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ESF and Healthy : health and safety issues.
Reporting for ESF on measures, actions undertaken in hte framework of ESF financing on the topic « Health » (health at work, occupational health and safety, public health) for the programming periods 2000-2006 and 2007-2012.
By comparing three professional spaces of the “living arts” sector in Belgium, this research project aims at analyzing the various forms of regulation implied by “project-based” work and at showing how these forms shape the worker’s representations and career at an objective and subjective level. More precisely, we will deal with the collective structure of work (strong in the theatre context, weak in the music context, intermediary in the dance context) and its incidence on the way of doing and living the project-based work regime. Data used in this research will be both quantitative and qualitative. First, for our quantitative analyses, we will use the database provided the leading institution in artistic employment support in Belgium. These data will help us to shed light on the different kinds of employment regime within these three professional spaces – and to assess their incidence on individual career management and worker’s health. This first quantitative analyses will also mobilize original data that we will collect among musicians, through a sampling network strategy. Second, for our qualitative analysis, we will use the material gathered through interviews to conduct an in-depth comprehensive analysis of the logics that shape the careers within these three context as well as the worker’s representations. Our findings will shed light on the “living arts” professional space in Belgium, about which little is said in the recent sociological literature. They also will impulse a more complex analysis of the artistic employment, too often reduced to an opposition with the traditional wage-earning employment regime. Finally, our analysis aims at contributing to a better understanding of contemporary metamorphosis of work and employment.
Evaluation of the gateway and transition synergies pole
The "Bridges and Transition" synergies center aims to strengthen the chances of sustainable integration of people far from employment by building bridges between integration and prequalification operators and players in qualifying training.
- OISP, Social Promotion Education and PHARE Service
Integration of new administrative data of the regional Public Employment services with the aim of new data processing on scientific basis in the Datawarehouse ''Labor market and Social Protection' of the Crossroads Bank for Social Security.
Survey(Investigation) by questionnaire on the work not declared in Belgium. Practices and manners.
Our survey gives for objective to analyze the construction of employment standards in a context of redefining of the social and spatial logics of employment exceeding the national frame. It becomes interesting to examine the relations of interdependence which involved the flexible system of production and employment within the European Union with the implications of the SEE at the local level. The interogation of the relations between global and local dynamics seems to us to justify a sociological survey with the local actors to study the organization and the determiners of employment standards in differentiated territorial contexts.
Labour market and Manpower shortages. Promotor : P. Desmarez - M. Zune (UCL)
Manpower shortages as social constructions. Contribution to the sociological analysis of labour market dynamics
In Transition-Reconversion-Accompagnement in the Insertion (Convergence. Promoter : P. Desmarez
En-TRAIN is a research-action bringing together several partners and coordinated by the FOREM. it is financed by the ESF and is spread out over the period 2008-2013. The geographical zone of intervention ESF is situated in Hainaut ( convergence) The main objective targets the support of the professional transition of persons, at the beginning or the end of career.It is a question of causing the passage of the schooling not completed towards the employment and of causing the passage of professional past towards new professional projects. It will be a question of leading to a strategy of management of the professional transition, by identifying the common features and the distinctive elements according to each type of public, and examining their character transposable.
ECVET (European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training)
Launched by the European Commission, ECVET aims to respond to the challenges of mobility and lifelong learning by allowing the recognition of learning outcomes from different contexts. The adoption of this system implies a closer collaboration between operators and requires them to adapt by changing their training tools. Currently, some operators have made progress in this direction, particularly through the implementation of ECVET (OPIR, FINECVET, S), but others are still in need of support. Very rich in teaching, these experiences, which are necessarily contextualized, leave open certain issues, such as transferability and generalization. Led by an unprecedented consortium in its composition (Public and Private Vocational Training, Teaching, Validation of Competencies, Decision-Making Bodies) «ECVET in progress "aims to transfer to the construction sector ECVET tools and methodologies implemented in other sectors and by other consortia. Based on a synthesis of experiences and research carried out in partner countries, it will propose a reference methodology for the creation and matching of learning outcomes units. Objectives * To establish an inventory, to analyze and synthesize, through a mutual transfer, the experiences and methodologies ECVET from partner countries * Develop a common methodological synthesis based on the analysis carried out * Experiment this methodological synthesis and its transferability through theoretical case studies in different contexts and for different LLL paths types. This involves the development and determination of key competences, Learning Acquisitions Units, correspondence tables, assessment tests, the allocation of ECVET points, S *. update the common methodological synthesis * Prepare concrete mobility experiences by disseminating this methodology to experts responsible for the implementation of ECVET and institutional reforms and preparing the field actors * Supporting any national experiments that will exploit the fruits of the project (SFMQ, CPU, FINECVET)
Work and employment in slaughterhouses: a joint approach of animal welfare and workers well-being
This project is using the « animal welfare » checklists completed in slaughterhouses in order to carry out an inventory of slaughterhouses in terms of animal welfare. Based on this inventory, a sample of slaughterhouses will be selected in order to observe work organization and working conditions. This projet, in addition to using mixed methods, is focussed on action-research ans involves strong collaboration with administration services and trade unions.
Mapping study on trade union practices in fighting discrimination and promoting diversity.
In collaboration with the Working Lives Research Institute, the project coordinator of the European project commissioned by the DG Employment and Social Affairs of the European commission, the research aims at identifying the initiatives taken by the trade-unions organizations in 35 European countries since 2003 to fight discrimination at work and to promote diversity, including those for their own organization. A special attention is paid to the sectors of the health care, education, the public administrations and the professionals of the media. Five recognized criteria were retained: the ethnic origin, the age, the religion, sexual orientation and the handicap. The gender is taken into account inside each criterion. The study deals also with the action plan that the trade unions have initiated to encourage diversity among its affiliates and its representatives (social elections). A qualitative survey will be conducted (in-depth interviews) through the trade union representatives of the federations and the branches, and with officials and shop stewards at the company level.
Two opposite definitions conceptualize social inequalities. On one hand, concepts of exclusion and (absolute) poverty, with an approach in terms of individual positions, are focused on 'disadvantaged' groups. On the other hand, social inequalities (in its narrow meaning) conceive the distribution of positions as a whole explained by the relations (of domination) between social groups. Empirical confrontation of these two definitions will be the project's core, which will deal with social inequalities on the labour market in Europe. Our study will be centred on both the relationship to work ' measured by working conditions ' and the relationship to employment ' measured by income and precariousness (job's instability and underemployment). These inequalities will be analysed in regard to industrial relations and social protections systems. For this, (neo)-corporatism's perspectives, 'varieties of capitalism' theories and Esping-Andersen's studies ' but not its (reductive) typology ' will be mobilized.This project will combine 'cross-national' quantitative comparison of European countries with qualitative case study. First, we will conduct statistical analysis ' including multi-level regressions ' from existing data. Second, those analyses' results will ground cases study (Belgium and Ireland), focused on building and education sectors. This qualitative study ' based on documents analyses and semi-structured interviews ' will be useful to avoid reductionism inherent to 'cross-national' comparisons. We will also pay a special attention to European actors' increasing role.
The life of professional musicians in French-speaking Switzerland
The study ''Musician's Lives'' focuses on the life of musicians in Switzerland. The objective of the study is to better know their personal and professional backgrounds, the personal and collective experience related to this professional activity.
Experts of the lived in poverty and in social exclusion within the federal public services.
METICES-TEF and the HIVA of the KULeuven carried out the evaluation of the pilot project '' Experts of the lived of poverty and social exclusion ''. The project joins within the framework of the struggle against poverty and the social exclusion and aims at engaging persons stemming from the precariousness and from the poverty. The underlying idea is to make federal public services more accessible to problems relieved by these experts of the lived. The evaluation concerns the process of selection and recruitment, setting with employment in the public services, the training and the perennisation of this pilot project.
PONS- Project for the Operationalization and Development of New Statistics in the DWH MTetP
Project for the Operationalization and Development of New Statistics in the DWH MTetP
Analyse complémentaire de données sur les trajectoires suivis par les demandeurs d'emploi bénéficiaires d'un contrat de formation professionnelle de Bruxelles Formation dans le cadre des formations organisées en propre ou par ses partenaires conventionnés (OISP, Enseignement de promotion sociale et Service PHARE).
This research project builds on the project ''Datawarehouse Labour Market and Social Protection: expansion concerning content and methodology''. The aim of the Datawarehouse Labour Market Social Protection is to bringtogether and to link in a harmonized way the administrative data, whichthe institutions of social security have at their disposal. The Datawarehouse is physically located in the premises of Smals and its managementwas entrusted to the Crossroads Bank for Social Security.
Healthy Regions. When Well-being Creates Economic Growth. Promoter : P. Desmarez.
The objective of the project ''Healthy Regions'' is to put health on the political agenda of the Regions within the Member States and to helpthem to examine all initiatives in the framework of the promotion and prevention of public health and the existing strategical projects.The project will seek to develop and implement a new concept of ''Healthy Regions'' and thus to play a facilitator role to provide Regions with methodologies (guidelines, recommendations, tools) so that they easily develop strategies for the promotion and the prevention of public health closed to the citizens.
The project EqualityClaim aims at developing scientific support for the Centre for Equal Opportunity and Opposition to Racism (CEOOR) in order to implement a new registration system for individual claims (requests for information, reported cases, complaints, advice, etc.) on the basis of all grounds of anti-discrimination law (the 'so-called' race and ethnic origin, sexual orientation, civil status, birth, fortune, age, religion or belief, present and future health, disability or physical characteristic, social origin). The project will provide a state of the art on anti-discrimination databases existing in Europe in order to compare the Belgian system and make the adaptations required by the international standards in this matter. This phase envisages the examination of the recent changes in anti-discrimination legislation in Europe in the light of privacy protection. This part also includes the organisation of an international seminar in order to help the Centre for Equal Opportunity and Opposition to Racism to collect, design and manage the registration of individual complaints. The project will consist in giving support to the Centre both in the implementation of the CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and the database system that will be supply in May 2009 by a consultant. This technical support will concern the day-to-day use of the database, the data input form for individual anti-discrimination claims, and the improvement of the registration system according to the needs of the users. The project will look after to the internal and external users' access to the database. The internal users, such as the local contact points, should both feed and receive access to the Centre's database. These are, for example, associations, trade unions, centres of integration, social inspection, Belgian Institute for Equality between Women and Men, etc., who register and transmit cases to the Centre. The external users are research institutions, international organisations, members of Parliament, lawyers, magistrates, etc. who need information on anti-discrimination. On the basis of the Privacy Act, the data will be anonymized and a statistical plan of exploitation for the external users will be proposed.
The research aims to evaluate the Operational Programme ''RegionalCompetitiveness and Employment of the Brussels - Capital (RBC), under thepolitical authority of the Government of the RBC. This program is acollection of operations, included in the regional employment competence,appropriate for the problem of job seekers. It has been established tofacilitate the socio-professional integration in the region. The recherchmust articulate several aspects: assessing the relevance and coherence ofthe program, analysis of the implementation of the program from themonitoring system, analysis of the effectiveness of the program, for actionsdirectly affecting the unemployed (devices ''Active Search for Employment''and ''social and professional integration - CPAS'') and for structuraloperations (in particular, fight against discrimination in hiring,coordinating the partnership approach), and also evaluation of the proposedmonitoring system and technical assistance.
PostER - Regulation and Enforcement of Posted Workers Employment Rights Promoter : P. Desmarez
The PostER action will examine the working and living conditions of posted workers in several key sectors to which workers are frequently posted between countries. Using academic researchers in five EU member states (Belgium, France, Germany, Sweden and the UK), PostER will gather and disseminate information on national practices related to posted workers' knowledge of employment rights and their enforcement. The project uses varied methodologies including desk research and interviews with 60 posted workers and 25 stakeholders (including social partners and enforcement agencies).
The social construction of skill shortages on the labour market Promoter :P. Desmarez
The existence of high and permanent unemployment rates while shortages in labour forces are observed in many activity sectors constitutes a paradoxical element in the functioning of labour markets. This project aims at proposing a sociological analysis of this phenomenon, starting from a sociological definition of labour markets as scenes for social relationships, which considers employment (and unemployment) fluctuations as social constructs, instead of simple economic mechanisms. The objective is depict the various levels of skill shortage construction, and the 'perlocutory' dimensions which result from this. Indeed, if the claims of shortage are initially formulated by the employers' actor, those are addressed, on the one hand, to the 'higher' authorities having in charge of setting up the labour market's rules, considered as inoperative, and, on the other hand, with the actors in situation of subordination but which nevertheless are lacking or do not act in a desired way. The international comparison of sectors being in situation of shortage, analyzed under the prism of the societal analysis will enable us to test the assumption of the socially constructed character of the situations of shortages. More generally, the study of skill shortages should provide us with the opportunity to contribute to a sociological conceptualisation considering the mismatch of the training/employment couple as the result of dynamic social processes, de-synchronized even antinomic, located historically and culturally, and its resolution under the angle of social production of rules, conventions and institutional devices.
Teacher labor markets. Promoters : P. Desmarez - V. Dupriez (UCL)
Often presented like a profession in shortage, the objective of the research project is to propose a series of explanations which go beyond the thesis that the structural features of labour market or the structure of teachers' professional development are sufficient to understand the shortages. The project wants to show that an analysis focused on actors, offerers and applicants' behaviors, at the level of the local market makes possible the understanding of processes which influence professional trajectories and staff mobility between the teacher's labour market and the other markets, and as well as the other segments of the teacher hob market.
Realization of a research on the definition of the total number of young people in alternation in the Brussels-Capital Region (SFPME / EFPME and CEFA) and on their trajectories in and after the training.
LinkAge ''Labour Market Integration of Vulnerable Age Groups through Social Dialogue''
All too often, younger and older age groups fall into the category of ‘vulnerable workers’. Together with other factors, including gender and origin, age may contribute to further forms of exclusion as viewed from an intersectional approach. LinkAge is an action research project developed to examine age in terms of enabling and constraining activities by trade unions and employers’ representatives in Europe. Adopting a ‘rights-based’ rather than ‘needs-based’ approach, LinkAge identifies actions aimed at representation, engagement and active inclusion in relation to ‘active ageing’ and youth employment, framed within the context of recent economic changes, developments in industrial relations and social dialogue. Using a qualitative methodology and a multidimensional approach, the project promotes social dialogue in terms of discourse and exchange of practice for analysing the current reality and alternative strategies. This facilitates the creation of informed policy recommendations for improvement of labour market integration and working conditions for vulnerable age collectives. LinkAge highlights good practice examples from the study’s six countries and at the European level. A key added value is the participation of trade unions working alongside selected research institutions from Austria, Belgium, Italy, Poland, Spain and the UK.
Promoting ''diversity'' on the workplace in the Brussels-Capital Region. Promoter : P. Desmarez
Using the word of « diversity » is getting more common in the context of the Brussels-Capital Region. We are in particular investigating the new professions wich deal with this topic, for instance experts and consultants. Our first scientific goal is to observe the new « diversity jobs ». At a more global point of view, we would like to identify a professionnal « diversity » sector. At last, we will question the concept of diversity itself at a more theoretical level.
DIVERCITY : Preventing ang combating homo- and transphobia in small and medium cities across Europe.
The Divercity project intends to make a diagnosis of the multiple dimensions of homo- and transphobia in small and medium cities in Europe. Its objectives are to share best practices and promote innovative measures to efficiently prevent and combat this social problem, make visible the needs and lives of LGBT people and ensure their fundamental rights. The project is funded by The Directorate General Justice of the European Commission and covers six European countries : Spain, Belgium, United Kingdom, Greece, Poland and Germany.
Etude des parcours des jeunes dans les dispositifs d'alternance bruxellois. P. Desmarez
Etude des parcours des jeunes dans les dispositifs d'alternance bruxellois.
878/5000 This study is funded by IWEPS and consists, on the one hand, in the state of play of the literature on the work carried out in Belgium on discrimination in the labor market and to identify the main factors contribute. On the other hand, it is a question of analyzing the statistics of the Data Warehouse "Labor Market and Social Protection" of the Crossroads Bank of Social Security in order to establish a socio-economic profile of the situation of immigrants and persons As a result, a series of labor market indicators in Wallonia will be produced and compared to the situation in Belgium and the other two regions. In addition, the study will formulate recommendations for developing policies to promote their integration into the labor market.
Analysis and survey(investigation) of the clandestine labor market of the persons in situation of illegality in Europe.
OSSPA : Open Source Software and Public Authorities.
The goal of the project is to contribute to a better understanding of thesocio-economics of Open Source Software (OSS) development. The mainobjectives are twofold : (1) to analyse and conceptualise, on basis ofcompared case-study methodology, various forms and functionnings of thoseOSS communities and (2) to better understand ways by which PublicAuthorities (PA) do interact with those communities for their own purposes.The two main issues is adressed by using several research methods (contentanalysis, biographical interview analysis, case-studies, statistical dataanalysis) coming from both existing sources (large-scale quantitativestudies, unanalysed qualitative interviews), and data produced during theresearch (longitudinal follow up of case studies depicting various PA/OSSinteractions).
The project consist, on the one hand, in examining the possibility to make out a set of indicators defined by the European Commission in order to measure the extent of discrimination in the labour market on the ground of age, nationality/origin and disability. On the other hand, the research will assess the chance to get access to the labour market and the salary gap between age and nationality groups by sex through a regression analysis. Two statistical sources will be exploited: the datawharehouse Labour Market and Social Protection (DWHMTPS) of the Belgian Crossroads Bank of Social Security and the European Labour Force databank.
The GendeRace project is researching the effectiveness of Racial Discrimination laws from the point of view of the target group and in a gender perspective.The research is taking place from 2008 to 2010 in six European Member states, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Spain, Sweden and the UK, and is funded by the European Union Seven Framework Programme (Grant Agreement n° SSH7-CT-2008-217237).The main hypothesis is that differences can exist between the uses made of the law by men and women. This is because they develop different representations of the legal system and experience different forms of discrimination. The second hypothesis is that the intersectional experience of discrimination based on race and gender is not recognized and treated properly in legal and institutional frameworks built around single types of discrimination because discriminations are seen as one-dimensional and as affecting all people - men and women ' in the same way.The evaluation will be carried out through a study of case law and filed complaints, around 200 semi-directive qualitative interviews of foreign nationals and members of ethnic minorities and 70 interviews of stakeholders and social partners, including lawyers dealing with complaints.The goal of the project is to improve our understanding of the phenomenon of multiple discrimination (race and gender) and to develop practical tools to allow administrations, NGOs and specialised bodies to better assess the effectiveness of policies and practices in the field of antidiscrimination when faced with cases of multiple discrimination.
TEAM : Trade Unions, Economic change and active inclusion of migrant workers. Promotor : P. Desmarez
This project will examine how unions do, and could contribute towards working migrants integration. The current global economic downturn has profound implications for labour markets. Migrant workers contribute greatly to EU economies, which often promote migrant integration as economic and social progress. However, it seems that in times of recession, their basic rights and freedoms are the first to be challenged.Traditionally, the role of trade unions hold specific responsibilities for the protection and promotion of workers' rights and especially for more disfranchised groups, such as migrants. In this difficult period, trade unionism presents an all too ambivalent attitude towards migrants, embedded in interests that prioritise national membership over solidarity. As a result, working migration is at risk. This action research investigation will provide results in identifying the dynamics between unions and migrants for an improved understanding of social dialogue and industrial relations in Europe. Our partnership is comprised of experts in this field of study in 6 EU states, working alongside two major European trade-unions, to best address effective union measures to promote migrant integration within the labour market.
En-TRAIN is a research-action bringing together several partners and coordinated by the FOREM. it is financed by the ESF and is spread out over the period 2008-2013. The geographical zone of intervention ESF is situated outside Hainaut (Regional Competitiveness and employment)The main objective targets the support of the professional transition of persons, at the beginning or the end of career.It is a question of causing the passage of the schooling not completed towards the employment and of causing the passage of professional past towards new professional projects. It will be a question of leading to a strategy of management of the professional transition, by identifying the common features and the distinctive elements according to each type of public, and examining their character transposable.
Contemporary social evolutions give prominence to the symbolism of continuous mobility in fields such as work, guidance and professional activation, social assistance, education and territorial attractiveness. . The '' condition of the modern man '' would consist of living in mobility, understood as the permanently labile state of relations, systems and social goals. In the context of a multidisciplinary analysis (sociology, psychology, philosophy ) of various forms of relation to work, the Concerted Research Action aims to describe the mechanisms of construction and (dys) functioning of this figure and to grasp its psychological and relational dimensions. Through a comparative analysis of three highly differentiated business sectors (nursing, road freight and academic research), research will investigate the tensions generated by the widespread call to mobility. These analyzes will try to understand the ways in which these tests of mobilization are lived by the individuals and the collectives and to identify tracks of actions for the future. The promoters of this ARC entitled "Professional mobilizations and personal engagements in the contemporary work" : the new tensions of the spaces of qualification '' are Pierre Desmarez and Pierre Lannoy of METICES (Faculty of Social and Political Sciences), Catherine Hellemans and Sabine Pohl of the Labor Psychology and Economic Psychology Laboratory (Faculty of Psychological Sciences and Psychology) education) and Isabelle Stengers of the Constructivist Studies Group (Faculty of Philosophy and Letters).
Challenging Racism at Work (CRAW)
CRAW will mobilise National Advisory Groups comprising its trade union partners and invited participants from other trade unions, non-governmental organisation experts, employer and national equality body representatives to help progress the project in each country. These will advise on the overviews of the main trends studies, on the sectors and workplaces for the case studies, the national findings reports and will participate in the international workshop. The Groups will play a key role in assisting widespread dissemination of the project findings.
In collaboration with the Working Lives Research Institute, coordinator of the European project financed by the European Fundamental Right Agency in Vienna, the project aims at assessing the impact of the Racial Equality Directive of June 29th, 2000 (2000/43/EC) and the national laws transposing the European legislation (the law of May 10th, 2007 for Belgium) on policies and practices of employers and trade-union in the 27 member countries of the European Union. The research consists in identifying the good practices and making recommendations on how the directive could be made more effective. The project plans to collect qualitative data about the social partners' awareness-raising of the fight against racial or ethnic discrimination. Semi-structured interviews will be conducted through employers and trade union federations in the Europe union. The surveys will be carried out in the private companies and public services in particular in the sectors where migrants and ethnic minorities are overrepresented as in the hotel and catering, industrial cleaning or health sector.
