Project description
New data-driven solution to safeguard worker rights
For global supply chain workers, particularly those in the developing world, human rights violations are a big issue. Efforts to safeguard their rights are necessary. This need requires monitoring and detection to help policymakers and states mitigate violations. Current solutions use social audits and environmental, social and governance data to locate and mitigate such issues. Unfortunately, these strategies do not detect human rights and systemic labour violation at the bottom level of risk assessments. In this context, the EU-funded SatR project will introduce an innovative data-driven solution that collects grievances from workers and stakeholders throughout the supply chain, offering a broader and more sophisticated insight into worker conditions.
Objective
One of the most pervasive problems in global supply chains is the violation of labour and other human rights in developing countries. The two most common ways to mitigate these risks are social audits and the use of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data. None of these methods accounts for systemic labour and human rights violations as the bottom line for social risk assessments. Globalworks’ ambition is to bring a game-changing innovation to the market with a real impact on the SDGs promoting decent work as well as sustainable consumption and production. To this end we developed an alternative, big-data driven approach that makes use of information accessible on the Internet. Everyday workers and other stakeholders in developing countries write about their grievances on social media in order to protest, reach out for help, seek advice, or share experiences. Our tool social@risk collects these voices. social@risk represents an intelligent, fully transparent system where experts and stakeholders of an issue inform the algorithms that facilitate data structuring and analysis. In the future social@risk will use millions of posts from tens of thousands of factory sites as the basis for predicting social risks associated with a supplier, industry, and/or location. social@risk is the first grievance-based risk management approach on the market adding a fundamentally new quality to social risk intelligence.
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Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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H2020-EU.3.6. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Europe In A Changing World - Inclusive, Innovative And Reflective Societies
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H2020-EU.2.3.1. - Mainstreaming SME support, especially through a dedicated instrument
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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.
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1
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Call for proposal
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Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
(opens in new window) H2020-SMEInst-2016-2017
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224 78 LUND
Sweden
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
The total costs incurred by this organisation to participate in the project, including direct and indirect costs. This amount is a subset of the overall project budget.