You can read online articles announcing the start of the HORIZON Europe project "EU-CoWork: Developing Compassionate Workplaces in Europe for the Digital and Green Work Environment to Protect Employees’ Mental and Physical Health and Wellbeing". The project, coordinated by Deborah de Moortel, is planned for 4 years.
EU-CoWork wants to explore the exposure to psychosocial risks inherent to these new ways of working, their impact on employee mental and physical health and wellbeing outcomes, and evaluate how compassionate workplaces can mitigate these effects. The project will develop Compassionate Workplace Programs (CWPs) tailored to the European context and individual workplace characteristics, and evaluate their effectiveness for European workplaces. EU-CoWork will co-creatively develop CWPs in 12 workplaces across 4 European countries (Belgium, Sweden, Austria and Greece), employing developmental evaluation and an international mixed methods process and impact evaluation.
With this project, the EU-CoWork consortium wants to offer insights and building blocks to create work environments that ensure adequate and tailored support and policy to counter-balance experiences that may exacerbate the risk for adverse mental health and well-being outcomes for employees.
The articles (in Dutch) were published in De Vlaamse Ondernemer, ZigZagHR, HRMagazine and PeopleSphere.
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