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Prof. Francisco Muñoz-Leiva from the University of Granda participated in the AEDEM International Conference held at Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy, between August 31st and September 2nd, 2025. He delivered presentation based on the semistructured interviews conducted among freelancers and company representatives who hire freelancers: Bridging the gap: Freelancers’ skills versus competencies’ demand Highlights:

On the 16th of July prof. Tetiana Vakaliuk from the Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University visited Krakow University of Economics. During the meeting with Grażyna Paliwoda-Pękosz, the project coordinator, and dr Svitlana Didkivska, the project’s upcoming tasks and publication plans were discussed.

Prof. Dana Simian, the chair of the International Conference on Applied Informatics, Imagination, Creativity, Design, Development – ICDD2025 (Sibiu, 29-31.04.2025), took the opportunity to introduce the project to the conference participants: students and IT researchers. The challenges and opportunities of freelancing were discussed.

The project partners are collaborating not only on tasks directly related to the project but also in other areas. On November 28, Grażyna Paliwoda-Pękosz (Krakow University of Economics) delivered an online lecture to students of the Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University, at the invitation of Professor Tetiana Vakaliuk. The lecture was titled “Overview of Metaheuristic Methods.”

✨ Prof. Vladan Ivanović from the University of Kragujevac participated in the Conference “Gender, Technology & Power” held in Warsaw between the 2nd of 4th of September 2025, where he presented the paper: Structured, Narrative, and Stylistic Signals:Self-Presentation and Success in Platform Labour. 🔎 The research explores how freelancers present themselves online, and how different…

During the meeting the ongoing work on the completion of the report related to the global freelancer market picture was summarised. Besides, the progress in the analysis of interviews conducted with freelancers and company representatives was assessed. The plans for paper development on the basis of the project work was discussed. The meeting on the…