Keyword: Entrepreneurship

Thank you for participating in WORK2021 conference on 8-9 December 2021! 

The umbrella theme for 2021 was the Work beyond crises – indeed the theme called for three separate conferences to valorize the multiple and complex aspects of the current crises, the ongoing transformations and global and local questions we face in the world of work.

Many of the paper presentations and discussions in the research streams in the second WORK2021 conference revolved around the challenges the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to working lives, personal lives and overall development of future work during and after pandemic. The questions of post-pandemic global working life were also present in the two plenaries as well as in the several papers presented in different research streams.

In the first part of WORK2021 conference series, WORK I, discussions revolved around the major challenges the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to people’s lives, working lives and personal living. These discussions revolved closely also to the future work life in the post-pandemic arena: how will it look like.

The winner of the Intoa! Entrepreneurial Act of the Year award for the academic year 2020–2021 was announced at this spring’s Entrepreneurship Day in collaboration with LähiTapiola Varsinais-Suomi. The winner is the Entrepreneurs in Residence (EiR) Programme at Turku School of Economics. The award was handed out for the first time in 2016. Together with external partners, the University of Turku has supported entrepreneurial acts with almost a quarter of a million with the Entrepreneurial Act of the Year competition.