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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:

✨ 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…

Three project team members from Kraków University of Economics (Grażyna Paliwoda-Pękosz, Paweł Konkol, Jakub Kanclerz) participated in the America’s Conference on Information Systems held in Montreal, Canada between 14th and 16th of August. They took an opportunity during informal and formal talks to spread information about the project. Grażyna Paliwoda-Pękosz presented the paper: Dymek, D.,…

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.

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…

On the 10th of June 2025 Grażyna Paliwoda-Pękosz and Dmytro Antoniuk delivered the presentation “Towards Fostering Entrepreneurship through Freelancing” during the XVIIInternational Scientific Conference of the College of Management and Quality Sciences of the Krakow University of Economics. The presentation was followed by a discussion shading new perspectives on our research, including the motivation for…

On the 4th of June 7th the monthly progress meeting was held, where we discussed:

On the 3rd of June 2025, prof. Vladan Ivanović gave interview in euronews.SERBIA talking about the freelancer market and our project.

Prof. Vladan Ivanović from the University of Kragujevac participated in the International Conference “Platform Work in South East Europe: Feminist Futures in the Gold Economy”, held at the University of Shkodra “Luigj Gurakuqi” under the auspices of the COST Action CA21118 – Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (P-WILL). On Friday, the 23rd of May 2025…

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.