ENETOSH Events

The ENETOSH International Steering Committee consists of fourteen members from the fields of occupational safety and health, public health and education, including two representatives of the European social partners in the education sector, as well as two senior advisors: https://www.enetosh.net/network/steering-committee.html

On March 10, a virtual meeting of the committee took place, in which reports were given on the state of the network, current projects and the strategic reorientation of the network. Fourteen people attended the meeting, including ten official members of the steering committee.

The 29th ENETOSH Network Meeting, titled "A Human-Centered Approach to Digital Education and Training," was held on December 10, in 2024 in collaboration with Leuphana University and the UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education. The event was a resounding success, featuring engaging and insightful presentations.

A global audience of 58 people attended the online event. It is noteworthy that although about 40% of the participants represented the policy area of occupational safety and health, about 20% registered as representing occupational safety and health and education, and more than 10% indicated that they solely represented the education sector. Public health experts were underrepresented, accounting for only 5% of the audience.

As part of the official program of the 12th International Conference “Working on Safety” (WOS 2024), held from September 22–25 at the DGUV Congress in Dresden, Lucie Kocůrková from the Technical University of Ostrava and Ulrike Bollmann from DGUV organized a workshop on the challenges faced by teachers and trainers in the digital age. They were supported by Nelson Bruno Martins Marques Costa from the University of Minho.

The 18th ENETOSH Steering Committee Meeting took place on 4 June as a side event to the EUROPEAN FORUM Conference 2024 ’Be fit for the digital age!’ in Zagreb.
The meeting was attended by 41 participants from 17 countries worldwide on site and online. Representatives from international organisations such as the ILO, the ISSA and ISHCCO, as well as from the ETUCE, were also taking part in the meeting. Of the 14 members of the Steering Committee, eleven representatives including the chair Vinka Longin Peš, Croatian Health Insurance Fund and the co-chair Hülya Ünver, Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Türkiye, were present.

On the 23th of November 42 participants from 24 countries attended an informative and inspiring online seminar on „Promoting the wellbeing of teachers in a ‘smart‘ school“. With this event ENETOSH contributed to the new campaign of EU-OSHA on „Safe and healthy work in the digital age 2023 – 2025“. The aim of the seminar was to emphasise the importance of teacher health and safety for the quality of education in the digital age, making it an important topic in current research and on the political agenda, thereby promoting good working conditions for a healthy and safe integration of digital technology in schools.

This meeting, organized jointly by the ISSA Section Education and Training for Prevention and the European Network Education and Training in Occupational Safety and Health (ENETOSH) took place in the scope of the A+A Congress in Düsseldorf, Germany, on 26 October, 2023. Experts from 8 different countries presented and discussed various aspects of OSH education in schools.

The joint event of OSHAfrica and ENETOSH "Higher education as the key to training the next generation of safety and health professionals in Europe and Africa", moderated by Ehi Iden, OSHAfrica and Dr Ulrike Bollmann, ENETOSH, was held in the scope of the A+A Congress in Düsseldorf, Germany, on 25 October, 2023.
The dialogue between two representatives each of renowned universities from Europe and Africa at the A+A Congress 2023 in Düsseldorf was a success.

On 14 September 2023 the ENETOSH Steering Committee met again, this time in a virtual format. 10 members of the committee, the web editor and a representative of EU-OSHA participated in the meeting.
After a warm welcome by Vinka Longin Peš, Croatian Health Insurance Fund (chair of the committee) and Hülya Ünver, Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Türkiye (co-Chair), an intensive discussion started on key-issues of the current work and the future of ENETOSH.