The Institute  

The non-profit research institute for innovative and preventive job design (FIAP e.V.) was founded on 23rd February 2010 by a group of scientists from different disciplines who are connected by the questions and problems of a modern working environment.
The institute carries out interdisciplinary research projects to investigate fundamental and applied problems in the field of job design and prevention.
In its government-funded projects and research it deals with the following subjects:

• Analysis and design of new, more flexible forms of work and employment and occupation
• Dangers to health and possibilities of a job design which is beneficial to health within knowledge work and services
• Increase in professionalism and organisational structuring of knowledge work and services
• Analysis and structuring of cross-border work in Europe
• Analysis and structuring of flexible work and organisational cultures
• developing intercultural educational services

The FIAP team left to right: Lan Yao, Susanne Tönnishoff, Richard Jones, Rüdiger Klatt, Silke Steinberg, David Hawig, Romina Wendt, Marie Jegu, Daniel Grave