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COST CA21118 - Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (P-WILL)

Project duration: September 2022 – September 2026

Call/Program/Scheme: COST action

Client / Financier: The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST), European Union – Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe

Participating institutions: Public Policy Research Centre, Belgrade, Serbia – Grant Holder organization

Principal investigator (PI): Dr Mayo Fuster Morell, Action Chair; Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University

The role of IEN in the project: IEN is a partner institution

IEN project team (manager/coordinator, team members):

Dr Valentina Vukmirović (IES project team coordinator and Management Committee member from Serbia in P-WILL action)
Dr Boban Nedeljković
Dr Vladimir Simović

 

Description:

The platform economy (PE) has accelerated following the COVID-19 outbreak. Although several PE models exist, the predominant PE model is mostly characterised by poor working conditions, low pay, lack of social protection for workers, and increasing gender, racial, and socioeconomic inequalities. The main objective of the Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (P-WILL) is to build a pan-European interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary multistakeholder network, including policymakers, industry leaders, civil society organisations, researchers, and the main initiatives happening at the international level, to foster the upsurge of alternative scenarios in the frame of platform work. P-WILL promotes the PE intersectional gender perspective and inclusion through increased well-being, economic justice, and rights for the traditionally excluded collectives (TEC) while aligning the PE with the EU Pillar of Social Rights and SDGs.

P-WILL is organized around five Working Groups:

  • WG1 Platform work inclusive holistic framework exploration
  • WG2 Organisational and platform work models
  • WG3 Digital technologies and data models
  • WG4 Mobilisation, regulation and policy strategies
  • WG5 Transdisciplinarity outcomes and impact evaluation

Keywords: platform work, platform economy, intersectional gender approach, digital technologies, policy recommendations