HELIX Conference: Innovative practices in work, organisation and regional development – Problems and prospects

12 - 14 June 2013, Linköping, Sweden

Venue: Konsert & Kongress, Linköping

Objectives

The International HELIX Conference intends to build bridges, not only between different fields but also between researchers, practitioners and policy makers. The conference wants to bring forward improved knowledge about the various models and methods of intervention, about the implementation process and about the impact of these approaches. In particular, the importance of the partnership approach needs to be examined in order to link research and practice tighter together.
 
Six tracks are running through the conference, see the conference programme.

• Innovative work systems for production, products and services

• Learning and innovation at work

• Health, work ability and competence

• New forms of organisation - New ways to organise

• Entrepreneurship and regional development

• Managing projects - Measuring impacts

As transversal tracks, the conference will highlight how learning, innovation, entrepreneurship, growth and well-being may benefit from a comprehensive gender perspective in project management as well as the impact of sustainability as a long term objective. Moreover, the conference outcome may profit by juxtaposing various approaches, such as individual versus organisatorial level; theory-oriented versus practice-oriented methods; descriptive-explanatory versus development-oriented perspectives, and employee versus employer viewpoints.

Eurofound contributions

Manuel Ortigao, Research Manager, Working Conditions and Industrial Relations, will be speaking at the event on the Work Organisation and Innovation research project developed by Eurofound and IES and completed end 2012. He will chair the parallel session on Implementation of Workplace Interventions on 12 June (13.00–14.30).

Greet Vermeylen, Research Manager, Working Conditions and Industrial Relations, will participate in a symposium on Workplace Innovation in Europe on 13 June in the afternoon.