Coworking: new environments for education and learning?

The questions of where to work and learn, how and especially with whom represent atheme that involves coworking freelancers, but also employees, students and educators.The main aim of this research is to analyze the emerging link between transformativelearning and structured coworking environments. The specific objectives are to identifyimplicit and explicit strategies of formal and informal learning within new workingenvironments. In addition, we intend to investigate the kind of competences thatcoworkers acquire in relation to the European Recommendation (2018) and the type ofeducation governance developed in the context of local and global interactions. Theresearch method used encompasses qualitative and quantitative elements. Twentycoworking coordinators are submitted to a semi-structured interview and have compileda grid on the skills acquired by coworkers. Sampling is intentional: among the differentkinds of coworking, only those with educational functions have been selected selected.