Current Projects

Recovering workers’ data to negotiate and monitor collective agreements in the platform economy – GDPoweR

01/10/2023 - 30/09/2025

GDPoweR is a collaborative research project on industrial relations in the platform economy, involving seven organizations from five countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Poland, Spain). It focuses on two sectors - ride-hailing and food delivery - and explores what worker data is collected by platform companies and how this affects workers, what strategies are used by social partners to negotiate and implement collective agreement and how the implementation of such agreements can be monitored and enforced. A central method used is the recovery of worker data through GDPR requests and the joint analysis of this data by workers and researchers.

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Past Projects

Comparative analysis of job quality and working conditions in the Western Balkans – CAJQWC_WB

24/10/2024 - 30/06/2025

Eurofound contracted FREN and the European Centre to conduct a comparative analysis on job quality and working conditions and draw recommendations for their improvement in the six countries of the Western Balkan region based on data from the 2021 European Working Conditions Telephone Survey (EWCTS).

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COhort cOmmunity Research and Development Infrastructure Network for Access Throughout Europe – COORDINATE

01/04/2021 - 31/03/2025

COORDINATE facilitates improved access to existing survey data on child wellbeing, increase longitudinal survey capacity across Europe, extend the Growing Up in Digital Europe (GUIDE/Eurocohort) survey network, and initiate the GUIDE survey with a large-scale cohort pilot survey in Croatia, Finland, France and Ireland.

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Social reform microsimulation Austria – SORESI

01/09/2012 - 28/02/2025

SORESI is a web application for Austria, based on the microsimulation model EUROMOD. It is a web-based tool for policy-makers and the broader public to simulate policy reforms and analyse their social impact.

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European Day of Persons with Disabilities 2024: Rapporteur – EDPD2024

01/11/2024 - 31/01/2025

The annual European Conference on the Day of Persons with Disabilities is part of the EU’s efforts to promote the mainstreaming of disability issues and to raise awareness of the challenges faced by persons with disabilities. Magdi Birtha from the European Centre acted as Rapporteur.

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