He has been involved as principal investigator in leading research projects on human/child-robot interaction, multimodal communication, cognitive assistants, or explainable systems. Stefan is internationally renowned and awarded for his interdisciplinary research at the intersection of human communication, embodied-cognitive models of social intelligence, and bootstrapping it with conversational agents or social robots. After a postdoc stay at Northwestern University (IL) and a research fellowship at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research ZiF (Bielefeld), he has been deputy coordinator of CRC 673 'Alignment in Communication', principal investigator at the Center of Excellence 'Cognitive Interaction Technology' (CITEC), and chairman of the German Cognitive Science Society (GK). He obtained his PhD in AI for work on generating fluent multimodal behaviour of artificial agents. Stefan Kopp is Professor of Computer Science and head of the Social Cognitive Systems Group at Bielefeld University, Germany. Professor Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University, Germany Dr Holler’s research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy, Parkinson’s UK, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, and she has recently been awarded a prestigious European Research Council consolidator grant to pursue her research. Dr Holler’s research focus on situated psycholinguistics is based on an interdisciplinary approach combining the micro-analysis of multimodal language, CA-informed corpus analyses of conversational interaction, and methods from psycholinguistics and neuroscience. Her focus is on language as a multimodal, audio-visual phenomenon, and specifically on the semantic and pragmatic contributions of visual bodily signals (hands, head, gaze and face) to interlocutors’ language use and comprehension in dialogue. With her group, she investigates human language in face-to-face social interaction. This does in no way incentivise employers to involve trade unions and workers’ representatives when adapting to the inevitable disruptions brought by the digital and green transition in our food system.Dr Judith Holler, Donders Institute (Radboud University) and MPI for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlandsĭr Judith Holler is Associate Professor at Radboud University Nijmegen and leads the research group 'Communication in Social Interaction (CoSI)' (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics).
Here employers are denying the recognition of principles included in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and international standards’ – and added: ‘With the European Commission claiming its commitment to strengthening collective bargaining and social dialogue in key initiatives, it is even more shocking to see such a biased code of conduct.’Īs the code stands today, the social dimension can be addressed by unilateral actions only. The Code of Conduct on responsible business and marketing practices should go well beyond existing legislation. Kristjan Bragason, EFFAT Secretary General, commented on the publication of the Code of Conduct saying: ‘This code brings no value to workers in the EU. Alarmingly, some employer organisations ruled out all wording on collective bargaining or reference to social dialogue. With such a very unusual procedure, there is no margin for a balanced cross-cutting approach that addresses the three pillars of the F2F strategy: economic, environmental, and social.įollowing EFFAT push, the code includes wording on social considerations in internal operations of the company and in the food supply chain linked to skills, inclusive and safe workplaces, occupational health and safety and long-term sustainable value creation. Brussels, 5 July 2021 – Today, the European Commission releases the Code of Conduct for Responsible Business and Marketing Practices under the Farm to Fork (F2F) strategy, referring to the processing part of the food chain.ĮFFAT very much regrets to witness that the process leading to the final code release was launched and facilitated by the European Commission, but mainly driven by the employers.Īlthough EFFAT and some civil society organisations could attend some preparatory meetings, the code released today is the outcome of businesses setting their own ambition and writing their own rules to develop “sustainable” business practices.