European Trade Union Committee for Education

APRES COVID: European Sectoral Social Partners in Education Addressing Psychosocial Risks for an Equitable and Sustainable recovery from the COVID-19 crisis  APRES COVID is a two-year social dialogue project, seeking to assess the long-term impact of the COVID crisis on the psychosocial risks in the teaching profession and actively promote an equitable and sustainable education-led recovery. The initiative is carried out by the ETUCE and EFEE in partnership with education trade unions and employer organisations from Belgium, Malta, Portugal, and Slovenia. The project features three case-study visits, a training seminar, and a final conference.  

• Context
• Research
• Case-study visits
• 1st Case Study Visit | Ljubljana (Slovenia)
• Training seminar
• Final Conference

The project’s training seminar in Brussels involved around 40 sectoral social partners in education. Moving from the assessment of Joint Practical Guidelines on How to Promote Joint Social Partner Initiatives to Prevent and Combat Psychosocial Hazards in Education (2016) and the results of the case-study visits and project survey, the main objective of the training seminar is to enhance cooperation and build the capacity of sectoral social partners in education in implementing concrete measures to prevent and combat psychological risks of education workers. aims to further collect good practices