CIOP-PIB participates in an international project Healthy Working environments for all Ages: An evidence-driven framework (WAge). The project is funded under HORIZON EUROPE.

General information

The WAge (Healthy Working environments for all Ages: An evidence-driven framework) 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.

Through the proposed framework, 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 a question that has high societal relevance and is timely because the proportion of employees under adverse physical and psychosocial work environments is likely to increase as organisations, 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. One of the main aims of the proposed action is the generation of integral, policy-relevant evidence that are vital for the improvement and update of occupational health but also for this HORIZON Europe call. In WAge, the gathering and utilization of evidence within decision-making spaces will be based on representation and accountability of policymaking, bringing multiple perspectives and knowledge through democratic participation into decision-making processes across the project, from data collection, and management, to analysis, and implementation.

CIOP-PIB’s contribution

CIOP-PIB is involved in several project tasks and work packages:

• Participatory research and policy
• Physical factors (Introduction and engagement for data collection; Data collection of physical factors under real working conditions; Data Analysis)
• Psychosocial factors (Introduction and engagement of participants; Preliminary identification and evaluation of psychosocial aspects; Measuring and assessment of psychosocial factors)
• Model integration (Determining the age-sensitive model for physical and psychosocial patterns to explain health outcomes; Development of the WAge index; Responsiveness and interpretability of the WAge index)
• Recommendations for healthier working environments (Design of targeted interventions; Guidelines for changes and interventions in new settings)
• Communication and Dissemination

Project consortium

The project consortium consists of 9 partners from 7 different countries. The project is coordinated by SINTEF AS from Norway.

The project has received funding for 48 months, from 1 December 2023 to 30 November 2027.

More information about the project:  

https://wagehealth.eu/

Contact information

Mariola Borowska-Łukasiak

International Cooperation Division

Central Institute for Labour Protection - National Research Institute

e-mail: mabor@ciop.pl