How can trade unions innovate, renew their strategies, and stay strong in a rapidly changing world of work? These questions shaped the joint ETUI–CRIMT event held on December 4, 2025 in Brussels, where two new books on union innovation and renewal were officially launched.

On December 2, CELSI Scientific Director Prof. Martin Kahanec delivered a guest lecture at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University Bratislava (FSEV UK).

The international seminar “Strengthening democracy at work and in society through capacity building among workers’ organisations”, was held on 27 November at HIVA–KU Leuven.

On 28–29 November, the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca hosted the workshop “Labor and Society: Knowledge, Politics, and Futures of Work”, marking the official launch of the new Center for Labor and Society (CLS).

At this year's HUMAN FORUM in Banská Bystrica, one of Slovakia’s key platforms for dialogue on democracy and human rights, CELSI Scientific Director Martin Kahanec joined an important panel discussion on “Political Promises and Economic Reality: How Authoritarian and Populist Tendencies Shape the Future of the Economy.”

On November 17, CELSI Scientific Director Martin Kahanec participated in the discussion “Odkazy novembra 1989: Ozveny minulosti či realita súčasnosti?” at Záhrada – Centrum nezávislej kultúry in Banská Bystrica.

November 17 reminds us of the courage of students and citizens who stood up for human dignity, freedom of expression, and democratic values during the Gentle/Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1989, and of the students who had protested against fascism and the closing of universities in Prague in 1939.

On November 12, 2025, CELSI Scientific Director Martin Kahanec participated in a high-level panel discussion at the Košice Economic Forum, hosted by the Faculty of Economics at the Technical University of Košice (TUKE).

CELSI Scientific Director Martin Kahanec delivered a keynote address at the national conference “Sustainable Labour Mobility in Action: Bilateral Pathways for a Prosperous Slovakia,” organised by IOM Slovakia as part of the European Migration Network (EMN).

CELSI researcher Monika Martišková contributed to the 8th annual conference “Decarbonisation of the Slovak Economy 2025”, organised by EURACTIV Slovakia.