Events
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Future events
15 October 2025, Seminar, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Seminar about Ghostwork and the invisible labour behind AI (in Dutch), organized by Tessa Duzee en Martijn Arets.
4 December 2025, Early Career Researcher workshop on Platform work, Utrecht University
A full day with presentations, workshops and a keynote by Jeroen Meijerink (University of Twente). Organized by Koen Frenken (Utrecht University).
10-11 February 2026, 6th Annual ETUI Conference ‘Future of Work’, Brussels
The aim of this ETUI conference is not to take stock of, and to advance the discussion on, the implications of digital technology for labour processes, work organisation, and labour market dynamics — and the challenges it poses for labour law frameworks.
Past events
4 June 2025, Second Workshop on the EU Platform Work Directive, The Hague
Focus on Chapter III-VI
16 April 2025, First Workshop on the EU Platform Work Directive, The Hague
Focus on Chapter I-II
24 January 2025, Annual Day, PlatWork-r consortium, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Presentations and discussion with stakeholders. Special guests were Claartje ter Hoeven – Erasmus University Rotterdam and Catalina Goanta – Utrecht University
24-25 October 2024, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
RW conference 2024 – Reshaping Work, sponsored by PlatWork-R
17 April 2024, Utrecht, The Netherlands, PlatWork-r PhD School, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Full-day with PhD presentations and keynotes speeches., organised by Anne Joppe (Utrecht University) and Gabriël van Rosmalen (Utrecht University)
20-21 February 2024, Future of Work: rethinking workers’ rights in the digital age, ETUI conference, Brussels, Belgium
Presentation by Gabriël van Rosmalen and many others. Recording available via this link (Gabriël’s presentation starts at 2h06m54)
5 February 2024, Annual Day, PlatWork-r consortium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Presentations by Koen Frenken, Wendy Smits, Kurt Vandaele, Gabriël van Rosmalen and Lex Mandos and discussion with stakeholders. Key themes of the day: i. CBS-data on platform workers and platforms, ii. willingness to unionize among platform workers, iii. collective labour agreements between platform workers and platforms.
14 November 2023, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Book launch (in Dutch): Tim Christiaens (2023) De Kluseconomie. Voor uitbuiting: klik ‘aanvaard’. School of Governance, Utrecht University.
1 December 2023, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tinbergen Institute Workshop on Platform Economics, Venue: Tinbergen Institute, Gustav Mahlerplein 117, Amsterdam. With talks by Julian Wright (National University of Singapore), Lucia Bonova (European Commission Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP)) and Paul Tang (European Parliament).
9-11 October 2023, Berlin, Germany
Mirte van Hout (UU, PhD student, PlatWork-r) presented her paper on platformization in the Dutch mental health sector on the 6th conference of the International Network on Digital Labor (https://www.indl.network/) in Berlin, 9-11 October.
22-23 May 2023, Vienna, Austria
International Workshop on the Sharing Economy (IWSE), Vienna. Koen Frenken gave a keynote on the development of the sharing economy from different perspectives. Full program available here. The following emerging topics for future research and practice were identified: sharing in rural areas, offline sharing, B2B sharing, transferability of knowledge across different contexts, new regulatory approaches, inclusivity, cooptation practices, and sharing and circularity. The 2024 edition of IWSE will be organised by Vadim Grinevich at the School of Management, University of Bradford, UK.
17 January 2023, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Kickoff event NWO NWA PlatWork-r with all stakeholders. Presentations by Hanneke Bennaars (Allen & Overy), Anna Gerbrandy (Utrecht University) and Koen Frenken (Utrecht University).
12 January 2023, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Academic workshop ‘Platform Economy’, with presentations by Damion Bunders (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Rense Corten (Utrecht University), Andrea Herrmann (Radboud University Nijmegen), Nikos Koutsimpogiorgos (Utrecht University), Vili Lehdonvirta (University of Oxford) and Juliet Schor (online) (Boston College).
13-14 October 2022, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Reshaping Work 2022, sponsored by PlatWork-R. Special panel debate on ‘Platforms and Regulatory Landscapes’, chaired by Koen Frenken (Utrecht University). Watch here.