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Advancing Industry 5.0:

Building Skills, Enhancing Employee Voice and Driving Workplace Innovation

16th June and 17th June 

Irish College, Leuven, Belgium

Industry 5.0 represents a new paradigm in which human-centric workplaces, advanced technologies and sustainability converge to create a more resilient and inclusive industrial landscape in Europe. A skilled and empowered workforce lies at the heart of this vision, together with workplaces where employees at every level use and develop their full range of knowledge, skills and creativity in pursuit of high performance, long term competitiveness, and a greener economy. Participative forms of work organisation and workplace innovation play a central role, supported by enabling forms of representative participation in the workplace and partnership-based industrial relations at national and international levels.

In association with EUWIN, the BRIDGES 5.0, BROADVOICE and SEISMEC projects are delighted to announce a conference on the future of work, employee voice and Industry 5.0, to be held at the Irish College, Leuven, Belgium, on the 16th & 17th June 2025.

This is an in-person event only.

PROGRAMME

16th June

12.30

EUWIN General Assembly (for EUWIN subscribers only)

13.30

Registration and refreshments

14.00

Opening Plenary Employee Voice at a time of Transformation

Keynote speakers:

David Guest
Kings College London

Miguel Martinez Lucio
University of Manchester

Sissel C. Trygstad
Fafo (independent social science research foundation)

15.30

Break

16.00

Track 1: Employee Participation and the Transition to Industry 5.0

Track 3: Strengthening Employee Voice at the Workplace

17.30

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17th June

09.00

Registration and refreshments

09.30

Welcome and plenary Advancing Industry 5.0: Building Skills, Enhancing Employee Voice and Driving Workplace Innovation

Opening words:

Liviu Stirbat (Head of Unit)
DG for Research and Innovation – Industry 5.0 & AI

Keynote speakers:

Luca Marcolin (Empirical economist)
Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs at OECD.

Laura Nurski (Associate research fellow)
CEPS Future of Work trends – the interplay between people and technology in jobs.

Roland Sommer (Managing director)
Austrian Platform Industry 4.0

10.45

Break

11.00

Track 1: Employee Participation and the Transition to Industry 5.0

Track 2: Developing Skills and Creating Learning Organisations for Industry 5.0

Track 3: Strengthening Employee Voice at the Workplace

Parallel session

Seismec stakeholder meeting

12.45

Lunch

13.30

Track 1: Employee Participation and the Transition to Industry 5.0

Track 2: Developing Skills and Creating Learning Organisations for Industry 5.0

Track 3: Strengthening Employee Voice at the Workplace

15.15

Closing Plenary

16.30

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Project No. 101126433

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