Projects | ROA

PIAAC

The OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) is an initiative of the OECD that assists governments in assessing, monitoring and analysing the level and distribution of skills among their adult populations…

Project Onderwijs-Arbeidsmarkt (POA)

This project focuses on the match between education and occupation, the substitution processes in the labour market, and generates the mid-term forecasts for the labour market perspectives for about 100 educational programmes and occupations,…

Refining pandemic strategies for schools: Multiscale modeling of their societal & public health impact [RE-PASS]

Schools are hotspots for transmission of newly emerging respiratory pathogens and are among the primary targets for pandemic measures. The decision on school interventions, such as closures, has been contentious due to their threat to…

School leaver surveys

Since the early 1990s, the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) has conducted large-scale surveys among school leavers to study their transition to further education and the labour market. Since 1996, these studies have…

Skills2Capabilities (Horizon Europe Project)

The Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) collaborates with eight European partner institutions in the Skills2Capabilities project, funded by Horizon Europe.This project aims to bring together a diverse set of related…

Tasks and skills at the workplace

In a production process, the execution of tasks leads to output in the form of products or services. Some tasks are performed by people, while other tasks are performed by machines. Human tasks, which are bundled in occupations, and machine…

Teacher Lab (LerarenLab)

How can we make the teaching profession more attractive? And how can we recruit and retain more — and better — teachers? These questions are at the heart of our Teacher Lab. Together with teachers, school leaders, and researchers,…

Technequality

Technequality aims to improve our understanding of the relation between current technological innovations (robotisation, automation, and digitisation) and social inequalities (income, skills, education, well-being and health) in European…

The Big Unknown: A Journey into Generative AI‘s Transformative Effect on Professions, starting with Medical Practitioners

This innovative research project investigates the integration of generative AI into medical practice, particularly focusing on its utility in enhancing the diagnostic capabilities of general practitioners in the Netherlands, Kenya, and…

The Future of Work in Germany (FoWiG)

This research project empirically assesses the consequences of implementing artificial intelligence for employment, productivity, quality of working life, and skills requirements of jobs. We study how ai transforms the work of human experts…