Open Senate meeting of Latvian Christian Academy
May 26-27, 2016
Chapel of Latvian Christian Academy
Thursday, May 26
14.00
Presentation of Dr. Honoris causa to Mrs.
Roswitha Gottbehüt, ex-Secretary
General of European Centre of Workers’
Questions (EZA), and to Mr. Pēteris
Krīgers, President of Free Trade Union
Confederation of Latvia (LBAS)
International seminar
"Social Dialogue as a Precondition for Social Work
Professionalization in the Baltic States"
PROGRAMME
May 26-27, 2016
Latvian Christian Academy
Thursday, May 26
15.45
Registration and coffee
16.00
Welcome to participants and
introduction
Dr. Mrs. SKAIDRĪTE GŪTMANE,
Rector of LCA (Latvia),
Mr. HERBERT METZGER, VicePresident of European Centre
of Workers’ Questions (EZA)
(Brussels)
16.15
Necessary legal provisions to involve
workers’ organisations & social partners
in defining job profiles, basic
qualifications and education of social
workers in the Baltic States –
comparative perspective
Dr. hc. Mrs. AIJA BARČA,
Chairperson of Social and
Employment Affairs Committee
of National Parliament (Latvia)
16.45
Modern Social Work Challenges and the
Situation of Employees Working in Social
Work Sphere
Mr. MĀRTIŅŠ MOORS, Head of
Social administration, Deputy
director of Welfare Department
of Riga City Council (Latvia)
17.15
Governmental Measures regarding
National Development Plan for Social
Work in Latvia (2014-2020). Role of
Different Actors and Social Partners in
the Process
Mrs. ELĪNA CELMIŅA, Director of
Department of Social Inclusion
and Social Work Policy of the
Ministry of Welfare (Latvia)
17.4518.15
Innovations in Education of Social Work
in the Context of Europe 2020 Strategy
Dr. habil. oec. Mrs. BAIBA RIVŽA,
Academician of Latvian Academy
of Sciences, professor (Latvia)
18.30
DINNER
Friday, May 27
9.00
Welcome of the day
9.15
Social Dialogue in the Sector of Social
Work – the Concept of Representing
Social Workers’ Interests in a Trade Union
Mr. PĒTERIS KRĪGERS, President
of Free Trade Union
Confederation of Latvia (LBAS)
(Latvia)
10.00
Growing Effectiveness of Social Workers
within the Framework of European
Semester Needs for Latvia
Mr. JURIS OSIS, Senior researcher
of Latvian Social Dialogue
Education Centre, sociologist,
assist. prof. at LCA (Latvia)
10.30
COFFEE BREAK
11.00
Social Dialogue in the Context of
Economic Inequality
Mrs. EGGE KULBOK-LATTIK, Expert,
University of Tartu (Estonia)
11.30
Social Dialogue as Precondition of Social
Work Professionalization in the Context
of Non-formal Education in Lithuania
Prof. Mrs. ELVYRA ACIENE,
Prof. Mrs. INDRE DIRGELIENE,
Experts of Social Work
Development in Lithuania,
Klaipeda University (Lithuania)
12.00
Europe 2020 Strategy: Social
Vulnerability in Connection to the SocioEconomic and Demographic Factors
Dr. demogr. Mr. IVARS INDĀNS,
Latvian Seconded National
expert at the EC European
External Action Service (Brussels)
12.3013.30
LUNCH
14.00
Employment of people with special needs Mr. MĀRIS GRĀVIS, Chairman
– FIELD TRIP to Specialized Workshops for of the board of NGO “Riga City
People with Special Needs in Riga city –
Child of Care”
the experience of NGO “Riga city Child of
Care”
16.00
Seminar evaluation and final words
17.00
Return to the hotel
18.00
DINNER
Saturday, May 28
DEPARTURES
Dr. SKAIDRĪTE GŪTMANE,
Rector of LCA;
Mr. HERBERT METZGER, VicePresident of EZA (Brussels)