WAGE_Healthy Working environments for all Ages: An evidence-driven framework

The WAGE project will develop and validate the first comprehensive framework for assessing and understanding the roles and interactions between physical and psychosocial risk factors across age groups through robust modelling and policy-relevant evidence gathering. The project will pave the way for designing, implementing and validating effective multi-level intervention strategies and policy changes for workers of all ages at the individual and organizational level. The project focuses on work environments is likely to increase as organizations, businesses, and workers have to adapt to post-pandemic working environments in an ageing Europe. WAGE is proposing a concept that is addressing the factors related to the health and overall wellbeing of workers across age groups.

Aims

Wage will work to model the complex interactions between work environment risk factors in different age groups and the range of frameworks and constructions for potential solutions. Wage will identify how processes are undertaken to define problems, apply evidence, and select solutions through strong stakeholder representation.

The specific objectives are:


  • Conduct participatory research that engages the full range of stakeholders.

  • Characterization of physical risk factors across age groups.

  • Characterization of psychosocial factors across age groups.

  • Development of an overarching physical load and psychosocial model to assess factors linked with, psychosocial well-being, MSDs and functional decline across age groups and work demands.

  • To implement a data sovereignty approach through International Data Spaces (IDS) infrastructure Relation to Work Programme.

  • Develop age-sensitive recommendations for changes and integral interventions.

Collaborating companies

Coordinator:

  • SINTEF AS


Partner:

  • INSTITUTO DE BIOMECÁNICA DE VALENCIA (IBV)

  • FACULDADE DE MOTRICIDADE HUMANA

  • WALK WITH PATH EUROPE IVS

  • UNIVERSITAT JAUME I DE CASTELLON

  • CENTRALNY INSTYTUT OCHRONY-PANSTWOWY

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING

  • SEAT SA

Duration and reference no.

Start date: 01-12-2023
End date: 30-11-2027
Project reference no.: 101137207

El proyecto ha sido financiado por la Unión Europea.