Social dialogue capacity building at sectoral and company level in Cyprus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia - Sofia, Bulgaria, 27-28 June 2006

Programme

Day 1, Day 2

Day 1: Tuesday 27 June 2006

09:00 Registration

Chair: Isabella Biletta, European Foundation, Dublin

09:30 Welcome and objectives of the seminar
Timo Kauppinen, European Foundation, Dublin

10.00 Commission perspective on sectoral social dialogue approach
Anneli Sillanpää, DG Employment and Social Affairs, Brussels

10:30 National level perspective: comparative overview on social dialogue capacity building at national level in the EU10 and in Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey
Heribert Kohl, Association for Social Security Policy and Research (GVG), Köln

General discussion

11:30 Coffee

11:45 National working groups: organisational, financial and skills capacities for building social dialogue at sectoral and company level

• Cyprus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia
• Discussion and finalisation of the national reports

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Panel: Presentations on capacities for social dialogue at sectoral and company level

• Cyprus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia
• Discussion

15:00 Coffee

15:15 National working groups: strengths and weaknesses of social dialogue capacities for managing change at sectoral and company level

• Cyprus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia
• Group discussions in five national groups

Discussion

16.15 Panel: presentations on strengths and weaknesses of social dialogue capacities

• Cyprus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia
• Discussion

17:30 ILO’s perspective on social dialogue at sectoral and company level
Svetla Shekerdjieva, ILO, Budapest office

20:00 Working dinner

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Day 2: Wednesday 28 June 2006

Chair: Timo Kauppinen, European Foundation, Dublin

09:00 ETUC, UNICE and UAPME joint project on social dialogue capacity building
Matthew Higham, UNICE

09:30 National working groups: building social dialogue capacities

• Group discussions in five national groups:
• Cyprus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia

11:00 Coffee

11:10 Panel: presentations on Building social dialogue at sectoral and company level

• Cyprus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia
• Discussion

13.00 Future work

Discussion

13:15 Concluding remarks and closing of workshop
Timo Kauppinen and Isabella Biletta, European Foundation.