In this edition of the EESPN Newsletter, we are delighted to introduce the first two features in our new EESPN Spotlight series. Oleg Barcari from the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Moldova shares insights on building more inclusive social protection systems, while Yevgine Vardanyan from Armenia’s National Institute of Labour and Social Protection discusses the ongoing social protection reform…
In the March issue of the EESPN newsletter, we are pleased to announce the appointment of Anette Scoppetta as the new Executive Director, effective 1 March 2026. In her new role, she will continue to strengthen the European Centre’s bridge building activities together with colleagues working on BB and further advance collaboration across the network. You…
This working paper examines how the green transition is affecting job quality and working conditions in the six countries of the Western Balkans (WB6). It is co-authored by European Centre researchers Sonila Danaj and Sabina Gjylsheni together with Mihail Arandarenko as part of the project “Comparative analysis of job quality and working conditions in the Western Balkans“. The paper takes stock…
This Eurofound research report documents working conditions and job quality in the Western Balkans based on the European Working Conditions Telephone Survey data collected in 2021. It brings new regional insights to the analysis of European working conditions and strives to raise awareness of the topic and broaden the perspectives of policymakers, social partners, researchers…
In the frame of the JUSTMIG project, nine policy briefs on temporary migrants working conditions and protection were published. Each of the briefs focusses in one of the countries covered by the project, namely Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Finland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Netherlands and Ukraine. The briefs provide insights into the conditions of…
This report provides information on how the partnership principle is currently being implemented in the Bridge Building (BB) countries of the European Centre.
In the August issue, we inform you about the current BB flag-ship project: ‘BB Peer Reviews and Trainings’ which implements mutual learning between the BB countries. Check out the timeline of the respective BB Peer Reviews and Trainings and enjoy reading the rest of the August issue of the EESPN newsletter here!
The final outputs of the FELM project have been published in a final report that includes a regulatory, quantitative and qualitative analysis of third-country companies and workers’ access, trends and characteristics in the European construction market. The report served as the basis for EFBWW and FIEC, the social partners in the European construction industry, to…
In this policy brief, the team explores challenges and barriers persons with disabilities face to full social inclusion and propose policy options to address them through investment in and better access to (vocational) education, public funding of personal assistance, and improved data collection for evidence-based policy making.
Meta-evaluation is an “evaluation of evaluations” to improve future evaluation work. As a highly relevant topic for professionals working in social policy, the third module of the virtual Bridge-Building Summer School of Evaluation in Social Policies (August 25-27, 2021) was about meta-evaluation and evaluation standards in social policy.