TEW-CCA related presentations and participation at conferences and workshops
[Nov 25, 2021] Online lecture on “School-to-Work Transition of the youth in the Caucasus and Central Asia”, Central Asia Solidarity Group (Malmö, Sweden).
[Nov 11, 2021] Online lecture on “Institutional context of the school-to-work transition in the Caucasus and Central Asia”, Swedish Development Forum (Stockholm, Sweden) & Central Asia Solidarity Groups (Malmö, Sweden).
[Oct 23-24, 2019] Eliza Mandieva held a presentation on “Determinants of youth unemployment and NEET in Kyrgyzstan” at the Fifth Annual Life in Kyrgyzstan Conference 2019 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
[Oct 18-19, 2019] Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel held a presentation on „The Effects of Early Marriage and Childbirth on Women’s Early Career in the Caucasus and Central Asia“ at the ISA-RC06 and VSA Conference in Hanoi.
[Oct 3-5, 2019] Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel had a poster presentation on „The TEW-CCA Youth Transition Surveys in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Tajikistan“ at the TIY Conference in Maastricht.
[Sep 27-28, 2019] Eliza Mandieva held a presentation on „Alliance Choices of Central Asian States and Role of Society“ at the International Conference „Central Asian Security in the Current World Disorder: Challenges and Opportunities“ in Almaty, Kasachstan.
[Sep 19-20, 2019] Dr. Irina Badurashvili held a presentation on „Gender differences in employment patterns of youth in Georgia“ at the 3rd General Meeting of the COST Action CA17114 YOUNG-IN in Valletta.
[Sep 4-10, 2019] Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel made a research stay at the Georgian Center for Population Research (GCPR) in Tbilisi conducting and discussing research of the TEW-CCA project.
[Aug 4-8, 2019] Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel held a presentation on „Social selectivity and labor market returns of vocational education and training in the Caucasus and Central Asia“ at the 10th WERA Conference in Tokyo, Japan.
[June 28, 2019] Loik Mirov held a presentation on „NEET-Youth of Tajikistan: The Effect of Early Career on Current Activity Status“ at the ESCAS Conference 2019 in Exter, UK.
[June 28, 2019] Eliza Mandieva held a presentation on „Determinants of the Informal Employment in the Caucasus and Central Asia“ at the ESCAS Conference 2019 in Exter, UK.
[Feb. 14, 2019] Loigdzhon Mirov held a presentation on „ Big samples and issues of survey fieldwork during winter periods in mountain regions: The Case of Tajikistan” at the Annual Meeting of Gallup World Poll Team for FSU countries in Athens, Greece. His presentation was based on the lessons learned from the TEW-CCA Youth Survey Tajikistan and other international surveys conducted by the several survey institutes in Tajikistan.
[Jan. 24, 2019] Loiqdzhon Mirov held a presentation on „Efficiency of State Budget Spending on Public Employment Services (PES) in Tajikistan“ at the Press and Think-Tank Club „Balance“ in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. This event was attended by the representatives of the Ministry of Finance and Economy of Tajikistan, by the researchers of the Center for Strategical Research under the President of Tajikistan as well as by experts, research community and press.
[Oct. 25-28, 2018] Loiqdzhon Mirov held a presentation on „Transition from School-to-Work and NEET Youth: The Case of Tajikistan“ at the 19th annual conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) in Pittsburgh, USA.
[July 13, 2018] Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel held a presentation on „School-to-work transition and first marriage in the Caucasus and Central Asia“ at the Asian Population Association (APA) Conference in Shanghai.
[July 12-14, 2018] Eliza Mandieva attended Seminar Series „Sustainable Development: Regional and Interregional Cooperation in Central Asia“ and held presentation on the „Perception of Chinese Development Finance in Central Asian Countries (especially youth) and Sustainability of Projects implemented within Belt and Road Initiative“ at the German-Kazakh University, Almaty (Kazakhstan).
[May 30 – June 6, 2018] Eliza Mandieva and Loiqdzhon Mirov attended the Global Innovation Lab for the UN Sustainable Goals and worked on Goal 4: Quality Education, Singapore.
[May 27, 2018] Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel held a presentation on „Education effects on the school-to-work transition: Evidence from 23 low and middle-income countries“ at the ISA-RC28 Conference „Rethinking Social Inequality in a globalizing World“ in Seoul, South Korea.
[May 18 – 19, 2018] Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel held a presentation on „School-to-work transition and first marriage in the Caucasus and Central Asia“ and chaired the session on „Labour force“ at the ISA RC06/41 Conference „Changing Demography – Changing Families“, in Singapore.
[April 23 – May 12, 2018] Eliza Mandieva has conducted 22 semi-structured in-depth interviews with informal wage- and self-employed for her Ph.D. thesis within TEW-CCA project in Osh and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
[April 18, 2018] Nino Kobakhidze and Loikdzhon Mirov have participated at the Workshop „Scientific Writing“ chaired by I. Bregenzer (Austria) and F. Lauterbach (Germany) organized within Status Symposium of the Volkswagen Foundation in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
[April 18, 2018] Dr. Saodat Olimova and Eliza Mandieva have participated at the Workshop „Writing a Funding Proposal“ chaired by Dr. W. Klotzbuecher (ICCK, Germany) organized within Status Symposium of the Volkswagen Foundation in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
[April 17, 2018] Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel and Dr. Saodat Olimova held a presentation on „Opportunities and Barriers at the Transition from Education to Work. A comparative Youth Study in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Tajikistan“, at the Status Symposium of the Volkswagen Foundation in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
[April 16, 2018] Eliza Mandieva held a poster presentation on „Informal Employment in the Caucasus and Central Asia Region: Determinants of Informal Employment at Micro-Level“ at the Status Symposium of the Volkswagen Foundation in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
[April 16, 2018] Nino Kobakhidze and Loikdzhon Mirov held a poster presentation on „Gender Differences at the Transition from Education to Work – A Comparative Youth Study in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Tajikistan“ at the Status Symposium of the Volkswagen Foundation in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
[Feb. 28 – March 1, 2018] Eliza Mandieva participated at the MQIC International Conference and attended following courses, Qualitative Text Analysis (Prof. Kuckartz) as well as Mixed Methods Design in a Challenging World Context (Prof. Mertens) in Berlin, Germany.
[Nov. 10, 2017] Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel held a presentation on „Chances and barriers for young women’s transition from education to work in the Caucasus and Central Asia“ at the conference “Labour market uncertainties for youth and young adults” of the Asian Research Institute at the National University of Singapore.
[Nov. 2, 2017] Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel held a presentation on „School-to-work transition and first marriage in the Caucasus and Central Asia“ at the IUSSP International Population Conference in Cape Town.
[Oct. 27, 2017] Dr. Irina Badurashvili (GCPR) held a presentation on the TEW-CCA project within „ETF Workshop on Mapping Youth Transitions from School to Work in Georgia“, Tbilisi, Georgia.
[Oct. 25, 2017] Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel held a presentation on „How can surveys help youth policy?“ reporting about the experience of the TEW-CCA project at the roundtable stakeholder workshop of b’huth (Dubai Public Policy Center) and United Arab Emirates University in Dubai.
[Oct. 19-22, 2017] The third workshop of the TEW-CCA project was held in Tbilisi, Georgia. The workshop was attended by 17 participants from 6 countries. A detailed report and program of the workshop can be found here.
[Sep. 21-24, 2017] Eliza Mandieva has participated in the International Summer School „Regional Cooperation – Approaches from Central Asia and Europe“ within the framework of the international project „Between Stability and Transformation: Regional and Transnational Cooperation in Central Asia and between Central Asia and Europe“ supported by VolkswagenFoundation and OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
[Sep. 22, 2017] Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel held a presentation on „School-to-work transition and first marriage in the Caucasus and Central Asia“ at the Institute of Sociology of the Academia Sinica in Taipei.
[June 28 – Jul 1, 2017] Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel made a research stay at the Georgian Center for Population Research (GCPR) in Tbilisi conducting and discussing research of the TEW-CCA project with the Georgian TEW-CCA team Dr. Irina Badurashvili, Prof. Dr. Giorgi Meladze, Prof. Dr. Mamuka Nadareishvili, Rusudan Nadiradze, Nino Kobakhidze, and Nana Gurgenidze.
[June 21-22, 2017] Dr. Irina Badurashvili held a presentation on the Georgian TEW-CCA survey on young people at the workshop “Skills mismatch measurement in ETF partner countries” at the European Training Foundation (ETF) in Torino.
[Nov. 29, 2016] Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel gave an invited talk on „The transition from education to work in Central and Eastern Europe“ at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg.
[Sep. 19, 2016] Dr. Irina Badurashvili held a presentation on “Georgian Welfare Regime at the threshold of challenges of demographic change” at the Launch Event “Building Bridges in Social Welfare Policy in Eastern Europe” organized European Centre for the Social Welfare Policy and Research in Vienna.
[Sep. 7-10, 2016] Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel held a presentation on „Gender, early family formation, and the school-to-work transition: Evidence from 30 low and middle-income countries“ at the 24th Annual Workshop of the European Research Network on Transitions in Youth (TIY) in Trento, Italy.
[Aug. 22-26, 2016] All TEW-CCA Ph.D. students Eliza Mandieva, Rusudan Nadiradze, Nino Kobakhidze, Vladimir Rodin and Loik Mirov participated at the PhD-Training Workshop of the TEW-CCA Project on „Advanced regression analysis using Stata“ at University of Bamberg, Germany. The teaching was conducted by Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel, Paul Löwe, and Jonas Voßemer.
[July 25-29, 2016] Eliza Mandieva held a presentation on „A Comparative Youth Survey in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Tajikistan, Results and Experiences from Multinational Questionnaire Development and Testing“ at the 2nd International Conference on Survey Methods in Multinational, Multiregional and Multicultural Contexts, Chicago, IL, USA.
[July 6-8, 2016] Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel held a presentation on „Gender, early family formation and the school-to-work transition: Evidence from 30 low and middle-income countries“ and he was session chair and discussant of the session „Youth, transitions and labour trajectories“ at the 37th Annual Conference of the International Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation in Barcelona.
[June 1, 2016] Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel held a public lecture on “The transition from education to work: Challenges for youths” at the University of Central Asia in Dushanbe (Tajikistan). Follow-up discussions concerning youth issues were facilitated by Prof. Dr. Gebel, Dr. Saodat Olimova and Loiq Mirov with students and experts from Tajikistan.
[May 31-Jun 3, 2016] The Second workshop of the TEW-CCA project was held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The workshop was attended by 15 participants from 5 countries. A detailed report and program of the workshop can be found here.
[May 25-28, 2016] Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel held a presentation on „Gender, early family formation and the school-to-work transition: Evidence from 30 low and middle-income countries“ and he was session chair and discussant of the session „Child development“ at the ISA-RC06 and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Conference on “Social Change and Family Developments” in Beijing 2016.
[Feb. 26-March 4, 2016] Eliza Mandieva participated at the ECPR Winter School in Methods and Techniques, completed courses: „Introduction to MAXQDA, A Qualitative and Mixed Methods Data Analysis Software“, taught by Francisco Freitas, and „Qualitative Interviewing“, taught by Lea Sgier, University of Bamberg, Germany.
[April 7-8, 2016] Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel held the plenary talk on „The transition from education to work in international comparison. The role of education and labour market institutions“ at the conference of the Doctoral program of the Hans-Böckler Foundation „International comparative research on education and education policy in welfare states“ in Tubingen.
[Dec. 9, 2015] Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel held his inaugural lecture on „The transition from education to work in international comparison – Methodological challenges“ at the University of Bamberg. In his lecture, he gave an overview of the TEW-CCA project.
[Nov. 30, 2015] Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel held a public lecture on “The transition from education to work: Challenges for youths” at Baku State University in Azerbaijan. Follow-up discussions concerning youth issues were facilitated by Prof. Dr. Gebel and Eliza Mandieva (University of Bamberg) as well as by Dr. Elmira J. Ismayilova and Mehdi Gulmammaldi (Baku State University) with students from Azerbaijan.
[Nov. 29, 2015] Eliza Mandieva, Prof. Dr. Sattarov and Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel organized a policy briefing on the TEW-CCA project with government representatives and (inter)national organizations in Baku, Azerbaijan.
[Nov. 27-29, 2015] First workshop of the TEW-CCA project was held in Baku, Azerbaijan. The workshop was attended by 13 participants from 5 countries. A detailed report and program of the workshop can be found here.
[Aug. 10-14, 2015] Eliza Mandieva participated at the Summer School in Survey Methodology, completed the course on „Design and Implementation of Surveys in Developing Countries“, taught by Zeina Mneimneh and Jennifer Kelley, at the GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany.