On September 23, 2011, AIAS organized a conference in honour of Prof. Jelle Visser, scientific director of AIAS, on the occassion of his retirement. Marta Kahancová's speech focused on the role of trade unions in Central and Eastern European countries after the EU enlargement and the economic crisis.

With Martin Kahanec as a consortium co-leader, <a href="http://www.ceu.hu">Central European University</a>, <a href="http://www.iza.org"> Institute for the Study of Labor </a>, Bonn, <a href="http://www.case.com.pl"> CASE </a>, Warsaw, and <a href="http://www2.lse.ac.uk/home.aspx"> London School of Economics </a> are to advise the European Commission on the costs and benefits of, and the available policy options for, labor mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Partner Countries.

CELSI in-house team met at an informal meeting in the Bratislava office on August 13 to discuss all current CELSI activities and projects, CELSI future plans, but also enjoy CELSI team spirit on a nice summer day.

At the conference "Challenges for Labor Market Integration in Hungary: Opportunities and Limits for third country nationals" co-organized by the Central European University, British Embassy, British Council, Panta Rei, and the Foundation of Subjective Values on June 27, 2011, Martin Kahanec delivers a keynote speech on “The European Dimension to the situation of immigrants and the labour market”

CELSI takes part in the new project named Bargaining for social rights: reducing precariousness and labour market segmentation through collective bargaining and social dialogue. The project will study experiences in these EU countries: Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain and the UK.

01.-02.07.2011: 4th IZA Workshop on EU Enlargement and the Labor Markets: Migration, Crisis, and Adjustment in an Enlarged E(M)U

18.-19. April 2001 - Migration in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities, European Public Policy Conference 2011

"Equal Opportunities - Education - Labour Market: Whose responsibility?" CEU/British Council/British Embassy/Menedék Foundation conference, CEU, Budapest, Hungary. April 14, 2011

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