Meadow, MEAsuring the Dynamics of Organisations and Work, Developing Harmonised Indicators on Organisational Change and its Economic and Social Impacts for the European Union

Project Organisation

The Meadow project is organised around five levels.

The General Assembly (GA)

The General Assembly includes all the project partners and meets four times over the life of the project. It has two main functions:

- communicates and validates any necessary modifications to the work plan or to the governance structure and assures dissemination of knowledge within the consortium;

- presents and discusses the progress of the coordination activities conducted within the different workpackages and identifying appropriate actions for the successful performance of the project.

The General assembly is chaired by the coordinator, Nathalie Greenan (CEE), who is assisted by the second, Edward Lorenz (UNSA).

The Steering Committee (SC)

The Steering Committee consists of the coordinator and the lead partners of the workpackages : CEE (coordinator, WP1, WP3), UNSA (WP8), AAU (WP2), OSA (WP4), UKENT (WP5), NIESR (WP6), UM MERIT (WP7). It is chaired by the coordinator, who is assisted by the second, and meets at least twice a year over the life of the project. The Steering Committee is in charge of managing the project, taking general decisions within the framework of the contract and its annexes, notably regarding budget allocation, the overall governance structure, and changes in the work plan. The Steering committee contributes to on-going project assessment in terms of meeting the project’s scientific goals.

The Workpackage teams

The coordination activity of the Meadow project is divided into 8 workpackages. Each workpackage is carried out by a workpackage team, and coordinated by a workpackage leader, who works closely with a second. The teams’ composition is determined in accordance with the experience and expertise of the different partners. The workpackage teams are in charge of executing specific technical tasks, and supplying the timely production of deliverables to the coordinator. They meet twice a year during the term of the workpackage.

The Advisory Board (AB)

The Advisory Board is formed by prominent members of the scientific and policy communities. It participates in four conferences at milestone moments in the project’s lifetime and contributes to on-going project assessment. The Advisory Board provide strategic advice in relation to project dissemination and assists the project management bringing in representatives from the scientific, policy, business and trade union communities for the two Stakeholders meetings planned in 2009 and 2010.

Name of Institutions	Team person in charge
University of Warwick	Peter Elias
DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, European Commission	Joao Medeiros
Eurostat	Veijo Ritola*
Centre d’Etudes de l’Emploi (CEE)	Nathalie Greenan
University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (UNSA)	Edward Lorenz
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)	Alessandra Colecchia*
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (EFILWC)	Agnès Parent-Thirion*
Adviser European Affairs	Johan Van Rens
University of Chicago	Julia Lane

* Some of the members of the Advisory Board are also involved in Meadow as Institutional observers.

The Institutional observers

A number of Institutional observers are invited to contribute to the Meadow project. They are of three categories: international organisations, national statistical services and other organisations from developing countries, and EU new member states. Some of these observers have upper-level administrative responsibility in organisations with national or international data collection expertise. Others bring an expertise that widens the geographical reach of the project or specific expertise directly relevant to the objectives of Meadow.

Country	Name of institutions	Team person in charge
France	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)	Alessandra Colecchia
Ireland	European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (EFILWC)	Agnès Parent-Thirion
UK	University of Warwick	Peter Elias
Luxembourg	Eurostat	Veijo Ritola
Belgium	DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, European Commission	Joao Medeiros
China	S&T Statistics Department, National Research Center for Science and Technology for Development	Gao Changlin
France	French Ministry of Employment - DARES	Elisabeth Algava
Hungary	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (HCSO)	Judith Lakatos
India	The Planning Commission Unit in Development Economics	Sunil Mani
Italy	Italian National Statistical Office (ISTAT)	Giulio Perani
Poland	Institute of Labour and Social Studies	Lukasz Sienkiewicz
Slovak Republic	Faculty of Management, Comenius University	Lubica Bajzikova
Sweden	Statistics Sweden (SCB)	Hans-Olof Hagén
Sweden	The Swedish Hotel and Restaurant Association (SHR)	Anette Nylund
Spain	European Agency for Safety and Health at work (OSHA)	William Cockburn