Industrial Relations for Smart-Workers in Smart Cities

Project name: Industrial Relations for Smart-Workers in Smart Cities (IRSmart)

Funding source: DG Employment

Call: VP/2020/004

Grant Agreement: VS/2021/0200

EU contribution: 257.331,60 Euro

EU contribution to UAIC: 32.412 Euro

Partner coordinator: Adrian Iftene

Resume: This project aims at generating novel insights into the role of the tripartite social dialogue (social partners and public authorities) on the creation and consolidation of working conditions practices during the COVID crisis. Using both secondary data and primary data from interviews and focus groups, we propose to identify the role of industrial relations in the co-creation of out-of-office work practices and to explore connections with the broader conditions of the extant institutional context across different European regions in France, Italy, Poland, Romania and Spain. The primary deliverable of the project is to provide a comprehensive brief on the diffusion of out-of-office employment and a collection of best practices that have improved both workers' well being as well as the quality of industrial relations.

Participants:

• Universita degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy (Coordinator)
• Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain
• Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza Din Iasi, Romania
• Fundacja Instytut Spraw Publicznych, Poland
• Astrees Association Travail Emploi Europe Societe, France
• Istituto di Ricerche Economiche e Sociali della Emilia Romagna Associazione, Italy