditions can be created, how fluctuations in demand can be bolstered through employment-policy measures, without involving job losses, how training and continuing education can be intensified and how those alienated from the world of work can be reintegrated into the jobs market. Europejski Dom Spotkań Fundacja Nowy Staw Tomasz Rózṅiak Tel.: +48-81 - 534 61 91 E-mail: t.rozniak@eds-fundacja.pl Wrocław, Poland 23 25 September 2010 03-11-10-SE Languages: bg, de, en, es, fr, it, pl 6 / 8
Social Europe where now? Challenges imposed by precarious working and the working poor The social security of workers, and women in particular, has been negatively influenced by the current financial and economic crisis. This seminar and its participants aims to look for causes and, by comparing the situations in Western and Eastern Europe, work on and develop joint and concrete fields of negotiation and perspectives, which could supplement the European social model. In addition, the seminar will look at the further development of the activity company model, which promotes the reconciliation of work and the family and supports equal opportunities for women. Katholische Arbeitnehmer-Bewegung Deutschlands e.v. (KAB Deutschlands) Georg Hupfauer Tel.: +49-221 - 77 22 137 E-mail: info@kab.de Herzogenrath, Germany 18 24 July 2010 03-12-10-SE Languages: de, fr Generation Y is entering the labour market In recent years, a new generation of young people, the so-called Generation Y, has appeared on the jobs market. These are youths who were born between 1982 and 1993. The aim of the seminar is to discuss the situation and the perspective of these young people and to analyse their formative factors, as well as discussing their inclusion into the Social Dialogue and preparing for the integration of Generation Y and older generations into the employment market. Nezávislé krestanské odbory Slovenska (NKOS) Ľubica Černá Tel.: +421-903 29 73 22 E-mail: centrum@nkos.sk Trnava, Slovakia 04 06 June 2010 03-13-10-SE Languages: de, en, sk 7 / 8
Tackling poverty poor yet working The member centre would like to use its seminar to make a contribution to the European thought-process on the occasion of the 2010 European Year or tackling Poverty and Social Exclusion and distil economic proposals from the social thought-process. In particular, it aims to look at disadvantaged groups (young and older people and women) and find ways of supporting them. It would also like to analyse the various suggestions and make recommendations for negotiations for workers organisations. Vlaams Centrum voorwerknemersvorming - Ter Munk - vzw (VCWV - Ter Munk) Sofie Put Tel.: +32-2 - 246 37 31 E-mail: sofie.put@acw.be Brussels, Belgium 16 17 September 2010 03-14-10-SE Languages: en, fr, it, nl, pl As of: 21.12.2010 Europäisches Zentrum für Arbeitnehmerfragen (EZA) = European Centre for Workers Questions Johannes-Albers-Allee 2 D - 53639 Königswinter Tel.: +49 22 23 29 98 0 Fax: +49 22 23 29 98 22 E-mail: eza@eza.org Web site: www.eza.org 8 / 8