Programme

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    09:30 – 09:45 / WELCOME ADDRESS (5 min. each)

    • Mr. Pietro De Lotto, President of CCMI
    • Mr. Janusz Pietkiewicz, President of the study group on "Non-standard employment and platform cooperatives in the digital transformation of industry (own-initiative opinion)"

    09:45 – 10:55 / PANEL I: The role of cooperatives to promote new platforms

    Moderated by Mr. Giuseppe Guerini, rapporteur of the opinion on Non-standard employment and platform cooperatives (10 min. each speaker, 20 min. for questions and answers)

    • (video message) Mr. Trebor Scholz, Professor at The New School, Founder of the Platform Cooperativism Consortium
    • Ms. Leena Whittaker, Digital transformation of industry, DG GROW, EC
    • Mr. Adrien Claude, Coordinator of CoopCycle Federation, France
    • Ms. Sarah de Heusch, Institutional Affairs Officer, Smart Coop
    • QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

    10:55 – 11:15 / BREAK

    11:15 – 12:45 / PANEL II: Platform workers and social rights

    Moderated by Mr. Erwin De Deyn, co-rapporteur of the opinion on Non-standard employment and platform cooperatives (10 min. each speaker, 20 min. for questions and answers)

    • Mr. Dragos Adascalitei, Research Officer, Unit B Employment, Eurofound
    • Ms. Cynthia Srnec, Research fellow at Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (Sciences Po), "Platform workers and the social security gap: examining heterogeneity, autonomy and precarity"
    • Ms. Rebekah Smith, Business Europe, Deputy Director in the Social Affairs department
    • Mr. Nikolay Stoyanov, Policy Officer – Future of Work, DG EMPL, European Commission
    • (video message) Mr. Dimitris Theodorakis, Director, UNI Europa, The European Services Workers Union
    • Mr. Arnaud Delcasse, CEO at COOPGO, France
    • (video message) Mr. Ludovic Voet, Confederal Secretary, European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)
    • QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

    12:45 – 13:00 / CLOSING REMARKS

    • Mr. Giuseppe Guerini and Mr. Erwin De Deyn, rapporteur and co-rapporteur of the opinion on Non-standard employment and platform cooperatives
    • Mr. Janusz Pietkiewicz, President of the study group