Past Projects

Sustainable and socially just transnational sectoral labour markets – JUSTMIG

01/11/2023 - 31/10/2025

The JUSTMIG project combined innovative research and data collection on labour market dynamics in both service and manufacturing sub-sectors across 6 EU Member States where fixed-term contracting of migrant workers occurs, and 3 candidate countries as source countries for workers. Besides sectoral labour market and employment relation analysis, the 8 experienced consortium partners also developed expertise on the adjustment of industrial relations structures in the selected countries in response to increased employment of migrant workers on fixed-term or outsourced temporary contracts. Starting from the development and application of innovative participatory methodology, the project addressed and involved social partners and labour market institutions throughout the project.

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

01/10/2023 - 30/09/2025

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

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Diversity-sensitive care of older people with migration background – DISCOPMB

01/10/2022 - 30/09/2025

The project aimed to improve person-centred and diversity-sensitive care for older people with migration background through the development of a training program, open educational resources and policy recommendations.

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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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