Foundation seminar series - Developing workers' skills: actors and actions, 2008
1st session - Developing workers' skills: actors and actions, 23-25 June 2008, Dublin, Ireland
Venue: Raymond-Pierre Bodin Conference Centre,
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions,
Wyattville Road, Loughlinstown, Dublin 18
Draft programme
Day 1: Monday 23 June 2008
12.00 Transport from the hotel to Eurofound
12.30 Registration of participants and speakers (tea/coffee and sandwiches served)
13.30 Welcome address
Jorma Karppinen, Director, Eurofound
13.45 Presentation of the programme by the project team
Challenges and European trends
Chair: Isabella Biletta, Research Manager, Industrial Relations and
Workplace Developments Unit, Eurofound
14.00 Keynote Speech – A European definition of skills?
Dermot Stokes, National Coordinator,
Youthreach, Ireland [abstract, pdf, 54kb] [presentation, pdf, 75kb]
DISCUSSION
14.45 Module 1 – MAPPING SKILLS
- Mapping skills in EU-27: evidence from the 4th EWCS
Agnès Parent-Thirion, Head of Unit, Monitoring and Surveys, Eurofound [presentation, pdf, 200kb] - Measurement of skills in adults: PIAAC study
William Thorn, Senior Analyst, OECD [abstract, pdf, 17kb] [presentation, pdf, 430kb]
DISCUSSION
16.15 Coffee break
16.30 Workshop 1
- Introduction of participants
- Identification of key issues for Europe/Member States/Firms/Workers
18.30 End of the day and transport from Eurofound to restaurant
19.00 Dinner
21.30 Transport to the hotel
Day 2: Tuesday 24 June 2008
09.00 Transport from the hotel to Eurofound
Main issues to be tackled, Part I
Chair: David Foden, Research Manager, Monitoring and Surveys Unit,
Eurofound
09.30 Module 2 – WHAT SKILLS DO WE NEED?
- Skills Development projects around Europe today, a European Social
Fund priority
Dominique Bé, European Commission, DG EMPL-ESF [abstract, pdf, 12kb] [presentation, pdf, 2mb] - Skills for the future: Skills forecasting: analysis of European trends
Torsten Dunkel, Project Manager, CEDEFOP, Greece [abstract, pdf, 10kb] [presentation, pdf, 153kb]
DISCUSSION
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 Sectoral views of skills needs
Marita Aho, The Confederation of Finnish Industries [presentation, pdf, 1mb]
13.00 Lunch
Main challenges/issues to be tackled, Part II
Chair: Agnès Parent-Thirion, Head of Unit, Monitoring and Surveys,
Eurofound
14.00 Module 3 – SPECIFIC SKILLS, SPECIFIC SITUATIONS
- Re-skilling measures for workers displaced at restructuring
Donald Storrie, Acting Head of Unit, Employment & Competitiveness, Eurofound [abstract, pdf, 14kb] - SMEs and skills development: challenges and solutions
Helen Hoffmann, Policy Advisor, UEAPME [abstract, pdf, 10kb] [presentation, pdf, 605kb]
Sanja Crnkovic-Pozaic, Director, CEPOR (SMEs and Entrepreneurship policy centre), Croatia [abstract, pdf, 54kb] [presentation, pdf, 266kb]
DISCUSSION
15.45 Coffee break
16.15 Workshop 2
Thematic workshops
18.00 End of the day and transport to the Hotel
Day 3: Wednesday 25 June 2008
08.30 Transport from the hotel to Eurofound
Challenges for policy orientations
Chair: Stavroula Demetriades, Head of Unit, Industrial Relations and
Workplace Developments, Eurofound
09.00 Reports from the workshops
09.30 Module 4 – SOCIAL PARTNERS AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
- The role of collective bargaining in the development of CVT in Europe
Kasia Jurczac, Research Officer, Industrial Relations and Workplace Developments, Eurofound [abstract, pdf, 15kb] [presentation, pdf, 92kb] - More and better jobs? Patterns of employment expansion in Europe, 1999-2006
Enrique Fernández
DISCUSSION
10.45 Introduction to the ‘assignment’ by the project team
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 Workshop 3
- Working groups by national teams
- Series of presentations on the Foundation documentary resources
Jan Vandamme, Information officer, Monitoring and Surveys Unit and
Marina Patriarka, Information liaison officer, Industrial Relations and Workplace Developments, Eurofound
12.45 Wrapping up/ Final exchange
Preview of the 2nd session to take place on 5-7 November 2008
13.00 Lunch
14.00 End of the 1st session
14.15 Transport to Dublin airport to reach flights departing after 16.30