Industry 5.0: A new approach fostering social innovation?!
TIME
Friday 22 September
14.00 – 15.30
TRACKS
Social Transition
ORGANISER
LOCATION
Auditorium
DESCRIPTION
AGENDA
14.00 – 14:05 Welcome (Antonius Schröder)
14.05 – 14.20 Introduction: Industry 5.0: An Approach Fostering Social Innovation?! (Antonius Schröder)
14.20 – 14.40 Combining Technological and Social Innovation (Michael Kohlgrüber)
14.40 – 15.00 BRIDGES 5.0: Bridging Risks to an Inclusive Digital and Green future by Enhancing workforce Skills for Industry 5.0 (Steven Dhondt / Peter Oeij)
15.00 – 15.20 Q & A
15.20 – 15.30 Conclusion (Antonius Schröder)
SPEAKERS
Peter Oeij
Senior Research Scientist TNO Innovation for Life

Peter Oeij
Senior Research Scientist TNO Innovation for LifePeter R. A. Oeij, Ph.D., is a senior research scientist & consultant affiliated with TNO Innovation for Life, a Research and Technology organisation in The Netherlands. His field of work is innovation management, workplace innovation, social innovation and team dynamics. Peter co-edited Workplace Innovation: Theory, Research and Practice (2017, Series 'Aligning Perspectives on Health, Safety and Well-Being’. Springer: Cham -Switzerland; DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-56333-6), ‘Workplace innovation – Social innovation: Shaping work organisation and working life’ (Special issue of World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable, 2016, 12(1), pp. 1-129), and ‘Workplace innovation in the era of disruptive technologies’ (Special Issue of International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation, 2019, 16(3), 199-309). Peter participated in the EU-project SI-DRIVE, Social Innovation: Driving Force of Social Change, which resulted in the publication of ‘Understanding social innovation as an innovation process’(2019), Journal of Business Research: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.04.028
Jürgen Howaldt
TU Dortmund – Social Research Center, Chair of ESSI

Jürgen Howaldt
TU Dortmund – Social Research Center, Chair of ESSIProf. Dr. Jürgen Howaldt is the director of Social Research Centre Dortmund, TU Dortmund University, and professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences. He is an internationally renowned expert in the field of social innovation and co-founder and chair of the European School of Social Innovation. He was the scientific coordinator of the global research project “SI-DRIVE - Social Innovation: Driving Force of Social Change”, funded within the 7th Framework Program of the European Union, and has co-edited the Atlas of Social Innovation (https://www.socialinnovationatlas.net/). His research focuses on social sciences-based innovation research and social innovation.
Michael Kohlgrüber
Senior Researcher Social Research Centre

Michael Kohlgrüber
Senior Researcher Social Research CentreDr Michael Kohlgrüber is senior researcher at Social Research Centre (sfs). His current research is focused on the integration of social and technological innovation in industrial companies. In the context of Industry4.0 and 5.0, he is developing and implementing social requirements related to the design of sociotechnical systems (technology-organization-people/skills), i.e., implementing social innovation processes, getting users and stakeholders of new technologies involved in defining social requirements. Among these requirements, he is analysing skill needs for the digital transformation and decarbonisation of industries and how they can be provided. Beside skills, he is doing research on other socio-economic aspects of the circular economy, such as creating awareness of relevant stakeholders, enabling collaboration between companies and stakeholders, considering transaction costs of establishing these collaborations. He is currently working on the projects - Blueprint “New Skills Agenda Steel”: Industry-driven sustainable European Steel Skills Agenda and Strategy (ESSA) - PURESCRAP - Purity improvement of scrap metal - BEYOND 4.0: Inclusive Futures for Europe BEYOND the impacts of Industrie 4.0 and Digital Disruption - BRIDGES 5.0: Bridging Risks to an Inclusive Digital and Green future by Enhancing workforce Skills for Industry 5.0 - greenSME - Driving manufacturing SME transformation towards green, digital and social sustainability
Steven Dhondt
Senior Researcher TNO

Steven Dhondt
Senior Researcher TNOSteven Dhondt is a senior researcher at TNO and visiting professor at the KU Leuven (Belgium). His main focus is on the impacts of the newest technologies on organisational and work practices. He coordinates at TNO the Smart Working-research programme, developing insights on the impacts of robotics and digitization on organisational practices. You can hear in the press a lot about the platform economy, cobotisation of industry and other new developments in the Dutch economy: most of this research is connected to the work of Steven and his team. Next to his research work, he has been pushing the European learning network on Workplace Innovation (EUWIN) since 2013. Within TNO and KU Leuven, he is responsible for the multi-annual projects H2020 Beyond4.0, H2020 GI-NI and HorizonEurope BRIDGES 5.0 projects.