SOCIAL SERVICES

IN EUROPEAN
CROSS-INDUSTRY
SOCIAL DIALOGUE
Towards a strong and
deeper involvement

Promote public services

SUPPORT STRENGTHEN

PROMOTE LEARN

EXCHANGE NETWORK

Make an impact
REPRESENT ENGAGE

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WORKING TOWARDS STRONGER
AND INCREASED INVOLVEMENTS

Are you a Social Services provider (SSGI) involved or

interested in cross-sectoral social dialogue and do you wish
to better understand the impact of European Policies on
your sectors? Are you willing to meet your counterparts
from across Europe? Then this project is made for you.

CEEP, the European organisation THE PROJECT HAS

representing employers and enterprises
providing services of general interest,
together with its partners will organise
three roundtable discussions, a technical
training and one final dissemination
event with participants from the whole
European Union. Discussions will be
organised in small committees to favour
quality exchanges of information and
interactive discussions.
3 MAIN GOALS:
1. To develop knowledge of
social services branches and
their role in social dialogue by
collecting key information in
6 EU Member States: Bulgaria,
Cyprus, Hungary, Lithuania,
Malta and Romania;

The objective of this project is to increase
the profile of social services at European
level within the remit of social dialogue.
The project aims at improving the
knowledge of social services providers
when it comes to social dialogue at
national level and to promote their better
inclusion within the existing structures of
social dialogue.
2. To raise awareness about the
importance of social services
in social dialogue at European
and national level;
3. To create a long-standing
network of social services
active within the social
dialogue.

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DISSEMINATION
EVENT

1. ROUNDTABLE MEETINGS The final event will gather

potential social dialogue
Three meetings will be held in different Member States: representatives from the
Belgium, France and Lithuania. 6 countries targeted in
Brussels. The conference
Building upon the experience and background of aim at presenting the
each participant, these roundtable meetings will aim project findings and discuss
at supporting social services providers to increase with European stakeholders’
their European profile and expand their knowledge on means and opportunities
social policies. for a strong and deeper
involvement of social
With a brainstorming approach, these events will address services in social dialogue.
the different ways of doing social dialogue. Together In particular, this event
with the mapping and survey currently carried out, aims at raising awareness
the outcomes of these sessions will feed into the report of the importance of social
on the structures and actors of social dialogue within services’ participation
social services. to cross-sectoral social
dialogue both at national
and European level.

2. TECHNICAL TRAINING COURSE

What makes an organisation the “right” partner in the social dialogue? What qualifies as
an employers’ organisation, from the perspective of employers? Where lies the difference
between a partner in the social dialogue/representative employers’ organisation and a
partner in the civil dialogue or a lobby organisation?

These questions will be explored during a technical training course in Brussels. The seminar
is structured as follows:

1) First day: The successful development and further growth of the European social dialogue
for and with the social services presupposes the presence of the right partners around the
negotiating table, at every level. Discussions will evolve by defining what constitutes an
employer organisation in the social dialogue.

2) S
 econd day: Participants will explore different EU dossiers of strategic interest for social
services, highlighting the relevance of several EU level issues for social services providers
at the national level on top of their countries policies.
CONTACT
Contact CEEP Project Officer Carlotta Astori
for more information about the project:
carlotta.astori@ceep.eu

PARTNERS SUPPORT ORGANISATIONS

MINISTERUL MUNCII
și JUSTIIEI SOCIALE

Part of a project co-funded by

the European Commission

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