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- Achieving gender balance - strategies for competitiveness
In a seminar organised for members of its Company Network, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions explored corporate practices leading to a better work-life balance for women and men, while also contributing to enhanced competitiveness and human resource management models in European countries. The seminar ‘Achieving gender balance - strategies for competitiveness’ was held in Lisbon, Portugal, on 18-19 November 2004. Four companies from Portugal, Denmark, France, and the United Kingdom (an SME in publishing and printing, a public/private consultancy firm, a multinational of the food and drink sector and a public health authority) presented both professional and personal experiences to an audience of 42 participants from 14 EU countries.
- Achieving gender balance - strategies for competitiveness
The final EMCC company network seminar for 2004 focuses on ‘Achieving gender balance - strategies for competitiveness’. The seminar will explore corporate practices leading to a better work-life balance for women and men, while also contributing to enhanced competitiveness and human resource management models in European companies. The Portuguese Vocational Training Centre for Trade (CECOA) will co-organise this event in Lisbon, Portugal, on 18-19 November 2004. A background paper outlines the main legislative developments in the EU and work done by the Foundation in this field.
- Background paper on gender balance
If the EU is to achieve the Lisbon employment targets (70% overall - 60% for women) by 2010, it is vital to ensure greater participation of women in the labour market. This paper outlines the main legislative developments in the EU concerning gender policies and initiatives in recent years. It has been developed as part of the EMCC Company Network Seminar ‘Achieving gender balance - strategies for competitiveness’ in Lisbon on 18-19 November 2004. It also highlights the work done by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions in this field.
- Diffusion of information and communication technologies and changes in skills
This paper examines the impact of increasing use of information and communication technology, especially on skills. It looks at the ICT situation in the UK during the 1980s across 25 industrial sectors. The findings show that ICT has been a major driver of skills upgrading, resulting in an increase in cognitive skills and a decrease in motor skills.
- EMCC dossier on the European energy sector
Energy is vital for the continued functioning of industrial economies; as such, it is a sector that will always play a vital role in Europe’s economy. Moreover, the increasing demand for renewable energy sources – in light of rising prices of fossil fuels and growing calls for international action to reduce emissions of C02 – means that Europe’s energy sector, which has the highest level of use of renewable energies worldwide, has the potential to become the leading global player in an energy ‘renaissance’, with huge potential for employment and exports. However, the European energy sector is facing a number of challenges: renewable energy requires massive long-term investments, for which the capital is difficult to find; rising costs of fossil fuels; geopolitical risks; an ageing workforce and a lack of young people entering technical professions. This dossier aims to provide an in-depth analysis of the trends and forces shaping the sector. It provides a mapping report that gives an overview of the current state of the sector, company and cluster studies that look in detail at current practices, and future scenarios that investigate possible outcomes for the sector out to the year 2050.
- European Trade Union Institute
The European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) is a research institute founded in 1978 on the initiative of the European Trade Union Confederation. The ETUI provides research findings in the areas of europeanisation of industrial relations and employment, labour market and social policy.
- European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
The Foundation is an autonomous body of the European Union founded in 1975 with a mandate to 'contribute to the planning and establishment of better living and working conditions'. It is a tripartite EU body, whose role is to provide key actors in social policy-making with findings, knowledge and advice drawn from comparative research.
- Future female - a 21st century gender perspective
This joint report from the Women's National Commission and the Future Foundation in the United Kingdom illustrates the challenges facing UK women into the 21st century. The research method uses a combination of objective (quantitive figures) and subjective (group discussion) data to analyse issues affecting women's lives and predict trends for the future.
- Globalisation: threat or opportunity?
This historical overview of globalisation in the 20th century looks at the meaning of globalisation, its effect on economic integration and an analysis of its impact on economic growth, on the one hand, and on global income distribution and poverty, on the other. It concludes that the international community should strengthen the international financial system, in order to assist the poorest countries to integrate into the world economy.
- Globalisation: facts and figures
This is a policy discussion paper from the International Monetary Fund, which looks at the economic dimensions of globalisation from the early phases of strong globalisation in the late 19th and early 20th century to post-1950 growth. It focuses on the relationship between trade openness and the rise in per capita incomes; capital market integration; inequality within and across countries; volatility in financial markets; and economic policy responses.
- Hairdressing and beauty industry authority
The Hairdressing and beauty industry authority (HABIA) is an independent, non-profit organisation established in 1997. Responsible for setting and raising standards in training and in the professional development of the beauty industry at national level, its portal is a reference for industry stakeholders, enabling them to remain updated on workforce and professional developments. It is based in Doncaster, United Kingdom.
- Open Society Institute
The Open Society Institute (OSI) is a private foundation based in New York, United States. It was established by George Soros in 1993 to support the democratisation process of eastern European countries and of the foundations previously established in this region. OSI and the developed network of foundations promote programmes and activities in several sectors including economy, education, human rights, media and communications, public health, arts and culture.
- Skillfast-UK
Skillfast-UK is a skills service provider to the clothing, footwear and textiles industry in the United Kingdom (UK). It acts as the sector skills council for this industry, and is one of the five leading councils of this kind. It forms a partnership between employers and stakeholder organisations, which aims at reducing skills gaps and shortages and anticipating future needs through leverage on the supply side of education and training.
- Social situation in the European Union 2003
This report by DG Employment and Social Affairs of the European Commission, has been published on an annual basis since 2000, concentrating each year on a different topic, health being the key theme of 2003. It provides quantitative and qualitative information on European social and health systems, discusses the areas of social policy concern and includes a set of harmonised social indicators for each EU15 Member State.
- Success stories: Profiles of projects in Europe
A website of the European Commission containing over 500 examples of economic and social development projects that have been carried out with the support of the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund.
- The foresighted society
This is the final synthesis report of the Swedish Technology Foresight project which brought together 130 experts from the knowledge community to look at the impact of technology on industry and society and to predict future trends. The study aims to predict technological development in the long term in order to identify worthwhile strategies in education, research and development, which will promote change in a positive way.
- Women as entrepreneurs in Sweden and the UK
This report provides an overview of women in business in the UK and Sweden, describing the context of women's entrepreneurship, the characteristics of women entrepreneurs, self-employment and SMEs. It gives key facts on business set-ups and government support and shows examples of good practice in both countries.
EMCC is a project of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.
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