Ongoing and forthcoming meetings and events

2014

1. Labour Migration Academy and Academia sobre las migraciones laborales (bilingual course)

   16 June - 28 November 2014, International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization, Turin, Italy

   This interregional training activity on international labour migration reviews and analyses key issues, strategies, policies and tools for managing international labour migration. In addition to general sessions around three main themes, protection, development and governance, the academy offers the possibility to participants to analyze in-depth key issues of labour migration. The academy will therefore give a broad overview of the different challenges and opportunities related to international labour migration, but it will also give the opportunity to participants to specialize themselves in a specific thematic. Throughout the two-week course, the sharing of international experiences will be highlighted.

2. 

   XX World Congress on Safety and Health at Work 2014: Global Forum for Prevention

   24 - 27 August 2014, Frankfurt, Germany

   The World Congress, organized every three years since 1955, provides a forum for the exchange of knowledge, practices and experiences for all occupational safety and health specialists, employers and managers, trade unions, public administration, insurance and social security professionals, manufacturers and importers, as well as anyone with an interest in safety and health at work.

3. 

   Master in Occupational Safety and Health

   8 September 2014 - 30 September 2015, International Training Centre of the ILO, Turin, Italy

   The University of Turin, Italy, in partnership with the International Training Centre (ITC) of the ILO, is offering a Master course in Occupational Safety and Health (OSH). This one-year programme, to be held in English, includes an Internet-based distance learning phase, a face-to-face residential period on the ITC-ILO’s campus in Turin followed by another distance phase for the preparation of the dissertation.

4. Global Dialogue Forum on Wages and Working Hours in the Textiles, Clothing, Leather and Footwear Industries

   23 - 25 September 2014, Geneva, Switzerland

5. 

   The employment injury schemes and the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases

   13 - 24 October 2014, International Training Centre of the ILO, Turin, Italy

   The general objective of the course is to strengthen the capacity of employment injury institutions for the management of the occupational accidents and diseases and the promotion of the prevention approach on occupational safety and health (OSH).

6. Meeting of Experts on Maritime Occupational Safety and Health

   13 - 17 October 2014, Geneva, Switzerland

7. 

   National programmes and systems of occupational safety and health

   24 November - 5 December 2014, International Training Centre of the ILO, Turin, Italy

   The general objective of this course is to strengthen the capacity of planning, developing and governing the national efforts to improve occupational safety and health (OSH).

8. Global Dialogue Forum on the Adaptability of Companies to Deal with Fluctuating Demands and the Incidence of Temporary and Other Forms of Employment in Electronics

   9 - 11 December 2014, Geneva, Switzerland