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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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