CEU Research Grant “Data Gathering and Interviews for Research on Poverty Reduction Policies in Peripheral Nations” (Martin Kahanec and Thilo D. Bodenstein)

Európa 2020, Európska platforma na boj proti chudobe, European Commission (Slovak branch) and Slovak Governance Intitute, Bratislava, Slovakia

Member of the Academic Board, MyPhD, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

Martin Kahanec as a project leader and coordinator provided the Slovak Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic with the special advisory report: “The German Labor Market at a Glance: Lessons for Slovakia”

Kahanec, M.: “Immigration within the EU, the Labour Market and Economic Growth”, European Institute for Public Administration, Maastricht, the Netherlands

Martin Kahanec contributed to the conference with his speech "The Decade of Roma Inclusion: A Unifying Framework of Progress Measurement and Opinion for Data Collection":http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/conferences/roma/doc/kahanec.ppt

“The Czech and Slovak Economies: 17 Years After”, European Commission, DG Economic and Financial Affairs, Brussels, Belgium

On October 21st 2010 the joint conference of Fridrich Ebert Stiftung, IZA and CELSI covering the topic “Ethnic Diversity in European Labor Markets: Challenges and Solutions for Slovakia and Europe” took place in Bratislava. Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Family was represented by the state secretary Lucia Nicholsonová. Key speech on Ethnic Diversity in the European Labor markets was delivered by Prof. Dr. Klaus F. Zimmermann, President of the Institute of the Study of Labor in Bonn. The issues of Roma minority in Slovakia were covered in panel discussion contributions of Bela Janky, Ph.D., Dr. Jarmila Lajčáková and Slávka Mačáková, Ph.D.

Martin Kahanec was appointed member of Editorial Committee of the journal Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

Empirical study on the barriers of Roma integration and other groups with a high risk of social exclusion on the labour market was the main topic of the contribution of Martin Kahanec at the "Bratislava Economic Meeting 2010":http://www.virtualsciencelab.org/en/econ_meeting_2010.php (BEM).