1. The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research supports and initiates basic and applied research with a view to improving our knowledge about working life, public health and welfare. www.fas.se

2. Work Place Research and European Policy Development - Roundtable comments at the conference: Measuring the dynamics of organisations and work. Final MEADOW stakeholder meeting, Brussels, January 29, 2010 Kenneth Abrahamsson The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS)

3. Organisational dynamics and conceptions of good work EU -quality of work&more&better&greener jobs ILO and decent work Attractive jobs for youth Swedish Good Work Conception Howard Gardner and Good Work Ethics Karasek&Theorell control-demand model Antonovsky – sense of coherence Studs Terkel and working cultures Old and stable jobs…. Sustainable work systems&health Healthy work places – healthy corporations Knowledge intensive&high tech-jobs

4. Supporting environments and user profiles of the MEADOW model Creating an arena for user involvement – European &national actors, governments, social partners(ESS) Financial involvement – models of research infrastructure support (who is taking the lead..?) Data-infrastructure boom – “grant competition” European Employment Strategy and new role for European Social “Innovation”Funds Options for joint pilot project in some countries?? “MEADOW”-priority in EU Framework SSH-program New mix of Work-In-Net/New Osh Era-nets EUROSTAT connection&national monitoring? European Foundation and/or Academia as platform Policy driven and/or bottom up work place research

5. EU 2020 and beyond…..The Case for Sustainable Work Organisation… Sustainable resilient sustainable work systems is a must for the EU 2020 No directive for sustainable work systems is desirable, but use the OCM and/or the Social Dialogue to implement it Comparative Research on sustainable work systems should be a priority in the Research and Innovation Framework Programmes The implementation of resilient sustainable work system on national level, such as pilot projects and reviews of good practise, should be supported by the Structural Funds

6. Next step for European Work Place research-some concluding remarks Stimulate research on/for the social dialogue Role WPR in EU SSH/FP+ Work, welfare,migration-JP Increase European R&D- networking/COST/ERA-nets CEDEFOP/Eurofound roles Initiate collaboration within European Social Fund Create of consortium of comparative studies Build bridges between leading research centres Create a junior academy on work/labour studies Cross-continental network!!