Working longer through better working conditions, new modes of work and career organisation

Launch of the first findings of Eurofound's 5th European Working Conditions Survey, 16-17 November 2010, Brussels, Belgium

This high-profile event is a joint conference, co-organised by the Belgian Ministry of Employment, Labour and Social Dialogue, the European Commission and Eurofound, under the auspices of the Belgian Presidency. It will take place in the Palais des Académies in Brussels, Belgium.

Programme of the conference

• Draft programme [.pdf, 170kb]

Documentation

• Biographies of speakers [.pdf, 354kb]

• Conference abstracts [.pdf, 58kb]

DAY ONE

• Opening and introduction: Jorma Karppinen [slides, .pdf, 153kb]

• Opening address: Discours introductif de Madame la Vice Première Ministre, Ministre de l’Emploi et de l’égalité des chances, Joëlle Milquet [speech, .pdf]

• Presentation: Agnès Parent-Thirion, What workers say : 20 years of working conditions - Preliminary results [slides, .pdf, 95kb]

• Presentation: Christian Denève, Comments on working conditions surveys in Belgium [slides, .pdf, 210kb]

• Presentation: Greet Vermeylen, Spotlight on working time in the EWCS: some first results [slides, .pdf, 216kb]

• Presentation: Luc Chalsège [short bio, .pdf, 7kb], Impact of the working time directive [slides, .pdf, 247kb]

• Presentation: Jean-Yves Boulin, The main changes over 20 years: lifecourse, social times in a comparative setting, key challenges from gender and from European employment policy perspectives (in French) [slides, .pdf, 75kb] [abstract, .pdf, 11kb]

• Presentation: Ulrich Mückenberger, Time is changing: adapting time to needs of workers and citizens [slides, .pdf, 554kb]

• Presentation: Michel Gollac, Work intensity in Europe [slides, .pdf, 160kb]

• Presentation: Myriam Dauby, Negotiation of working conditions: Hospital sector [slides, .pdf, 212kb] [abstract, .pdf, 37kb]

• Presentation: Frank Pot, Social innovation: win – win at the workplace [slides, .pdf, 1.8mb]

• Presentation: Brendan Burchall/Antoine Valeyre, Work organisation, innovation and quality of work and employment [slides, .pdf, 183kb]

• Presentation: Monique Ramioul. Case studies from the Works Project [slides, .pdf, 241kb]

• Presentation: Anne Himpens and Carl Foulon, Working with the strengths of older workers: lifelong learning for worker and employer [slides, .pdf, 745kb]

DAY TWO

• Presentation: Lennart Levi, Improving quality of work and employment: the answer to European demographic challenges? [slides, .pdf, 25kb]

• Presentation: Serge Volkoff, The improvement of working conditions as a tool to make work sustainable for all: practices and lessons [slides, .pdf, 195kb] [abstract, .pdf, 30kb]

• Presentation: Deborah Jamieson, Fit to work? The mental health programme [slides, .pdf, 852kb]

• Presentation: Irene Houtman, Strenuous jobs: redesign and other measures to avoid premature exit from the labour market [slides, .pdf, 674kb]

• Presentation: Itsvan Miniska, Workplace health promotion in the Mol company [slides, .pdf, 1mb]

• Presentation: Heinrich Wollny, Preliminary findings on the implementation of the European social partners’ Framework Agreement on Work-related Stress [slides, .pdf, 135kb]

• Presentation: Pascale Vielle, Developing the security of European citizens: from social investment to social mainstreaming? (in French) [slides, .pdf, 443kb]

• Presentation: Claude Emmanuel Triomphe, Employment in time of crisis (in French) [slides, .pdf, 196kb]

• Presentation: Stefano Sacchi, Employment status and worker security. How interaction between work careers and social security systems might lead to more insecurity [slides, .pdf, 244kb] [abstract, .pdf, 89kb]

• Presentation: Richard Hyman, Social dialogue and job quality - Evidence from 2 decades [slides, .pdf, 49kb]

• Presentation: Erika Mezger, Conclusions [slides, .pdf, 71kb]