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• Facoltà di giurisprudenza
• Via C. Montanari 9
• 37100
• Verona
• Italia
• http://www.giurisprudenza.univr.it/fol/main?ent=persona&id=3826

Vassil is Associate Professor (in the University of Evry and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) and associate researcher in the European Trade Union Institute, expert (fort he European Commission, ILO, etc.) and lecturer (in Sciences Po, France) with rich experience in the area of the study of the sociology of enterprises, industrial relations and employment policy in Europe. He contributes regularly to the Eurofound observatories and to Liaisons Sociales Europe.

• Vassil Kirov
• www.vassilkirov.eu

Professor of law, consultant and expert for the European Commission (expert of the trESS and Missoc networks). Author of several books and articles in the area of European labour/social security law.

• jean-philippe.lhernould@univ-poitiers.fr

Luisa is Professor at School of Technology and Management of Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (Portugal). She is also Pos-Doctoral Fellow of the Foundation for Science and Technology in the Faculty of Law of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal) and Doctor in Labor and Social Labor Law by University of Salamanca (Spain).

• luisaandias@gmail.com

Francisco (Ph. D. in Law, 1996, Universidad de A Coruña) has an extensive background of teaching Labour and Employment Law in graduate and postgraduate studies. He has also an extensive experience of lecturing to legal professionals (attorneys, etc.) and to human resources professionals (directors, etc.). Widespread research experience in Spain (Universidad de A Coruña, 1992-2000; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2001-2012) and other countries (Harvard University, 1996-1997; Paris 1, 2000; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2003). He has participated in collaborative research projects and is author of scores of publications (books, journal articles, papers) on labour and employment law topics. Most of them published as books or as articles in the main Spanish labour law journals (Revista Española de Derecho del Trabajo, Justicia Laboral, Relaciones Laborales, Documentación Laboral, Actualidad Laboral, etc.). He write articles for Liaisons sociales Europe on Industrial relations and labour law in Spain.

• Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
• Departamento de Derecho Social - C/ Madrid, 126
• 28903
• GETAFE (Madrid)
• Spain
• franciscojavier.gomez@uc3m.es

Professor of Law at Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Oporto School of the Faculty of Law). PhD in Legal Sciences (Universidade Católica Portuguesa) and Master in Legal and Business Sciences (Faculty of Law of Universidade de Coimbra). Researcher at Católica Research Centre for the Future of Law. Author of several publications in Labour and Civil Law. Director of the legal journal "Questões Laborais" and Member of the Editorial Board of Catolica Law Review. Lecturer at conferences (national and international) and regular contributor to various postgraduate and MBA courses in different national and international Faculties. Participation on several European projects related to the implementation of the EU Labour Law in Portugal. Vice-President of the Audit Committee of APODIT – Associação Portuguesa de Direito do Trabalho (Portuguese Association of Labour Law).

• Porto
• Portugal
• catcarv@icloud.com

Štěpánka Lehmann is a senior researcher at the Research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs (RILSA) in Prague, Czech Republic. Her main area of interest includes working conditions in Europe and the context of their development. She graduated from Charles University in Prague with a B.A. degree in economics and master’s degree in sociology. Since 2016 she has held a PhD degree in sociology. She has been a correspondent of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) for the Czech Republic since 2011.

• stepanka.lehmann@rilsa.cz

Researcher at SindNova, the Institute on Innovation and Transformation of Production and Work, in the field of health and safety, industrial relations, European Work Council, collective bargaining and worker participation, labour market policies, organization and conditions of work. Lawyer, graduate in Law at the "La Sapienza" University (Rome). The area of interest includes equal opportunities, non discrimination, protection of women's rights, combating violence against women.

• Roma
• Italy
• +39 06 491087
• mariangela.zito@gmail.com

Tamás is a labour law professor and head of the Labour Law Department at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest. He is an author of several books and articles on labour law and anti-discrimination law in Hungarian and English. Tamás has been working in several European research projects and networks.

• Budapest
• Hongrie
• gyulavari.tamas@jak.ppke.hu

Märt Masso is an analyst at the Praxis Center for Policy Studies in Tallinn, Estonia. His main area of interest includes employment relation, occupational health and safety, and employment policy. He graduated from the University of Tartu with a B.A. degree in sociology in 2003 and also graduated from the Central European University with M.A degree in sociology and social anthropology in 2005. He is also a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at University of Tartu.

• Tallinn
• Estonia
• Mart.Masso@praxis.ee

Ekaterina Markova is a senior research associate at the Institute for the Study of the Societies and Knowledge, Department “Society of Knowledge: science, education and innovations”. Her Ph.D. thesis is “Problems in Sample Optimization in case of missing data in representative surveys”. Markova is an expert of Survey Research Methodology, having years of experience in planning, administering and executing Surveys and international projects.

Among the large-scale Surveys, Markova has been involved in, we need to mention the International Comparative Panel Survey “The Impact of Coping Strategies and Social Capital on Reproductive and Marital Behavior” (2002, 2005-2006), Max Plank Institute; Generations and Gender Program, International Comparative Panel Survey “Generation and Gender Survey” (2004-2005, 2007-2008), Max Plank Institute, European Social Survey (2006). Among the recent projects, she was involved in, we need to point out walqing.eu and www.migration4growth.eu.

Dr. Markova is experienced also in sociology of labour and organisations, with a special research interest in demographic change, vulnerability and quality of work.

• Sofia
• Bulgaria
• ekaterina.markova@gmail.com

• + 33 6 81 41 53 95
• frederic.t@irshare.eu

• christer.thornqvist@hotmail.com

• Finlande
• aplefebvre@gmail.com
• http://finlandpolitics.org

Predrag Bejakovic took his doctorate at the Economics Faculty in Zagreb, and now works in the Institute of Public Finance, Zagreb. He was a Kingdom of Denmark scholar in Copenhagen, a Fulbright scholar at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and a British Council scholar at Essex and Bath universities. He has taken part in a number of projects, such as The Underground Economy, The Development of the Tax Administration and Pensions Reform. He publishes in scientific and professional journals and he is author and co-author of a number of books from the areas of the economy, pension system, education (particularly VET and adult education), public finance and labour economics. He was a member of the editor board for the Journal Mirovinsko osiguranje (Pension insurance) and the working group responsibly for Strategy of Education, Science and Technology. Now he is a member of the working groups for the development of the Strategy Croatia 2024, and is responsible for social policy and pension system. His main fields of interests are labour economics, pension system, education, social policy, poverty reduction and economic development. Recently he published and collaborated in various project related to pension system, particularly mandatory and voluntary funded system.

• Institute of Public Finance
• Smiciklasova 21
• Zagreb
• Croatia
• +385 1 4886 455
• predrag.bejakovic@ijf.hr
• http://www.ijf.hr

Elma Paulauskaite is a founding partner and research manager at the Policy Impact Lab. Elma counts with 10 years of experience designing, implementing and evaluating social interventions and 5 years of experience coordinating and contributing policy research for EU bodies, NGO networks and their members. She has played a central role in delivery of over a dozen policy research and evaluation assignments for EU centralized bodies like the European External Action Service (EEAS), decentralized institutions like the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound), and NGO networks like the European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disability (EASPD) among others. Thematically, Elma holds an MS in International Development Policy Studies, and has researching and evaluating the impact of interventions, policies and feasibility of new approaches to dealing with social problems across the EU and in select Emerging Markets, particularly in EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood and Latin America. Among other topics, Elma has been analysing labour market dynamics across the EU, effectiveness of public services, and the role of social dialogue for improved social outcomes.

• Policy Impact Lab
• Kanto st 25-304
• Kaunas
• Lithuania
• +37068944314
• elma@policyimpactlab.com
• www.policyimpactlab.com

Raquel Rego is a Portuguese researcher and professor of sociology of work, professions, industrial relations and voluntary associations. She has a Ph.D in sociology obtained in 2007 at the Université Lille 1 and simultaneously at the ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon with ‘outstanding by unanimity'. She participates in national and European projects since 1998 and is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS) from the University of Lisbon. She was a member of the Portuguese team of the European Observatory of Working Life (Eurwork) from Eurofound from 2007 until 2015, and is a board member of the IRENE network, a network of independent experts working on corporate restructuring, since 2014. Raquel Rego has been working also as an external consultant with ICF International and with Wilke Maack and Partners.

• raquel.rego@gmail.com

Jan Czarzasty, PhD, Professor in the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Economic Sociology of the Warsaw School of Economics (Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie, SGH). Work and employment relations expert and a regular collaborator to domestic (Institute of Public Affairs, ISP; ‘Dialog’ Centre for Social Partnership, CPS ‘Dialog”) and international (European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions in Dublin, Eurofound and European Trade Union Institute, ETUI) research and policy institutions, as well as national-level social partners. Research Fellow at the Central European Labour Studies Insitute (CELSI) in Bratislava. Assistant-Chief Editor of the Warsaw Forum of Economic Sociology. He published i.a. in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, European Journal of Industrial Relations, Employee Relations.

• jczarz@sgh.waw.pl

• University of Malta
• Humanities B, FEMA Building Room 201
• MSD 2080
• Msida
• Malta
• (+356) 2340 2729
• manwel.debono@um.edu.mt
• https://www.um.edu.mt/cls

• University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences
• Kardeljeva ploščad 5
• Ljubljana
• Slovenia
• barbara.luzar@fdv.uni-lj.si
• https://www.fdv.uni-lj.si/​

• emmanuelle.perin@uclouvain.be

• waldon_thoroe@yahoo.com

• University of Macedonia - Department of International and European Studies,
• Egnatias 156
• 54636
• Thessaloniki
• Greece
• koniar@uom.edu.gr

• Inga.Blaziene@dsti.lt
• http://www.dsti.lt/index_en.php

SindNova is focusing its operations on: industrial relations, collective bargaining and workers participation; European Work Councils; organisation and conditions of work; labour market policies, equal opportunities; health and safety; eco-compatible industrial change. Comparatives studies as well as consulting and training in the above areas are the main activities carried out by SindNova, normally in cooperation with universities, others research institutes, social partners and companies. To address environment related issues SindNova is associated with ECOMAN srl, a specialized agency in this field

European Work Councils
SindNova has gained, over the years, considerable knowledge and expertise in the process of establishing and servicing of EWCs. In this respect of particular relevance are the activities concerning: Ferrero, Enel, Cementir, Italcementi, Autostrade per l’Italia, FCA, Heinz, Bosch, Miroglio, Indesit, AugustaWestland, Barilla, Lukoil et Bunge.  The multiannual project “OPERA” also offers training opportunity to EWCs members in a number of transnational companies.

Partnerships
SindNova is developing active partnership with similar trade unions related Institutes in Italy and abroad especially in relations with projects co-funded by the EU Commission. This concerns: Fondazione Di Vittorio (Rome), Ires (France), Fundacion 1° de Mayo (Spain), HBS (Germany), Fondazione Brodolini (Rome), Syndex (France) and ETUI (Brussels).
Partneships exist also with trade union organisations such as ETUC, IndustriAll Europe, EFFAT, EFBWW, Uni-Europa, CFDT, UGT, CC.OO., Turkey-EU Coordination Commission, Turk-Is, Hak-Is, Disk, Kesk.

Structures
SindNova is based in Rome and recognised under the Italian Law as a no profit association. Its Board is composed by the General Secretaries of the following CISL branch unions: Fim (metal), Fai (agroindustry), Filca (construction), Fit (transports), Flaei (energy). The president is Emilio Gabaglio and the director is Claudio Stanzani.

• Via Tagliamento, 9
• 00198
• Roma
• Italy
• +39 06 491087
• http://sindnova.eu/cms/

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• 75012
• PARIS
• France
• + 33.(0)1.43.46.28.28
• contact@astrees.org
• http://www.astrees.org

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The Journal is interested in considering work that includes, but is not limited to:

• Empirical analyses, case studies, or doctrinal comparisons treating common labor, employment, or social security issues in two or more countries.
• Treatment of theoretical, methodological, or historical issues in comparative labor law or comparative employment and social policy.
• Scholarship on mixed systems of law or of supranational legal regulation.
• Analysis of legislative, administrative, or judicial developments in a single country that has transnational implications or that relate to potential international trends.
• Discussion of economic, social, or cultural aspects of the portability of legal rules or policy approaches.

The Journal should wish to consider publishing not only articles, book reviews and essays, but as a means of broadening awareness and stimulating debate would also be pleased to consider:

• Important extracts or summary conclusions of recent studies funded by foundations, governments, and international organizations, especially in advance of the appearances of the full reports.
• Chapters from published or unpublished dissertations, Festschriften, and other specialized compendia that might not otherwise be known to the Journal 's world-wide readership.
• Speeches, conference papers, or translations of significant works not appearing in English.
• Detailed bibliographies on comparative issues in labor law, employment policy, or social security.

• University of Illinois College of Law
• 119 Law Building - 504 East Pennsylvania Avenue
• IL 61820
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• 20459
• Hambourg
• Allemagne
• +4940 / 43282260
• altmeyer@ewc-academy.eu
• http://www.ewc-academy.eu

The Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences is a public research institute, aimed at creation and dissemination of high-level scientific knowledge in the fields of economics, sociology and law in order to implement public policy solutions and innovations based on them, strengthening the cohesion of science, business and society. The researchers of the Labour Market Research Department conduct research on the issues of labour and industrial relations, remuneration, employment and labour market policy, working conditions, VET, safety and health at work, social insurance, social assistance and other issues, develop recommendations on social and labour market policy formation and implementation, publish findings of the research in scientific journals, organise conferences and seminars.

• A.Gostauto st. 9
• Vilnius
• Lithuania
• Inga.Blaziene@dsti.lt

Policy Impact Lab is a research and consulting company helping public, private and third sector organisations to design, implement and evaluate development-oriented policies and programmes. PIL functions as a hub for skilled policy researchers, academics and research managers who regularly collaborate on policy research and evaluations and tap into their professional networks to engage, for each specific assignment, most relevant expertise in a given location. We are passionate about social justice and equity of opportunity, which for us relates to different societal groups having access to meaningful and decent employment opportunities and access to quality services that allow them to be full-fledged and integrated members of society. We do policy research broadly in the area of social policy and evaluate interventions and institutions engaging in social development.

• Happspace Bankas
• Laisves al 84B
• Kaunas
• Lithuania
• +37068944314
• elma@policyimpactlab.com
• http://www.policyimpactlab.com