Jan. 25, 2023
First transnational REJEnerAXion workshop
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2022 - 2024
Project number:
101052341/SOCPL-2021-IND-REL
This project has received financial support from the European Union
The REJEnerAXion project aims to analyse and strengthen the role of innovative industrial relations structures, including social dialogue, to respond in a socially fair and balanced way to the main challenges and opportunities offered by a clean-energy transition at national and European level.
The energy transition plays a key role to achieve the long-term objective of a climate-neutral Europe by 2050. This radical transformation can create new economic opportunities with the development of new green jobs. At the same time, however, it will lead to major changes and adjustments with unavoidable (direct and indirect) jobs losses in sectors dependent on fossil-fuel energy production, with serious regional effects (for example, for coal and carbon-intensive regions).
For this reason the energy transition requires to be driven and managed in making sure it is a “just transition”, where no-one is left behind, as affirmed by the European Green Deal. The need of properly designed just transition policies is becoming even more important with the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to face the implications of the crisis of the energy sector caused by Coronavirus.
Industrial relations and social dialogue, therefore, can play a leading role to support and guide green energy transition at European, national, regional level, helping to promote economic growth and social equality in line with the objectives of the European Green Deal, also in the framework of the Recovery and Resilience Facility plans, in order to ensure a sustainable and inclusive recovery.
To achieve this goal, the project intends:
The project will analyse these changes focusing on eight countries in order to compare experiences and trends from North, South, Central and Eastern Europe: Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary, to have a transnational dimension balanced between old and new member states and different industrial relations systems.
More information about the project can be found here: https://twitter.com/rejeneraxion?s=21&t=RoXYPUq2AufH02rTdX1UMw