Together with the University of Tampere (Finland) and Synergia (Italy), empirica together with Versicherungsverbund “Die Continentale” , Deutsche Bank and SAP has started the Active@Work project on 1 November 2004. The objectives of the German sub-project are the:

• development of concepts of alternative working arrangements for an age diverse workforce in three user organisations,
• partial implementation of these concepts on a pilot basis, and
• evaluation of the implementation process throughout the entire piloting process.

The project will run until October 2006 and is partially funded by the European Commission though the European Social Funds Art. 6 programme.d