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).

Martin Kahanec was elected as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Slovak Economic Association

Martin Kahanec is appointed a new Member of the Committee for research area 8.2 Economics and Management of the Slovak Accreditation Commission

CELSI's Managing Director Marta Kahancová receives a prestigious award of the Dutch Sociology Association for the best dissertation defended in the years 2007–2008.

Martin Kahanec from CELSI contributes to project“Growing Inequalities’ Impacts (GINI)” in the capacity of a country expert leading the country case studies on Slovakia and the Czech Republic. The main objective is to cover the evolution of inequalities and their impacts on the society and economy, as well as their interaction with national and local policies.

CELSI as the WageIndicator project national partner for the Czech and Slovak republic organized on January 9th and 10th 2010 a workshop on salarycheckers’ calculations for all WageIndicator project participating countries.