16-17 April 2015

1st Workshop on (Youth) Unemployment

The financial and economic crisis has strongly affected the European labor markets: Employment has suffered, umemployment rates have increased, labor participation rates were under pressure and migration and remigration patterns have changed. However, not all labor markets were affected alike. The heterogeneity of labor market adjustments is in the focus of the upcoming workshop.

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Frankfurt (Oder): International workshop “Employee financial participation in SMEs: A strategy for labour market and regional economic policies” at the European University Viadrina. The workshop combines three projects currently being carried out by the Kelso Professorship of Comparative Law, East European Business Law and European Legal Policy in cooperation with national and European partners.

Hamburg: Prof. Lowitzsch presents the results of the study “Employee Financial Participation in Companies‘ Proceeds“ at the workshop “Dimensions and Perspectives on Financial Participation“ at Helmut Schmidt University. The German Research Foundation (DFG) sponsors the workshop.

VIADRINAnimate "On Property Ownership": Guest lecture of Mrs Patricia Hetter, as discussants: Iraj Hashi and Klaus Hermann. 11 am - 1 pm, PG 271

Inauguration of the Kelso Professorship’s new premises and of the library on employee financial participation donated by Michael Lezius, former managing director of Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Partnerschaft in der Wirtschaft e.V. (AGP)

The Kelso Professorship takes part at the interdisciplinary conference “Social capital in modern society” and presents the Russian translation of “Financial Participation for a New Social Europe” at Saint Petersburg State University, Russia.

Presentation of the Russian translation of "Financial Participation for a New Social Europe" by Jens Lowitzsch and lecture of Patricia Hetter Kelso on "Who will spend the wealth of nations?" at the Russian Academy of Economics and State Service under the President of the Russian Federation, Moscow

Brussels: Presentation of the study “Financial Participation of Employees in Companies’ Proceeds” at the European Parliament (FWC No. IP/A/ECON/FWC/2010-109, Lot 5). The study has been written by a European network of researchers led by Prof. Dr Lowitzsch, in co-operation with ECORYS, Rotterdam, and the CASE Foundation Warsaw.

The Kelso Professorship is starting the implementation trilateral, 15-months project (in co-operation with partners from Germany, Poland and Spain) “Employee financial participation in SMEs: A strategy for labour-market and regional economic policies”. The project is financed by the Brandenburg Agency for Structure and Labour (LASA) in accordance with the Directive of the Brandenburg Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Women Issues and Family Matters for the promotion of projects aiming at the transnational exchange of knowledge and experience (optional programme for the ESF).

Düsseldorf: The Kelso Professorship delivered the study Lowitzsch/Hanisch (eds) “Employee Share Ownership Under Usage of an Intermediary Entity: Design and Financing” finalising a 2-year project with the Hans Boeckler Foundation.

Brussels: The Inter-University Centre and the European Centre of Employers and Enterprises providing Public Services (CEEP) presented the study Lowitzsch/Hashi (eds) „Employee Financial Participation in Public Services in the EU“. The study was commissioned by CEEP under the framework of a project co-funded by the European Commission.

The Kelso Professorship, in co-operation with the Allerhand Institute Cracow, has been awarded a grant by the German-Polish Sciene Foundation for the project „Development of a Polish and a German Employee Share Ownership Scheme based on the ESOP Model“.

The Inter-University Centre, as member of a European consortium, has been awarded the contract for the European Commission project "Information and Communication Project - Promoting Employee Financial Participation in the EU-27" [VP/2010/013/0084].

The project proposal "Employee Share Ownership and Co-determination" submitted by Prof. Dr Jens Lowitzsch has been awarded funding.

International Symposium "Problems and Procedures of National and International Conflict Settlement: South Eastern Europe as Conflict Area and Other Examples" in the Harnack House, Berlin.

International Symposium at the Law Faculty of the University of Split on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Inter-University Centre with guests from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Germany and Serbia. The event is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Political publication "Financial Participation for a New Social Europe" now available in four languages, with a preface by Hans-Gert Pöttering.