EZA Educational Prgramme Social Dialogue 2025/26

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The European Centre for Workers’ Questions (EZA) is a non-profit organisation with 71 member organisations (trade unions, educational and scientific institutes, socio-cultural workers’ organisations) in 29 European countries. Our philosophy is based on the principles of Christian social doctrine: human dignity, solidarity, subsidiarity, sustainability. A particular emphasis of our work is put on combatting social problems and promoting social dialogue. In this regard, EZA shares general objectives with the European Commission (Articles 152-155 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union). EZA aims to achieve these objectives through capacity building and research on a European level. Our educational programme 2025/26 addresses the priorities of European social dialogue by supporting key EU initiatives and involves workers’ organisations in European governance. The topics addressed include the EPSR/Implementation Action Plan: Union of Equality, employment in rural areas, safety and health at work, housing, skills gap and workforce shortage/Union of Skills; sustainable competitiveness/clean industrial deal/just transition; digital transformation/AI); labour mobility; social security systems’ coordination; EU initiative to strengthen social dialogue (Val Duchesse/La Hulpe declaration/Pact for European Social Dialogue). A special project for workers’ organisations in the EU candidate countries is carried through. As our target group are multipliers in workers’ organisations, our activities enable European collaboration and synergies and aim at imparting knowledge, sharing experience, networking active players and disseminating findings which are subsequently published for an even larger outreach (website, publications, newsletter, podcast, etc.). EZA’s work is certified in accordance with ISO standard 9001:2015. Regular recertification guarantees the external monitoring of the quality management process including the evaluation of our educational programme.