Professor Günther Schmid has been rewarded one of three Honorable doctorates 2006 at Växjö University, Sweden. The ceremony at the university will take place on February 11, 2006. ¬ Växjö

From 1 September 2005 to 31 January 2006, Professor Günther Schmid followed an invitation from the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Wassenaar. ¬ NIAS.

IIn February and March 2005, he was invited by the University of Melbourne, Australia, to present recent labour market-related research results to Australian researchers, students and experts at several institutions and occasions. On March 23, 2005, he presented his paper on Social Risk Management through Transitional Labour Markets at the "Transitions&Risks: New Directions in Social Policy" conference in Melbourne.

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The Second Congress of the Polish Lisbon Strategy Forum "Poland and Europe in the Face of the Future Challenges" was organized in Warsaw on May 26, 2004. The opening speeches were held by the President of the Republic of Polen, Aleksaner Kwasniewski, and the German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. During the discussion forum on  "Social partners for employment and entrepreneurship development - the European perspective", Professor Dr. Günther Schmid gave a lecture on "Ways and means to achieve the Lisbon employment objectives".

Lecture text: > Lecture (pdf, 130 kB)
Information on the Lisbon Strategy: ¬ European Commission: The Lisbon Strategy

In 2003, Günther Schmid was a member of the ¬European Employment Task Force set up by the European Commission, headed by the former Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok.

Initiated by the European Council, the European Employment Task Force, chaired by Wim Kok, was set up in spring 2003 by the European Commission. lts task was to carry out an independent in-depth examination of key employment-related policy challenges and to identify practical reform measures, which should as far as possible produce immediate employment impacts. The Report of the Task Force was presented on November 23, 2003.

Task Force Report: ¬Report (pdf, 500 kB), ¬Annex 1 (pdf, 80 kB), ¬Annex 2 (pdf, 170 kB)

The results of the Commission's work were presented by Professor Dr. Günther Schmid during a Lunch Time Meeting on German labour market policy organized by the European Commission Representation in Germany and the German Institute for Economic Research on February 4, 2004, in Berlin.

Information on the meeting: ¬ European Commission Representation in Berlin

The Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour and the Nuremberg Institute for Employment Research organized a conference on "Impulses for European Employment Policy – Impulses for Germany. Report of the European Employment Task Force", held on December 8, 2003, in Berlin. The presentation of the core results of the Task Force Report by Wim Kok was followed by a round-table discussion with a group of high-ranking politicians and experts  - Anna Diamantopoulou (Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs),  Wim Kok (President of the European Employment Task Force), Dr. Dieter Hundt (President of the German Employers’ Association BDA), Michael Sommer (Chairman of the German Trade Unions’ Association DGB), Professor Dr. Günther Schmid (Member of the European Employment Task Force) and  Wolfgang Clement (Federal Minister of Economics and Labour).
During the following "Technical Meeting on the Task Force Report",  working groups discussed the four main topics of the report (adaptability, labour supply, investment in human capital, better governance).

Information on the meeting: ¬ Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit (only in German available)