Employment Summit

07/05/2009- Prague, Czech Republic

Special Summit dedicated to employment: The Member States of the Troika (the Czech Republic, Sweden and Spain), together with President Barroso, Commissioner Špidla and the social partners will discuss the consequences of the crisis on employment.

Occasional Seminar on "Italian workers transitions among different contractual arrangements: an analysis from INPS micro-data"

15/05/2009- Brussels, Belgium

Host: Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities DG

Euranec Meeting

27-28/05/2009, Région Centre,  in Brussels

EURANEC stands for The EURopean network of regions for the Anticipation of Economic Changes, it was created in July 2007 by the French Région Centre.

It aims at easing exchanges and building a common strategic vision on the anticipation of economic changes

Cedefop conference 'Matching skills and jobs: anticipating needs in challenging times

11-12 June 2009.Thessaloniki (GR)

Cedefop, in cooperation with the European Commission is organising a conference to present the recently launched New Skills for New Jobs initiative and to announce the results of Cedefop’s medium-term forecast of skills supply in Europe.

Restructuring Forum: Impact of Climate Change on Employment

22-23/06/2009- Brussels, Belgium

The European Commission will organise a Forum on the Impact of Climate Change on Employment, since changes needed to reduce CO2 emissions will in all likelihood have important effects on employment

The 16th edition of Employment Week

24-25/06/2009- Brussels, Management Centre Europe, Belgium

The Employment Week 2009 theme: Europe’s Labour Market -ensuring growth through human capital

Conference organised by IEFP theme: the reconversion as a right

October/2009- Portugal

Swedish Presidency Conference on New skills for New job

22-23/10/2009 Göteborg, Sweden

The conference will focus on the new skills that will be needed in the future labour market, and ways in which public employment services are adapting their tools to predict and meet new demands

The Post-2010 (Lisbon) Strategy - A way out of the crisis

29/10/2009 Brussels, Belgium

The EESC organise a pre-summit conference "the Post-2010 (Lisbon) Strategy - A way out of the crisis". Ms. Cecilia Malmström, the Swedish Minister for EU Affairs will participate to the event. It will bring together high representatives of the EESC, European Social Partners, etc. Click here to ask for more information.

Restructuring Toolbox 2nd Experts meeting

29/10/2009 Matera, Italy

In the project it is possible to capitalize upon past and present research work, forums, seminars as well as upon the large and various initiatives that took place in the different European countries during the last decades to anticipate and manage restructuring processes to provide practitioners with a guide. This guide can provide concrete recommendations, tools and strategies in the form of user-friendly fiches to be used on a day to day basis by the different actors of change management.

Eurofound's 2009 Forum

5-6/11/2009-Dublin, Ireland

The main thrust of the Forum will be to look at the key challenges facing Europe’s response to immediate future, the recession and its demographic crisis. What will be their effect, for how long and in what countries, sectors and communities? It will examine how the European Social Model can respond to the challenges and opportunities of these dual exigencies

Restructuring and the crisis - Building Partnerships for anticipating and managing restructuring in a socially responsible way

12/13/2009- Brussels, Belgium

The main objectives of the Restructuring Forum that the European Commission organises in Brussels on 12 and 13 November 2009 are: to promote mutual learning on the basis of the experiences developed so far and summarised in the Toolkit; to debate about what the EU can further do in order to help the actors cope with the effects of restructuring in a socially responsible way.

Restructuring forum - Sectors' New Skills for New Jobs

7-8/12/2009-Brussels, Belgium

The principal objective of the forum, organised by the European Commission in cooperation with the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, is to disseminate the results of the 18 sectoral studies. Day One (Prepare for the jobs and skills of the future) will set the scene for discussion and debate between the stakeholders on the role of skills needs anticipation in employment, education and training, policy making and practices, and on how and by whom this should be done. Workshops will offer the opportunity for participants to listen to the presentations of good practices and discuss further some of the recommendations laid down in the studies.