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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, expert for the European Commission (members of MoveS, FreSco, Missoc and Eurofound). Jean-Philippe is the author of numerous books and articles in the field of labour law and European social security law. He also regularly writes about judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union and publishes in well-known European legal journals. Jean-Philippe participated for IR Share in the drafting of legal advice on complex topics concerning European Works Councils.

• 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

Lawyer in Labour Law, Mariangela is project manager and Researcher at SindNova, the Italian Study and Research Centre on Industry Innovation and Labour (Rome), that focusing its activities on industrial relations, collective bargaining and workers participation; European Work Councils; organization and conditions of work; labour market policies; equal opportunities; health and safety in the workplaces. 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

Frédéric studied labour law in France, first at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and then at University of Montpellier (Master DPRT). He has extensive experience in writing and editing industrial relations and labour law material for a practitioner and policymaker audience, both in printed newsletters and in electronic form. He has written articles on issues related to human resources, French and European labour law, employment and industrial relations issues since 1993, first as journalist for a variety of different publications of the Group Liaisons (Entreprise & Carrières, Sociale Pratique), and from 1998 to 2006 for the daily newsletter Liaisons sociales (Wolters Kluwer Group). He created, in 2000, Liaisons sociales Europe, a bi-monthly newsletter focused on employment policy, labour law and social security at the EU and member state level. In 2000 he was appointed assistant editor of Liaisons Sociales, managing a team of 8 journalists, and was editor-in-chief of Liaisons Sociales Europe until 2021.. He has significant experience of website information services and created IR Share in 2009 and launched this website in 2012.

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

Christer Thörnqvist, School of Business, University of Skövde, Sweden; PhD, associated professor in work science and senior lecturer in business administration and HRM. His main research interests are collective bargaining and industrial conflict, employee influence, gendered labour relations and labour migration. At present he is occupied with a project about the impact from the 2008-09 recession on public sector industrial relations and HRM in four countries, coordinated from the University of Tübingen, Germany.

• christer.thornqvist@hotmail.com

I am together a writer specialised in the Nordic countries, and a coach performing business coaching and political coaching. I work as a business coach for public and private organisations, with a specialisation in change management. I help people improve and develop through coaching. I am accredited by the International Coach Federation (ACC). I am also a political coach, supporting candidates in their campaign, and helping elected political staff to attain their objectives with effective coaching methods. I maintain as a journalist a political website about Finland (http://finlandpolitics.org/) with the support of volunteers. Previously, I have been a Director in the French public service, a diplomat and I have had the privilege to participate in the creation and the development of 2 European Agencies.

• 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, MSc in International Policy and Development Studies (Middlebury Institute of International Studies, 2012) is director at evaluation and policy research consultancy Policy Impact Lab. Elma counts with 12 years of experience designing, implementing and evaluating social interventions and policies for EU's centralized and autonomous bodies, social partners, international donors and third sector organisations. Thematically, Elma's work has focused on development, social and labour market policy and programmes in and around Europe, Africa and Latin America. In the area of industrial relations, Elma has focused primarily on collective bargaining in the social services sector, including at national and local levels.

• 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

Manwel Debono is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Labour Studies, University of Malta. He is a CharteredOccupational Psychologist and holds a Ph.D. in career choice and development. Dr Debono has been involved in numerous local and European research projects about working conditions and industrial relations. He has contributed to the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions for over 15 years. He also served as country expert for the DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion as part of the European Employment Policy Observatory for 11 years. Dr Debono teaches topics relating to working conditions, industrial relations, human resources, and career development.

• 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

Barbara Lužar is an assistant researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. She holds a BA in Cultural Studies and has finished her PhD in Sociology with thesis on the Role of Social Networks in Teamwork in Slovene and Finnish teams. She has been involved in a number of EU OSHA projects in relation to ageing workforce, Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities projects on equal opportunities at a decision-making positions- EQPOWEREC and Eurofound projects. Her research interests include industrial relations, collective bargaining and social dialogue, employment relations, working and living conditions, team work, social networks, equal opportunities and a reconciliation of work and family. She has been a national correspondent and a coordinator of the Slovenian team for the EUROFOUND for more than 10 years. She is also a co-founder and a leader of a community centre at NGO Slovenian Philanthropy.

• 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 holds a PhD in political and social sciences. She is a lecturer at the Institute for Labour Studies of the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) in Belgium. She is the author of several publications on European social dialogue, the strategy Europe 2020 and its impact on Belgian industrial relations. She has also contributed to several comparative studies conducted for Eurofound and Cedefop as well as employment policy evaluations for various Belgian public authorities.

• emmanuelle.perin@uclouvain.be

• waldon_thoroe@yahoo.com

Vasilis (Ph.D. in European Studies, 2018, University of Macedonia, Greece) is a senior researcher in the Department of International and European Studies of the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Greece. He has an extensive research background on industrial relations and transnational labour networks in the EU. He has also worked as a project manager and trainer for various European and national projects on entrepreneurship, protection of fundamental rights, work-based learning for university students and European integration. He is author of publications (monographs and journal articles) on labour law, medical law, and the transposition of the EWC Directive into national law in Greece. His research interests are on the field of gig economy and new forms of employment, transnational cooperation, and inclusion of NEETs into the labour force.

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

Inga Blaziene holds a PhD in economics. She is a senior researcher at the Labour Market Research Department, Institute of Sociology of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences. At the Centre she is engaged in basic and applied research, report drafting and project management on industrial relations, working conditions, employment and labour market policy issues. Inga is often working as an independent expert in policy (mostly – labour market policy) evaluation/assessment. Since 2004 she has been working as a national expert in different European observatories – EurWORK (European Observatory of Working Life) and ERM (European Restructuring Monitor), carried out by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, EEPO (European Employment Policy Observatory), coordinated by the ICF. Since 2012 Inga Blaziene is working also as an independent expert for the Research Council of the Republic of Lithuania.

• 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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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.
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• Allemagne
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• 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.

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• 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.

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