In the last quarter of 2022, ELA will organize a conference at its Headquarters in Bratislava, Slovakia, to discuss innovative technological solutions supporting application and enforcement of labour mobility rules. 

For this purpose, ELA is also launching a call for papers to gather and share knowledge about the most advanced IT tools and solutions using innovative technologies in support of the labour mobility. Selected papers will be presented by the proponents during the conference in Bratislava.  

The conference will bring together all relevant players within national authorities, industry, and academia to exchange knowledge, expertise and experience, but also to identify current trends, developments, and best practices in the field. 

We are looking for smart and innovative ideas, tools, and best practices! Do not miss the opportunity to participate to the Conference: submit your paper at https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/CALLFORPAPERS2022 by July 31st, 2022. 

All proposals within the scope of labour mobility are welcome, whether from well-established companies in the technological sector, start-ups enterprises, governmental and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), academic institutions or individual initiatives. 

An indicative, but not exhaustive, list of innovative and ready to use digital solutions that the Authority is interested in, with the aim of being presented at this Conference are: 

• Business Analytics and Data Analytics over extensive sets of data related to labour mobility; 

• Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence and algorithms for practical applications and solutions for labour market and labour mobility related data; 

• Information tools, such as mobile applications, Chatbots, or other non-traditional solutions to provide digital information enabling effective information provisions on applicable rights and obligations for individuals, workers and employers related to exercise of free movement of workers and companies, social security, and compliance with the labour rules; 

• Use of blockchain technology, or other distributed ledger technologies, to ensure the security, robustness, and reliability of data regarding labour mobility within and across European Union Member States; 

• Strategies or solutions for real time, or on demand, unattended information exchange for national authorities; 

• Solutions for secure and, to the legally extent possible, anonymised interoperability of systems to exchange information among Member States over dispersed information sets; 

• Automation of processes related to practical application of labour mobility rules; 

• Digital access to services for individuals, mobile workers, and employers vis a vis national authority responsible for Labour Mobility, such as the on-line fulfilment of applicable obligations or exercise of social security rights; 

• Other technological ideas, that could have potential application in the field of Labour Mobility for cross-border cooperation, including “new” forms of labour mobility, notably platform work, cross-border telework/remote work. 

Call for papers - Digital solutions for labour mobility | ELA TECH Conference 2022