Integrated Projects of the EU Social Dialogue 2023-24

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The European social partner organisations at cross-industry level, ETUC, BusinessEurope, SGI Europe, and SMEunited, have resolved to continue their joint project activities and build upon the outcomes of the previous Integrated Projects. The Integrated Projects (IP) of the European Social Dialogue (EUSD) have provided the European social partners with an important tool to promote and reinforce the link between social dialogue at national and European level, as well as to address emerging issues which are of joint relevance. In the past, the Integrated Projects have supported the implementation and follow-up of European social dialogue instruments and capacity-building of social partners, with activities which have been established as a cornerstone of how we can better link social dialogue at the European and national level. In previous IP activities the European social partners have focused on themes for which they see an added value of jointly addressing through project work, including those that they commit to in the framework of their autonomous work programme. In recent years such thematic focus has covered, among other issues, apprenticeships, the European Social Fund and employee training, circular economy, skills and innovation and most recently support to implementation of their agreement on digitalisation. The main project activity this time will be supporting implementation of the European social partners work programme 2022-2024, through organisation of a series of seminars and meetings with their respective member organisations on specific topics, as well as to prepare some future project activities. The other project activities will be promoting and supporting social partner capacity building at EU and national level, and ad-hoc support for social dialogue such as layout, printing and translation of social dialogue texts.