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project info
Start date: 1 March 2023
End date: 28 February 2026
funding
Fund: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Total budget: 407 611,00 €
EU contribution: 244 567,00 € (60%)
programme
Programming period: 2021-2027
European Commission Topic
European Commission Topic

Improving work-time nutrition as a success factor for enterprises in Satakunta - towards a research unit on nutrition (RAVI)

The big picture of the project is the need to maintain the competitiveness of Satakunta’s SMEs and their need to grow. This big picture has two very important challenges highlighted in the Satakunta strategy: - The availability of new labor - The decline of the working age population. Competition for labor is currently and will continue to be very fierce. Companies therefore need to invest in making optimal use of the existing workforce. This means both maintaining skills and maintaining working capacity. Maintaining working capacity involves: - Increasing effective working time (reducing sick leave) - Extending working lives (worker's experience of their own productivity) - Increasing well-being at work (work motivation and job satisfaction). Research shows that nutrition has a significant impact on each of these. Improving nutrition at work can increase workers' efficiency and at the same time improve their quality of life. The project aims to achieve the following concrete results and outputs: 1) The results of research have for the first time demonstrated the impact of work-time nutrition on work performance, increased working time efficiency, reduced sickness absence, increased well-being at work and improved quality of life (resulting in a more optimal use of the existing workforce in companies). 2) A nationally unique research unit in nutrition science focusing on work-time nutrition has been established in Satakunta, with the goal of improving work performance, improving working capacity, and reducing sick leave. 3) Nutrition experts from the Satakunta welfare region and research staff from universities cooperate in a harmonious operational and strategic way in the research unit. 4) Companies understand the importance of nutrition at work. Low-threshold nutrition guidance tools and materials have been published to support employees in their work-time nutrition efforts and to help them improve their health and well-being at work.

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