CAMS - Social dialogue and the changing role of Conciliation, Arbitration Mediation Services in Europe

Last updated: 12/11/09

CAMS - Social dialogue and the changing role of Conciliation, Arbitration Mediation Services in Europe

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The broad aim of this proposal is to help social partner organisations understand and contribute to the modernising of the European social model through improving expertise in the field of industrial relations (sub-programme II). Building upon the Valdés Dal-Ré (2003) report ‘Labour Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration in European Union countries’, CAMS seeks to promote the exchange of information and experience among those involved in conciliation, arbitration and mediation including public authorities, companies, trade unions and research centres.

The partners will undertake

General seminars including a limited number of preparatory studies to exchange experience and to develop a network of players and experts on the contribution of conciliation, arbitration and mediation services to industrial relations.
Initiatives to further the collection and use of information on national industrial relations systems, its review at national level and its exchange at European level.
Initiatives to promote knowledge on how conciliation, arbitration and mediation services can contribute to effective industrial relations practices

The specific focus of CAMS is on the changing role of conflict arbitration, conciliation and mediation in a European context where there has been a general decline in collective industrial action and a rising trend in individual social conflicts, and where the existing institutions providing conflict conciliation, arbitration and mediation services have to a greater or lesser extent adjusted their roles in relation to the social partners and to social dialogue.

The partners represent a range of actors, interests and experts based in five countries – France, Italy, Poland, Portugal and the UK. They comprise two university-based research organisations (Working Lives Research Institute, UK and France; ICS Lisbon University, Portugal) a research centre working directly for a trade union (IRES Emilia-Romagna, Italy), a UK largely publicly-funded but independent authority, ACAS, and a trade union (NSZZ Solidarnosc, Poland).

Partner	Organisation	Department	Country	Research team members
1	London Metropolitan University	Working Lives Research Institute	UK	Professor Steve Jefferys Professor Sonia McKay Nick Clark
2	ACAS	Research and Evaluation	UK	Fiona Neathey Gill Dix Peter Harwood
3	London Metropolitan University	Working Lives Research Institute, CNRS-GTM, Paris	France	Dr Sylvie Contrepois
4	IRES	Emilia-Romagna	Italy	Dr Volker Telljohann Vando Borghi
5	University of Lisbon	Institute of Social Sciences	Portugal	Professor Marinus de Pires Ana Isabel Guerreiro Latas Cristina Nunes
6	Solidarność	International Department	Poland	Dr Joanna Unterschuetz Mirosława Kaniszewska