New article from Mark Smith and Amandine Viguie in The Conversation
Mark Smith (Grenoble School of Management) and Amadine Viguie (EurActiv) have a new article in The Conversation (French). La voix de la jeunesse aux urnes : perdue ou snobée? »
Mark Smith (Grenoble School of Management) and Amadine Viguie (EurActiv) have a new article in The Conversation (French). La voix de la jeunesse aux urnes : perdue ou snobée? »
Dr Stefan Speckesser has a new blog post on; Youth unemployment and education participation in the UK and Europe based on research coming out of the STYLE project. »
Kari Hadjivassiliou from the Institute of Employment Studies havs been invited to give a key note speech (‘Apprenticeship initiatives in the EU’) at the ‘European Apprenticeship conference: Steering partnerships for growth’, organised by Cedefop on 7-8 May 2014, in Thessaloniki ( Conference link: European Apprenticeship Conference) »
INNOVATING FOR A BETTER WORLD ABIS Doctoral Summer School, 17-19 Sept 2014 http://abis-gem-dss.sciencesconf.org The Academy of Business in Society (ABIS) Doctoral Summer School will focus on social innovation, with a particular interest in exploring the ways in which innovations can serve to create better and more integrated social, environmental and economic business enterprises. Social innovati... »
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – ReflecT Summer School Summer school: “Flexicurity in Today’s Labour Market: A Transition From Securing Jobs to Ensuring Employment”, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, 14-18 July 2014 It is a major challenge for European labor markets to overcome the inherent tension between the increasing flexibility, dynamism, and efficiency requirements on the one han... »
Intergenerational Justice and Public Policy in Europe by Pieter Vanhuysse European Social Observatory (OSE) Paper Series, Opinion Paper No. 16, 2014, 17 pp. In this short essay, Pieter Vanhuysse summarizes European findings from his Bertelsmann Stiftung report developing a simple four-dimensional snapshot index of intergenerational justice in the OECD. He highlights the fact that EU member states ... »
Youth Job Patrol aims to promote the participation of young people in industrial relations (that is to say in the employer-employee relationship and social dialogue) by helping them to get informed about their rights and discuss working conditions in their workplaces through social media. The project consortium consists of organisations and team members who have a long-lasting experience in develo... »
The Institute for Employment Studies (IES) has responded to the House of Lords EU Select Committee’s call for evidence on EU Action to Tackle Youth Unemployment. View the IES submission. View the Call for Evidence. Those interested in all written and oral evidence about youth unemployment in the EU which has been given to the Committee can find more information here: www.parliament.uk »
Report just published by Christer Gerdes and Eskil Wadensjö from Stockholm University: »