Com­pe­tence Cen­ter for Labor Rese­arch for Rhi­ne­land-Pala­ti­na­te and Saar­land foun­ded under the name "KOMATRA"

The Ger­man Fede­ral Minis­try of Edu­ca­ti­on and Rese­arch is pro­vi­ding 10 mil­li­on euros in fun­ding for the pro­ject "Sha­ping Trans­for­ma­ti­on in the Saar-Pfalz Cor­ri­dor of the Future: Value-based Working and Lear­ning in the Cir­cu­lar Economy/ Kom­pe­tenz­zen­trum Ar-beits­for­schung: Trans­for­ma­ti­on im Zukunfts­kor­ri­dor Saar-Pfalz gestal­ten — wer­te­ori­en­tier­tes Ler­nen und Arbei­ten in der Kreis­lauf­wirt­schaft " (KOMATRA)

Uphe­avals and pro­ces­ses of chan­ge in the regio­nal eco­no­mic struc­tures in Saar­land and Rhein-land-Pfalz pose major chal­lenges to working envi­ron­ments. This appli­es both to indus­tries un-der­go­ing struc­tu­ral chan­ge, such as the auto­mo­ti­ve sec­tor, and to par­ti­cu­lar­ly dyna­mic growth indus­tries, such as medi­cal tech­no­lo­gy. Working and lear­ning must be ret­hought, for­ward-loo­king, dyna­mic and geared to the spe­ci­fic requi­re­ments of com­pa­nies and employees in or-der to ensu­re a sus­tainable eco­no­my. The anchor point for this trans­for­ma­ti­on is for­med by values as the core of com­pe­tence ori­en­ta­ti­on and work design. An exam­p­le of this is sus­taina-bili­ty from an eco­lo­gi­cal, eco­no­mic and social per­spec­ti­ve. Based on the exam­p­le of the cir­cu-lar eco­no­my, new forms of working, lear­ning and regio­na­li­ty are tes­ted within the frame­work of KOMATRA accor­ding to the latest sci­en­ti­fic fin­dings and in coope­ra­ti­on with regio­nal com­pa­nies. In this way, KOMATRA offers com­pa­nies in Germany's Saar-Pfalz regi­on ori­en­ta-tion in the rea­lignment of their work pro­ces­ses and busi­ness models.

The results are dis­se­mi­na­ted via trans­for­ma­ti­on coa­ches, public events, social part­ner­ships and cross-indus­try con­fe­ren­ces. The deve­lo­p­ment of lear­ning oppor­tu­ni­ties and work design ap-proa­ches is embedded in an inter­di­sci­pli­na­ry rese­arch design that will also gene­ra­te pro­fi­ta­ble sci­en­ti­fic fin­dings in the fields of labor rese­arch, edu­ca­ti­on sci­ence, tech­no­lo­gy deve­lo­p­ment and cir­cu­lar eco­no­my.

Back­ground: The future of value crea­ti­on: regio­nal com­pe­tence cen­ters for labor rese­arch

With KOMATRA, the Ger­man Fede­ral Minis­try of Edu­ca­ti­on and Rese­arch (BMBF) is laun­ching the second round of fun­ding for the Regio­nal Com­pe­tence Cen­ters for Labor Re-search. The focus is on the topics of "health", "lea­der­ship" and "cir­cu­lar eco­no­my". With the Regio­nal Com­pe­tence Cen­ters for Labor Rese­arch, the BMBF is pur­suing the goal of inte­grat-ing labor rese­arch more clo­se­ly with work design in com­pa­ny prac­ti­ce and uni­ver­si­ty edu­ca-tion. With a focus on the strengths of their respec­ti­ve regi­ons, the com­pe­tence cen­ters are to be estab­lished as a cen­tral point of cont­act in sci­ence in order to direct rese­arch spe­ci­fi­cal­ly to the chal­lenges in the regio­nal working envi­ron­ments and to sup­port the trans­fer into com­pa­ny prac­ti­ce and the breadth of socie­ty.

The KOMATRA pro­ject is being fun­ded by the Fede­ral Minis­try of Edu­ca­ti­on and Rese­arch under the "Future of Value Crea­ti­on: Regio­nal Com­pe­tence Cen­ters for Labor Rese­arch" pro-gram with around 10 mil­li­on euros over a peri­od of five years and is being sup­port­ed by the Pro­jekt­trä­ger KA.

Coope­ra­ti­on in the inter­di­sci­pli­na­ry pro­ject net­work

The pro­ject is hea­ded by Prof. Dr. Mat­thi­as Rohs, sci­en­ti­fic direc­tor of the Insti­tu­te for Tech-nolo­gy and Work e.V. (ITA) and hol­der of the Chair for Adult Edu­ca­ti­on at the Rhi­ne­land-Pala­ti­na­te Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty Kai­sers-lau­tern-Land­au (RPTU). In addi­ti­on to the ITA and the RPTU, other fun­ded part­ner insti­tu­ti­ons are the Insti­tu­te for Social Rese­arch and Social Eco­no­my (iso) e.V., Trier Uni­ver­si­ty of Appli­ed Sci­en­ces with the Envi­ron­men­tal Cam­pus Bir­ken­feld, the Cen­ter for Me-cha­tro­nics and Auto­ma­ti­on Tech­no­lo­gy (ZeMA) gGmbH, the AWS Insti­tu­te for digi­ta-le Pro­ducts and Pro­ces­ses gGmbH, saarland.innovation&standort e.V. and Arbeit und Leben gGmbH, as well as the Uni­ver­si­ty Medi­cal Cen­ter of the Johan­nes Guten­berg Uni­ver­si­ty Mainz with the Guten­berg Health Hub. As fun­ded cor­po­ra­te and appli-cati­on part­ners, Loh­mann & Rauscher GmbH & Co. KG, Bal­dus Medi­zin­tech­nik GmbH, the Well­go Group, ISL Group Manage­ment GmbH and Woll Maschi­nen­bau GmbH are joi­ning the pro­ject.

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