– connected with the 18th International Symposium in Management (SIM 2025), Timișoara
Following the launch of the HUB 5.0 Timișoara initiative on April 4, 2025, we are pleased to announce a new milestone in advancing the vision of Industry and Society 5.0—where people remain at the center of business, the economy, and society, with technology serving as an enabler: a Hybrid International Workshop on Industry and Society 5.0, taking place on October 23, 2025, from 16:00 to 19:00 EET, in Timișoara, alongside the 18th International Symposium in Management (SIM 2025).
This workshop marks a significant contribution from Timișoara—particularly from ErgoWork, UVT, and UPT—to shaping the future of Industry and Society 5.0. In recent months, these organizations have played a key role in the formation of a new European consortium, currently preparing a Horizon Europe application, which brings together over 20 partners from across the continent.
The workshop offers an open platform for all members of the European Community of Practice on Industry 5.0 (CoP 5.0.) to engage, share ideas, and contribute to the co-creation of Europe’s future in this domain. Thematic discussions will include:
- Human-Centricity and AI
- Twin Transformation for Advanced Manufacturing
- Human Factor, New Ways of Working, and Business Models
- Upskilling and Organizational Learning
- Standardization and Policy Proposals
- Community and Social Integration, with a focus on proximity coworking networks in the context of 15-minute cities, the meaning and fusion of work, third spaces, outdoor office work, artistic interventions, and community gardening—among other topics.
Between 23–25 October, in connection with SIM 2025, we are also organizing the second International Assembly of Outdoor Office Pioneers, following the 2024 edition held in Sweden, in the same last year Outdoor Office BarCamp (#oobc25) format.
We are honored to welcome Charlotte Petersson Troije, PhD in Work Life Science, Lecturer in Leadership and Organization at the Department of Urban Studies, Malmö University (Sweden), and Affiliated Researcher at the Academy for Health, Care and Welfare, Mälardalen University (Västerås, Sweden). She will deliver a special workshop session on: “The Potential of Outdoor Office Work for Innovative and Sustainable Ways of Organizing.”
This session builds upon a 15-year exploration of the possibilities of bringing traditional indoors/office work activities, outdoors. Based on collaborative research projects in Sweden and Denmark, involving over 200 white-collar workers from eighteen workplaces, and researchers from numerous scientific disciplines, the topic has been investigated in interaction between theory and practice.
Charlotte Petersson Troije has a varied work background, from different businesses and sectors (insurance, hotel, cosmetics, and more). Over the past couple of decades, she has been working with different projects and courses in the context of higher education and been extra engaged in furthering collaborative research practices. She finalized her PhD dissertation “Turning Work Inside Out: Exploring Outdoor Office Work” in 2024 and is now eager to develop new meaningful ways of continuing the exploration!
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