TU Dortmund University is located in the city of Dortmund in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The university was founded in 1968. The Social Research Centre – as the institute operating in PURESCRAP - is a scientific institution of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the TU Dortmund University. Our research focuses on social science innovation research and labour research.

The Social Research Centre of TU Dortmund University will

  • analyse the social impact of the technologies developed in PURESCRAP and correlated training/ upskilling demands
  • investigate the social impact of PURESCRAP solutions on workers. This includes analysis of potential occupational safety and health risks (OSH) and impact on job tasks of affected workers and accordingly changes on skill requirements.
  • explore ways to improve gender equality and to include marginalised groups (migrants, older workers, unemployed youth) with a view to improved scrap processing
  • identify requirements of future users and stakeholders to the PURESCRAP solution to anticipate potential social impact and to monitor it throughout the project
  • monitor the impact of PURESCRAP on the attractiveness of the steel sector as an employer

The team

Antonius Schröder – Researcher

Antonius Schröder has been working at sfs, TU Dortmund since 1994 in different executive positions. Since 2002 he is member of the board of sfs, responsible for European and International Research and Infrastructure. From 1994 to 2009 he coordinated and built up two new research areas. Beneath his management activities he is engaged in several European projects dealing with lifelong learning, vocational education and training, social innovation, evaluation, organisational and personnel development, industrial change, industrial relations and social dialogue. He is the chair of the ESTEP Focus Group People and coordinating two steel industry including sectoral European Skills Alliances (ESSA and SPIRE-SAIS).

Tobias Wienzek - Researcher

Tobias Wienzek studied economics and social sciences at TUDO and has been working as a research assistant in the field of labour since 2008. He completed his doctorate in 2013 on the topic of boundary spanners and promoters in innovation cooperatives of non-research-intensive SME´s. His work focuses on innovation policy, forms of cooperation and Industry 4.0.

Adrian Götting - Researcher

Since 2021, Adrian Götting works as a researcher at the Social Research Centre of TU Dortmund University. His work mainly focuses on analysing the social impact of technologies and correlated upskilling and training requirements. Currently, he is involved in different EU-funded projects (such as e.g. ESSA and SPIRE-SAIS, PURESCRAP) that examine changes in skill demands associated with the digital and green transformation of industrial sectors.

Contact: Antonius Schröder, Tobias Wienzek, Adrian Götting

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