Improving Monitoring of Posted Workers in the EU KU Leuven
The aim of the projectd is to study how we can come to the improving of the monitoring of posted workers in the European Community.
The aim of the projectd is to study how we can come to the improving of the monitoring of posted workers in the European Community.
Info-POW is a joint research project of 5 research institutions and associated partners from Austria, Belgium, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia
and EU social partners addressing the third objective of the call, i.e., to promote the evidence basis through the collection and evaluation
of original data in the posting of workers. The aim is to identify and assess new as well as existing challenges and needs of undertakings
in the ...
Four main objectives are defined: obtain an better view on the real size of posting of workers; obtain a better understanding of the motives of posting for both sending and receiving membe states, obtain a better understanding of the impact of posting for both sending and receiving member states and obtain a view on the possible actions to fight social dumping and fraud at European and national level.
In 2017, there were 19 million EU-28/EFTA movers in the EU/EFTA, according to Eurostat population statistics, among which 14 million of working age (20-64 years). In addition, there were some 1.9 million cross-border workers in the EU/EFTA, some 1.8 million posted workers and finally some 1 million persons who work in two or more countries. All these forms of labour mobility have a certain degree of attachment to the country of origin and ...
Workplace attendance is struggling since before the pandemic as many employees suffer from the generic and busy environment in which they were supposed to work. The currently dominant “flexible” office made up of moveable furniture is unable to host these post-pandemic expectations because the presence and activities of workers is too unpredictable for office facility teams to constantly adapt for. As automatic vacuums and mowers already ...
Quarries, Stone Carving, and Stone Implementation in Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Sagalassos (South-Western Anatolia), Technological, Chronological and Socio-Economic Aspects in the Context of the Eastern Mediterranean
Frans Doperé
Synopsis of the Proposed Research Project
Scientific Basis
The registration and analysis of the stone carving techniques on different technical categories of building stones used ...
It is largely assumed that large-scale housing has been an outright failure. The typical images that we have of mass housing have been derived from canonical but polarising projects, the wet dreams of megalomaniacal architectural figures and demonising rhetoric. Since large-scale, coordinated housing solutions are politically incorrect, the types of actions celebrated today tend towards the small: self-help models which risk only serving to ...
The proposed research examines the history of a little-studied housing type that became widespread in the early 20th century: the single-person dwelling. Specifically, it focuses on how this housing type was received in the Italian context and explores the models and representations that emerged through housing projects and domestic interior designs from the 1930s to the 1950s. In the first half of the 20th century, the concept of singleness ...
The end of the Cold War and the fall of state Socialism in Eastern Europe in 1989-1991 inspired a lot of reactions in Western European societies. More specifically, the opening of the East attracted hundreds of Western European NGOs, development workers, and experts to Central and East Europe. Church-linked and Christian-inspired organizations - ranging from Pax Christi to trade unions and Third World solidarity groups - played a prominent ...