ETUCE publishes survey report on social dialogue capacity building
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At the ETUCE Committee meeting on 19 March 2015, ETUCE presented its final survey report following recent project "Promoting the potentials of the European sectoral social dialogue in education by addressing new challenges and exploring experience and knowledge". The report is now available in English, French, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian and Lithuanian.
This one-year EC funded project was set with a view to build capacities and to promote the sectoral social dialogue in education both at European and national level. It was implemented last year and finalised with great success in December 2014. ETUCE conducted round table meetings in Bucharest, Bratislava, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Podgorica and Vilnius with high participation of the national social partners in education. They welcomed ETUCE's initiative and the opportunity to get together and to discuss the future of their national dialogue with a particular view to the European sectoral social dialogue in education (ESSDE).
Additionally to these workshops, with the survey ETUCE wished to draft a state of play. The last years were marked by the economic crisis and austerity. Social dialogue got increasingly under pressure. Starting from the assumption that social dialogue quality could be improved, the ETUCE intended to assess the ESSDE's past work, identify measures for improvement and perspectives to foster the European social dialogue. Today's key challenges of the European social dialogue in the education sector are threefold. It is about facilitating the understanding of the European social dialogue as well as about facilitating the interaction between the national and European level and identifying perspectives to foster the European social dialogue.
Through this capacity building project, the ETUCE wished to focus once more on the strengthening of the European social dialogue structures in the education sector. Its overall objective was to expand the knowledge of the social partners in the area of industrial relations; with the long-term goal to further promote the European social dialogue in education. The ETUCE also wanted to further improve the effective functioning between the national and the European-level social dialogue. Therefore, ETUCE focused also on three issues at stake within the scope of this project which was to map the national affiliates' current topics of interest, actions and organisation, to identify the national affiliates' knowledge of the European social dialogue in place and to identify the national affiliates' needs and expectations towards the ETUCE & the European social dialogue.
This report compiles the results of this research on the European sectoral social dialogue in the education sector (ESSDE).