Historical and regional analyses of industrial transitions and their lessons for ensuring a fair green transition
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Historical and Regional Analyses of Industrial Transitions and Their Lessons for Ensuring a Fair Green Transition (HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-TRANSFO-02)
🔍 What is funded?
The European Commission will finance Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) delivered through a lump-sum grant (up to €26 million per project) to:
1. Reconstruct past and present industrial transitions across regions and sectors.
2. Identify effective policies that mitigated social, economic and environmental externalities.
3. Analyse regional labour-market dynamics, including *gender-sensitive* patterns of geographic mobility.
4. Evaluate participatory governance (social dialogue, collective bargaining, ecosystem approaches) that strengthened political feasibility.
5. Generate actionable recommendations for a *fair* and *green* transition aligned with the European Green Deal, Just Transition Mechanism and EU Pillar of Social Rights.
🎯 Why apply?
* Shape EU policy on just transition and inclusive growth.
* Access up to €26 M via simplified lump-sum funding (reduced financial reporting).
* Influence flagship EU initiatives: Social Climate Fund, 2040 Climate Target Plan, European Education Area, Union of Equality strategies.
* Collaborate with multidisciplinary partners, social partners and civil society to maximise impact.
🗓 Key dates
* Call opens: 15 May 2025
* Single-stage deadline: 16 September 2025, 17:00 (Brussels)
* Max. Part B length: 50 pages (plus mandatory detailed lump-sum budget table)
🗺 Eligibility snapshot
* Consortia of ≥3 legal entities from ≥3 different eligible your country, at least one established in an EU Member State.
* International cooperation encouraged; partners from non-associated your country can participate if self-funded or with national co-funding.
💶 Funding model — Lump sum
The EC pre-approves a single lump sum covering 100 % of eligible costs. Payments are linked to milestone & deliverable completion, not accounting records, easing cash-flow management.
🔗 Policy alignment
Your proposal should clearly link outcomes to:
* European Green Deal & 2040 Climate Target Plan
* Just Transition Mechanism & Social Climate Fund
* Council Recommendation on Fair Transition
* Union of Equality strategies (gender, LGBTIQ, anti-racism, Roma, disability)
📊 Data obligations
* Use and produce FAIR data.
* Leverage European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) & Social Sciences RIs (e.g. CESSDA) where relevant.
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🇪🇺 Strategic Advantages
EU-Wide Advantages and Opportunities – HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-TRANSFO-02
1. Single Market Access (450 + M Consumers)
• Pan-EU evidence base → EU-wide policy uptake: Insights on labour mobility, firm adaptation and social dialogue will be immediately relevant for every Member State implementing the Green Deal and Just Transition Mechanism, maximising demand for project results.
• Commercial spin-offs (training curricula, foresight dashboards, policy evaluation toolkits) can be marketed in 27 MS without additional certification, benefiting from free movement of services & data.
2. Cross-Border Collaboration & Knowledge Exchange
• Mandatory consortium rule (≥3 eligible countries) already drives multinational teams; additional partners from coal, automotive, maritime and renewable regions allow unique comparative datasets.
• Living labs across borders (e.g. Silesia–North Rhine–Lusatia, Asturias–Alentejo, Wallonia–Hauts-de-France) enable experimentation with region-to-region transition models.
• SSH excellence pooling: combine Scandinavian labour market research, Central-European industrial history, Mediterranean migration studies and Baltic circular-economy pilots.
3. Alignment with Key EU Strategies
• Green Deal, 2040 Climate Target Plan, REPowerEU, Fit-for-55 → project delivers feasibility & distributional impact analysis these roadmaps require.
• Supports European Pillar of Social Rights employment & training targets, Social Climate Fund design, and Council Recommendation on fair transition.
• Direct input to Just Transition Platform and Cohesion Policy 2028+ programming.
4. Regulatory Harmonisation & Data Infrastructure
• One GDPR-compatible data-sharing agreement covers all partners; FAIR data hosted on EOSC & CESSDA reduces legal friction.
• Results can feed into upcoming EU Skills Taxonomy and Common European Mobility Data Space, influencing future standards.
5. Pan-European Innovation Ecosystem Access
• Easy entry to KICs (EIT Climate-KIC, EIT Manufacturing) for piloting circular upgrade methods in SMEs.
• Synergies with ESFRI infrastructures (CESSDA, SHARE, ESS) provide high-quality longitudinal datasets, cutting primary data costs.
• Dissemination via European Cluster Collaboration Platform reaches 1,300+ clusters.
6. Funding Synergies & Leverage Potential
• Seal of Excellence unlocks ERDF / ESF+ top-up funds in eligible regions.
• Follow-on demonstration can tap Interregional Innovation Investments (I3) for deploying transition toolkits.
• Complementarity with LIFE Clean Energy & Just Transition Fund allows financing of pilot reskilling centres identified by the research.
7. Scale, Replicability & Impact
• Comparative methodology (urban vs. non-urban, sectoral archetypes) ensures transferable policy playbooks ready for EU-wide rollout.
• Harmonised indicators facilitate integration into Eurostat’s regional competitiveness indexes, guaranteeing long-term visibility.
• Potential to inform EU-level collective bargaining guidelines, amplifying social-dialogue practices beyond national confines.
8. Unique Added Value vs. National Projects
• Only an EU platform can capture cross-border labour flows, intra-EU supply-chain shifts and multi-country collective bargaining agreements.
• Access to diverse historical transition cases (Nordic shipbuilding, Ruhr coal, Czech glass, Spanish naval yards) enriches analytical depth impossible within one state.
• EU branding increases stakeholder trust, easing entry to large corporates and transnational unions.
9. Actionable Next Steps for Applicants (EU Perspective)
1. Map regions receiving JTF & ETS Social Climate Fund resources; invite at least one managing authority as pilot site.
2. Pre-agree FAIR data protocol with CESSDA to fast-track EOSC onboarding.
3. Construct a gender-balanced Advisory Board including ETUC, BusinessEurope, Eurocities and DG REGIO for policy uptake.
4. Align deliverables’ timing with 2027 Cohesion Policy mid-term review so findings feed legislative proposals.
5. Explore joint communication campaigns with European Year of Skills follow-up to maximise EU-level visibility.
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