EU-CoWork’s ambition is to develop an evidence basis for and subsequently develop, test and evaluate tailored Compassionate Workplaces Programs in Europe to leverage the positive impacts and existing assets of workplaces and mitigate the negative impacts and challenges of the new ways of working for the mental and physical health and wellbeing of employees faced with end-of-life experiences (such as loss, grief, dying, death, serious illness and care giving) and their colleagues.
A significant proportion of employees will encounter end-of-Life experiences during their professional life. Such experiences affect employees and their colleagues’ health and wellbeing, but also the work environment in terms of productivity and safety. The digitalisation and the green transitions have influenced the job demands and resources of jobs and work environments such that employees can feel less or not supported when coping with EoL experiences.
EU-CoWork is a Horizon Europe project in which we want to explore the exposure to psychosocial risks inherent to these new ways of working, their impact on employee mental and physical health and wellbeing outcomes, and evaluate how compassionate workplaces can mitigate these effects. The project will develop Compassionate Workplace Programs (CWPs) tailored to the European context and individual workplace characteristics, and evaluate their effectiveness for European workplaces. EU-CoWork will co-creatively develop CWPs in 12 workplaces across 4 European countries (Belgium, Sweden, Austria and Greece), employing developmental evaluation and an international mixed methods process and impact evaluation.
With this project, the EU-CoWork consortium wants to offer insights and building blocks to create work environments that ensure adequate and tailored support and policy to counter-balance experiences that may exacerbate the risk for adverse mental health and wellbeing outcomes for employees.
EU-CoWork has its own designated website, consult it for more information.
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