IAAEU Summer School 2026

The IAAEU Summer School for Young Researchers in European Labour Law will take place for the first time in Trier in September 2026 and is planned as an annual event thereafter. It aims to bring together students, PhD candidates, and postdocs from across the EU interested in labour law issues to discuss current developments in European labour law and develop their own ideas. The format fosters European academic networking and builds a sustainable structure for exchange and support among young researchers, connecting emerging scholars with established academics.

The summer school combines academic inputs with discussions, workshops, and joint excursions, blending theoretical, doctrinal, practice-oriented, and interdisciplinary approaches to platform work complexities. Participants actively contribute in working groups, collaboratively developing and presenting results while integrating their research perspectives and backgrounds to create productive scholarly exchange. Key guiding questions include:

How are member states shaping national regulations on platform work, with differences in worker status, social security, collective rights, AI/algorithmic management, and legal remedies?

What is the implementation of the Platform Work Directive in participants’ home countries?

Which national legal issues, transposition problems, and policy debates shape the directive’s reception across member states?

What role does EU legislation play in balancing harmonization and national labour law design?