Social dialogue capacity building in Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey: programme

Workshop on social dialogue capacity building in Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey, 19 - 20 January 2006

Venue: Best Western The President Hotel, Istanbul

Programme

Day 1, Day 2

Day 1: Thursday 19 January 2006

Chair:Timo Kauppinen, European Foundation

09:00Registration

09:30Welcome address
Jorma Karppinen, Director, European Foundation [presentation, pdf, 2812KB]

09.50Welcome address
Cafer Yilmaz, Head of EU Coordination Department, Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Turkey

10:10Work-Life Development Programme: overview on progress
Lena Skiöld, Swedish Labour Market Board, Sweden [presentation, pdf, 493KB]

10:30Purpose of the workshop
Timo Kauppinen, European Foundation [presentation, pdf, 474KB]

10.45Social dialogue and European training programmes

• DG Empl (tbn)

• ETUC (tbn)

• UNICE – Matthew Higham, Advisor, Social Affairs Department [presentation, pdf, 1505KB]

11.30Coffee

11.45Social dialogue capacities in the New EU Member States
Joachim Hülsmann (GVG-Köln) / Heribert Kohl (BwP), Germany [presentation, pdf, 548KB]
Discussion

12:15 Organizational, financial and skills capacities for social dialogue

• Tasks: finalisation of the national reports

• National working groups: Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey

13:00Lunch

14:00Panel presentations on capacities for social dialogue

• Bulgaria

• Romania

• Turkey

15:00Coffee

15:15SWOT analysis of capacities for social dialogue for managing change

• Tasks: Identifying strengths and weaknesses

• Group discussions in three national groups:Bulgaria, Romania,Turkey

16:30 Panel presentations on strengths and weaknesses of social dialogue capacities
for Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey
Discussion

17.30Industrial relations capacities in Ireland
Kieran Mulvey, Head of Mediators Office, Labour Relations Commission, Ireland [presentation, pdf, 325KB]

18:00Closing of the first day

20:00Working dinner

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Day 2: Friday, 20 January 2006

Chair: Isabella Biletta, European Foundation

09:00Opening and purpose of the second day
Isabella Biletta, European Foundation

09:15Promotion of entrepreneurship by social dialogue
Roland Waeyaert, UNIZO, Belgian Organisation for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Belgium [presentation, pdf, 72KB]
Discussion

09:45 Building social dialogue capacities for the candidate countries

• Task: Drafting national development projects

• Group discussions in three national groups: Bulgaria, Romania,Turkey

11:00Coffee

11:15Panel presentations of national development projects
for Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey
Comments:
Kieran Mulvey and Timo Kauppinen

12:30Future work
Isabella Biletta and Timo Kauppinen
Discussion

13:00Concluding remarks
Jorma Karppinen, Director, European Foundation

13:15Workshop ends