We are proud and delighted that CELSI’s co-founder and Scientific Director, Martin Kahanec, has been awarded the prestigious ESET Science Award 2025 in the main category Outstanding Scientist in Slovakia.

On October 2, CELSI researcher Monika Martišková led a training session in the ETUI education training workshop called "Green Clauses in Collective Bargaining" (1–3 October 2025, Bratislava).

As a non-partisan, research-focused institute, CELSI supports democracy, fair working conditions, decent work and decent pay for all workers through its evidence-based research and policy expertise.

On September 15, CELSI Scientific Director Martin Kahanec delivered the opening keynote at the 93rd East Jour Fixe, a flagship policy forum of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) organized in cooperation with the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw).

We are proud that Martin Kahanec, CELSI’s co-founder and Scientific Director, has been selected among the finalists in the main category – Outstanding Scientist in Slovakia.

At this year’s SASE Conference in Montréal, CELSI Managing Director Marta Kahancová made a remarkable contribution by presenting multiple papers and chairing sessions on some of today’s most pressing labour issues.

On Thursday, July 10, CELSI Scientific Director Martin Kahanec delivered a speech at the 11th ECINEQ Conference, held at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he presented a study on the Living Wage.

From July 2 to 4, CELSI researchers Nina Holičková and Martin Guzi participated in the ILO’s 9th Regulating for Decent Work Conference held in Geneva, Switzerland, as part of the global WageIndicator team. Their participation reflects CELSI’s strong commitment to living wages, fair income policies, and improving the lives of workers worldwide

On June 13, at the Hilton Prague Hotel, CELSI Scientific Director Martin Kahanec took part in one of the world’s top five security conferences as a panelist at the GLOBSEC side session titled “Demography: the Hidden Strategic Factor for Europe’s Democracy, Competitiveness, and Security.”

On June 5, Marta Kahancová (CELSI and Comenius University Bratislava) participated in the ENLIGHT Open Symposium on Mental Health at the Workplace hosted by Uppsala University, as part of the POHODA project – Promoting Mental Health in the Workplace.