BARSERVICE Kick-Off Meeting - Belgrade - 2024

BARSERVICE: Social dialogue in defense of vulnerable groups in post-COVID-19 labour markets
Kick-off meeting, 8-9 February 202 - Belgrade, Serbia

Location: Faculty of Economics – University of Belgrade

• Day 1: Thursday, February 8
  12:30 – 13:00 Arrival of participants, coffee
• 13:00 – 13:15 Welcome by the organizers and the project coordinator, tour de table - Galjina Ognjanov and Marta Kahancová
• 13:15 – 14:15 Introduction of the BARSERVICE project: research questions, aims, framework, methodology - Marta Kahancová, project coordinator
• 14:15 – 14:45 Coffee break
• 14:45 – 15:30 State of the art: the service sector across the studied countries
  All participants (short country presentations about the key characteristics of the service sector, and up to 3 key observations relevant for the project aims and questions
• 15:30 – 17:30 Work packages (overview of each WP, tasks and deliverables – by WP leaders)
  - WP1 – Context and analytical framework in a comparative perspective (CELSI, Marta Kahancová)
  - WP2 – Understanding the challenges in the service sector (CELSI, Marta Kahancová and UNI Europa, Stan De Spiegelaere)
  - WP3 – Analysing and comparing CBAs in the service sector (WageIndicator – Fiona Dragstra and Gabriele Medas)
  - WP4 – Tackling undeclared work in the service sector (CELSI, Marta Kahancová)
  - WP5 – Building capacity for collective bargaining through co-creation, mutual exchange and learning (UNI Europa – Stan De Spiegelaere)
  - WP6 – Dissemination of research findings, policy recommendations and overall results of the project (WageIndicator – Fiona Dragstra and Gabriele Medas)
  - WP7 – Project management and quality assurance (CELSI – Marta Kahancová and external evaluator Valeria Pulignano on zoom tbc)
• 17:30 – 18:00 Discussion on any outstanding issues on the project content
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Day 2: Friday, February 9

• 09:00 – 10:00 Practical project management (timeline, deadlines, consortium meetings, sharing files and data, division of tasks etc.)
• 10:00 – 10:30 Ethical issues and communication
• 10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break
• 10:45 – 11:30 Project administration and reporting - Soňa Polakovič, CELSI project officer 
• 11:30 – 12.30 Discussion (including any outstanding issues) and closing remarks
  
  

The project is funded by the European Union, Project No. 101126532