Examining the impact of digitalisation, globalisation, climate change & demographic shifts on labour markets & welfare states in Europe
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21 Oct 2025
🔮 Europe 2040: What futures for work & welfare?
A new WeLaR Foresight Report outlines 4 scenarios shaped by tech, climate & globalisation.
Inequality persists in all - but skills, lifelong learning & welfare reform are “no-regrets” strategies.
📎 Read: bit.ly/3KDv6h3
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10 Oct 2025
📚A new WeLaR study by C. Perugini (@UniperugiaNews) & @MarkoVladi (@Ekonomski) finds that most Europeans support income redistribution, but many don’t vote for parties that promote it.
Cultural values, trust & migration views also shape their decisions.
🔗bit.ly/3ScwqrL
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9 Sep 2025
📚 A new WeLaR study finds that many EU platform workers want benefits like paid leave & sick pay - but their willingness to pay for them is very low (just a tiny share of income).
This reflects financial pressure, not a lack of need for protections. ⚖️
📎bit.ly/3HUAonc
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8 Sep 2025
📨Our final WeLaR Newsletter is out!
We look back on 3 years of research & map policy steps for the future of welfare in Europe.
Inside:
🔍Key WeLaR insights
🤝Contributions from @rEUsilience & @transeuroworks
💡EU-level action for fair, green transitions
bit.ly/4m3FfAo
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11 Aug 2025
🌍Europe needs a New Social Pact to tackle the digital, green & demographic transitions.
A new WeLaR report calls for reforms to make labour markets inclusive & resilient, and build a workforce for the future.
⚒️Labour policy = investment, not cost
📎Read: bit.ly/3IG1nmC
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10 Jul 2025
🇪🇺What will European welfare & labour look like in 2040? Help us forecast!
Join the second WeLaR Delphi survey to inform policies on digitalisation, climate change & more, analysing various future scenarios.
⏲️Takes 10 min!
🗓️Deadline: 14 July 2025
📎bit.ly/44liFxF
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4 Jul 2025
🙏 Thank you to all participants of the WeLaR Virtual Expert Café for a great discussion on labour market policies, far-right politics, migration, and gender today! Special thanks to Ursula Holtgrewe, @ka_lenaerts, and @HolgerStichnoth for their insightful contributions!
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4 Jul 2025
☕️ Kicking off the final WeLaR Open Virtual Expert Café! Ursula Holtgrewe from @ZSInnovation presents "Polycrisis: How did the world change, and what does it mean for our research?".
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2 Jul 2025
📢☕ Don’t miss WeLaR’s final Open Virtual Expert Café on polycrisis, Zeitenwende & de-globalisation!
🗓️ 4 July 2025 | 🕐 13:00–15:00 CET
How are global shifts reshaping research on societies & economies?
Present your ideas!
🔗 bit.ly/4ejrvzh
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27 Jun 2025
📢☕ Join WeLaR's final Open Virtual Expert Café on polycrisis, Zeitenwende & de-globalisation! 🌍
🗓️ 4 July 2025, 13:00 - 15:00 CET
🎯How do global shifts impact research on societies & economies?
🗣️ Present your research & ideas 📣
More info: bit.ly/4ejrvzh
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26 Jun 2025
🙏Huge thanks for the final comments to Michaela Bruckmayer, all presenters & participants of the WeLaR Foresight Webinar! We learned a lot about how to prepare meaningful foresights - and what key trends, disruptions & transformations to watch as they shape the future of work.🌍
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26 Jun 2025
📢 @JoannaBHofman (@RANDEurope) is presenting at the WeLaR Foresight Webinar! She’s making the case for bringing gender and inclusion into how we imagine the future of work and welfare - because policies shaped without diverse perspectives risk reinforcing today’s inequalities.
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26 Jun 2025
In his presentation at the WeLaR Foresight Webinar, Dexter Docherty (@OECD) talked about organisation's approach to the foresight and thinking as a futurist.
He also looked into how to stress-test public policy and prepare it for the uncertainty.
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26 Jun 2025
📊At the WeLaR Foresight Webinar, @_BartLos (@univgroningen) presents quantitative scenario analysis for a world economy dominated by Global Value Chains. He shows how transformations - tech change, globalisation, and demographic shifts - might impact global markets.
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26 Jun 2025
🔍Rafael Peels (@ilo) is currently sharing insights at the WeLaR Foresight Webinar on how we should use foresight to think about and act upon an uncertain future of work. He talks about good foresight standards and the importance of democratic, participatory approaches.
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26 Jun 2025
📢We're kicking off the WeLaR Foresight Webinar "Anticipating the future: Foresight approaches for labour markets and welfare in Europe".
Laurène Thil (@HIVA_KULeuven) is presenting key insights from the WeLaR foresight exercise discussing possible scenarios.
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25 Jun 2025
Check out the latest WeLaR newsletter!
Inside:
📍Brussels conference recap
📍Fresh research on fossil fuels, telework & migration
📍3 policy briefs tackling EU labour market challenges📍Invitations to 26 June Foresight Webinar & 4 July Open Expert Café
🗞️bit.ly/4kXvLaj
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24 Jun 2025
⏰2 days to go! Join the WeLaR webinar to explore the role of foresight in preparing labour markets and welfare systems in the EU for long-term transitions.
🗓️26 June, 14:00 - 16:00 CET
📎Register: bit.ly/40kRalp
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16 Jun 2025
📢Join WeLaR’s foresight webinar on 26 June 2025, 14:00-16:00 CET, to explore the future of labour markets & welfare in Europe!
Discover our key findings, new foresight tools, insights on policymaking & scenario development.
Register here: bit.ly/4n65Fn8
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12 Jun 2025
🙌 Huge thanks to all presenters, participants and our keynote speaker Francesco Vona (@LaStatale) for making the WeLaR Final Conference in Brussels such a great event!
Your insights on digitalisation, climate change, work & welfare were really interesting. Until next time!
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