COST: Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab

Duration

September 14, 2022 - September 13, 2026

Goal of the project

Primary objective

To build a pan-European interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary multistakeholder network including policymakers,
industry leaders, civil society organisations, designers, researchers, and the main initiatives happening at the
international level, to foster the upsurge of alternative scenarios in the frame of platform work

Secondary objectives

1. To coordinate a pan-European network making use of an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work of four-helix actors based on intersectional feminist and feminist economy approaches.

2. To make use of living lab methodology approaches to create solutions and transdisciplinary proposals on platform models, technical and infrastructure, and public policy analysis.

3. To promote research advancements improving the scalability of inclusive platforms to be later translated into policy recommendations and guidelines.

4. To coordinate the dissemination of research results and action-oriented outcomes giving input and aiming impact into new models, technological platform design, and future policies at the national and supranational level in the framework of Digitalisation along the 2021-27 agenda.

5. To foster a co-created international research agenda around platform work inclusion making use of a gender intersectional perspective in line with SDGs and The European Pillar of Social Rights and Horizon Europe.

6. To deepen the understanding of alternative platform models and the implication of the diverse models in TEC.

7. To bring four-helix actors that jointly discuss activity actions, fostering more holistic action scenarios to promote a higher inclusive platform work, strengthening inter-institutional and international linkages among actors by providing means of sharing tacit knowledge.

8. To jointly formulate a European research agenda for platform work, including the ethical design of workplaces, related technologies and alternative platform models.

9. To engage and train a new cohort of scholars and practitioners through training schools and Short-Term Scientific Missions, contributing to young researchers and innovators’ (YRI) career development in the field.

10. To counterbalance ITC research communities’ unequal access to platform cooperatives development by integrating ITC research leaders and YRIs.

WageIndicator's Contribution

WageIndicator Foundation will participate in 3 Work Packages (WP)

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