European Social Dialogue in Education - Status Conference
Brussels, Hotel Bedford, 4-5 June 2007
The Status Conference towards establishing a European Sectoral Social Dialogue in Education was held by ETUCE in Brussels on 4 and 5 June 2007. It welcomed 120 participants from 29 countries. The education sector was broadly represented with 23 bipartite delegations gathering employers' representatives and teachers' unions. ETUCE and CEEP will move forward in the process and continue to explore the possibillities of joint activities towards the establishment of this dedicated European entity for Social Dialogue in Education.
The representative from the European Commission (DG Employment and Social Affairs), Mr Jackie Morin, confirmed the full support of the Commission to the initiative. The Danish representative of employers, Ms Nanna Abildstrøm, invited her peers to join the process and to start building a European representative organ for the employers in Education. A comparable experience in the sector of Hospitals was presented by Ms Valeria Ronzitti.
In the afternoon of 4 June, the Social Partners of the Education sector in the European Union met separately in order to set the basis of their future work ahead. The Status Conference represented an important step further towards the set up of a Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee for Education at EU level.
You can download on this page :
- A complete report of the conference (pdf) : EN FR
Presentations :
- Jackie Morin Head of Unit, Social Dialogue and Industrial Relations, European Commission
- Valéria Ronzitti, HOSPEEM, European representative body for he employers in the Hospitals sector
Background documents :
- Report from the series of sub-regional seminars (October 2007- April 2007) (download)
- A technical document on how to build a Sectoral Social Dialogue in Education at EU level (download)
- A document about the experience in the Hospitals sector (download)
The other background documents are available in the documents section of this website.
