CELSI was founded on January 30, 2008, by Martin Kahanec and Marta Kahancová. After 15 years, CELSI is no longer a child falling and getting up again and again, but a real teenager - resilient, exploring, and maturing!

Martin Kahanec has been appointed by the Slovak Government as a member of its Council for Science, Technology and Innovation. The Council is the central coordinating and advisory body of the Government of the Slovak Republic for the creation of policy in the field of research, development and innovation.

Olena Fedyuk (MSCA Fellow in" RightsLab", University of Padua) and Tibor T. Meszmann (CELSI) will present their research and paper titled “Happy” Management, “Interested” Workers? Control, Consent, and Reproduction of Non-local Workers’ Labour Power in Hungarian Electronics and Automotive Industry.

On December 1, 2022, CELSI organised the national seminar within the SOWELL project titled "Pre-primary and long-term care services in Slovakia and the role of social partners". At the seminar, the research results and case studies on the multilevel cooperation of social partners and other stakeholders to ensure sufficient coverage and quality welfare services were presented.

The research results and the case studies on the multilevel cooperation of social partners and other stakeholders to ensure sufficient coverage and quality of welfare services were presented at the workshop.

During the final conference, researchers and social partners from the different countries will present and discuss the project outcomes. One of the guiding subjects will be the role of national and EU-level social partners in tackling the sector’s challenges.

CELSI co-founder and director Martin Kahanec spoke in the panel on "Young people in the post COVID-19 labour market: scarring effects, learning losses and emerging opportunities (ESDE 22)" at the European Employment & Social Rights Forum 2022 in Brussels on November 17, 2022.

CELSI is involved in a new project called "Managing data processing in the workplace thourgh industrial relations." Researcher Adam Šumichrast attended the project kick-off meeting on 7 October 2022 in Rome. The consortium consists of five partners from universities and research institutes and five trade union federations.

CELSI expresses sincere solidary with Slovak queer community in the fight for its human rights, including inclusion and non-discrimination in labour market. CELSI calls for a change in approach to LGBTI+ people together with the NGOs operating in the area of queer community.

You are cordially invited to the next CELSI Frontiers webinar organized jointly with the Institute of Public Policy, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava.