Connecting Voices: Social Dialogue for Digital Skills and Smart Working
The final conference for the IRESDES 4.0 project “Connecting Voices: Social Dialogue for Digital Skills and Smart Working”, took place on Tuesday 28 February.
While the EU is slowly recovering after the COVID-19 pandemic, enterprises are still getting used to the disruptive changes caused by it. This is confirmed by the latest DESI Index Report (2022), concluding that the EU-level growth rate for the adoption of digital technologies by citizens and businesses has risen, as well as trends of automation, increased numbers of common remote work, etc.
To this extent, over the past two years, IRESDES 4.0 project has dived into the developments of smart working and digital skills. Specifically, the project consortium has analysed the impact of collective labour agreements and other social dialogue practices in ensuring digital skills development within SMEs and how the presence of contractual ambiguity is still pending over smart working options.
On 28th of February, key recommendations to the social partners – including company and territorial levels – and decision makers were presented in the project’s Final Conference.
The conference also invited industry and employee representatives, decision makers and field scholars to discuss the social dialogue’s impact on digital transition and how it can fit into a rightful conversion of employees’ conditions.
Video Recording
AGENDA
| 13:00 – 13:45 | Registration & light lunch |
| 13:45 – 14:00 | Welcome & event introduction
Justina Bieliauskaite, Projects Director, European DIGITAL SME Alliance |
| 14:00 – 14:15 | Opening speech Maria Hadjiantoni, Policy Officer, DG Employment Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission |
| 14:15 – 14:35 | Presentation of the main research findings
Margherita Roiatti, Researcher, ADAPT |
| 14:35 – 15:15 | Panel discussion ‘How will the social partners apply IRESDES 4.0 recommendations?’
Moderator: Antonio Grasso, EU Policy Director, European DIGITAL SME Alliance |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 – 16:20 | Panel discussion ‘Beyond IRESDES 4.0: how will social dialogue contribute to the continuous digital transition in the future’
Moderator: Antonio Grasso, EU Policy Director, European DIGITAL SME Alliance |
| 16:20 –16:30 | Conclusions & closing remarks
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| 16:30 – 17:00 | Networking & Goodbye Cocktail |
