The partners
Coordinator
MDU coordinates the overall project and leads the ethics work package. It also leads the policy mapping of WTR forces, drawing on literature review, historical-statistical analysis and discourse analysis to build the project's macro-level framework, and contributes to the micro-level framework, survey work and dissemination activities.
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TCD leads the work package on extrapolating and contrasting findings across regions and sectors. It runs the Policy Delphi consultation with WTR experts, develops and validates the WTR Acceptance Survey, and analyses the EU-wide survey data that feeds into the WOTAM Model.
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ESRI contributes labour-market economics and quantitative research expertise. It leads the historical and statistical analysis of European working-time patterns, using data sources such as the European Labour Force Survey and European Jobs and Skills Survey to identify the material factors behind WTR.
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USE leads the case-based mapping of WTR forces. It coordinates the onboarding and ethnographic study of eight organisations across the participating countries, examining how WTR is negotiated and experienced in everyday organisational life.
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SGH contributes research expertise on work, management and organisational behaviour. It supports policy mapping, case studies, survey development and the comparative analysis of WTR findings across regions and sectors.
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BLUSPECS leads the development of the WOTAM Model and Toolkit, translating research findings into practical tools. It also leads dissemination and communication, stakeholder engagement, event management, the Community of Practice, Policy Labs and the project's exploitation roadmap.
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ICTU brings the trade-union perspective into the project's research and stakeholder engagement. It supports access to relevant workplace networks and ensures that WOTAM's evidence and tools reflect the realities of collective bargaining and workers' conditions.
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Kommunal represents workers across municipalities, regions and private-sector services in Sweden. It contributes practical insight into how WTR affects public-service staffing, working conditions and gender equality, drawing on its members' direct experience.
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DigitalES represents Spain's technology and digital sector. It provides an employer perspective on how productivity, competitiveness, skills and digitalisation interact with working-time arrangements.
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PSHR contributes HR practitioner expertise and networks. It supports the identification of organisational enablers and barriers to WTR and helps test and disseminate the WOTAM Model and Toolkit among HR professionals and employers.
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Almega supports the project with access to employer networks in the Swedish services sector, contributing to stakeholder dialogue, case-study access and the longer-term uptake of WOTAM's findings among employers.
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IBEC provides employer insight and links to businesses across Ireland, supporting stakeholder engagement and the dissemination of WOTAM's evidence and tools to employer audiences.