Results

The activities of the project include:
• Focus group for training needs analysis in Athens
• Development of training courses and training material
• Organisation of a 2 days training workshop in Valladolid, Spain
• Organisation of a 2 days training workshop in Rome, Italy
• Organisation of a 3 days training workshop in Athens, Greece
• Press release
• Electronic newsletters
• Wash up and dissemination meeting in Athens

Themes of the workshops
• Preparation and management of change and restructuring
• Mergers, acquisitions, mass redundancies: the role of trade unions
• The role of trade unions in the safety net, solidarity structures
• Improving the conditions for job creation
• Health and safety strategies at the workplace
• Improving the quality of jobs and ensuring better working conditions
• Involvement of trade unions in risk assessment and health and safety strategy
• Empowering trade unions to address work related stress, prevention and management techniques
• Adaptation of social dialogue
• New framework for collective bargaining
• Modernisation of the labour market, new forms of work
• Negotiations, collective agreements and social dialogue in times of crisis

The training methods that will be used are input of information by trainers, peer learning, case studies,
role play games, discussions etc. Training materials will be in Greek, Spanish and Italian and will be
posted in the project web site in order to be used for multiplication purposes.