SALTSA
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Seminar report
Workplace Learning - a Challenge for the Social Partners
ETUC Resolution: More investment in lifelong learning for quality jobs
Seminar report
Referat från seminariet ”Vad ska vi i Europa leva av? Reflektioner och diskussioner kring EU2020-strategin” 10 mars 2011.
Seminar report
Fackföreningarna och EU 2020
En SALTSA-rapport av Mats Engström
Seminar 10 mars 2011
The European social dimension – from Lisbon to EU 2020
Monday 8 November,
The Brussels Office of the Swedish Trade Unions
The seminar was arranged by SALTSA and the Brussels Office of the Swedish Trade Unions introduced and chaired by Tommy Svensson, Head of the Brussels Office of the Swedish Trade Unions.
A new project
SOCIAL PARTNERS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
The purpose of this study is to analyse to what extent social partners are aware of these changes and what tools they are using to promote their positive aspects and minimise the negative ones.
The research will therefore cover, firstly, general aspects as to how these matters are included in Social Pacts in the different countries of the EU-27 and, secondly, five case studies of EU countries having a different industrial structure, degree of technological development and efforts to promote the Green Economy: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden.
The aim of the present project is to map initiatives, tensions and consensus on climate change for social partners in six different EU member states, thereby getting a better understanding of how social partners interact on climate change, what type of action they undertake and finally how the concept “green jobs” is perceived and how it enters into the social dialogue.
The study will be conducted from June to December 2010.
New books
After Lisbon? – Social Europe at the Crossroads.
Lars Magnusson (ed.), published by ETUI, http://www.etui.org/Publications
Click on the title for an abstract.
Jobs on the Move. An Analytical Approach to “Relocation” and its Impact on Employment.
Béla Galgóczi, Maarten Keune & Andrew Watt (eds.)
The Nordic approach to growth and welfare. European lessons to be learned?
Lars Magnusson, Henning Jørgensen and Jon Erik Dølvik
A programme for problem-oriented working life knowledge in Europe
Background
The SALTSA (Samarbetsprogram mellan Arbetslivsinstitutet, LO, TCO och Saco) programme was established by the Swedish National Institute for Working Life (NIWL) in 1997 as a research programme on working life issues in a European perspective, in cooperation between the Institute and the three trade union confederations LO, TCO and Saco. The programme was hosted, coordinated and financed by the Institute with an average budget of 14 million SEK, approx. 1,5 million euro, annually. From 1997 to 2007, the programme produced more than 90 reports from 70 projects conducted in cooperation between European universities, colleges, institutes, trade unions and other stakeholders. When the NIWL was closed, due to a political decision, the research programme SALTSA was transferred to Uppsala University. Since July 2007 it is hosted by the Department of Economic History.
Aim of the programme
The aim of SALTSA is to stimulate to and enforce the dissemination of scientific research of the dynamics and complexity of the European working life arena by focusing on labour market, employment, work environment, occupational health and work organization issues on national as well as supranational level. SALTSA's activities are based on real working life issues identified by a network of stake-holders and leading European researchers.
The objectives of SALTSA are:
- to establish a knowledge centre for the dissemination of working life research results on a national and European arena
- to stimulate multidisciplinary and transnational research on relevant European working life issues characterized by national comparative perspectives as well as supranational analysis
- to act in close contact with social partners and other relevant actors on both national and European level.
Issues in focus are the production and dissemination of knowledge regarding the relations between the European social dimension and economic growth, the diverse interpretations and implementations of flexicurity and it’s impact on working conditions and occupational health, employment policies and strategies for the national social partners, demography, workforce supply, migration, labour law and the process of European harmonizing and integration of new member states with respect to working life issues. These research areas considers living and working conditions as well as discourses and decisions in national boards ands parliaments and supranational EU bodies.
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