Key words: education, european dimension
Project duration: 01.01.2019 - 31.12.2022
EU Horizon 2020
BEYOND4.0 aims to help deliver an inclusive European future by examining the impact of the new technologies on the future of jobs, business models and welfare. We use a multidisciplinary research approach.
The aim of BEYOND4.0 is to thoroughly examine the impact of the new technologies on the future of jobs, business models and welfare in the EU, using a multidisciplinary and innovative research approach, and to help direct an inclusive future.
BEYOND4.0 aims to help deliver an inclusive European future by examining the impact of the new technologies on the future of jobs, business models and welfare. We use a multidisciplinary research approach undertaken by a top-tier consortium with stakeholder engagement throughout the project.
BEYOND4.0 has five objectives:
BEYOND4.0 generates this by:
BEYOND4.0 carefully disseminates and valorizes results.
BEYOND4.0 addresses the general priorities of the H2020 Work Programme (2018-2020) ‘Europe in a changing world - Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies’.
We will:
We aim to achieve the main research objectives and deliver impact in five steps:
Step 1: We start with developing common starting points for our research. Because we are combining historical, data-driven and socio-economic approaches, our research language, methods and analysis needs to be fully aligned.
Step 2: We collect research information from three main sources: 2a. Historical data on previous techno-logical transformation to learn about policy and societal reactions to change; 2b. Integrating and enriching existing major data-collection at EU-level, to be used in the analytical part; 2c. Completing data from the past and current date, with insights of fore-runner countries, regions and companies to learn about the practices of those agents at the ‘edge’ of techno-logical transformation. These three sources inform our analytical approach in Step 3.
Step 3: First, 3a. analyses the cross-cutting topics such as the meaning of tech-nological transformation for employ-ment, labour market, OSH, at the developments in the platform economy, with the gender issue and with the skills issue. For generating under-standing, we use quantitative and qualitative approaches. An important in this analysis is 3b using stake-holder knowledge. We have different foresight and network approaches aligned for this.
Step 4: In step 4 we examine possible social policy approaches for dealing with technological impacts. All the topics in the current debates (robot tax, basic income, dealing with mass unemployment) are investigated from the results of the separate analyses, sketches are made of what an inclusive future for Europe.
Step 5: All steps are integrated in step 5, in which we start with a foresight/forecasting exercise on what the future of work will be, assessing the outcomes of this discussion with all the research findings in mind, and translating all into (social) policy recommendations for different stakeholder groups. The stepwise approach allows us to build sound foundations for our final results.
Methodological considerations:
Labour and Education in Europe