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Historical and regional analyses of industrial transitions and their lessons for ensuring a fair green transition

Horizon Europe Cluster 2 Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society – Innovative Research on Social and Economic Transformations

Funding Amount

Amount not specified

Deadline

16/09/2025

Eligible Organization Types

Non-profit, Private Business, Research Institution, Public Institution, Other

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What is the Historical and regional analyses of industrial transitions and their lessons for ensuring a fair green transition Call?

Grant Description
This research and innovation action supports interdisciplinary studies on European industrial and economic transformations, focusing on the green transition. Projects will analyse past and present cases of industrial change, assess successful policies, investigate regional labour mobility mechanisms including gender dimensions, evaluate collaborative governance and social dialogue approaches, and study firm adaptation and business model diversification in a circular, resource-efficient context. ...
Required Results for Successful Funding

Expected Outcomes

Projects should deliver: 1. Policy analyses of past and present industrial transformations, identifying successful policies and measures that mitigated negative externalities; 2. Enhanced understanding of regional response mechanisms (e.g., geographic labour mobility), accompanied by recommendations to maximise opportunities and minimise risks of transformation; 3. In‐depth evaluations of collaborative and participatory approaches to transition governance, including social dialogue and collective bargaining, to inform future policy and practice.
Funded areas

Scope Requirements

• Focus on geographic variation in impacts of the European Green Deal, especially in regions reliant on coal mining, traditional vehicle manufacturing, or maritime ports

• Address labour market imbalances via cross‐country/regional mobility and context‐adapted training and skilling policies

• Study mechanisms of geographic labour mobility for EU citizens and third‐country nationals, incorporating a gender perspective

• Investigate firm adaptation strategies to upgrade existing businesses in a circular, cost‐ and resource‐efficient manner without factory closures

• Analyse past energy and industrial transitions to extract lessons on political feasibility and economic readjustment

• Employ a whole ecosystem, multi‐disciplinary SSH approach, focusing on policies for job creation, upskilling, labour mobility, business model diversification, and worker experiences

• Explore the role of social conflicts, compromises, and the involvement of social partners in shaping transitions

• Consider megatrends such as labour‐saving technological innovation and demographic change, and their disproportionate impacts

• Leverage European Research Infrastructures (federated under EOSC and relevant Data Spaces) and ensure produced data adhere to FAIR principles

• Select and integrate the relevant destination description (Democracy, Heritage, or Social and Economic Transformations) from the 2025 Work Programme when preparing proposals
Additional Conditions for Applicants

Special Conditions

• Lump‐sum grant model under Horizon Europe Simplified Costs Decision; eligible costs defined in Decision of 7 July 2021

• Part B proposal page limit: 50 pages; mandatory submission of detailed budget table using the template in the Submission System

• Eligibility and admissibility per General Annexes: eligible countries (Annex B), financial and operational capacity (Annex C), exclusion rules; evaluation criteria, scoring, thresholds (Annex D), processes and timeline (Annex F)

• Applicants must select the relevant Destination from the Work Programme and consider its description when preparing proposals

• Data produced must be FAIR; proposals should leverage EOSC and Data Spaces

• International cooperation is encouraged where relevant

• Use standard application, evaluation, and lump‐sum MGA templates and call‐specific instructions as provided in the Submission System

• Compliance with the European Pillar of Social Rights, EU equality and inclusion strategies, and just transition policy framework is expected
Important dates

Open from: 15/05/2025

Deadline:16/09/2025

Application period has ended

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