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Author: Maija Hirvonen, Scientific Coordinator of NewWorkTech (Tampere University), with contributions from Paola Vulterini, NewWorkTech project partner (Italian Association of People with Down Syndrome – AIPD) and edited by Raia Mihaylova, NewWorkTech project partner (The European Platform for Rehabilitation – EPR) In February 2026, I had the privilege of taking part in a seminar about participatory research at the University of Siegen, Germany. The seminar, "Participation

Authors: Annamari Korhonen and Dorothée Kraus, Tampere University Research teams at both Tampere University and the University of Copenhagen have started to review, organize and gradually analyze the data they have collected over the last nine months. In order to share our first observations and analyses of the data, both research teams are currently planning the conferences they will attend next year, and have started to prepare presentations for these. In order to present f

Authors: Tiziana Guzzo and Maria Chiara Caschera, National Research Council - Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies (CNR-IRPPS) Within the framework of NewWorkTech, project partner the National Research Council - Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies (CNR-IRPPS) held four co-creation events - both in-person and online - between September and October 2025 to gather opinions and insights on the different needs of people with disabilities in

Author: Annamari Korhonen, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Tampere University I’m on the morning train, following a visually impaired person on their trip to another city. It's a typical working day - for a post-doc researcher in an ethnographic research project, that is. In NewWorkTech (NWT), we want to help build a better world of work for everyone – and we want to do it through research at workplaces and on-the-job training environments. Finding points of success and witnes

TAMPERE, FINLAND, 6 December 2024 - A significant number of people experience functional restrictions at some point in their lives. Additionally, an estimated one-fifth of the global population lives with a long-term impairment or disability, and as a result, can face barriers at the workplace. A new EU-project called NewWorkTech has received €3 million in funding to improve employment opportunities for people with disabilities and critically examine related access technologi