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    Modernizing Vocational education

    The future is “blended”: strengthening digital TVET in Ukraine

    30 July 2021

    Like many countries around the globe, by the beginning of 2020 teachers in Ukraine were thrusted into a new reality. Education shifted to e-Learning almost overnight. Looking back, one major lesson from school closures is, that well-designed e-Learning can be a meaningful complement to face-to-face learning. It diversifies education delivery, appeals better to different learning styles and this enhances learning transfer. While TVET students are now gradually returning to school, it is clear that e-Learning is here to stay. Blended learning – the combination of face-to-face with e-Learning - will become the “new normal” in education. To support the continuity of learning during the pandemic and to modernise TVET beyond the duration of the pandemic, in June 2020 the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine asked ILO Budapest for support in developing quality e-Learning solutions for TVET.

  2. Supporting enterprises

    What is in store for Montenegrin businesses after COVID-19 pandemic hard hit the economy?

    28 July 2021

    Montenegro’s economy was hit harder by the pandemic than any other European country. We asked one of the leading Business representatives from this country, Predrag Mitrovic, President of the Montenegrin Employers Federation, what they did to support companies and how the ILO has been helpful.

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    Maritime Labour Convention, 2006

    Ukraine on the way to join ILO’s Seafarer’s Bill of Rights

    28 July 2021

    Ukraine is among the top four countries supplying maritime workers on ships around the globe. Last week, the Ukrainian government made an important step towards ratifying the ILO flagship Convention guaranteeing minimum working standards for all seafarers. On July 23, ILO handed over a detailed legal feasibility study to the Minister of Infrastructure on what is needed to ratify ILO's Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC) on quality shipping.

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    International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour

    One hour against child labour at schools in Kosovo

    26 July 2021

    The ILO, together with the Ministry of Education, organized a campaign in the schools of Kosovo to raise awareness about child labour among school kids on 11 June, 2021, World Day Against Child Labour. The information kit for teachers was prepared with ILO support and all schools accross Kosovo were asked to to dedicate one lesson to the topic that day. At least 137,000 students from 309 schools participated to learn what child labour is, and how to help victims. The campaign was organized under a global ILO program against child labour (MAP’16) with support from the US Department of Labour.

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    Introducing a youth guarantee (YG) in the Western Balkans

    The European Commission and the ILO join forces to support young people

    18 July 2021

    A new EC/ILO Technical Assistance Facility set up to pursue youth employment in the Western Balkans.

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    Meet the Specialists: Iulia Drumea, Employers' organizations

    16 July 2021

    Iulia Drumea, Employers' Organizations Specialist explains how she supports ILO work with Employers organizations in Central and Eastern Europe. Employers organizations work to create a business-friendly environment for their members. The ILO service offer focuses on recommendations Employers can use to influence national policies and regulations on entreprises; assistance to develop better services to members; and advising Employers on how to improve performance and grow their membership.

  7. Policy innovations responding to the pandemic

    Three essential questions to Mihail Arandarenko, Professor at University of Belgrade, Faculty of Economics

    02 July 2021

    Welcome to our first issue of short interviews with important researchers and practitioners from Central and Eastern Europe on burning questions concerning labour and social policies. The interviewee is Mihail Arandarenko, a leading researcher on labour markets and employment and social policies.

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    Protection of workers

    Non-standard forms of employment: assets or liabilities?

    21 June 2021

    Temporary employment, part-time work, temporary agency work, fixed term contracts, disguised employment: non-standard forms of employment can help enterprises adjust quickly to market dynamics and tackle labour shortages. However, when misused to reduce labour costs at the expense of fundamental labour rights, they deprive workers of fair pay, decent working conditions and limit their access to social security. The new ILO report looks into how non-standard forms of employment are implemented in Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia.

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    Decentralization in Albania

    What does Albania need to do to build a comprehensive social protection system?

    18 June 2021

    Social protection plays a crucial role in providing health and income protection and reducing poverty in Albania. The two complimentary ILO reports recently developed under a UN Joint Programme address key policy challenges and financing options of the Albanian social protection system.

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    Meet the Specialists: Daniela Zampini, Employment creation

    14 June 2021

    Daniela Zampini, the Employment Specialist of the ILO Office for Central and Eastern Europe explains what she does to create more and better jobs, how she works with governments, employers, workers, civil society organizations or municipalities, and what achievements she is most proud of. In 2020, due to COVID-19 related lockdowns, confinements, and other restrictions, CEE countries lost on average 8 per cent of their total working hours. Daniela explains how the ILO responded to the crisis.