The URSSAF National Fund of France, in partnership with the health, family and retirement branches, organizes the detection of self-employed workers in fragile situations. In fact, the analysis of individual situations shows that the identification of vulnerability in one particular area can lead to the identification of other weaknesses or needs, which require an overall approach on a medical, economic and social level.

The Greek social security institutions that were integrated into the Electronic National Social Security Fund (e-EFKA), bequeathed it, among other problems, with a plethora of issues related to “pending pensions”.

More specifically, the time required to examine the cases was too long, thus a large number of pending cases had been accumulated, and citizens’ communication with the competent services was quite difficult, while the Administration of e-EFKA faced difficulties in gathering the data for the optimum use of available resources.

Until recently, the German Federal Pension Insurance (Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund – DRV Bund) had several different customer service departments, each responsible for a specific area. There were two major issues associated with this model. Firstly, it was difficult to handle customer service queries in a consistent, transparent and satisfactory manner. Secondly, to avoid extra work for staff due to not standardized processes.

Recent years have seen an exponential growth in the application of cutting-edge biotechnological techniques in a variety of research fields, such as human health, agriculture and industry. Such rapid success brings challenges related to the protection of human health and the environment. Therefore, it is important to provide up-to-date information on the national regulations, educate to laboratory practices with genetically modified microorganisms (GMMs), create awareness and motivate for biosafety.

It is widely recognized that a procurement policy, which considers the safety culture of a contractor can significantly impact on the occupational health and safety (OHS) level of a workplace.

The good practice “Instant Pension” is part of the information system supporting the pensions business, being a solution that aims to reduce the average time it takes to grant requests for old-age pensions, presented by citizens to Portuguese social security. This solution automatically approves pension requests, validating access conditions and carrying out a provisional calculation of the old-age pension, based on the information available in the social security information system.

In times of increasing digitalization and dependence on IT, we see a war for talent in tech, while budgets are simultaneously facing ever-increasing pressure. Because of this, the efficient use of money and resources becomes increasingly important to allow for further growth in the realm of digitalization.

In France, the National Occupational Union for Employment in Industry and Commerce (Union nationale interprofessionnelle pour l’emploi dans l’industrie et le commerce – Unédic) is a joint body, governed by representatives of employee unions and employers’ organizations. Its main task is to define and evaluate the rules governing unemployment insurance.

The National Office of Social Insurance (NOSI) of the Republic of Moldova is an innovative and modern authority, which enjoys high level of public trust and guarantees quality public services in the event of certain social risks, the application of technologies based on the interoperability of systems is one of the key elements for the development and provision of services to beneficiaries.

The Statute of the Cultural Professional was introduced through a legal diploma in order to provide a new social security regime to a particular group of professionals in Portugal. The diploma stipulated a completely different approach in terms of calculating social security contributions, introduced a new typology of persons interacting with social security, defined a new approach to calculating benefits and created a new fund in order to provide the social security protection to the Cultural Professional.