Paths2Include

Attention will be made on the importance of how context puts people in vulnerable positions within three central labour market processes: recruitment, career trajectories, and work exit. Furthermore, the project will focus on predicting risk factors of vulnerability in the future of work.

We will employ a harmonized cross-national factorial survey experiment and qualitative interviews with employers to gain a better understanding of why and under which contextual conditions barriers are shaped, and how to develop inclusive practices. Moreover, we will use available harmonized data sets to conduct comparative quantitative analyses and microsimulations to generate best practices that promote inclusion in employment and decent work.

Paths2Include will provide insights on how institutional and contextual factors shape barriers for persons in vulnerable situations. Based on this knowledge, the project will develop proposals for effective policies combating labour market discrimination on the EU labour market.

In addition to Norway, these countries participate in the project: Germany, Romania, Italy, Luxemburg, Spain, Belgium and Poland.

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Closing conference

The project’s final conference will take place in Brussels, Belgium on 3 February 2026 and will to be a key tool for dissemination and incubator for new partnerships for the take-up of PATHS2INCLUDE data in policy and practice.

The aim will be to:

Present key research findings emerging from the PATHS2INCLUDE research, highlighting key points of vulnerability in different labour market scenarios as well as new knowledge on best practice in labour market inclusion;
Connect participants working on inclusive labour markets from different perspectives at national and EU level; and
Discuss how different EU policy and legal frameworks can provide potential solutions to these vulnerabilities, and different scenarios to develop inclusive labour markets for persons in vulnerable situations.