The Ministry of Finance, Labour, and Transfers of the Republic of Kosovo, in collaboration with the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, is hosting a virtual peer review titled “Fighting Undeclared Work in the BB Countries” on December 5-6, 2024. This two-day event will explore various policy approaches to combat undeclared work, drawing…
The eighth BBinar will focus on the demographic changes in BB countries, the challenges they pose, what opportunities may arise, and what are the possible policy responses.
The RSA’s CEE Conference in Dubrovnik provides an opportunity for researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and students working in all areas related to regional policy, regional development and regional studies to come together and discuss the changing internal and external dynamics of CEE. The conference organisers warmly invite sessions and papers which look at CEE from the inside out and others which look at CEE from the outside in.
The seventh BBinar will take place on 20/02/2024, 10:00-11:30 CET and will focus on the situation of long-term care systems in the Western Balkans and discuss main questions, based on findings of recent research by the Red Cross of Serbia.
The new project ‘Sustainable and socially just transnational sectoral labour markets: Industrial relations and labour market adjustment to the rise in temporary labour migration’ kicked off on the 10 January 2024 with a two-day event in Bratislava, Slovakia.
On 17 January 2024 the Moldovan high-level delegation engaged in a study visit in the frame of the Data for Impact project (funded by USAID) at the European Centre in Vienna. This is part of the ongoing cooperation with the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Republic of Moldova as part of our Bridge Building function.
The European Centre organised the 6th (and last) BB policy review in social welfare on 07 and 08 November 2023 on Policy measures to mitigate the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on vulnerable groups. Around 35 representatives registered from ministries and public bodies from Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kosovo, Moldova, and Ukraine. Excellent expert inputs were provided by UNFPA, Eurofound, the Slovakian Institute for Labour and Family Research as well as the Montenegrin Institute for Strategic Studies and Prognosis.
The team of the European Centre provided an online training on ‘Innovation in long-term care and quality assurance in delivering social services’ to the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Moldova in November 2023.
The team of the European Centre provided an online training on ‘Quality assurance in delivering social services’ to the Armenian Ministry in June 2023.
At the 5th BBinar on 13 June 2023 about 40 stakeholders came together to discuss what role the social investment approach to social welfare policies can and should play in supporting sustainable development in the Western Balkan and the Eastern Partnership countries.