Project Proposal
HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-TRANSFO-02: Historical and regional analyses of industrial transitions and their lessons for the green transition
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Seeking expertise:
The project aims to develop a comparative, historically grounded, and spatially explicit understanding of industrial transitions—past and present—to support a fair green transition. We will examine how industrial decline and renewal shape regional development trajectories, labour mobility, firm adaptation, and institutional resilience. Our approach combines historical analysis, economic geography, social simulation, and policy translation.
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🧠 Consortium Expertise
Current consortium members bring robust and complementary competencies:
• University of Economics in Katowice (Coordinator – Prof. Marcin Baron): Expertise in regional industrial restructuring and smart specialisation.
• Norwegian Research Centre (NORCE):
o Health Economics and Health Services group: Insight into labour market impacts on health and social inequalities.
o Social Simulation group: Advanced agent-based modelling for understanding regional labour and firm dynamics.
• Jagiellonian University (Dr. Grzegorz Micek): Urban and regional economic geography with a focus on firm behaviour and spatial development.
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🧩 Missing Expertise We Seek
To meet the call requirements, we are looking to complete our ecosystem with partners who offer:
• Historical research capacity on industrial and labour transformations, particularly with comparative or longitudinal design.
• Gender and diversity perspectives, particularly in labour mobility and occupational segregation.
• Political economy / political science expertise to analyse social dialogue, collective bargaining, and governance of transitions.
• Data infrastructure specialists with access to or experience using FAIR, EOSC-compatible datasets or regional administrative data.
• Experience with participatory methods, collaborative planning, or regional foresight approaches involving social partners and citizens.
• Case study access in regions affected by coal decline, automotive industry transformation, or port/maritime transitions.
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👥 Who We’re Looking For
We welcome research institutions, regional agencies, social science departments, labour institutes, or civil society organisations from across Europe—particularly those:
• With proven experience in RIA projects;
• Based in transition regions with ongoing or past industrial restructuring;
• Engaged in labour market, firm-level, or regional policy research;
• Interested in co-producing knowledge with policymakers and affected communities.
