👏 Heartfelt thanks to all ECEG members for their active participation and continuous support for the organisation’s mission and efforts

Congratulations to our members on their new and confirmed roles. We look forward to the journey ahead! 🤝

In addition, Anni Siltanen, Petra Lindemann, and Koen Laenens were respectively confirmed as Chairs of the Working Groups on #Education & #LLL, #IndustrialRelations, #Employment & #Competitiveness, and #H&S

We also warmly welcome Minna Etu-Seppälä, Director of Industrial Relations at Kemianteollisuus, as the new Vice-President and Csaba Szabó, Director of MAVESZ, as the new Chair of the Steering Committee

Our warmest thanks go to Jonas Hagelqvist, ECEG’s former President, for his leadership and dedication over the past years, guiding the organisation with vision and commitment

Your input will be a key contribution to the #ChemSkillsEU recommendations to the European Commission and will guide the development of future training programmes for Europe’s pharmaceutical sector

👉 Don’t miss this opportunity to make your voice heard and influence the skills agenda for 2030!

💡 During this 90-minute interactive session, participants will explore how megatrends such as sustainability and digitalisation are shaping the competences that will be needed by 2030 – and which may decline

You will also discuss training to support effective up-/re-skilling across the workforce

We look forward to this new chapter under her guidance and are confident her leadership will further strengthen ECEG’s success and growth 🤝

🎤 Eleonora Isopo, ECEG's DG:
"Through this joint statement, we reaffirm our commitment to fair treatment, protection of workers’ safety and respect for human rights throughout subcontracting chains. These are essential to ensure that 🇪🇺 chemical sector continues to thrive responsibly"

🇪🇺 #SocialPartners developed a set of recommendations, aiming to ensure workers’ #FairTreatment, prevent exploitation & enhance #transparency in the EU

Are you interested in European affairs, social dialogue, and managing EU-funded projects? We would love to hear from you! 📩

🔍 In this role, you will:

✅ Assist in the organisation of meetings and conferences, including #SocialDialogue meetings on the EU level
✅ Support the team with management of EU-funded #projects and #policy research
✅ Contribute to #communications and daily office coordination

Many thanks to Vanessa Debiais-Sainton & Annika Ojala for the engaging dialogue. We appreciated the opportunity to exchange views & reaffirm our commitment to delivering on the skills needed for the 🌱 green & 💻 digital transitions in the chemical sector

Looking forward to continued collaboration 🤝

💡 This discussion focused on 👇

🔸 Preliminary results of the #ChemSkillsEU project
🔹 Ensuring the long-term #sustainability of this initiative while keeping its outcomes impactful
🔸 EU initiatives supporting partnerships in #education and #training, i.e. #PactforSkills, #EUSkillsAlliances, #CoVEs

These initiatives demonstrate how voluntary action, rigorous enforcement and social dialogue can be more effective and faster than new legislation, and we therefore encourage the Commission to focus on this 🤝

2️⃣ Formaldehyde Value Chain Alliance
A successful initiative and partnership between ECEG, Formacare, industriAll Europe and ETUC, which proactively promoted the reduction of occupational exposure limits for formaldehyde from 2 ppm to 0.3 ppm, protecting more than 30.000 workers in Europe.

📌 Two successful voluntary initiatives highlighted as examples of the sector’s commitment are:

1️⃣ The Responsible Care and the European Responsible Care® Awards – supporting companies and associations to continuously improve health, safety, and environmental performance

🔸 Improving the quality of jobs by strengthening the enforcement of existing frameworks and supporting industry-led initiatives