Another MOU for the ITCILO
Another MOU for the ITCILO
The Centre has just signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the European University Institute (EUI). The EUI is an international postgraduate and post-doctoral teaching and research institute established by European Union member states to contribute to cultural and scientific development in the social sciences, with a European perspective.
Established in 1972 near Florence, the EUI draws on a EU-wide network of 1,100 academic and administrative staff members, and offers research and learning opportunities at PhD, post-doctoral, master’s and executive training levels.
09 March 2020
The partnership between the two institutions is intended to create space for joint projects and ventures, building on each other’s strengths: the unique hands-on approach of the ITCILO, and its global outreach to policy-makers, and the top-notch international research capacity and academic excellence of the EUI in the fields of the social sciences and transnational governance.
The agreed five-year framework of cooperation between the two institutions comprises the areas of:
- gender equality
- decent work for all women and men, to include topics such as:
- The care economy;
- Violence and harassment in the world of work;
- Attracting talent, gender equality and new visions of the work-life balance;
- Policies and strategies for pay equity;
- Gender and climate change;
- Gender equality and the future of work (digitalization, non-standard forms of employment, platform work, lifelong learning and mobility);
- Ageing, the silver economy and the future of the world of work.