On December 1, 2022, CELSI organised the national seminar within the SOWELL project titled "Pre-primary and long-term care services in Slovakia and the role of social partners". At the seminar, the research results and case studies on the multilevel cooperation of social partners and other stakeholders to ensure sufficient coverage and quality welfare services were presented.

The research results and the case studies on the multilevel cooperation of social partners and other stakeholders to ensure sufficient coverage and quality of welfare services were presented at the workshop.

During the final conference, researchers and social partners from the different countries will present and discuss the project outcomes. One of the guiding subjects will be the role of national and EU-level social partners in tackling the sector’s challenges.

CELSI co-founder and director Martin Kahanec spoke in the panel on "Young people in the post COVID-19 labour market: scarring effects, learning losses and emerging opportunities (ESDE 22)" at the European Employment & Social Rights Forum 2022 in Brussels on November 17, 2022.

CELSI is involved in a new project called "Managing data processing in the workplace thourgh industrial relations." Researcher Adam Šumichrast attended the project kick-off meeting on 7 October 2022 in Rome. The consortium consists of five partners from universities and research institutes and five trade union federations.

CELSI expresses sincere solidary with Slovak queer community in the fight for its human rights, including inclusion and non-discrimination in labour market. CELSI calls for a change in approach to LGBTI+ people together with the NGOs operating in the area of queer community.

You are cordially invited to the next CELSI Frontiers webinar organized jointly with the Institute of Public Policy, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava.

CELSI is pleased to announce the publishing of a new book titled "Faces of Precarity". CELSI researchers Marta Kahancová and Barbora Holubová contributed to the book with the chapter titled "Revisiting the Concept of Precarious Work in Times of Covid-19".

Their presentation titled "Trade union responses to decarbonisation and digitalisation in Slovakia and Czechia: short-term gains versus long-term prospects", was based on the results of several research projects in the past two years.

CELSI kicked off a new project on 6 October 2022. Together with a broad consortium consisting of seven partners from universities and five EU-level social partners, we will explore how industrial relations can improve the working conditions in the personal and household services in Central European countries (CEE).