Travel - including by scientists - is currently idle, so scientific exchange across university or even national borders is a challenge. One way out is to create suitable online formats. As one of the first institutions at Trier University, the IAAEU organised a single-day online workshop on Friday, 10 July 2020, in cooperation with the Chair of Personnel Economics at department IV, on the topic of "Job Security and Employment Protection".
The response to the workshop was already high in the early planning phase: Many scientists showed interest in participating in the workshop and presenting their current research. All in all, there were significantly more inquiries than there were slots available for presentations. In the end, more than 50 people had registered to participate in the workshop in order to follow the eight presentations on the topics of job and employment security, protection against dismissal, employee fluctuation and unemployment insurance, and then to have lively discussions in the plenary session. Only the networking and the direct exchange between individual scientists is, unfortunately - for technical reasons - somewhat neglected in an online conference. But it is also clear that this workshop was a successful example of how scientific exchange can take place online when face-to-face meetings are not possible.
Based on the encouraging experiences and the consistently positive feedback, the IAAEU plans to expand the range of such workshops in the coming semester and to organise a series of thematically focused short conferences. Further information on this will soon be available on our homepage. The website of last Friday's workshop is still available here.
The response to the workshop was already high in the early planning phase: Many scientists showed interest in participating in the workshop and presenting their current research. All in all, there were significantly more inquiries than there were slots available for presentations. In the end, more than 50 people had registered to participate in the workshop in order to follow the eight presentations on the topics of job and employment security, protection against dismissal, employee fluctuation and unemployment insurance, and then to have lively discussions in the plenary session. Only the networking and the direct exchange between individual scientists is, unfortunately - for technical reasons - somewhat neglected in an online conference. But it is also clear that this workshop was a successful example of how scientific exchange can take place online when face-to-face meetings are not possible.
Based on the encouraging experiences and the consistently positive feedback, the IAAEU plans to expand the range of such workshops in the coming semester and to organise a series of thematically focused short conferences. Further information on this will soon be available on our homepage. The website of last Friday's workshop is still available here.