The Trade Union related Research Institutes (TURI) network aims at establishing a structural, non-thematic and long-term platform for formal contacts between the institutes supporting the trade union movement across Europe, thereby building the foundations for more and better collaboration and knowledge-sharing between them and integrating in a more natural way the European dimension in their research work. TURI should facilitate the emergence of common projects; it is a tool for mapping expertise and aims at helping trade union related institutes to engage in comparative research. TURI is a joint initiative of the ETUI and the Hans Böckler Foundation.
The implementation of the TURI project started in November 2007 and the network has been inaugurated by its initial members - 25 TURIs from 16 European countries - on their first meeting on 14 February 2008. Currently, TURI has 31 full members and 10 associated members. The institutes are heterogeneous in terms of size, financing and areas of expertise, but they all confirm the need for trade union related research institutes to pool their knowledge and competences on a European level in order to match the needs of the trade unions today. Many of the socioeconomic questions dealt with on a national level are of relevance for all or most trade unions in Europe. The various processes on the European and global level need European and global responses, and this goes for the research as well. Hence, there seems to be a need for a more systematic and formal approach to cooperation between the TURIs in Europe. The TURI platform should not substitute existing thematic networks, but rather be a centre for the establishment of future thematic networks when needed.
List of TURI members
Full members:
Bundesarbeiterkammer (AK), Austria
HIVA - Research Institute for Work and Society, Belgium
Chair Labour-University (Chaire Travail-Université), Belgium
Institute for Social and Trade Union Research, Education and Training (ISTURET), Bulgaria
Institute for Social, Economic and Trade Union Research (ISETUR), Bulgaria
AE (ECLM), Denmark
FAOS, Denmark
European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), EU
Observatoire social européen (OSE), EU
Labour Institute for Economic Research, Finland
IRES, France
Institut für Makroökonomie und Konjunkturforschung (IMK), Germany
Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut (WSI), Germany
Koinoniko Polykentro - ADEDY, Greece
Labour Institute of the Greek General Confederation (INE/GSEE), Greece
Economic and Social Research Institute of Trade Union (ESRITU), Hungary
Policy Agenda (PA), Hungary
Nevin Economic Research Institute (NERI), Ireland
Cisl Study Center, Italy
Fondazione Tarantelli, Italy
EURISPES, Italy
Fondazione Di Vittorio (FDV), Italy
Lithuanian Social Research Centre, Lithuania
Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research, Norway
Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), Poland
Instituto Ruben Rolo, Portugal
PRÁXIS, Portugal
Fundacion 1° de Mayo, Spain
Fundación Francisco Largo Caballero, Spain
SALTSA programme, Sweden
De Burcht, The Netherlands
Labour Research Department (LRD), UK
Associated members:
Praxis Center for Policy Studies, Estonia
Centre Etudes & Prospective of Groupe ALPHA, France
Syndex, France
ISTEL, Italy
IRES Emilia Romagna, Italy
Arbeitsförderungsinstitut – Istituto Promozione Lavoratori (AFI-IPL), Italy
CES (Centre for social studies/ University of Coimbra), Portugal
Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI), Slovakia
Centre for Organisational and Human Resources Research, Slovenia
Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS), The Netherlands