Program

                                                                                                                                       

Annual Conference of the European Institute of Social Security (EISS)

organised in cooperation with the Law Faculty of the University of Ljubljana on

 “Changing Social Security”

 Golden Lecture Hall of the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana

Ljubljana, the 29th and 30th of September 2011

Thursday, September 29

 

8.15 – 9.00 Registration of participants

9.00 – 9.15 Welcome address:
Prof. dr. Peter Grilc, Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana
Prof. dr. Jos Berhgman, President of the EISS

 

9.15 – 11.30 First/Opening session: Changing social security and human rights

 

- Fundamental social rights as human rights
Prof. dr. Danilo Türk, President of the Republic of Slovenia, Professor of the University of Ljubljana - tbc

- Security in social security - reflections from a legal point of view
Prof. dr. Danny Pieters, Professor of the KU Leuven, member of the Academia Europaea, London

- Prohibition of discrimination in social security law
Prof. dr. Ulrich Becker, Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for foreign and international Social Law, Professor of the University of Munich

- Protection of social rights according to the European Social Charter
Prof. dr. Polonca Končar, former President of the European Committee of Social Rights, Professor of the University of Ljubljana

 
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break

12.00 – 14.00 Second session: Changing social security and social fairness

 - Preserving solidarity when changing social security system in Slovenia
Prof. dr. Ivan Svetlik, Minister of Labour Family and Social Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia, Professor of the University of Ljubljana

- Ageing and changes in pension protection
Prof. dr. Jos Berghman, President of the European Institute of Social Security, Professor of the KU Leuven

- Protection provided and duties imposed on (long-term) unemployed persons
Prof. dr. dr. h.c. Eberhard Eichenhofer, Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Jena

- Changed family structures and the need for long-term care schemes
Prof. dr. Grega Strban, Professor and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana

 
14.00 – 15.00 Lunch

15.00 – 17.15 Third session: Changing social security in a European perspective

 - Explicit competence to coordinate social security of highly mobile workers
Prof. dr. Paul Schoukens, Professor of the KU Leuven

- How difficult is it to change EU social security coordination legislation?
dr. Rob Cornelissen, Advisor employment and social legislation and social dialogue of DG Employment, social affairs and inclusion, European Commission

- Free movement of patients – between social and economic freedoms
Prof. dr. Franz Marhold, Professor of the University of Graz, Vice-President of the EISS

- Influence of EU citizenship on the social security rights of moving persons
Prof. dr. Yves Jorens, Professor of the University of Gent, Project director trESS

- Changes in EU social security law due to the decisions of the ECJ
Prof. dr. Herwig Verschueren, Professor of the University of Antwerp and Free University of Brussels


17.15 General Assembly of the EISS members

 
18.15 Reception at the City Hall of Ljubljana
Welcome by Mr. Zoran Janković, Mayor of the city of Ljubljana

 
18.45 Sight seeing: Ljubljana


 20.00 Dinner


 Friday, September 30

 9.30 – 11.30 Young researcher’s forum

 - Long-term care as a new social risk
Ms. Vera Hansen, LL. M., doctoral candidate and speaker of the Doktorandengruppe, Max-Planck-Institute for foreign and international Social Law, Munich

- The most appropriate way to provide long-tem care benefits
Ms. Alenka Oven, LL.M., doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana

- Social Security and Health Care Abroad
Mr. Tomislav Sokol, LL.M., lecturer at Zagreb School of Economics and Management, and doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Law, KU Leuven

- Development of social security law in Serbia until the beginning of the Second World War
Mr. Filip Bojić, young researcher and teaching assistant at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade

 
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break

 
12.00 – 14.00 Fourth session: Implementing the changes of social security

 
- From health insurance policy to health insurance reality - difficulties when implementing changes
dr. Dorijan Marušič, Minister of Health of the Republic of Slovenia

- Indispensable role and pitfalls of information technology when implementing social security changes
dr. Chris Gibbon, Vice President IBM and Global Industry Leader of IBM’s Social Services and Social Security business worldwide, Vice-President of the EISS

 - Could changes to mandatory health insurance be implemented without the consent of health care providers?
dr. Samo Fakin, General Manager of the Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia

- Legal consequences of implementing pension reform in Slovenia
Mr. Jožef Janez Kuhelj, Deputy General Manager of the Pension and invalidity Insurance Institute of Slovenia

 
14.00 – 14.30 Conclusions and outlook
Prof. dr. Anjuta Bubnov Škoberne, Professor of the University of Ljubljana

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