Martin Kahanec contributed a chapter on Education Reforms during and after the War to the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) book on Rebuilding Ukraine: Principles and Policies. ollowing up on the CEPR blueprint on the reconstruction of Ukraine, the CEPR has put together a group of scientists around the world, with two lead authors on each chapter – one from the EU and one from Ukraine – to provide a salient detailed roadmap covering various sectors and policy areas for the reconstruction of Ukraine from Day 1.

Lucia Kováčová, Armanda Cetrulo and Niels Peuchen worked on the report which adds to previous reports new preliminary results from data mining and text analysis of the newsletter outputs published by the selected stakeholders at the EU level. The goal of these quarterly reports is to address the first research question of the BARCOVID project: “How have the Covid-19 crisis, the state-imposed measures and their consequences affected the industrial relations landscape in EU27 and 5 candidate countries?”

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".

The publication assessed new challenges in the world of work, sustainability, digitalisation, automation, vocational training and worker representation in the region, which faces major investments in the last years.

Collective bargaining across the EU has been facing challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, green transition and digitalisation.

CELSI's researchers Patrik Gažo and Monika Martišková, together with Thomas S.J. Smith from Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich published their paper titled "The transformation of the Slovak and Czech automotive industries: stakeholders' perspectives and barriers towards an ecological mobility industry". The article identifies and critically discusses barriers for transforming the automotive industry into an ecological mobility industry in Slovakia and Czechia from the point of view of key stakeholders.

CELSI researchers Lucia Kováčová, Katarína Lukáčová and CELSI co-founder and director Martin Kahanec published a research article on "Industrial relations and unemployment benefit schemes in the Visegrad countries during the COVID-19 pandemic" in Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research (SAGE Publishing).

CELSI co-founder and director Martin Kahanec together with Magdalena Ulceluse published a research article on the role of transitional arrangements on the self-employment of migrants from EU member states that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007 in the Journal of Population Economics.

The study published in September 2021 referred to the work of CELSI researcher Gábor Szüdi where he compared the clauses of the collective bargaining agreements across the Visegrád countries in terms of wage determination.

The mapping study, published by the CELSI team, analyses the engagement of young professionals in education trade unions, and ongoing union activities for young members, including recruitment strategies and the involvement of young members in the decision-making processes.