CELSI contributes to the expert meeting “Improving Cooperation and Awareness in Combating Bogus Self-Employment,” was held on 27 October 2025 at the European Labour Authority (ELA) headquarters in Bratislava.

We are proud to share that CELSI researcher Tomáš Šarközi has been selected for the Virtual Young Scholars (VirtYS) program of the Global Labor Organization (GLO) — a highly competitive and internationally recognized research and mentoring initiative for early-career scholars.

Co-founder and Scientific Director of CELSI Martin Kahanec chaired the Class A2: Social and Related Sciences sessions at the Academia Europaea Annual Meeting 2025, held last week in Barcelona and hosted by the Academia Europaea Barcelona Knowledge Hub.

We are proud and delighted that CELSI’s co-founder and Scientific Director, Martin Kahanec, has been awarded the prestigious ESET Science Award 2025 in the main category Outstanding Scientist in Slovakia.

On October 2, CELSI researcher Monika Martišková led a training session in the ETUI education training workshop called "Green Clauses in Collective Bargaining" (1–3 October 2025, Bratislava).

As a non-partisan, research-focused institute, CELSI supports democracy, fair working conditions, decent work and decent pay for all workers through its evidence-based research and policy expertise.

On September 15, CELSI Scientific Director Martin Kahanec delivered the opening keynote at the 93rd East Jour Fixe, a flagship policy forum of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) organized in cooperation with the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw).

We are proud that Martin Kahanec, CELSI’s co-founder and Scientific Director, has been selected among the finalists in the main category – Outstanding Scientist in Slovakia.

At this year’s SASE Conference in Montréal, CELSI Managing Director Marta Kahancová made a remarkable contribution by presenting multiple papers and chairing sessions on some of today’s most pressing labour issues.

On Thursday, July 10, CELSI Scientific Director Martin Kahanec delivered a speech at the 11th ECINEQ Conference, held at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he presented a study on the Living Wage.