Final Meadow Conference

29 January 2010, Brussels, Belgium (Organised by UNSA)

This meeting involved a wide range of potential users of the Guidelines, including representatives from the policy, scientific, business and trade union communities. The main objective of this meeting was to present the Guidelines, including the results of the testing phase of the project carried out in 2009, in order to demonstrate the feasibility of producing harmonised statistics on organisational dynamics at the EU level. The meeting was an occasion for further discussions aimed at building-up a partnership with members of the ESS network with a view to carrying-out a European survey on organisational change and its impacts. 

Minutes of the final conference

 Programme and speakers' presentations

9:00- 9:20 Welcome and opening remarks- MEADOW and EU research in socio-economic sciences

Domenico Rossetti , European Commission, DG Research

Chair for morning sessions: Monique Ramioul, Catholic University of Leuven

 9:20-10:00 Overview of the MEADOW project: objectives and policy relevance

Nathalie Greenan , Centre d'Etudes de l'Emploi

10:00- 10:45 Why is it important to measure organisational change?

Duncan Gallie, Nuffield College, Oxford

10:45- 11:00 Coffee

11:00-11:30 The MEADOW employer survey: scope and indicators

Edward Lorenz, University of Nice- Sophia Antipolis

11:30- 12:00 Open discussion with stakeholders

12:00-13:15 Buffet lunch

Chair for afternoon sessions: John Forth, National Institute of Economic and Social research, United Kingdom

13:15- 13:45 The MEADOW employee survey: scope and indicators

Francis Green, University of Kent

13:45- 14:15 Open discussion with stakeholders

14:15- 14:45 Cognitive tests and harmonisation of the MEADOW survey instruments

Giorgio Sirilli, Italian National Research Council

14:45- 15:15 Full-scale tests of the MEADOW questionnaire in Sweden and Denmark

Hans-Olof Hagen, Statistics Sweden

Peter Nielsen, Aalborg University

15:15- 15:45 Coffee

15:45- 16:45 Roundtable on MEADOW's contribution to European policy-making

Chair: Peter Elias, University of Warwick and Economic and Social Research Council

Kenneth Abrahamson, Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research

Joao Medeiros, European Commission, DG Employment

Keith Sequeira, European Commission, DG Enterprise

Maria Theofilatou, European Commission, DG Research

Tuomo Alasoini, Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (TEKES)

16:45- 17:00 Conclusions

Nathalie Greenan, Centre d'Etudes de l'Emploi

Edward Lorenz, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis

First Stakeholder Meeting

4-6 February 2009, Aalborg, Denmark (Organised by AAU)

The main purpose of this meeting is to present the project’s mid-term results to representatives from the network comprising the European Statistical System (ESS) which includes Eurostat and the statistical offices, ministries, and agencies that collect official statistics for EU Member States. Representatives from these institutions will be actively engaged in a dialogue around the draft employer and employee-level questionnaires with a view to ensuring that the consortium stays focused on the needs of such national authorities who would ultimately carry-out a European-wide organisational survey.
This Meeting is organised by the University of Aalborg (AAU).   

Workpackages 2 and 3 Meeting

 MEADOW Kick-off meeting

The Meadow Kick-off meeting took place in Paris (France) on the 4th and the 5th of April 2007.