15/10/2025

PAST EVENT

Flip the Script: Powering Worker Participation in the Design and Implementation of Technology

Our second SEISMEC Online Workshop: “Flip the Script: Powering Worker Participation in the Design and Implementation of Technology” delved into the SEISMEC approach to strengthening worker involvement in the adoption of technological solutions in the workplace.

01/08/2025
Publications

Ladder Walking Detection via Action Recognition for Enhancing Worker Safety in Construction

This publication examines the application of AI-driven action recognition technologies to enhance workplace safety on construction sites, with a specific focus on ladder-related accidents. By interpreting worker motion it enables early warnings and helps prevent falls, supporting human-centric safety programmes, training and compliance. Recognised by peers, it advances practical, explainable AI for high-risk tasks and complements broader smart-site monitoring solutions.
28/06/2025
Deliverables

D2.2 - AGILE guidebook for iterative and collaborative participation

This deliverable offers insights, recommendations, and useful context for involving workers in the design and implementation of (digital) technologies. The actionable recommendations in this deliverable will help foster iterative participation, emphasising co-creation, continuous feedback loops, and integration of worker input into organisational processes. The deliverable also addresses key challenges organisations may face when involving workers in technology design and implementation. These conclusions and recommendations are drawn from literature, interviews with Industry 5.0 experts, and consultations with 16 pilot companies participating in SEISMEC. These methods will be evaluated and validated across all SEISMEC pilots under WP3 (Pilots in real working environments). Overall, this deliverable helps organisations incorporate sustainable, human-centric solutions, and promote technology adoption while improving both job satisfaction and productivity.

28/06/2025
Deliverables

D2.1 - Design guidelines, instruments and assessment criteria

This deliverable presents 41 “solution directions” – tools, methods and technologies – grouped into six categories, each with design guidelines and assessment instruments to support implementation. Based on literature reviews, expert input, workshops and feedback from pilot organisations, it offers a practical roadmap and research protocol to evaluate how new technologies affect work practices, well-being, safety and productivity in an Industry 5.0 context.

27/06/2025
Publications

SMART Work Design and Modern Sociotechnical Theory. A marriage made in heaven?

Explains how SMART work design and modern sociotechnical theory (MST) can be combined to create truly human-centric organisations. Using the WEBA tool as a bridge, it aligns human needs, task division and strategic choices. The piece provides HR, designers, and managers with a shared language to engineer quality jobs, safer processes, and sustainable performance in Industry 5.0.
19/06/2025
newswave

SEISMEC Newswave Issue #3
(June 2025)

Third issue of SEISMEC’s Newswave, our official project newsletter.
15/05/2025
PAST EVENT

SEISMEC Online Workshop: Human Centric Industry 5.0 - Concepts and Solutions.

In our first online workshop, we explored innovative concepts and practical, human-centric solutions that are shaping a more inclusive, sustainable, and resilient future for industry and society.

Watch the full recording and follow our journey!
30/12/2024
Publications

Can you bring the HR professional into dialogue with the organisational designer?

This publication explores the differing yet complementary perspectives of HR professionals and organisational designers on work design, focusing respectively on human needs and job satisfaction versus work processes and strategic structure. By linking SMART work design with modern sociotechnical principles, it connects human needs, work organisation and strategy. This approach helps teams diagnose pain points, co-create interventions and measure progress, supporting safer, fairer and more productive workplaces aligned with Industry 5.0 values.
04/12/2024
newswave

SEISMEC Newswave Issue #2 (Autumn 2024)

Second issue of SEISMEC’s Newswave, our official project newsletter.
15/10/2024
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Flyer

Discover the key elements of the SEISMEC project through our Flyer, designed to provide a clear and concise overview of SEISMEC’s mission and impact. This informative material illustrates how SEISMEC promotes human-centric solutions, fosters co-creation of technology, and supports the development of high-quality jobs in the EU’s industrial sector.
11/10/2024
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Trifold Brochure

Explore the key objectives and goals of the SEISMEC project through our concise and informative Trifold Brochure. This brochure provides an overview of how SEISMEC promotes human-centric solutions to empower workers, foster creativity, and build sustainable, high-quality jobs across the EU’s industrial landscape.
11/10/2024
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Rollup

Discover the key elements of the SEISMEC project through our Roll-up, designed for events and exhibitions. This visual material highlights how SEISMEC promotes human-centric solutions, driving co-creation of technology and fostering high-quality jobs within the EU’s industrial landscape.
23/07/2024
Publications

Enhanced Defect Detection in Airport Runway Infrastructure Using Image-Text Pairing

This study presents a novel, human-centric approach to runway surface defect detection and damage severity estimation using the CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) architecture. The method reduces costly manual labelling and outputs human-readable assessments, supporting safer maintenance, prioritisation and auditability. A practical example of explainable AI improving infrastructure reliability and operational efficiency in safety-critical environments.
17/07/2024
newswave

SEISMEC Newswave Issue #1 (Summer 2024)

Inaugural issue of SEISMEC s Newswave, our official project newsletter.

08/07/2024

Publications

A Framework for Vision-Based 3D Inspections for Maintenance Activities and Digital Twin Integration

Outlines a vision-based framework using NeRF/TurboNeRF for high-quality 3D reconstruction and remote inspection of sites and assets. It integrates with digital twins to streamline maintenance workflows, enabling defect detection, evidence capture and collaboration at lower cost. The approach accelerates decisions, reduces downtime and supports traceable, data-driven asset management aligned with Industry 5.0 practices.
30/06/2024
Deliverables

D1.1 - Benchmark of concepts and dimensions of human-centrism

Human-centrism is a critical concept that is more and more important across all European industries and various domains, including technology, design, and policy. This benchmark study explores the dimensions and underlying concepts of human-centrism. By analyzing existing literature and case studies, we identify key elements such as user needs, ethical considerations, and inclusivity. Our findings contribute to a deeper understanding of how to create more human-centric industries and services.

28/06/2024
Deliverables

D6.1 - Dissemination, Communication & Engagement Plan

This document outlines SEISMEC’s overall dissemination, communication and engagement strategies, providing specific action plans to reach a critical mass. It also contains the compilation of all early stage promotional actions, brand elements designed and released to execute the outreach plans, including: the project’s identity system and brand templates, online channels, events and future publications.

28/06/2024
Deliverables

D3.1 - Pilot implementation and monitoring plan

The Pilot Implementation and Monitoring Plan report provides a comprehensive and detailed outline for all pilot activities. This document will reflect project developments, ensuring systematic and efficient implementation. The report includes the detailed plans for monitoring pilot progress, research methodologies, key performance indicators (KPIs), protocols and framework to achieve the projects’ objectives. Additionally, it encompasses ethics and privacy in data management to ensure safety and security throughout the project. The report aims to facilitate timely and accurate progress reporting, ensuring the pilot activities are conducted effectively, and contributing to the project’s success. Ultimately, the Pilot Implementation and Monitoring Plan serves as a crucial framework, guiding the execution of SEISMEC’s pilot activities to achieve the project’s goals.

21/06/2024
Publications

CAPS Self assessment: Aiming for Human- centricity through CAPS

In an age of digitalization, especially since the pandemic, workers have wanted more flexibility, support, and collaboration. Employers often promise to improve the worker s experience through technologies. Organisations, industries, and technologies, however, often fall short of their promises, especially when they don t put the human first. In this tension, we argue for the SEISMEC shift: industrial practices that combine advances in technology with the empowerment of workers through fair and ethical digital practices. This shift moves past an Industry 4.0 perspective one that puts technology and intensive data analytics at the forefront, and towards an Industry 5.0 perspective one that focuses on the relationship between empowering human practices and new technologies.
20/06/2024
Promotional materials

Official slide deck

Piloting the shift to human-centric industry – SEISMEC advocates for a multidimensional transformation that hinges on fair and trustworthy technology, ethical incentives, capacity building and democratisation as key enablers to fundamentally change the way workers see themselves and are seen within their organisations.

04/04/2024
Publications

Reviewing workplace innovation as a plea for a practical approach

Workplace innovation (WPI) approaches share the advancement of work as a commonality, that is, the notion of good jobs and its relation with good business performance. How WPI approaches contribute to the advancement of work is discussed in this narrative review of the WPI literature, which intends to provide direction to future study and implementation of advanced work.
13/02/2024
Publications

Connecting the SMART work design approach to sociotechnical design principles

While sociologists have a strong interest in the division of labour, the labour process, and sociotechnical design aspects, in relation to job and work design, psychologists stress the importance of human needs and human satisfaction. Sociologists underline strategic and organisational choices as conditional to the quality of work, whereas psychologists focus on person-environment-fit approaches. Recently, we observe a rapprochement in the field, with regard to the development of the SMART work design model; individual, team, and organisational elements are integrated into an approach that links human needs, job characteristics and organisational conditions.
08/02/2024
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First press release

SEISMEC -Supporting European Industry Success Maximization through Empowerment Centred development- aims to demonstrate the concept of human-centricity across a wide array of industry sectors, scales and sociotechnical contexts in the EU. Through 17 pilots spanning 14 key industrial ecosystems embedded in the European Single Market, SEISMEC will demonstrate how human-centric solutions can effectively empower workers in the co-design and co-development of new technologies, thus facilitating the journey towards a skills-driven and creativity-infused industrial landscape; one that is built around high-quality, sustainable jobs, and prioritises overall worker security and satisfaction.
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