The European Commission recently established a new unit to promote Industry 5.0.

IER Director, Chris Warhurst, along with his TNO colleague Prof. Steven Dhondt has just published a policy brief from the Beyond 4.0 research project that examines why Industry 5.0 is needed as an industrial strategy in Europe and how it can be made to happen.

National, regional and sub regional level labour market and skills projections to 2035 have now been published as part of the Skills Imperative 2035 Programme with additional funding from the Department for Education (DfE) for the sub-regional analysis.

Director of IER, Chris Warhurst, chaired a panel in Brussels on 28 March to discuss the future of work. The panel was part of the end of project conference for Beyond 4.0.

The discussion focused on the limitations of Industry 4.0 and the opportunities for promoting Industry 5.0.

IER’s Professor Peter Elias, CBE, FAcSS, has been elected as a Fellow of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) which brings together an extensive network of statisticians from over 100 countries.

IER hosted a meeting at the RSA in London in mid-March on its initiative to establish a new National Centre for Creating Healthy Jobs.

The aim of the centre is to minimise the number of jobs that lead to ill-health and increase the number that support good health.