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European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

Lessons learned Living and Working Conditions ETF, Eurofound and OSHA Lisbon, 26.11.2009 Jorma Karppinen. European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. Welcome/ Fáilte. Dobre doshli. Velkommen. Labas. Vitame vás. Esiet sveicinati. Isten hozta.

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European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

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  1. Lessons learned Living and Working Conditions ETF, Eurofound and OSHA Lisbon, 26.11.2009 Jorma Karppinen European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

  2. Welcome/ Fáilte Dobre doshli Velkommen Labas Vitame vás Esiet sveicinati Isten hozta Bienvenidos Buna ziua Witamy serdecznie Ahoj Bienvenue Bun venit Vitajte God dag Willkommen Hej Benvenuti Wëllkomm Bem-vindo Tervetuloa Merhba Kalos irthate ¡Hola! Teretulemast Hos geldiniz Sveiki atvyke Goedendag Dobry den

  3. Goals of the sessions • Reasons for cooperation (needs) • Challenges and problems • Key success factors • Lessons Learned

  4. European Foundation (Dublin) • Exploratory social and economic research • Established in 1975 • First European Union Agency (with Cedefop) • Annual budget: EUR 20 m • Ca. 100 staff in Dublin • Brussels Liaison Office • Network of European Observatories (NEO) in 28 countries • Three European Surveys

  5. Communicating and sharing experiencesHighlights

  6. 2009-2012

  7. European Industrial Relations Observatory Initiates Collects Stores Disseminates • Short briefs • Comparative reports • Annual report • IR in EU, Japan & USA 29 National Centres including EU 25, Norway, Bulgaria and Romania. There is also a EU-level centre

  8. Research methods (2) Three surveys every four years • Gather and analyze data on • workers, citizens, companies, establishments or others • Increase coherence among own Eurofound’s surveys & research and with third organisations’ research: • :

  9. Finally, satisfaction with working conditions is very high everywhere, although some countries are more satisfied than others (And again, Denmark comes first)

  10. Eurofound Second Quality of Life Survey 2008

  11. Flexicurity (external) SOURCE ERM REPORT 2007 Source: Eurobarometer in ERM REPORT 2007

  12. Eurofound Experiences from IPA • Five projects with acceding countries 2002 … 2011 • Total value EUR 3 m • 1. Phare CEEC 2002 … 2004 • 2. Phare Bulgaria and Romania 2005 … 2006 • 3. Phare Turkey and Croatia 2006 … 2007 • 4. IPA Turkey, Croatia, FYR Macedonia 2008 … 2009 • 5. IPA Turkey, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro 2009 … 2011

  13. Participating Countries (IPA) • Earlier projects • 1. Phare CEE Countries 2002 … 2004 • 2. Phare Bulgaria and Romania 2005 … 2006 • Present Conference • Turkey, Croatia 2006 … 2011 • FYR Macedonia 2008 … 2011 • Albania and Kosovo 2009 … 2011 • Montenegro 2009 … 2011 ? • Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia open

  14. Eurofound experiences from IPA • 1. Reasons for cooperation: • (A) Eurofound’s support to the accession process in providing comparable data from our surveys, in supporting social dialogue processes. • (B) Eurofound to get to know the country specific details relevant to improving living and working conditions by having workshops in the countries and inviting national experts at its meetings • 2. Challenges and problems: finding contractors (e.g. for the observatories), investment in understanding the national context before being able to make comparisons with other countries,

  15. Eurofound experiences from IPA • 3. Key success factors: organising meetings in the country, translation of documents in the national language, and also (and quite fundamental) good human relationships • 4. Lessons learned: investing in contacts and networking before tendering, joining forces with other agencies (to be done).

  16. Eurofound experiences from IPA • Surveys and observatories: • EIRO: Extension of the network to the following CEE Countries: Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia (2003/2004) • NEO: unsuccessful tendering procedures, only once a ‘situation report’ on industrial relations in Turkey

  17. Eurofound experiences from IPA • European Working Conditions Survey: • 3rd edition was carried out separately in the 10 accession countries • Two secondary analyses of the Candidate Countries Working Conditions Survey (CCWCS): one on gender, the other one on time. “Countries of Central and Eastern Europe” (2003/4) • 5th European Working Conditions Survey: • Albania and Kosovo will be included. It will be the first time that these countries are to be included in this survey in which workers will be interviewed about quality of work. The fieldwork will take place in January 2010. • We also received an expression of interest from the Minister of Health of Montenegro (Dr. Radunovic) in relation to the same survey but no further contact has been formalised thus far. • We did also write to contacts in Bosnia and Herzegovina but we have not further pursued this

  18. Eurofound experiences from IPA • European Company Survey: • 2nd edition includes Turkey and Croatia (fieldwork done 2009) • European Quality of Life survey: • 1st (Bulgaria and Romania + 10 new MS) and • 2nd edition (Croatia and Turkey)

  19. Eurofound experiences from IPA • Research: • 1. Promotion of Social Dialogue in the Candidate Countries (2003-5) • Monitor the impact of social dialogue and assisting the implementation of the development in the AC 10 (and later Bulgaria and Romania + Croatia) through workshops in each country and expert reports. It describes the social dialogue processes and their capacity for conflict resolution as well as for the implementation of EU directives and agreements. • From 2007 inclusion of Romania and Bulgaria/ Croatia and Turkey in the following projects: • 1. Employment initiatives for an ageing workforce • Examining the situation of the ageing workforce by looking at examples of measures in policy and practice to improve employment options for older workers and to extend working life. The Foundation has been covering the situation in the EU15 and in 2005 it will focus on the 10 new Member States and – within the context of this project – Bulgaria and Romania.

  20. Eurofound experiences from IPA • Research: • 2. Sustainable care services • This activity focuses on promotion of employment in those care services that provide support to dependent children, adults or older people with health and social care needs. • Eurofound did research and subsequently held a workshop on childcare in Turkey to present Eurofound’s research on childcare for children 0 to 12 years and the situation of families in groups of the New Member States in comparison to the candidate countries (Turkey and Croatia)

  21. Eurofound experiences from IPA • 3. CLIP: Cities for Local Integration Policies • 3rd and 4th module • Communication activities in aceeding countries: • 1. Sub-regional Tripartite Conference on the Right of Information and Consultation in Practice in an Enlarged Europe (2003) • The Foundation financed the participation of the participants from Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia from PHARE funds and presented based on EIRO • 2. Participation in Forum (Bulgaria and Romania 2006) • 3. Workshops and conferences • 4. Publications programme (samples at our exhibition stand)

  22. Eurofound experiences from IPA • Current projects • 1. 5th European Working Conditions Survey • In 2009 and 2010, Eurofound will carry out its fourth European-wide survey on working conditions. • field work in Croatia, Turkey and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. In addition expressions of interest from ministries in Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro have been received to be included in the survey. • 2. 2nd European quality of life survey • Eurofound carried out its second survey on quality of life in Europe in 2008 and is to continue its in-depth analysis in 2009 and 2010. • The survey covered Croatia, Turkey and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and it is intended to analyse the data from these countries in a special report, which will serve as the main input to a workshop in one of the three countries, possibly in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to debate the results of this analysis in 2010.

  23. Eurofound experiences from IPA • Current projects • 3. Information providing services for the European industrial relations observatory and the European working conditions observatory and the European Monitoring Centre on Change • Eurofound has established networks covering the EU Member States and the acceding countries to provide short reports and in-depth comparative analysis on developments in the area of quality of work and employment, industrial relations and management of change and restructuring.. The products are used as an input for debate and analysis and are published via dedicated websites of Eurofound: • Quality of work and employment (EWCO) www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco • Industrial relations (EIRO) www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int • European Restructuring Monitor (ERM) www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/erm • To ensure awareness raising of the available information, seminars are organised to discuss topics of a comparative nature. It is planned to choose Croatia for such a seminar in 2010.

  24. Eurofound experiences from IPA • 4. European Network of Cities for Local Integration Policy for Migrants (CLIP) • improve local integration policies and practice of migrants through a scientifically supported benchmarking and peer review process of cities in Europe. • In 2009, CLIP will prepare and carry out the fourth series of case studies in cities, including Zagreb and Istanbul on self-employment through setting up one’s own business. Ethnic entrepreneurship also provides, in several cases, opportunities for an increased female involvement in the labour market. This is important considering the overall lower activity rate of migrant women.

  25. Thank you! Dziakuju Multumesc Dziękuję Merci Blagodaria Tack Bedankt Paldies Hvala Grazie Dêkuji Aitäh Kiitos Obrigado Tak Dakujem Gracias Paldies Danke schön Ευχαριστώ Dank u Grazzi Köszönöm Go raibh maith agat Dekoju Tesekkür ederim More info : www.eurofound.europa.eu

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