Workshop 1: Human Capital Management, Employment, and Social Security (GESS)

• Quality Jobs, Addressing Informal Employment, and New Economic Actors:   
     • Policies needed to guarantee quality jobs   
     • Strategies to address labor informality   
     • International experiences that promote stability and equity in the labor market   
   
• Telework and Remote Work:   
     • Opportunities and challenges presented by this type of work organization in the current climate   
     • Implications of these modalities for social security   
     • Labor regulations and experiences in their regulation and implementation   
     • Practices that guarantee equitable rights and working conditions in this model   
   
• Unpaid Care Work:         
     • Policies aimed at recognizing and redistributing unpaid care work   
     • Strategies to promote gender equality and social well-being, ensuring a more equitable distribution of care responsibilities   
   
• Human Capital Management:         
     • Strategies to align job skills with current and future labor market demands   
     • Training, capacity building, development, and retention of human talent   
     • Challenges of technical and vocational training based on territorial development   
     • Strategic planning of the skilled workforce and the introduction of scientific and technological advances in key sectors   
   
• Occupational Health and Safety:         
     • Practices promoting safe and healthy work environments through the prevention of occupational risks and occupational diseases   
     • Regulations and best practices in occupational health and safety   
     • The role of unions and professional associations in representing workers' rights   
   
• Creating local jobs based on sustainable territorial development:         
     • Regional employment services   
     • Strategies for creating and promoting local jobs   
     • Reducing regional inequalities   
     • Strategies to promote the transition to a green economy   
   
• Sustainability of Social Security pension systems:         
     • Challenges and prospects for social security in the current context   
     • Mechanisms to guarantee the financing of social security systems, ensuring their sustainability and adaptability to demographic and economic changes   
   

Workshop 2: Prevention and Social Work (PAS)

• Public and social policies for addressing social vulnerability:         
     • Impact of social policies in creating a more equitable environment   
     • Social work, contemporary challenges. Its actions in prevention and social control   
     • Social workers in the design, implementation, and evaluation of social policies   
     • Strategies to reduce inequalities and ensure effective access to essential services that promote collective well-being   
   
• Multidimensional Vulnerability Index:         
     • Experiences in the methodological design of indices for the multidimensional measurement of vulnerabilities in diverse individuals, families, and communities   
     • Use of indices as tools for the design and implementation of social policies aimed at reducing vulnerabilities and social inequalities   
   
• Care for children, adolescents, and youth:         
     • Laws, programs, and policies that contribute to the comprehensive development of children, adolescents, and youth   
     • Good practices in the design, implementation, and evaluation of policies aimed at caring for children, adolescents, and youth   
   
• Gender perspective in public policies:         
     • State actions that integrate a gender perspective into public policies   
     • Promotion of female participation in the workforce and reduction of gender gaps   
   
• Challenges of social inclusion:         
     • Barriers that vulnerable groups face in their full integration into society   
     • Proposals for transformative policies and actions that promote effective social inclusion, based on equity and respect for diversity   
   

Workshop 3: Science and Innovation for Social Transformation (INV)

• Role of science and innovation in the socio-labor context:         
     • Strategies for integrating scientific results into decision-making and the implementation of socio-labor policies   
     • Role of observatories and governance in Latin America and the Caribbean. Their impact on public policymaking   
     • Evaluation of indicators and data monitoring for territorial development   
     • Opportunities and challenges generated by digital transformation and artificial intelligence in the socio-labor context   
     • Impact of artificial intelligence on productivity, equity, and inclusion. Practices for its ethical and effective implementation   
   

The Symposium will be organized into three workshops, corresponding to the thematic areas.   
The workshops will consist of lectures, roundtables, panels, and oral presentations, as ways of integrating the content of the thematic areas and fostering scientific debate.   
The main presentation of the papers will be in discussion sessions, in which delegates will briefly present the main scientific results of their research through their interventions and participation.

Deadline for submission of papers:

• before May 23, 2025

Submission of papers 

The submission of papers will be done through the website www.cubatrabaja.sigevent.cu and particularities will be addressed through the email cubatrabaja@mtss.gob.cu

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Registration Fee International Symposium Cuba Trabaja 2025 

• International delegates interested in participating may pay the registration fee for the symposium through the website www.simposiocubatrabaja.com, until Friday, June 20, 2025, when the gateway closes.  
• They may also pay the registration fee in Cuba at the time of accreditation. VISA, MASTERCARD, CABAL credit cards are accepted in Cuba, provided the parent company is not American.  
• National participants will pay in CUP: by check, bank transfer, transfer through national payment gateways (Transfermovil or Enzona) or in cash by means of contract and invoice.  
• Delegates: The registration fee for on-site delegates includes the accreditation module, attendance to the scientific activities, participation in the official opening and closing activities of the symposium. It also includes access to the papers and certificates of participation.  
• Through Palco International Sales, those interested can reserve one of the packages specially designed for CUBATRABAJA 2025. Palco International Sales facilitates, with online payment, a single transaction, which guarantees your registration, access to all the activities of the official program, stay at the Palco Hotel (venue hotel), transfer in/out and personalized assistance.