Social dialogue capacity building at sectoral and company level in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, and Slovakia
16 December 2007
Event background
Workshop on social dialogue capacity building at sectoral and company level in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, and Slovakia - 4 & 5 May 2006, Budapest, Hungary
Venue: Radisson SAS Béke Hotel, Teréz krt. 43, 1067 Budapest, Hungary
Programme
Day 1: Thursday 4 May 2006
09:00Registration
Chair:Isabella Biletta, European Foundation, Dublin
09:30Welcome and objectives of the seminar
Timo Kauppinen, European Foundation, Dublin [presentation, pdf, 369KB]
10.00Commission perspective on sectoral social dialogue approach
Anneli Sillanpää, DG Employment and Social Affairs, Brussels [presentation, pdf, 406KB]
10:30 National level perspective: comparative overview on social dialogue capacity building at national level in the EU10 and in Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey
Joachim Hülsmann, Association for Social Security Policy and Research (GVG), Köln [presentation, pdf, 312KB]
Discussion
11:30Coffee
11:45 National working groups: organizational, financial and skills capacities for building social dialogue at sectoral and company level
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Slovakia
Discussion and finalisation of the national reports
13:00Lunch
14:00 Panel: Presentations on capacities for social dialogue at sectoral and company level
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Slovakia
Discussion
15:00Coffee
15:15 ILO’s perspective on social dialogue at sectoral and company level
Ludek Rychly, ILO, Geneva [presentation, pdf, 200KB]
Discussion
16.15 National working groups: strengths and weaknesses of social dialogue capacities for managing change at sectoral and company level
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Slovakia
Group discussions in five national groups
17:30 Panel: presentations on strengths and weaknesses of social dialogue capacities
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Slovakia
Discussion
18.30End of the day
20:00Working dinner
Day 2: Friday, 5 May 2006
Chair: Timo Kauppinen, European Foundation, Dublin
09:00 ETUC, UNICE and UAPME joint project on social dialogue capacity building
Matthew Higham, UNICE [presentation, pdf, 1503KB]
09:30National working groups: building social dialogue capacities
Group discussions in five national groups:
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Slovakia
11:00Coffee
11:10 Panel: presentations on Building social dialogue at sectoral and company level
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Slovakia
Discussion
12.15 Future work
Discussion
13:00Concluding remarks and closing of workshop
Timo Kauppinen and Isabella Biletta, European Foundation.
Agenda
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