Project description
Working on strategies to improve workers’ well-being
The post-pandemic working environment in Europe is likely to cause an increase in employees facing adverse physical and psychosocial working conditions, especially with an ageing workforce. The EU-funded Wage project aims to develop and validate a comprehensive framework that reviews the roles and interactions between physical and psychosocial risk factors across age groups. The project will develop robust models and gather policy-relevant evidence, paving the way for designing, implementing, and validating effective multi-level intervention strategies and policy changes for workers of all ages at the individual and organisational levels. The findings will contribute to effective intervention strategies and policy changes to enhance the health and well-being of workers.
Objective
The WAge project will develop and validate the first comprehensive framework for assessing and understanding the roles and interactions between physical and psychosocial risk factors across age groups through robust modelling and policy-relevant evidence gathering. Through the proposed framework, the project will pave the way for designing, implementing and validating effective multi-level intervention strategies and policy changes for workers of all ages at the individual and organizational level. The project focuses on a question that has high societal relevance and is timely because the proportion of employees under adverse physical and psychosocial work environments is likely to increase as organisations, businesses, and workers have to adapt to post-pandemic working environments in an ageing Europe.
WAge is proposing a concept that is addressing the factors related to the health and overall wellbeing of workers across age groups. One of the main aims of the proposed action is the generation of integral, policy-relevant evidence that are vital for the improvement and update of occupational health but also for this HORIZON Europe call. In WAge, the gathering and utilization of evidence within decision-making spaces will be based on representation and accountability of policymaking, bringing multiple perspectives and knowledge through democratic participation into decision-making processes across the project, from data collection, and management, to analysis, and implementation.
Keywords
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Programme(s)
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Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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HORIZON.2.1 - Health
MAIN PROGRAMME
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HORIZON.2.1.1 - Health throughout the Life Course
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HORIZON.2.1.2 - Environmental and Social Health Determinants
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Topic(s)
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Funding Scheme
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Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-HLTH-2023-ENVHLTH-02
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7034 Trondheim
Norway
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