TYKES takes part in international cooperation, especially at the EU level and in the Nordic countries. Together with the Finnish Work Environment Fund, the programme represents Finland in the ERA-NET Scheme, part of the EU’s Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. The WORK-IN-NET project, to be implemented in 2004-08, will boost cooperation between institutes and programmes that fund R&D of working life and work organizations in Europe. There is a total of 12 institutes and programmes from seven European countries taking part in the project.