The research projects of the Strategic Research Council’s WORK and HEALTH programmes will end during 2019. The schedules for concluding events of the project’s are now published. The SWiPE Consortium’s concluding seminar will be held at the WORK2019 conference at the Finlandia Hall on 16 August 2019. The programme, schedule and registration instructions for the … Continued
SWiPE research consortium has studied platform work and new forms of work since 2016. The research project will continue until August this year. The consortium’s concluding seminar will be organised on 16th August, simultaneously with WORK2019 conference organised on 14–16 August in Helsinki. The SWiPE consortium, sponsored by the Strategic Research Council, has studied in … Continued
The latest policy recommendations conducted by the Strategic Research Council’s projects are now available on the SRC website (in Finnish). Policy recommendations, a.k.a. policy briefs provide solutions for the decision-makers for the issues of our society, based on the latest research results, in a concise and clear form. The policy recommendations are divided into four themes, such … Continued
SWiPE Research Consortium organised EU Policies and Initiatives on Platform Work and Light Entrepreneurship seminar on 8th April. The keynote speaker of the seminar was Marco Torregrossa, the secretary general of the European Forum for Independent Professionals. Torregrossa highlighted numerous examples of European countries and the United states about the good policy approaches and initiatives for … Continued
The SWiPE research project conducted a case study that gathered observations about the impact of automation on work and solutions to problems with its measurement. The results of the case study has been published as a brief Analyzing the Transformation of Work and Its Effects on Productivity in the Age of Automatization?, Etla Brief 78. The case … Continued
Etla has published a new book Finnish Economic Growth which is edited by professor Seppo Honkapohja and secretary of state Vesa Vihriälä. The book contains a separate chapter Datamarkkinat ja digitaaliset alustat (Data markets and digital platforms) in which SWiPE researcher Petri Rouvinen and Etla’s researcher Heli Koski analyse the specific characteristics and role of the data as … Continued
SWiPE researchers Laura Seppänen and Annina Ropponen from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health have prepared policy recommendations for work safety, occupational health and employment in platform work as a part of the research results of SWiPE research project. The recommendations are directed at labour and employers’ organisations, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment … Continued
The research programmes of the Strategic Research Council, Osaavat työntekijät – menestyvät työmarkkinat, Terveys, hyvinvointi ja elämäntavat, Tasa-arvoinen yhteiskunta ja Turvallisuus verkottuneessa maailmassa (Skilled employees – successful labour market, Health, welfare and lifestyles, Equal society and Security in the networked world) and the seven different research projects within them have published common policy recommendations Maahanmuuttaja … Continued
The discussion about the digitalisation of work is often conducted with technology in front. Hamid Ekbia and Bonnie Nardi from the US (2017) add a refreshing perspective to the discussion in their book Heteromation and other stories of computing and capitalism: Despite the technology, all value is based on human work, or at least in … Continued
The Strategic Research Council’s third “Ratkaisuja tieteestä” event brought together stakeholders, decision-makers, researchers and other influencers from various Strategic Council research projects to hear about and discuss on topical societal issues at the Finlandia Hall on 14th of February. In this year’s event, attention was paid, in particular, to the highlighting of dialogue and different … Continued