Bernard Casey will be presenting on ‘The implications of the economic crisis for pension policy in Europe’ at the Policy Research Workshop for the Centre for European Studies, Carleton University on 26-27 August 2010.  More information is available on the Centre for European Studies website.

Anticipating skills needs in Europe: issues and implications

This Bulletin draws on results from a major new programme of research undertaken by Warwick Institute for Employment Research, funded by Cedefop. This research considers what useful messages can be delivered about the way the economy and labour markets at European level are changing, and what this means for the demand for skills and priorities for education and training. It focuses on the implications of structural changes in European economies and labour markets on the changing patterns of demand for and supply of formal qualifications.

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Bernard will be presenting on ‘Are we all Confucianists? Similarities and differences between European and East-Asian policies for care of the frail older people’ on 23 July 2010.  More information is available on the European Centre for Social Policy and Research website.

Rob Wilson will contribute at the next Cedefop Skillnet workshop in Thessaloniki on 14-15 June. This is part an ongoing series focussed on the Cedefop Pan European Skills Forecasting work. This project is now in its second year. The  initial results from the first year of the work programme, presenting the first comprehensive supply and demand projections for the whole of Europe, were published at the start of 2010.  The current work programme is designed to extend and improve on these results. Further details are available on the Cedefop website.