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SPReW - Generational approach to the social patterns of relation to work - for the Programme "Citizens
and governance in the knowledge-based society", under the sixth
European framework programme of R&D (2006-2008) |
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Welcome on the web page of SPReW,
updated 22 May 2008
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Project overview
The overall objective of this project is to examine the factors leading to solidarity or tensions in intergenerational relations, in the specific area of work and correlated fields. It intends to provide a better and updated understanding of the relation that diverse generations have with work, and to analyse the policy challenges and implications of these changes. SPReW is a research project funded under the 6th framework programme of the European Union, within priority 7 (Citizens and governance in the knowledge-based society). It is a two-years project (June 2006 - August 2008).
The consortium involves researchers from six countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Portugal) and stakeholders (French Ministry of Labour; Social Development Agency of the European Trade Union Confederation).
The key objectives of the project are:
- to draw out social patterns of relation to work for different generations, including the gender and ethnic dimensions;
- to study articulations with other societal fields (family formation and lifestyles, intergenerational relations, social cohesion);
- to develop awareness of public authorities and social actors on the generational dimensions in the relation to work and employment;
- to draw out guidelines for youth policies and ageing policies in this area.
The project focusses on both targeted qualitative and quantitative empirical information, collected in six countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Portugal). The project implements an integrated approach to the various aspects and dimensions of the relation to work of the younger and older generations, covering analysis and hypotheses in different fields:
- the field of work: relation to precariousness, relation to mobility, entry routes into the labour market, career paths, knowledge transmission, perception of organisational and technological changes;
- the field of intergenerational relations: factors of solidarity and tensions between generations (at work and outside work);
- the field of family and lifestyles: family formation, work / family balance;
- the field of social cohesion: inclusion, exclusion, social capital and networks.
Empirical data collection also includes a selection and comparison of good policy practices in the field of youth policies, employment policies, and ageing policies, taking into account differentiated attitudes and generational aspects.
The project will draw out a set of policy implications and conduct a comparison of different youth policies, and policies targeted to the management of intergenerational relations at national and European level, in order to assess to what extent these existing policies currently answer to the policy implications.
As a next step, a set of pathways and recommendations will be elaborated for a better management of age and intergenerational relations in these policy areas.
Documents of the European conference "Generations at work"
Friday 16 May 2008 in Brussels
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The European conference and dialogue workshop was held in Brussels on Friday 16 May 2008. The attendance of about 110 persons gathered participants from universities, public authorities, business organisations, trade unions, and social associations. Conclusions and recommendations of the research were discussed in round tables.
Before the European conference, dialogue workshops were organised in the six participating countries, in order to discuss draft conclusions and recommendations. They gathered in total about 135 participants, representing all concernd stakeholders.
The programme folder of the European conference is downloadable in PDF format.
Presentations of the speakers can be downloaded here (PPT presentations in printable PDF format). |
Introduction to the conference and presentation of the SPReW research
Patricia Vendramin, Fondation Travail-Université, Belgium
Changes in the relation to work
Béatrice Delay, Dominique Méda, Centre d’Etude de l’Emploi, France
Generations at work : areas of solidarity and tensions
Patricia Vendramin, Fondation Travail-Université, Belgium
Round table: societal relevance of the SPReW results
Chair: Paula Castro, Centro de Investigaçao e de Intervençao Social, Portugal
Julian Bir, Youth Committee of the European Trade Union Confederation
Frédéric Lerais, member of the Bureau of European Policy Advisors (BEPA), European Commission
Stefan Müller, Assistant of Works Council at ZF AG, Germany
Julia Vajda, Institute of political sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Issues and challenges for generations at work: a vision from outside Europe
Madeleine Gauthier, Observatory Youth and Society, Québec
Perspectives for a good management of generations at work
Anna Ponzellini, Adele Lebano, Fondazione Regionale Pietro Seveso, Italy
Round table: practical implications of the SPReW results
Chair: Götz Richter, University of Bremen, Germany
Gaëlle Demez, French-speaking Youth Council, Belgium
Anne Himpens, Fund for professional experience, Belgium
Marina Monaco , Social Development Agency - European Trade Union Confederation
Christiane Westphal, DG Employment, social affairs and equal opportunities, European Commission
Closing speech
Marc Goffart, DG Research, European Commission - Science, economy and society
Downloadable documents
Printable list of downloadable reports and documents (PDF)
Research reports
Deliverable 1
Generational approach to the social patterns of relation to work
Conceptual framework and state of the art
Edited by Patricia Vendramin (FTU)
January 2007
, 164 pp. (active PDF document)
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SPReW Report (Deliverable 1)
Generational approach to the social patterns of relation to work
Edited by Patricia Vendramin
Contributions from Bureau Marie-Christine, Castro Paula, Cultiaux John, Davoine Lucie, Delay Béatrice, Füleki Katalin, Grützmacher Nicole, Knop Alexander, Méda Dominique, Nogal Ângela, Passos Ana, Polyacskó Orsolya, Ponzellini Anna Maria, Richter Götz, Vajda Júlia, Valenduc Gérard, Vendramin Patricia, Wong Michal, Zoll Rainer, Zoll-Grubert Elisabeth
Series “EU research on social sciences and humanities”
EUR 22702ISBN 978-92-79-04874-6
European Commission, Brussels, 2007
Paper version on request by e-mail |
General bibliography
November 2006, 32 pp. (PDF document)
Deliverable 2
Research hypotheses
Edited by Götz Richter, Rainer Zoll, Elisabeth Zoll-Grubert (IAW), Patricia Vendramin (FTU)
November 2006, 35 pp. (PDF document)
Deliverable 3
Changing social patterns of relation to work - Qualitative approach through biographies and group interviews
Edited by Patricia Vendramin (FTU)
January 2008, 332 pp.
(PDF document, 1.3 Mo)
This report gathers the analyses that have been conducted in each country in a common qualitative approach, consisting in a total of 163 narrative interviews and 18 group interviews. A common methodological design supports this in-depth empirical study. The first chapter proposes a synthesis overview of all contributions. The report provides a renewed perspective on the meaning of work for different generations.
Authors:
Vendramin Patricia (editor, FTU, Belgium), Bureau Marie-Christine (CEE, France), Castro Paula (CIS, Portugal), Cultiaux John (FTU, Belgium), Davoine Lucie (CEE, France), Delay Béatrice (CEE, France), Füleki Katalin (MTA-PTI, Hungary), Greco Sylvana (FRPS, Italy), Lebano Adele (FRPS, Italy), Méda Dominique (CEE, France), Polyacskó Orsolya (MTA-PTI, Hungary), Soares Celia (CIS, Portugal), Ponzellini Anna M. (FRPS, Italy), Richter Götz (IAW, Germany), Vajda Júlia (MTA-PTI, Hungary), Zoll Rainer (IAW, Germany), Zoll-Grubert Elisabeth (IAW, Germany).
Deliverable 4
Changing social patterns of relation to work - Overview and apparaisal of existing quantitative surveys
Edited by Patricia Vendramin (FTU)
March 2008, 268 pp.
(PDF document, 995 ko)
This report consists of an overview of relevant quantitative surveys conducted at the national or regional level in all the countries included in the partnership. It also gives an overview of quantitative survey schemes conducted at the European and international levels. It provides a transversal overview of all the surveys inventoried and points out interesting conclusions regarding the SPReW issues. In addition, this report gathers some quantitative data about each country that support a good understanding of the results of the quantitative and qualitative workpackages.
Authors:
Vendramin Patricia (editor, FTU, Belgium), Belit Saka (IAW, Germany), Carvalho Sandra (CIS, Portugal), Cultiaux John (FTU, Belgium), Damhuis Lotte (FTU, Belgium), Davoine Lucie (CEE, France), Delay Béatrice (CEE, France), Franco Maria Teresa (FRPS, Italy), Füleki Katalin (MTA-PTI, Hungary), Méda Dominique (CEE, France), Passos Ana (CIS, Portugal), Polyacskó Orsolya (MTA-PTI, Hungary), Ponzellini Anna M. (FRPS, Italy), Richter Götz (IAW, Germany), Vajda Júlia (MTA-PTI, Hungary), Valenduc Gérard (FTU, Belgium), Zoll-Grubert Elisabeth (IAW, Germany).
Deliverable 5
Changing social patterns of relation to work - Selection of good policy practices
Edited by Marina Monaco (SDA)
March 2008, 174 pp.
(PDF document, 611 ko)
This report proposes a collection of policy practices in the field of youth, employment and ageing policies that have an intergenerational perspective and that can be learning experiences. The purpose of this report is to support the transition between research results and policymaking. This overview of policy practices and orientations has been made at the national and the European levels. The first part of the report deals with experiences at the national level, the second part analyses policies at the European level.
Authors:
Monaco Marina (editor, SDA), Carvalho Sandra (CIS, Portugal), Cultiaux John (FTU, Belgium), Damhuis Lotte (FTU, Belgium), Davoine Lucie (CEE, France), Delay Béatrice (CEE, France), Füleki Katalin (MTA-PTI, Hungary), Greco Silvana (FRPS, Italy), Méda Dominique (CEE, France), Passos Ana (CIS, Portugal), Polyacskó Orsolya (MTA-PTI, Hungary), Richter Götz (IAW, Germany), Vajda Júlia (MTA-PTI, Hungary), Valenduc Gérard (FTU, Belgium), Vendramin Patricia (FTU, Belgium), Zoll-Grubert Elisabeth (IAW, Germany).
Briefing papers
Briefing paper n°1, June 2006: project presentation (downloadable PDF)
Briefing paper n°2, November 2006: presentation of intermediate research results (downloadable PDF)
Briefing paper n°3, June 2007: work progress in qualitative research (downloadable PDF)
Briefing paper n°4, January 2008: forst findings of qualitative research (downloadable PDF)
Project partners SPReW
Project co-ordinator
Fondation Travail-Université (FTU)
Work & Technology Research
Centre
Rue de l'arsenal 5, B-5000 Namur, BELGIUM
Project co-ordinator: Patricia Vendramin (pvendramin@ftu-namur.org)
Other researchers: John Cultiaux, Lotte Damhuis, Gérard Valenduc
Project partners
Centre for Social Research and
Intervention (CIS) - ISCTE Lisbon
Av. Forças Armadas, P-1649 Lisboa 026, PORTUGAL
Project manager: Paula Castro (paula.castro@iscte.pt)
Other researchers: Ana Passos, Angela Nogal, Sandra Carvalho, Celia Soares
Fondazione
Pietro Seveso (FRPS)
Viale Fulvio Testi, 42 – I-20099 Sesto San Giovanni, ITALY
Project manager : Anna Maria Ponzellini (ponzmi@tin.it)
Other researchers: Adele Lebano, Silvana Greco, Maria Teresa Franco
Institut Arbeit und Wirtschaft (IAW), University of Bremen
Parkhallee, 39 – D-28209 Bremen, phone +49-421-2183472
Project manager: Götz Richter (grichter@zeitpraxis.de)
Other researchers: Rainer Zoll, Nicole Grützmacher, Elisabeth Zoll-Grubert, Saka Belit
Centre for European Employment Studies, Institute for Political Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA PTI), Budapest
Orszàghàz u. 30, H-1014 Budapest, Hungary
Project manager: Julia Vajda (h13073vaj@ella.hu)
Other researchers: Katalin Füleki, Orsolya Polyacskó
Social Development Agency (SDA), Agency of the European Trade Union Confederation
Boulevard du Roi Albert II, 5 – B- 1210 Brussels
Project manager: Claudio Stanzani (cstanzani@etuc.org)
Other researcher: Marina Monaco
Direction de l’Animation de la Recherche, des Etudes et des Statistiques (DARES),
Ministère de l’emploi, du travail et de la cohesion sociale, Paris
Quai André Citroën, 39-43 – F-75015 Paris
Project manager: Hélène Garner (helene.garner@dares.travail.gouv.fr)
Centre d’Etude de l’Emploi (CEE), Paris
Le Descartes 1, 29, promenade Michel Simon, F-93166 Noisy le Grand Cedex
Project manager: Dominique Méda (dominique.meda@mail.enpc.fr)
Other researchers: Marie-Christine Bureau, Lucie Davoine, Béatrice Delay, Michal Wong
Consortium meeting in October 2006 in Paris. From left to right: Orsolya Polyacskó (MTA-PTI), John Cultiaux (FTU), Katalin Füleki (MTA-PTI), Götz Richter (IAW), Michal Wong (CEE), Julia Vajda (MTA-PTI), Alex Knop (IAW), Cinzia Sechi (SDA), Béatrice Delay (CEE), Patricia Vendramin (FTU), Dominique Méda (CEE), Gérard Valenduc (FTU), Lucie Davoine (CEE), Adele Lebano (FRPS), Paula Castro (CIS), Hélène Garner (DARES).
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