Support of employers in recruitment and selection processes of mature age persons
Slovak non-profit organization aimed at helping elder people called Senior forum – a national network, which works with international networks and organizations in the EU is implementing the project mature@eu. In collaboration with a consortium of Vienna and the Leonardo da Vinci programme, it wants to improve conditions for the creation of age-balanced potential of workforce and encourage employers to review existing recruitment practices. Since the project supports the consideration of all aspects of age diversity in the selection of workers through innovative and comprehensive materials and tools and opened access to e-learning platform, the EPPP think tank has also professionally contributed to its promotion and implementation.
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National Convention on the European Union
At the invitation of the Serbian NGO Nacionalni konvent o Evropskoj uniji (National Convention on the EU) Mária Nádaždyová, senior program manager EPPP, had a presentation on the second meeting of the working group Social Dialogue which took place on March 16, 2009 in Belgrade. The event was covered by topic Labour Market and Employment Strategy. M. Nádaždyová in given lecture spoke about the Slovak labour market development and our recent experiences in this area in the light of the EU membership. The main message of the speech was a finding that even a small country with an unsettled history can be successful if it persistently follows its objectives and if all the steps and strategies are subordinated to meeting the key objective. The shots from the event featured in the EU weekly broadcasted by Serbian TV B92.
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In support of employment and better quality of life of people with disabilities
Mária Nádaždyová, senior program manager EPPP, is the author of a report attempting to monitor the present situation in providing employment opportunities for people with disabilities living in social care institutions in Slovakia, prepared in the framework of a project entitled Examples of Good Practices – In Support of Deinstitutionalization of Social Care Services run by Supported Employment Agency in Bratislava. The report was initially presented at a nation-wide seminar on March 5, 2009 followed by a series of regional meetings and discussion workshops. The project, funded by the Norwegian Financial Mechanism, aims to support initiatives pushing for a change of out dated institutional model of social care services as a precondition of achieving better quality of life and labour integration of people with disabilities. The report makes an effort to assess if the existing set of national policy tools is sufficient and adequate for reaching the proclaimed labour integration of people with disabilities and, at the same time, to explore if the prevailing obsolete forms and conditions of institutional care do not present serious, principal and insurmountable barrier for reaching this goal. This ambition is closely related to international commitments and obligations of Slovakia arising from the EU membership.
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EPPP Think Tank acquires 2%
One of the specific results of the last year activities of EPPP Think Tank was publishing publication High school system in Slovakia – reality, problem, possible solutions. The main ambition of this material was to summarize basic facts of the Slovak high school system and to identify main problems and more importantly disseminate public discussion leading to structural changes. EPPP makes similar effort in others initiatives. In case you donate us 2% of your personal tax, you will sponsor new solutions, which are crucial not just for Slovakia, but for the whole EU.
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