February 11 All day
Conference
Up-Skill project final conference. Hybrid – in‑person and online.
Programme and registration: https://www.upskill-horizon.eu/final-conference
The conference explores the mechanisms by which Industry 5.0 might move more rapidly from a policy brief to everyday practice in European manufacturing firms.
We draw on experiences from our own technology interventions and detailed ethnographic work conducted within the Horizon-funded Up-Skill project, and we also draw directly on insights from firms themselves, related projects, policymakers, academic experts, and union representatives in order to identify the drivers of, and barriers to, positive change.
While uptake of Industry 5.0 principles is slowly beginning to occur, it is still far from constituting a transformation or paradigm shift. Focusing on human-centricity, we explore how the process of change might be accelerated, and what we might learn from both social theory and practical experience to support this transition.
The Up-Skill project addresses the workforce implications of industry 5.0, in particular, the relationship between automation choices and maintenance of skilled work, exploring the strategic space in production where automation adds value to skilled and artisanal work and where over-automation risks undermining the value of what is produced.
