I have been accepted as a working group member, effective from 15 February 2026, for the Action “Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab” (P-WILL) CA21118, carried out by European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) and funded by the European Union.
This comprehensive four-year Action aims to build a pan-european interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary multistakeholder network including policymakers, industry leaders, civil society organisations, designers, researchers, and the main initiatives happening at the international level, to foster the upsurge of alternative scenarios in the frame of platform work. The platform economy predominant model, which accelerated following the COVID-19 outbreak, is mostly characterised by poor working conditions, low pay, lack of social protection for workers, and increasing gender, racial and socioeconomic inequalities. The study aims to promote the platform economy intersectional gender perspective and inclusion through increased well-being, economic justice, and rights for the traditionally excluded collectives while aligning the platform economy with The EU Pillar of Social Rights and Sustainable Development Goals.
The two main working groups I will contribute to within this international network and the issues we will focus on are as follows:
- Organisational and Platform Work Models (WG2): In this group, which focuses on platform business models, researchers and practitioners will coordinate to co-design and exchange learning proposals through action research and participatory methodologies. Considering the lack of financial and human resources, and thus expert technical knowledge, priority will be given to local initiatives based on the commons and “Social and Solidarity Economy” as spaces in which to test these initiatives. Special attention will be paid to giving voice to excluded collectives while looking for ways to strengthen their resistance strategies. Furthermore, the group will compile materials addressed to platform cooperatives challenges paying special attention to their limitations in terms of growth and scale so that research developments reach the interested stakeholders more effectively.
- Mobilisation, Regulation and Policy Strategies (WG4): In this group, which addresses cross-cutting challenges and policy gaps in relation to collective action, policy and regulation strategies, interchanges between workers, unions, advocacy groups, practitioners and policy makers will be facilitated. By giving voice to excluded collectives facilitating their participation in the co-creation of initiatives and proposals, innovative and alternative collective action strategies, regulatory and other policy proposals will be proposed. The goal is to gather, co-create and test policy guidelines and proposals considering each country’s regulatory competencies and institutional structures. In this context, different policy initiatives that could be adapted to different economic geographical contexts will be gathered.
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