Profile: Ivana Studená, Ing., PhD., Researcher

    Research Field

    • Human capital, skills, lifelong learning
    • Labor market, demand for labor at the level of companies and organizations
    • Organization development, innovation, human resources strategies

    Forecasts, Prospects, Analyzes, Strategies

    • Human capital and determinants of its development as a key factor for sustainable development, competitiveness and social cohesion at the micro, middle and macro levels.

    Concise Profile

    Ivana Studená works as a researcher at the Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences of Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, Slovakia. She received her PhD in social sciences, from CERGE-EI. Her research interests include adult skills development, labour markets, lifelong learning policies strategies, organisational development and regional and local development. She is providing expert advice to public and non-government institutions in the area of lifelong learning and adult education policies and strategies, adult skills development and inclusiveness of lifelong learning policies. Ivana led the Slovak team of the Horizon 2020 ENLIVEN project (Encouraging Lifelong Learning for an Inclusive & Vibrant Europe) POW BRIDGE and she leads CSPS team in the project I SKILL. In the past she worked as policy analyst in the Czech Academy of Sciences, in the OECD LEED Trento Centre for Local Development Trento, Italy and in the corporate sector in Czechia and in Slovakia.

    Ivana speaks English (C2), French (B2), Italian (B2) and understands Russian (B1) and German (B1).

    Scientific Projects

    • Projects in the SAS database

    • I SKILL (2021-2022)

    • DREAM ROAD (2020-2022)

    • VEGA - Causes and consequences of labour market inequalities in the context of the Corona pandemic in Slovakia (2021-2024)

    • POW BRIDGE (2020-2021)

    • Horizont 2020 ENLIVEN (2017-2019), zodpovedná riešiteľka

      Selected Publishing Activity

        Kováčová, Lucia - Studená, Ivana - Mýtna Kureková, Lucia. Bridging the gap between legislation and practice in the posting of workers: Slovakia Country Report : POW-BRIDGE. Reviewers: Sonila Danaj, Miloslav Bahna. [Vienna] : [European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research], 2021. 35 p. Dostupné na internete: https://www.prog.sav.sk/sites/default/files/2021-04/POWBRIDGE_Country%20Report%20SLOVAKIA_31032021.pdf (VS/2019/0396 : POW-Bridge: Preklenutie rozdielov medzi legislatívou a praxou vo vysielaní pracovníkov. VEGA č. 2/0079/21 : Príčiny a dôsledky nerovností na trhu práce v kontexte Corona pandémie na Slovensku)

        Kováčová, Lucia - Studená, Ivana - Mýtna Kureková, Lucia. Challenges encountered by employers in the posting of workers in Slovakia : Posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services, Policy Brief 2021/14. Vienna : European Centre, 2021. 10 p. vyšlo aj v slovenčine: Výzvy vo vysielaní pracovníkov z pohľadu zamestnávateľov na Slovensku. Vysielanie pracovníkov na výkon prác pri poskytovaní služieb. Dostupné na internete: <https://www.euro.centre.org/publications/detail/4174 https://www.euro.centre.org/downloads/detail/4233> (VS/2019/0396 : POW-Bridge: Preklenutie rozdielov medzi legislatívou a praxou vo vysielaní pracovníkov. VEGA č. 2/0079/21 : Príčiny a dôsledky nerovností na trhu práce v kontexte Corona pandémie na Slovensku)

        Habodászová, Ľuba - Studená, Ivana. Marečku, podejte mi pero! Bratislava : Inštitút finančnej politiky, 2021. 5 s. Komentár, 2021/16. Dostupné na internete: https://www.mfsr.sk/sk/financie/institut-financnej-politiky/publikacie-ifp/komentare/komentare-z-roku-2021/16-marecku-podejte-mi-pero-november-2021.html

        Studená, Ivana. Increasing chances of adults in Slovakia for upskilling: barriers, opportunities and individualised policy tools. ENLIVEN Policy Brief No. 18. Brussels: European Commission, 2020. https://h2020enliven.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/enliven-pb18-slovakia_en.pdf

        Studená, Ivana - Polačková, Zuzana, (2020) The Slovakian Rejoinder to Youth Guarantee, in M. Milana et al. (eds.) Europe's Lifelong Learning Markets, Governance and Policy, Usinng and Instruments Approach Palgrave studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning, ISBN 978-3-030-38068-7, DOI
        10.1007/978-3-030-38069-4

        Clancy, Sharon - Studená, Ivana - Vatrella, Sandra. The Upskilling Pathway. In Europe's Lifelong Learning Markets, Governance and Policy : Using an Instruments Approach, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, p. 145-163. ISBN 978-3-030-380687
        https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030380687

        Štefánik, Miroslav - Karasová, Katarína - Studená, Ivana. Can supporting workplace insertions of unemployed recent graduates improve their long-term employability? : Evidence on the treatment effects of the Contribution for the graduate practice in Slovakia. In Empirica, 2020, vol. 47, iss. 2, pp. 245-265. ISSN 0340-8744.

        Studená, Ivana. Slovak Labour Market - Selected Trends. In Labour market in Slovakia 2019+. - Bratislava : Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences : Institute of Economic Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences : Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, 2018, p. 7-20. ISBN 978-80-7144-296-7.(APVV-14-0324 : Riešenie spoločenských výziev v oblasti tvorby politiky trhu práce založenej na vedeckých informáciách. APVV-14-0324 : Riešenie spoločenských výziev v oblasti tvorby politiky trhu práce založenej na vedeckých informáciách).

        Studena Ivana