Tilburg Uni: Law starts research centre on flexible labour

The Faculty of Law is to set up a multidisciplinary centre for research on flexible labour. Economists and social scientists will also participate. Tilburg Flexicurity Center is the name of the new centre, which plans to open its doors in September 2007. Ton Wilthagen, professor of Social Law and Social Policy at Tilburg University, has been nominated to lead the centre. Wilthagen has established a European research network in this field, and serves as an advisor to the European Commission. In addition, the Faculty of Law hopes to attract a top foreign researcher. A group of researchers from Economics and Social Sciences will also take part in the research activities of the centre. The centre's research will focus on the field of tension between flexibility and dynamics surrounding labour. And since the balance between the social, economic, and legal aspects of labour is a European topic at the moment, the initiators of the Tilburg Flexicurity Center are counting on the necessary EU projects. For now, only a small university contribution is required: 25,000 euro, plus the finances to appoint a part-time top researcher.//Univers