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5th RTD Framework Programme
Success stories - IST
IST (Information Society Technologies)
Project details
Project reference: | IST-1999-13420 |
Acronym: | EMERGENCE |
Title: | Estimation and Mapping of Employment Relocation in a Global Economy in the New Communications Environment |
Subject Index: | Information Processing, Information Systems |
Objectives: | Objective: The EMERGENCE project aims to provide reliable information both qualitative and quantitative, on delocalised telemediated work. An interdisciplinary team (plus associates in North America and Australasia) will carry out a statistical overview, develop analytical models, conduct an international survey and carry out a comparative case study to map, quantify and forecast the new international division of labour in information processing. It will make recommendations to official statistical bodies. It will dissemination information interactively, for use as a resource for research, benchmarking against global comparators, regional development, employment creation, equal opportunities and other policies.
Work description:
The EMERGENCE project aims to provide reliable information both qualitative and quantitative, on delocalised telemediated work. An interdisciplinary team (plus associates in North America and Australasia) will carry out a statistical overview, develop analytical models, conduct an international survey and carry out a comparative case studies to map, quantify and forecast the new international division of labour in information processing. It will make recommendations to official statistical bodies. It will dissemination information interactively, for use as a resource for research, benchmarking against global comparators, regional development, employment creation, equal opportunities and other policies.
The work includes:
a critical overview of the changing division of labour;
an international survey of about 8000 employers in 15 EU countries and 3 EU applicant countries, (with a further approximately 2,000 in North America and Australasia);
development of research instruments for comparative analysis of case studies in an international context;
60 case studies of relocated telemediated employment, both in "source" areas and "destination" ones;
analysis of results, including their implications for social exclusion and marginalisation, for gender equality, for supply and demand for skills and for regional development;
development of analytical models;
development of economic development toolkit for use at a regional level;
development of an interrogable database and web-site for dissemination of results to researchers, social partners and policy makers, and a variety of other dissemination activities including seminars, workshops and presentations. |
Start date: | 2000.01.01 |
End date: | 2002.12.31 |
Duration: | 36 months |
Project status: | Execution |
Project cost: | 2.48 million euro |
Project funding: | 2.10 million euro |
Programme type: | 5th FWP (Fifth Framework Programme) |
Subprogramme area: | IST support measures - Accompanying measures |
Contract type: | ACM (Preparatory, accompanying and support measures) |
Project URL: | http://www.emergence.nu/ |
Prime contractor: | Institute for Employment Studies |
Organisation type: | Other |
Country: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Region: | SOUTH EAST (UK), SURREY, EAST-WEST SUSSEX, East Sussex |
City: | Brighton |
Post Code: | BN1 9RF |
Address: | Mantell Building, University of Sussex |
Contact person: | HUWS, Ursula |
Telephone: | +44-1273-686751 |
Fax: | +44-1273-690430 |
E-mail: | analytica@dial.pipex.com |
Contractor: | Danish Technological Institute |
Organisation type: | Other |
Organisation size: | 250 - 500 |
Country: | DENMARK |
Region: | Københavns amt |
City: | Taastrup |
Post Code: | 2630 |
Address: | Gregersensvej, PO Box 141 |
Contact person: | MILLARD, Jeremy |
Telephone: | +45-72201417 |
Fax: | +45-72201414 |
E-mail: | jeremy.millard@teknologisk.dk |
Contractor: | Simon Frazer University |
Organisation type: | Education |
Country: | CANADA |
Region: | |
City: | Burnaby, British Columbia |
Post Code: | V5A 1A6 |
Address: | Simon Frazer University |
Contact person: | BALKA, Ellen |
Telephone: | +1-604-2913764 |
Fax: | +1-904-2914024 |
E-mail: | e.balka@sfu.edu |
Contractor: | NOP Business Research |
Organisation type: | Other |
Country: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Region: | SOUTH EAST (UK), GREATER LONDON |
City: | London |
Post Code: | SE1 9UL |
Address: | Ludgate House, 245 Blackfriars Road |
Contact person: | MORRELL, Judy |
Telephone: | +44-171-8903735 |
Fax: | +44-171-8909222 |
E-mail: | j.morrell@nop.co.uk |
Contractor: | Istituto di Ricerche Economiche e Sociali - IRES |
Organisation type: | Research |
Country: | ITALY |
Region: | LAZIO |
City: | Roma |
Post Code: | 00198 |
Address: | Via S. Teresa 23 |
Contact person: | MIRABILE, Maria Luisa |
Telephone: | +39-068-5797211 |
Fax: | +39-068-5797210 |
E-mail: | m.l.mirabile@ires.it |
Contractor: | Hoger Instituut voor de Arbeid |
Organisation type: | Education |
Country: | BELGIUM |
Region: | VLAAMS GEWEST, VLAAMS BRABANT, Leuven |
City: | Leuven |
Post Code: | 3000 |
Address: | E. Van Evenstraat 2e |
Contact person: | VAN HOOTEGEM, Geert |
Telephone: | +32-16-323334 |
Fax: | +32-16-323344 |
E-mail: | geert.vanhootegem@hiva.kuleuven.ac.be |
Contractor: | Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Sociology |
Organisation type: | Research |
Country: | HUNGARY |
Region: | Region not yet available (HUNGARY) |
City: | Budapest |
Post Code: | 1014 |
Address: | Uri U. 49 |
Contact person: | MAKO, Csaba |
Telephone: | +36-1-3220207 |
Fax: | +36-1-3515454 |
E-mail: | mako@ntt.hu |
Contractor: | Handelshoegskolan, Institute for Management and Technology |
Organisation type: | Education |
Country: | SWEDEN |
Region: | STOCKHOLM |
City: | Stockholm |
Post Code: | 113 83 |
Address: | Saltmatgaten 13-17, BOX 6501 |
Contact person: | RAPP, Birger |
Telephone: | +46-8-736947 (1) |
Fax: | +46-8-326524 |
E-mail: | birger@rapp.se |
Contractor: | Edith Cowan University |
Organisation type: | Education |
Country: | AUSTRALIA |
Region: | |
City: | Churchlands 6018, Western Australia |
Post Code: | |
Address: | Faculty of Business, Pearson Street |
Contact person: | PETER, Standen |
Telephone: | +61-892-738333 |
Fax: | +61-892-738754 |
E-mail: | p.standen@cowan.edu.au |
Contractor: | Forschungs- und Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt |
Organisation type: | Research |
Country: | AUSTRIA |
Region: | OSTÖSTERREICH, WIEN |
City: | Wien |
Post Code: | 1020 |
Address: | 4/5 Aspernbrueckengasse 4/5 |
Contact person: | FLECKER, Joerg |
Telephone: | +43-1-212470072 |
Fax: | +43-1-212470077 |
E-mail: | flecker@forba.at |
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