Current technological innovations in robotics, artificial intelligence, data and computing power are nothing short of revolutionary. These developments invite many pressing societal questions. How will work change? Will jobs be destroyed? What new jobs will be created? What skills should we learn? Can everybody master these skills? How should they best be taught?
But also: who will benefit most from these technological developments? How do inequalities change? Are social groups affected differently? And, importantly, what can governments do to cushion technological inequalities?
TECHNEQUALITY brings together a multidisciplinary group of leading scholars from Europe's most renowned universities and research institutes to answer these questions and work with policy-makers to co-create policies that work.
In our first TECHNEQUALITY newsletter you can read about some of the activities we had in the first year, some articles that we wrote (or were written about us) and about our ...
Healthy bodies, skilled minds? Or how to prepare today's youth for tomorrow's labour market. Madam Rector Magnificus, highly educated professiors, dear colleagues, dear friend...
How to make a more cohesive, smarter, greener and more secure EU and what are the challenges of the digital transformation? October 2019, two researchers of the Tech...
Goal Expert Meeting The Technequality consortium organised an Expert Meeting that brought together three types of experts. First, experts at the foref...
Welfare state solutions may ensure that tech revolutions don't lead to mass unemployment and inequality, but what are the consequences? More countries than ever before are showing interest in the idea of a basic income a...
Tech innovations will change the skills needed for the labour market. Are education systems in Europe prepared to provide us with these skills? Technological innovations continuously alter the skills needed in the labour market. This ...
How are social inequalities related to tech innovations? Will classic predictors of social inequality still have the same influence on social mobility? It is probable that workers who cannot master the skills required to work with machines in their respec...
Automation technologies will have an important impact on the European labour market, but what exactly will this look like? A growing literature suggests that the next wave of automation technologies will have an important impact in Europe...
Across Europe, automation may lead to a fall in taxable wage income. What are the consequences for public finances at a local and regional level? In many European countries, income tax and collective contributions make up a considerable part of...
Machines may go from being tools to workers. Will they then start to outcompete us? How do today's tech revolutions compare to previous ones? Some predict that the impact of current waves of automation and robotics on the labour marke...
How can we maximise the impact of our results and ensure that they are used for creating relevant political solutions? TECHNEQUALITY is designed to co-create theoretical understanding, empirical research and policy work between re...
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In a recent report, Technequality offers 8 possible future scenarios describing how AI and robotics will affect labour markets in Europe. In almost all scenario's, jobs are heavily impacted. How can we react to this? Read the report here: https://t.co/x4vpIe2vbC https://t.co/UzgYd9Q0QT
AI transforming some tasks of HR - perceived as positive by workers. An amazing start by @MarieCFregin at the project meeting at @WZB_Berlin https://t.co/pThMwBMPGr
Can an algorithm do tasks better than humans? https://t.co/wUuHw0EFAw
And what would the ethical consequences be?
https://t.co/a9SmB97bhh