Job-LIFE: overall objective and axes of research
The European Network of Territorial Intelligence, ENTI, filed on February 2 the European project “Future jobs for a better life”, “job-LIFE” for short.
It responds to the call for project of the 7th Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration Activities of the European Union (FP7), in the theme “Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities”.
This editorial presents the overall objective of the project and its main axis of research.
The day of Tuesday, March 23 will be devoted to enhancing the job-LIFE project in the framework of the 8th international conference of territorial intelligence to be held from March 24 to 26, 2010, in Nantes and Rennes, on the thematic "Territorial Intelligence and socio-ecological foresight", which also refers to the combination of economic, social, environmental and cultural objectives of the sustainable development.
It is now necessary to deepen the work plan of the project and detail the functions within the consortium and teams, to be able to start the project on 1 January 2011.
The 9th international conference of territorial intelligence, to be held in Strasbourg on Wednesday 17 to Friday, November 19, 2010 on the theme of ecological and social innovation, will further deepen the work plan (The call for papers will be published shortly).
job-LIFE, is a “large-scale integrating project” in the topic “Creating and adapting jobs in Europe in the context of a socio-ecological transition”.
It gathers a consortium of 39 participants, managed by the CNRS (France,) during 4 years and with a budget of 10 M€ (8M€ grants).
It is a virtual laboratory of 23 research centres and 13 territorial actors that will contribute to the dissemination of research results and innovative practices.
36 participants, from 11 European countries, will cooperate with 3 non European research teams.
The objective of jobs-LIFE is to establish a prospective for jobs in Europe at a territorial level in 2025, within the framework of the socio-ecological transition, with new development trajectories characterized by the combination of the sustainable development objectives for a better life quality.
The project organizes 10 work packages into three research axes:
- Axis “Work, territories and life quality in the combination of the objectives of the sustainable development” aims at drawing a prospective analysis of the mutations of work in a global comparative approach of European territories development.
- Axis “Territorial job systems, innovation and governance for creating and adapting jobs in the socio-ecological transition” will focus on the identification of territorial trends of jobs creation and adaptation. It will address positive experiences of social and ecological innovation and discuss the favourable territorial governance.
- Axis "Communication, culture, education and dissemination for new development trajectories", will question the process of information and communication for the co-construction of new social and cultural models. It will analyze the educational and formative practices in and by the sustainable development. An ethical point of view on the sustainable development will be elaborated to imagine new cultures of human activity. This axis will also diffuse the project results.
