A brief description of Emergences

Emergences is a professional institute founded in 1985

to support social and union activities by creating

three complementary areas of expertise :

1) Consulting and research, international activities

Emergences carries out socio-economic studies that focus on employment issues. These studies look into questions such as professional retraining, skills validation and reintegration as well as local and regional economic development. Using this experience alongside its two other activities - training and expertise - Emergences has been working since 1992 to develop an international activity.

Emergences is involved as either a leader or a partner in a number of european projects. These projects are mainly carried out through European Commission programmes: DG Employment and Social Affairs, FSE - EQUAL, Leonardo Da Vinci and Socrates.

Emergences is also developing Technical Support projects with various countries in Central and Eastern Europe, the former USSR and the Mediterranean region (Phare, Tacis and Meda programmes).

Areas of involvement

As part of its international activities, Emergences is involved with issues such as working conditions, professional equality, fighting against discriminations, working hours, training for employees

and workers representatives, labour law, social dialogue and collective bargaining, environmental management, etc.

Our parters

Our partnerships mostly involve union organisations (or their research and training institutes) in the European Union, Central and Eastern Europe, the former USSR, the Maghreb and Latin America.

Our achievements

Many of our projects have led to the development of resources likely to be of direct interest to worker representatives in Europe: a joint book on working time reduction, a brochure on the prevention

of professional risk, training modules on labour regulations, equality between men and women, management of environmental risk, multimedia and video resources regarding professional equality, a game about social Europe, various CD-Roms about the environment,

employee representatives, the public services and chemical risk. Lastly, other projects have led to advances in employee rights in beneficiary countries : in Russia, an arbitration court has been

set up, to settle the labour conflicts…

2) Expertise

Emergences is now the French institute approved by the Ministry for Employment and Solidarity, as it has the broadest experience in the field of expertise of working conditions, health and safety with company CHSCTs (Health, Safety and Working Conditions

Committees). As an approved expert, Emergences looks into risk factors, analyses accidents and working conditions and helps the CHSCTs to put forward proposals for preventing professional risk and improving working conditions. Within this field, Emergences has completed over 400 expertises since 1994 in a wide range of economic sectors: metallurgy, building, railways, gas and electricity, banks, insurance companies, etc.

3) Training

Emergences is an expert in training design and can provide a wide range of services: training plan construction, requirement studies, assistance in setting up training plans, training of trainers, etc.

Since 1985,Emergences has trained several thousand of trade unionists and employee representatives.

Contact : keo@emergences.fr ;Té.: +33 (0)1 55 82 17 60;
Fax : +33 (0)1 55 82 17 65