CEE Round Table 2021: Education Trade Unions Taking the Lead in the Sustainable Recovery from COVID-19 Pandemic

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The CEE Roundtable meets every two years, bringing together ETUCE member organisations from across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). This year, the CEE Round Table will focus on the theme "Education Trade Unions Taking the Lead in the Sustainable Recovery from COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities in post-COVID-19 times". The two-days event will take stock of issues faced by both teachers and other education personnel as well as their representatives in Central and Eastern Europe in these difficult times of global crisis. Education trade unions will also lay a foundation for the future work of the ETUCE Central and Eastern European Network.

PROGRAMME:

DAY 1 - Wednesday, 7 July 2021

12:20 – 12:30 Welcome and Opening By Larry Flanagan, ETUCE President and Susan Flocken, ETUCE European Director

12:30 – 12:55 Private discussions (not livestreamed) 

12:55 – 13:15 Financial Recovery in Education: Myth or reality? By Siria Taurelli, Senior Human Capital Expert, European Training Foundation

13:15 – 13:30 Questions and Answers

13:30 – 13:40 Branimir Strukelj, ESTUS, Slovenia 
13:40 – 13:50 Maia Kobakhidze, ESFTUG, Georgia

13:50 – 14:10 Open discussion

14:10 – 14:30 Conclusions (End of day 1)

DAY 2 - Thursday, 8 July 2021

08:30 – 08:45 Welcome By Larry Flanagan, ETUCE President and Susan Flocken, ETUCE European Director

08:45 – 08:55: Image of Education Trade Unions in the post-COVID-19 society By Katarzyna Duda, All-Poland Alliance of Trade Unions (OPZZ)  

08:55 – 09:05 Inga Vanaga, LIZDA, Latvia
09:05 – 09:15 Dmitry Golubev, ESEUR, Russia
09:15 – 09:25 Anxhela Llalla, SPASH, Albania

09:25 – 09:45 Open discussion

09:45 – 10:05 Break

10:05 – 11:40 Working groups (not livestreamed) 

11:40 – 12:20 Break

12:20 – 12:30 Status of the Teaching Profession – Assessment of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Status of Teachers By Martina Di Ridolfo, ETUCE

12:30 – 12:40 Elen Manaseryan, CRSTESA, Armenia
12:40 – 12:50 Yanka Krumova - Takeva, SEB, Bulgaria
12:50 – 13:00 Alexandra Cornea, FSLE, Romania

13:30 – 13:45 Open discussion

13:45 – 14:00 Eurasia Regional Global Education Monitoring Report “Inclusion and education: All means all” By Lana Jurko, Director of the Network of Education Policy Centres

14:00 – 14:15 Questions and answers

14:15 - 14:30 Conclusions and adjournment of meeting