CENTRE FOR ACTIVITY THEORY AND DEVELOPMENTAL WORK RESEARCH, UNIVERSITY OF HELSINSKI

The Centre conducts research in work, technology, and organisations which are going through transformations and carries out development projects on change and learning in work organisations. It also creates and applies new conceptual tools for understanding and mastering transformations in work, technology, and organisations. Its current research focuses on mastering changes in team- and network-based learning organisations; technical innovations and organisation of research work; workplace communities and work ability in transition; and household work and coping with everyday life in families. The Centre offers consulting and training services to organisations facing major transformations and learning challenges.³³

TAMPERE SCOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE

The Tampere School of Public Health is a training and research institute. It has a long tradition in occupational health studies. It offers graduate training and doctoral and postgraduate education, including a degree programme which trains physicians to be "Specialists in Occupational Health." Research in occupational health includes investigating the association between work demands, health, functional capacity, and work ability in different occupational groups and among unemployed persons.³⁴