EU-CoWork
Developing Compassionate Workplaces in Europe for the digital and green work environment to protect employees’ mental and physical health and wellbeing.
Project overview
EU-CoWork aims to:
- explore and understand the influence of changing workplace organization due to the twin transitions on wellbeing, performance, job quality, and work culture for employees confronted with serious illness, family caregiving, death, dying and loss (EoL experiences) and their colleagues
- develop and evaluate tailored Compassionate Workplaces Programs (CWPs) as health promotion strategies to maintain and support employee health and wellbeing in the work environment, across different national and labour contexts in Europe
One year into the project, the team have successfully established partnerships with organisations across multiple European countries, including Sweden, Belgium, Austria and Greece. These organisations have committed to collaborating on the project's initiative to develop more compassionate workplaces. As the work moves into the implementation phase, the research teams will work closely with them to foster workplace environments that prioritise compassion and employee well-being.
The project is funded by Horizon Europe and led by Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Dr Cristian Vasquez is the work package leader on the evaluation and will develop and validate measures for evaluating the interventions according to the principles of realist evaluation. This evaluation framework seeks to answer the questions of “what works for whom in which circumstances”.
