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FAOS - Employment Relations Research Centre
- Address :
- Oester Farimagsgade 5A, bld. 16
- 1014 Copenhagen
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Denmark
- Contact person :
- Mikkel Mailand, Head of Research
- Phone: +45 35 32 32 77
- Fax: + 45 35 32 39 40
- Email:mm@faos.dk
- Website:http://faos.sociologiskinstitut.dk/
Short description
FAOS - Employment Relations Research Centre - is a Research Centre at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen. FAOS was formed on 1 January 1990, as a research group attached to the Sociology Institute. On 1 January 1999 it was given the status of a research centre. FAOS employs 15 people. Since its formation, FAOS has focused on studies of the labour market, industrial and employment relations, applying Danish, Nordic and European perspectives. The Danish social partners and the collective bargaining system are at the core of the research activities of the centre. FAOS receives currently basic funding from trade unions, employers’ organisations and the Ministry of Employment for a 5-year period that expires in the end of 2008 and will be renegotiated. FAOS often applies as well for individualy financed projects. Currently, there are 12 full-time researchers employed by FAOS incl. PhD students.
FAOS' aims are the following:
- To add to the existing fund of basic knowledge of industrial and employment relations. This goal is to be achieved by conducing empirical and theoretical studies in Danish, European and global perspectives;
- To work in close association with related research environments in Denmark and other countries, with a particular focus on participation in joint comparative research projects with an international dimension.;
- To contribute to the training of Ph.D. students. ;
- To publish research results and to maintain a dialogue with the labour market parties and with the relevant political-administrative institutions.
Areas of expertise and competencies
FAOS is currently working within the framework of a 5-year research programme (2009 - 2013) entitled ‘Open markets and the Danish Model’, which is divided into four areas:
1) Political systems, labour market parties and regulation
2) Labour shortages and labour market inclusion
3) Towards new balances between flexibility and security
4) New forms of ownership, cooperation and regulation
Detailed information about the different research areas in English on the following website.
Work programme, strategic plan, projects
See the current research programme and related projects on the following website.
Publications, language, newsletter
Publications per year on the following website.
60 - 70% in Danish, rest is in English
- books and contributions to journals and anthologies (abstracts only)
- research paper series and conference papers (full text)
- FAOS newsletter (full text, Danish only)
- contributions to newspapers, newsletters and other media (often link from webpage, Danish only)
- contributions to EIRO (link from webpage)
Other networks the institute is participating in
In compliance with its goals, FAOS forms and joins many international researcher networks. The centre participates in research projects carried out in co-operation with the labour market parties.
FAOS has the status of a national centre under the European Industrial Relations Observatory.
Among other research networks FAOS has participated in ETUI research networks on the collective bargaining yearbook and on activation policy.