Through the initiative focused on increasing value of human capital the EPPP primarily focuses on identification and implementation of new efficient tools for management and development of human capital in private and public sectors.

The aim of initiative is to help to increase added value generated by human capital in organizations with direct influence on economic development on regional and national level and to contribute to human capital development.

Apart from increasing the value of human capital the EPPP aims also to develop tools for strategic management of human resources.

The objectives of individual initiatives are achieved thanks to the following:


Talent Management

EPPP perceives Talent Management to be an approach for gaining and subsequently developing human capital for the purposes of maximizing fulfilment of present and future needs of an organization.

We fulfil this area in particular by the following activities:

• Identification and selection of suitable employees pursuant to present and future needs.
• Definition of employee development in accordance with future needs.
• Determination of systems for development of employees with high potential.
• Effective succession planning.

Leadership Structures

EPPP actively engages in creation and implementation of programs for identification and development of leadership qualities in accordance with needs of respective organization. EPPP provides thought-out processes for forming of the organization’s qualities that do not follow pre-determined trends of human resources and create unique solutions with high added value for respective organization, community or the whole society.

We fulfil this area in particular by the following activities:

• Models for identification of leaders in private or public sector.
• Identification of leadership types applied in respective organizations.
• Interconnection of objectives of respective organizations, types of organizational leadership and competencies of individual leaders.
• Systems for implementation of optimum leadership.

Structural changes

EPPP actively engages in creation and implementation of structural changes instruments in individual organizations. These services are primarily focused on overall change of the company operations with the aim to increase competitiveness and market share in the long term.

We fulfil this area in particular by the following activities:

• Process reengineering.
• Innovation of product portfolio through effective leadership management.
• Introduction of motivation and retention programmes.
• Employee motivation models for support of active identification and creation of new business opportunities.

Leader of Initiative: Mario Fondati

Frequently discussed topic in the area of management and administration of private companies is the idea of introduction, implementation and application of Corporate Governance principles.

Corporate Governance is a standard of good corporate governance of the company. Compliance with these standards recently came under the close investigation of institutional and individual investors, regulators and activist from among shareholders and last but not least media. These efforts resulted in creation of an environment that in large measure accepts and works with standards complying with best practices in this area.

In the past years, EPPP actively engaged in and helped to development of the area of Corporate Governance. Since this issue was successfully established in corporate environment, EPPP follows this state and extents its interest in the area of good governance standards also at public institutions, state-owned enterprises and not-for-profit organizations. Uniform initiative in form of Governance Model includes standards and practices of good governance for private corporations, public institutions and not-for-profit sector.

EPPP supports progressive legislative proposals and recommendations of the European Commission and all national initiatives and makes efforts for improving governance standards by providing know-how of specialists and professionals in the area of human capital and Governance Model.

The objectives of individual initiatives are achieved thanks to the following:

• Initiation of creation and support of institute that will serve for transfer of good practices in the area of Corporate Governance among members of governing bodies of important Central European institutions.
• Development of models for good governance of universities and health-service institutions that are owned also by the state.
• Active participation on creation of National Code of Corporate Governance.

Leader of Initiative: Igor Šulík

Increasing of university education level is an indispensable prerequisite for development of long-term competitiveness and adaptability of human resources in all world economics, including Slovakia.

Professional public agrees in general that the quality of high education in Slovakia shall be increased by changes in funding system and motivation of students, contents reform and interconnection of research and development with industry, preparation of students on the basis of real need of labour market and other initiatives.

In order to fulfil these objectives, the universities have to support such initiatives, they have to identify themselves with individual changes and at the same time they have to be able to implement them.

EPPP considers that changes in university governance system are fundamental for achieving changes in higher education. Any positive changes leading to improvement of some areas within the whole high education system are doomed to partial or complete failure, if they are not supported by transparent management based on governance standards for public institutions.

EPPP works as an institution that initiates and enforces specific measures for improvement of efficiency of complex university management with primary focus on competences and real performance of managing boards, academic senates, scientific councils and other high management bodies of universities and individual schools.

The objectives of individual initiatives are achieved thanks to the following:

• Establishment of governance principles for strengthening rights of owners.
• Definition and enforcement of strategic competencies of university managing bodies.
• Change of university passive approach to active entrepreneurial approach on the basis of transfer of know-how between universities and private sector.

Leader of Initiative: Miroslav Řádek

EPPP is entrepreneurship considering as one of the key tools for achieving faster growth and better jobs in accordance with Lisbon strategy. The same importance is attached to the development of innovative and creative entrepreneurial approach that is understood as the ability of an individual to transform thoughts into actions. It includes creativity, innovation and accepting the risk and at the same time, capability of planning and managing projects that achieve set-up goals. Entrepreneurial thinking concerns not only entrepreneurs but encourages every human in his/her everyday life at home as well as in the society including employees, in order to make them notice and use opportunities.

The progress of society, economy and innovation is a natural outcome of developing the entrepreneurial approach. Therefore, EPPP contributes to its growth and improvement at all levels, respecting their uniqueness. Regarding the conditions for achieving that, education and professional training in every age and area including the stimulation of creativity and potential of every human are necessary.

The goals of the initiative are reached through following areas:

• Supporting the transfer of proved procedures and pointing out positive exemplary personalities and activities as well as the image of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs created by media and creative industry.
• Building and supporting the positive reputation of schools and education strategies that stimulate creativity and innovations.
• Stimulation and support of fundamental skills and attitudes that can release the potential of every individual from elementary to the highest forms of education.
• Supporting the development of innovative ways of workflow organization, the right managerial style and policy of flexible working time in accordance with the needs of a company and its employees. Intentional development of corporate culture, independence and responsibility.
• Active participation in programs and policies of EU aimed at the support of advantage and meaning of skills and attitudes in the area of entrepreneurship approach.

Leader of Initiative: Martin Krekáč

In the area of lifelong education and advisory EPPP initiates activities for creation of effective system support for building and restructuring institutions that actively provide services in the area of lifelong education and advisory.

At present there is satisfactory situation from the point of view of quality of provided lifelong education and consulting in Slovakia. Based on the signals from European and national institutions it is necessary to focus on content of provided education. It is necessary to secure continuous interaction between provided education and real needs of employers.

The aim of EPPP is to help institutions with provision of lifelong advisory in order to sufficiently develop professional career consulting and to actively interconnect lifelong education with job career.

EPPP participates in creation of positive environment for education and training institutions and develops activities that support improvement of conditions for implementation of lifelong consulting in private, public or non-profit organizations in order to have sufficiently motivated and adaptable employees.

The objectives of individual initiatives are achieved thanks to the following:

• Creation of lifelong advisory strategies for individual regions in Slovakia, universities, private companies and professional unions and associations.
• Consulting in setting up of the system of career centres for universities, private companies, chambers and associations.

Leader of Initiative: Martin Krekáč

Globalization has become a part of our everyday life. And that is without regard to our attitude towards it, its definitions or prevailing heading of academic discussions about this phenomenon.

Despite many pros and developing possibilities it brings, globalization is not in its consequences socially neutral. Its impact on labour market, changed character of jobs and professions is truly a challenge for all sectors in the society. Broadly accepted solution is to adapt to new technological possibilities, more and effectively invest into lifelong education and development of human capital, support mobility of labour forces and reform social policies in the way that employees and organizations will be better prepared to react flexibly to quickly changing conditions, in order to raise their chances to succeed in competition.

Primary and direct benefit from these strategies has mostly got only one part – so called mainstream segment of population, what results in the fact that the difference and disadvantagedness of vulnerable groups and groups which (because of different reasons) distant from labour markets is cyclically growing.

Implementation of modern tools of social policies and labour market neutralizes potentially negative impacts of globalization and so precedes more serious society polarization growing into intergeneration and intergroup inequality.

EPPS’s aim through this initiative is to support the identification, development and realization of innovative procedures and practical solutions enabling work integration by globalization of the most threatened and socially vulnerable groups.

Objectives are reached mostly by:

• good practice theory development – so called age management, which creates conditions for employing older workers,
• good practice theory development – supported employment of groups of people like handicapped, members of ethnical minorities, migrants and long-term unemployed people.

Leader of Initiative: Mária Nádaždyová

By initiative focused on dissemination of good practice in public policy EPPP actively participates in forming specialized areas of public strategies in countries with transforming economies.

By unique know-how achieved thanks to a long-term active participation in public life, EPPP primarily aims to initiate increasing of participative democracy and transparency of public strategy management. Continuous improvement of quality of public strategies has a positive impact on increasing economic level of the country and growth of living standard of its citizens.

EPPP actively develops international activities only in those areas in which it disposes of knowledge and capacity for ensuring changes in a complex extent. Individual experts use personal experience achieved through active management of reforms in defined key areas for improvement of quality of legislative environment.

The objectives of individual initiatives are achieved thanks to the following:

• Increasing the level of entrepreneurial environment.
• Implementation of knowledge-based economy.
• Development of public strategies for international relations.
• Changes in university governance and management.
• Development of EU membership potential.

Leader of Initiative: Patrik Zoltvány