Project financed by FORTE – Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare
Project title: “Exclusion and Inequality in Late Working Life: Evidence for Policy Innovation Towards Inclusive Extended Work and Sustainable Working Conditions in Sweden and Europe – EIWO”
Call name: Working Life Related Challenges 2019, Type of grant: Programme Grants, Focus: Working Life
Project financed by FORTE – Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forskningsrådet för hälsa, arbetsliv och välfärd – Forte
Project time frame: 01.07.2019 – 30.06.2025 (72 months)
Principal Investigator Jagiellonian University: Prof. Jolanta Perek-Białas (Insititute of Sociology and Center for Evaluation and Public Policy Analysis of Jagiellonian University)
Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Andreas Motel-Klingebiel, Linköping University, Sweden
Partners: The University of Sheffield, Universität Vechta, Institut für Gerontologie, Technische Universität Dortmund, Jagiellonian University Krakow
Project objectives:
EIWO identifies life-course policies promoting life-long learning processes and flexible adaptation to prolong working lives and to avoid increased exclusion and inequality.
It provides evidence for policies to ensure both individual, company and societal benefits from longer lives, and it has five objectives:
1. To produce new knowledge on chances and limits of longer working lives through investigating nature, sources and effects of exclusion and inequalities in Sweden and Europe with a focus on workplaces as the decisive level to realise late exits in practice
2. To assess policy, institutional and corporate-level influences on unequal employment chances and life-long learning opportunities, security levels and their impact on late work trajectories
3. To gain an in-depth understanding of how earlier life courses influence and structure perceptions and accumulations of inequality and disadvantage
4. To inform Swedish social and employers’ policies for inclusive and fostering labour markets by an enhanced understanding of alternative practices within Europe
5. To propose policies to minimise risks that cumulate over the life course and to mitigate exclusion and inequalities in late working life
More: http://www.eiwoproject.org/
