Dr Ewa Flaszyńska, Assistant Professor at the Department of Labour System and Labour Market at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Warsaw, which she is a graduate. For over twenty years he has been successfully combining scientific work with practice as a long-term employee of the government and local government administration, currently the Director of the Labour Market Department at the Ministry of Family and Social Policy. Author of several monographs and over 60 articles in scientific journals and chapters in books on social policy, in particular the labour market. Participant of several dozen scientific conferences in Poland and abroad. A member of the Polish Society for Social Policy and the scientific councils of several journals. Her research interests focus on the issues of long-term unemployment.