Young scholars are early-career researchers within a time span of up to 8 years from the date they obtained their PhD. In this context, how does a COST Action help young scholars in their budding careers, and why should a young scholar get involved? In this final episode of the first series of the New Working Spaces Podcast, our co-hosts, Dr. Emannuel Costa and Dr. Chiara Tagliaro, welcome Dr. Lukas Danko, associate professor at Tomas Bata University (Czech Republic) and Dr. Oliver Rafaj, associate professor at the University of Economics in Bratislava (Slovakia) to chat about the challenges, activities and opportunities that participation in a COST Action promotes for a young scholar.

The mission of Working Group 3 is to provide a collection of the policy tools that have been implemented at national, regional and local levels, and their effects on new working spaces. This knowledge will allow to develop a tool box containing stranghts and weaknesses related to the activation and non activation of policy tools. To discuss how this effort is happening, our co-hosts Dr. Emannuel Costa and Dr. Chiara Tagliaro welcome Dr. Carolina Pacchi, Associate Professor in Urban Policies at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) who lead the Working Group 3 from December 2021 to December 2022.

This working group develops an “Atlas” of best practices about new working spaces concerning the effects on the new working spaces and workers performance (direct effects) and the urban socio-economic environment (indirect effects). In today's episode, our co-hosts, Dr. Emannuel Costa and Dr. Chiara Tagliaro, welcome Dr. Marco Hölzel, professor at the Department of Land Management, School of Engineering and Design at the Technical University of Munich and current leader of the Working Group 2; Dr. Divya Leducq, associate professor in the Engineering Graduate School of the University of Tours (France) and vice-leader of the Working Group 2; and Dr. Mina Akhavan, Marie Skłodowska Curie Research Fellow at TU Delft (Netherlands) and former leader of the Working Group 2.