Communiqué, issue 2, 2004
Articles
- Less satisfaction with health services in the ACC
- Moderate pay increases across Europe in 2003
- Stable year for industrial relations
- Advisor bids farewell to the Foundation
- 71st Administrative Board meeting
- Promoting EU-level social policy
- Major differences in collectively agreed holidays across Europe
- Increase in number of web users
- Living to work – working to live
Previous issues of Communiqué
The first Foundation Seminar series will bring together social actors in an effort to raise knowledge and understanding of EU-level social policy issues and their implementation at national level.
The European Commission has called on the Foundation to come up with suggestions as to how to raise awareness and increase understanding of EU-level social policy in the EU Member States, a problem identified by the High Level Group on Industrial relations and change in the European Union. The answer is the Foundation Seminar series, which consists of participatory knowledge exchange seminars, aimed at actors at national level working to bring their countries’ labour markets in line with the Lisbon criteria.
Sharing knowledge and experiences
With its tripartite structure, the Foundation is well placed to explain EU-level social policy issues. Banking on the Foundation as a forum for frank and open exchange, the formula is to let participants share experiences and debate how to implement them at national levels. The Foundation will add its wealth of knowledge from all core research areas, aided by experts from the European employers’ and workers’ organisations, and the European Commission.
Focus on age and work
The theme, ‘Age and work: connecting the generations’, provides the main focus for the seminars. Specifically, the emphasis will be on the challenges to the European labour market arising from demographic trends, as well as the opportunities offered by combining the skills and competences of various generations at the workplace. There are two Foundation seminars planned for 2004: 9-11 June in Dublin and 11-13 September in Bonn.