Working Group 3 Tool Box

Working Group 3 Tool Box

WG3: Tool Box. Collection of the policy tools that have been implemented at national, regional and local levels, and their effects on new working spaces. This knowledge will allow to develop a tool box containing stranghts and weaknesses related to the activation and non activation of policy tools. This WP will include the following activities: Task 3.1 Collection and discussion about the policy tools developed to foster the development of new working spaces both directly and indirectly. In the first case, policies are addressed to these specific places, which are recognised as important for the socioeconomic development of the territory; in the second case, policies addressed, for instance, to the promotion of employment and innovation, detaxation, use of public space, are adopted by new working spaces; Task 3.2 collection and discussion of the positve and negative effects these policy tools have had on new working spaces and the socio-economic urban context (i.e. they might have worsen the situation, or given rise to imperfect competition); Task 3.3 Identify strenghts and weaknesse of the policy tools and proposition of tailored policies, with the involvement of stakeholders, and develop guidelines

 

WG3 leader Carolina Pacchi carolina.pacchi@polimi.it

WG3 vice leader Maria Chiara Barzotto mb2602@bath.ac.uk

WG3 vice leader Lenka Smékalová smekalova@utb.cz

 

The WG3 has launched a survey on NeWSps related policies and guidelines. The aim is to collect information on policies to work on a comparative assessment of practices and provide recommendations towards a common European framework for promoting NeWSps (among the countries involved in the survey: the Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Romania, the United Kingdom, Norway,Slovakia and the USA)

 

Working group members

Ignasi Capdevila, ignasi.capdevila@gmail.com

Briony Supple, briony.supple@ucc.ie

Cecilia Manzo, cecilia.manzo@unifi.it

Amnon Frankel, amnonf@technion.ac.il

Jacques Teller, jacques.teller@ulg.ac.be

Petr Dubrosky, dubovsky@utb.cz

Therese Bajada, University of Malta therese.bajada@um.edu.mt

Johan Barstad, johan@hlb.no

Stefania FIORENTINO, UCL University, stefania.fiorentino@ucl.ac.uk

Bernadine SATARIANO,University of Malta, bernadine.satariano@um.edu.mt

Aksel Ersoy -TU Delft A.Ersoy@tudelft.nl

 

 

Published 20. November 2019 - 15:49 - Updated 12. July 2022 - 9:27

New Working Spaces

The COST Action CA18214 'The geography of New Working Spaces and the impact on the periphery' focuses on i) sharing the scientific outcomes on new working spaces (definitions, typologies and geographical distributions) ii) comparing the best practices and direct and indirect impacts with a particular focus on the periphery iii) sharing the policy tools across the countries.

The CA18214 provides a interdisciplinary perspective on New Working Spaces which are classified as follows: i) collaborative and creative working spaces (coworking spacesand smart work centres); (ii) makerspaces and other technical spaces (fablabs, open workshops); (iii) other new working spaces (hackerspaces, Living Lab and corporate labs); (iv) informal new working spaces (coffee shops and libraries).