2009
January 16, Brussels - The Final Policy Informing Conference of the Translearn-project
Globalization of business operations, changing working life and the role of an enabling welfare state: Comparative experiences from the Nordic countries and Slovenia.
The conference will sum up results from the Sixth Framework Programme Translearn-project on current socio-economic dynamics by placing welfare state policies at the core of innovation policies, thus suggesting a bridge between Social Europe and Competitive Europe.
The conference will be hosted by the ETUI and co-funded by the Research Council of Norway.
Further information: www.hse.fi/translearn
Registration:
The Translearn Project: Transnational learning through local experimenting. An EU research project under the 6th Framework Programme, Section on social sciences and humanities, partners from Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Slovenia.
January 26-27, Brussels - ETUC-ETUI conference on worker participation in risk assessment
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) are holding a conference entitled "Participation by workers and workers’ reps: key to successful risk assessment" on 26 and 27 January 2009.
The conference aims to share experiences on participatory assessment practices for workplace hazards in Europe.
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