2026-2028  • PROMISE – Promoting Age Management Policies in Eastern European Countries Through Industrial Relations: A Focus on the Manufacturing Sector • webpage                        

co-funded by the European Union

The PROMISE project aims to tackle the challenges posed by an aging workforce across European Union member states and candidate countries, including Italy, Bulgaria, Albania, Turkey, and Georgia. It focuses on empowering metalworking trade unions and workers’ representatives in these nations to advocate for adaptable social security systems, sustainable working conditions, and combat age discrimination within diverse legislative frameworks. This involves delivering quality training sessions nationally and transnationally, integrating original research conducted by research organizations and national experts. The project's knowledge base will remain accessible through open access, ensuring sustainability beyond its 2-year duration. Additionally, collaboration with associated organisations from France, Germany, and IndustriAll Europe enhances its transnational character, facilitating peer learning among trade unions and maximizing its impact.

Coordinator: FIM CISL (IT)
Beneficiaries: Fond. ADAPT (IT),  KU Leuven (BE), Futuro Perfetto (BG), TU METALIC (BG), TMS (TR), FSPISH (AL), 
Affiliated entity: ADAPT (IT)

Associate Partners: IA EUROPE (UE), FGMM-CFDT (FR), IG Metall BW (DE), TUMMCIWG (GE)

2024-2026 • Step-Up: Strengthening and organising collective bargaining, more power/tools for workers                        

The project is co-funded by the European Union under the Social Prerogative and Specific Competencies Lines (SOCPL). Project ref. 101143449.

The EFBWW project "Step-Up: Strengthening and organising collective bargaining, more power/tools for workers" aims to enhance cross-border trade union collaboration, coordination and support to improve and strengthen working and employment conditions in the European construction, wood, and cement sectors. It also seeks to bolster cooperation and coordination in the establishment and effective operation of European Works Councils (EWCs), alongside enhancing collective bargaining rights and access to information at both national and European levels.

• Desk research focusing on the role of social dialogue, collective bargaining, and European Works Councils (EWCs) in safeguarding labor rights and human rights. This includes a comparative analysis of European legislative frameworks across selected Member States regarding industrial relations and collective bargaining rights, as well as mapping collective bargaining practices, industrial relations structures, union density, and structural characteristics in the construction, wood, and cement sectors.
• Preparation and analysis of a questionnaire on the current state of collective bargaining practices across the EU on issues targeted by the Step-Up project;
• Training of trade unionists, EWC members, and EWC coordinators in the construction, wood, and cement sectors on social dialogue, collective bargaining, and the role of EWCs;
• Collection of successful practices;
• Elaboration of written policy recommendations.

co-funded by the European Commission

The PSYR-IR project zooms in on occupational safety and health, with a particular focus on mental health and worker well-being. The aim is that of identifying the broad challenges and issues at play, as well as their underlying drivers, across all EU Member States and all economic sectors. This will be done by implementing an overarching conceptual framework on OSH and linking it with the existing empirical evidence and the regulatory context on mental health in EU workplaces. Next to this overall analysis, identifying specific groups at-risk on the EU labour market, the project also focuses on the mental health of two target groups: frontline healthcare workers and production workers.

Furthermore, the project will consider the interplay between psychosocial risks and mental health and well-being across economic sectors in the EU27, with case studies covering five EU Member States. Besides identifying challenges and drivers, the project wants to understand what actors can play a role in addressing them, at different levels (EU, national, sectoral, company level) and what policies, practices, tools, actions and initiatives can be or are being adopted. Specific attention will go to the role of the social partners and to worker participation in OSH matters. The project will also identify good examples to inspire policy- and decision-makers at different levels.

Methodologically, the project will combine desk research, quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis and dissemination techniques. To do so, partners with expertise on OSH, industrial relations, or both, from countries in different European regions representing different institutional and industrial relations regimes are brought together.

Coordinator: KU Leuven (BE)
Partners: Fond. ADAPT (IT), ADAPT (IT), TalTech (EE), ZSI (AT)
Affiliated entity: ADAPT (IT)

Co-funded by the European Commission

In current workplace developmental processes where the emphasis on direct employee voice is growing, the role of trade unionists and worker representatives can be theoretically questioned and so are the instruments they traditionally put in place (i.e., collective bargaining, co-determination, information and consultation procedure), now in competition with the direct and informal channels of
worker voice, increasingly made available by employers. However, these mainstream narratives and theoretical assumptions appear to be rather simplistic since they do not shed light on the various shades of worker representatives’ approaches and behaviours towards employee-driven innovation, which in turn may depend on the different power resources and institutional frameworks; and
even more importantly, they end up overlooking the concrete possibilities for expansion of worker voice and workplace democracy and evolution of industrial relations actors and practices, spurred by their engagement in workplace innovation. Therefore, to make a step forward into these dynamics and give a substantial contribution to some cross-cutting priorities of the European Commission (The European Green Deal, A Europe fit for the digital age, An economy that works for people), BroadVoice is aimed at investigating (thus helping foster) the role of worker representatives and industrial relations (i.e. collective bargaining, co-determination, consultation) in promoting, regulating and implementing workplace innovation via direct employee voice. To achieve this goal, BroadVoice gathers research institutes with experience in both industrial relations and work organisation from 6 EU countries, responsible for conducting in-depth qualitative research and developing stakeholder engagement activities and empowerment tools. BroadVoice also involves 14 national and EU-level social partners as APs and each partner’s network supporting data collection and dissemination of main project outputs.

Coordinator: ADAPT (IT)

Beneficiaries: CISL (IT), IPS-BAS (BG), LTU (SE), UL (SI), UvA (NL), WIE (IE)

Affiliated Entities: Fondazione ADAPT (IT), Fondazione Ezio Tarantelli (IT)

Associate Organizations: ETUI (EU), ETUC (EU), Federmeccanica (IT), FIM-CISL (IT), ZDS (SI), KSS PERGAM (SI), FNV (NL), KT PODKREPA (BG), UPEE (BG), FCIW PRODKREPA (BG), SRVIKBG (BG), IDEAS INSTITUTE (IE), AWVN (NL), LO (SE).

Co-funded by the European Commission

The main goal of the ValueFacturing SMEs project is to promote the contribution of sectoral social dialogue practices at national and European level to make Europe (and its individual Member States) "the most attractive place to start a small business, make it grow and scale up in the single market” (European Commission 2020), this also considering unfolding the full potential of SMEs to address
the digital and environmental challenges in place. This will be achieved thanks to a transnational consortium covering 3 main target countries (IT, HU, AL) and the European arena. The consortium is composed of Confimi Industria (IT) and its AE (Confimi Industria Digitale), FIM Lombardia (IT), Fondazione ADAPT (IT) and its AE (ADAPT Associazione), European DIGITAL SME Alliance (BE), Budapest Chamber of Commerce and Industry (HU), Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Tirana (AL), VASAS (HU), FSPISH (AL), IndustriALL Europe (BE), Confimi Puglia (IT), Consiglio Regione Puglia (IT), FIM-CISL (IT). To sum up, alongside the delivery of an innovative multilingual Decalogue containing practical procedures and guidelines for social dialogue at company, sectoral and European level -
namely collective bargaining initiatives (potentially replicable in contexts other than the Italian and target countries ones) to support quality labor markets and foster the competitiveness of manufacturing SMEs within GVCs, ValueFacturing SMEs aims also to facilitate dialogue between employers’ organisations (in broad sense, thus including interest groupings like chambers of commerce) and trade unions in national contexts where industrial relations are more fragile (both in terms of trade union membership and collective bargaining coverage), in order to increase and improve SMEs advantage from quality and effective sectoral social dialogue strategies designed and implemented by well-trained business side and workers’ representatives.

Coordinator: Confimi Industria (IT)

Beneficiaries: FIM-CISL Lombardia (IT), Fondazione ADAPT (IT), European Digital SME Alliance (EU), Camera di Commercio di Budapest (HU), Camera di Commercio di Tirana (AL)

Affiliated Entities: ADAPT Associazione (IT), Confimi Industria Digitale (IT)

Associate Organizations: Confimi Puglia (IT), VASAS (HU), FSPISH (AL), IndustriAll Europe (EU), Consiglio Regionale Puglia (IT), FIM-CISL (IT)

Contract awarded by EFFAT in the context of the EU Funded Project "Stronger Hospitality" (Project No.: 101102331)

The aim of the project is to develop a vision and a strategy that will ensure and promote a sustainable and socially responsible hospitality-tourism sector in Europe through stronger sectoral social dialogue and more collective agreements at European, national and company level.
The project will tackle issues such as: 

• Building capacity for a stronger social dialogue in the hospitality-tourism sector

• Addressing low trade union density and to strengthen trade unions in the hospitality-tourism sector

• desk research (map trade union organisations with membership in the hospitality-tourism sector in Europe, map trade union density in the hospitality-tourism sector and the reasons behind low trade union density, map young workers membership in the hospitality sector across Europe, map sectoral social dialogue in the hospitality-tourism sector across Europe, map collective agreements on sectoral and company level);
• Identify challenges affiliates face regarding organising in the sector to stimulate growth and build trade union, organising young workers, conducting social dialogue, concluding collective agreements;
• Collect successful practices of member organisations;
• laboration of strategies to:
  o Increase trade union density in the sector through organising
  o Actively involve young workers in sectoral social dialogue at European and national level
  o Strengthen sectoral social dialogue;
• Interviews and fact finding;
• Elaborate written outputs encompassing research results, deliver a leaflet on EU sectoral social dialogue, deliver a Handbook for effective social dialogue in the hospitality sector.

Research awarded by EPSU

The purpose of the contract is to write a research report on unions’ initiatives to improve the situation in terms of female membership and the role of women in union structures.

Tasks to be performed by ADAPT:

Deliver a report according to this agreement, the main tasks will consist in:

• Literature review: research (collection and analysis of relevant scientific publications and institutional reports -included the ones issued by social partners at national and EU level);
• Selection and implementation of at least 4 case studies - identification and implementation of a least 4 case studies to be selected in strong cooperation with EPSU, ensuring adequate geographical and sectoral coverage. Case studies to be implemented via on-line in-depth interviews (multiple respondents for each interview foreseen). Privacy policy delivery, interviews outlines and transcriptions included. Languages: Italian, English, French and Spanish.
•  Survey implementation and submission - drafting of survey outline, on-line transposition, submission and data analysis; validation of survey outline, submission via Survey Monkey or a different platform to be completed by EPSU. This task includes translation services for the survey outline (max. 2 pages ENG <> SE and ENG <> RU); linguistic revision and final proofreading.

Co-funded by the European Commission

On the 6th of July 2021 the European Commission put forward a new strategy to make the EU financial system environmentally sustainable, adopting several measures to give the banking sector a key role in reaching the European Green Deal goals and to effectively support EU's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. This considered, the core challenge of GreenFIN will be “to promote transnational cooperation between social partners to enhance worker involvement in actions within companies to implement the European Green Deal”, with the aim of fostering a new corporate culture, identifying the new “green credit skills” and developing them in a context that can effectively guarantee both the flexibility and positioning needs of multinational credit companies and the safety and employability of workers. GreenFIN’s consortium is composed of trade union organizations, research centers, EWC and banks from 10 Member States and a candidate country. The project’s activities will be aimed at training both EWC members and trade unionists with the primary objective of increasing cooperation among the different levels of representation (company, national, European and EWC) in order to build a network prepared in terms of knowledge and sensitivity to the green transition and able to promote effective transnational collective bargaining to foster company learning programs, for worker and P&M new competencies’ acquisition, in order to reinforce banks role in providing funds in support of the environmental revolution launched by the EC.

Coordinator: FIRST-CISL (IT)

Beneficiaries: ADAPT (IT), University of Lodz (PL)

Affiliated Entities: Fondazione ADAPT (IT), Fondazione FIBA (IT)

Associate Organizations: UNIEuropa (EU), EuroCadres (EU), CISL (IT), Cfdt-Cadres (FR), FSLCPR (RO), NFU (Scandinavia), Fesmc-UGT (ES), Bbdsz (HU), SBS-SBU (SL), OZBP (SK), Sindacatulupa (RO), SSCG (MO), Unicredit SpA (IT), EWC Unicredit, EWC Generali, EWC Crédit Agricole, EWC BNP PARIBAS (EU).

Co-funded by the European Commission

The project idea is to provide trade unionists with adequate information and training to manage the dynamics connected to the “green” transition with particular reference to the transition from the production of vehicles powered by fossil fuels to those powered by hydrogen. The project intends to adopt a sectoral approach (heavy transport of goods and people) and a territorial analysis lens with regard to research activities (in terms of collecting and sharing good practices). The main expected output of the project is to identify specific challenges and possible solutions for promoting and managing the transition from the production of heavy transport vehicles powered by fossil fuels to those powered by hydrogen. Relevant issues and good practices will be identified in selected regions; specific information and training measures will be organised involving workers’ representatives, in order to promote knowledge on the challenges ongoing and on specific initiatives promoted at a European level; in the frame of the project activities (preliminary research; workshops; training) specific issues and ideas will be shared and collected, in order to formulate orientations for the European social partners involved in cross- industry and sectoral European social dialogue.

Coordinator: FIM TORINO E CANAVESE (IT)

Beneficiaries: ADAPT (IT), FEDERATION DES TRAVAILLEURS DE LA METALLURGIE - CGT (FR), VASAS SZAKSZERVEZETI SZOVETSEG (HU), TURK METAL SENDIKASI (TR)

Affiliated Entities: Fondazione ADAPT (IT)

Associate Organizations: FIM-CISL (IT), IndustriALL Europe (EU)

Co-funded by the European Commission

E.A.T.S. aims at identifying, disseminating and promoting best practices related to the European Social Commission Dialogue and industrial relations by focusing on the agri-food chain, from primary activities to product processing, in medium-large multinational companies where European Works Councils are present. This project therefore aims not only at allowing the dissemination and sharing of those best social dialogue practices already in place before the pandemic and/or developed during it among business and trade union organisations of EU member and candidate countries, but also at developing new guidelines that can be useful to member countries for the on job management of the emergency and the definition of future work organisation methods to meet present and future challenges in the agri-food sector. By improving dialogue on best practices respectively adopted among the trade unions involved, E.A.T.S. intends to collect, analyse and disseminate the best practices that national trade unions involved and Sectoral Social Dialogue Committees are currently putting in place in order to enhance their strengths and replicable aspects at European level and in other countries. E.A.T.S. is a 24-month project and will follow the principles of action research. The project will therefore aim at achieving comparative research on the practices implemented by social partners in the agri-food sector, along the whole supply chain, on their methods and results in the field of sustainability and efforts to reduce levels of informal economy. The comparative research and the consequent guidelines will become a working tool and shared heritage not only of the trade unions and of the employers' associations involved but also of every future actors of the Social Dialogue who, at the end of the project, can be inspired by it. This will be done through preparatory working group meetings, 5 national workshops, 1 final conference, a desk search, the drafting and the co-design of guidelines.

Coordinator: FAI-CISL (IT)

Beneficiaries:  Fondazione ADAPT (IT), CNR (IT), UGT FICA (ES), FNSZ (BG), COLDIRETTI (IT), Agro- Sindikat (MK), OBES (EL), FOND. FAI CISL (IT), FGA-CFDT (FR), EFFAT (EU), TERRA VIVA (IT)

Affiliated Entities: ADAPT (IT)

Associate Organizations: CONFEDERDIA (IT), ANOLF PUGLIA APS (IT), ANOLF Cuneo (IT), ALPAA (IT), SYNDESMOS PROS PROAGOGI TON SYMFERONTON TON ANONYMON ETAIREION (EL).

Co-funded by the European Commission

By focusing on the energy sector which is at the forefront in the process towards a carbon neutral economy, ‘Next Step: Transition’ aims to provide workers’ organisations with proper knowledge and skills to deal with the challenge of green transition in the industry, especially by designing and implementing innovative actions for avoiding the exacerbation of vulnerabilities during the process and ensuring equity, inclusion and the promotion of worker and human rights both within the workplaces and in local communities. An implicit goal is to spread the idea among trade unionists and worker representatives that the trade-off between labour productivity and environmental efficiency can be strategically deconstructed, and that a fruitful and mutually-reinforcing relationship between the two dimensionsis possible today also thanksto new digital technologies. ‘Next Step: Transition’ isintended to support workers’ organisations in these delicate times so as to make the energy sector in Europe more sustainable from both an environmental and human health and safety perspective. The road to green transition, sustainable development and a carbon neutral economy necessarily passes through the promotion of health and safety, which today cannot be limited to factory walls but should encompass, to exploit its full potential, also the external environment and local communities. To achieve these objectives, ‘Next Step: Transition’ brings together different EU-level and national worker organisations and renowned research institutes: all committed, on the basis of preliminary research and skills needs assessment, to design and develop user-friendly training tools as well as capacity- and knowledge-building activities, encompassing interactive online lessons and field international trips, targeted to national/local trade unionists (incl. a core group of union training leaders) and worker representatives (incl. those dealing with health and safety issues).

Coordinator: FEMCA-CISL (IT)

Beneficiaries: ADAPT (IT), UGT FICA (ES), IG BCE (DE), Helex Institut (DE), SMF Podkrepa (BG), ACV-CSC BIE (BE)

Affiliated Entities: Fondazione ADAPT (IT)

Associate Organizations: FLAEI-CISL (IT), IndustriALL Europe (EU), EPSU (EU).

Co-funded by the European Union

The project fills the knowledge gap concerning opportunities and challenges for strengthening social dialogue in the exceptional COVID-19 pandemic governance related to social rights and working conditions of vulnerable groups. DEFEN-CE is truly European: based on original empirical data, DEFEN- CE (a) maps the policy measures taken in the EU, (b) studies how these measures were shaped by social partners, and (c) how the adopted policies fuel social dialogue and collective bargaining within the policy implementation process in 10 EU member states and 2 candidate countries, and (d) sets the national developments in the context of the European Social Policy. The project specifically targets employment and social protection measures relevant for vulnerable groups, defined by the European Commission (EC, 2010) as ‘groups within our societies facing higher risk of poverty and social exclusion compared to the general population’. DEFEN-CE views measures addressing potentially vulnerable groups including (but not limited to) the youth and labour market entrants (incl. migrant workers), families and single parents, self-employed and precarious workers in SMEs. The exposure of these workers to insecurities due to COVID-19 induced employment crisis calls for targeted policy attention and opens opportunities for social dialogue in defending their social and employment rights. The main research question of DEFEN-CE is how social dialogue plays a role in addressing the employment and social protection rights of the vulnerable groups in the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath in 2020-2022. Project aims are addressed via a multi-method approach, including database analysis and qualitative comparative analysis at the EU and national levels. DEFEN-CE is committed to inclusiveness: it gathers data from all European regions (Northern, Western, Central, Southern, Eastern Europe), and includes both Member States and candidate countries (Serbia and Turkey).

Coordinator: University of Helsinki (FI)

Partners: Central European Labour Studies Institute (SK), University of Stockholm (SE), University of Duisburg-Essen (DE), Fondazione ADAPT (IT), Lithuanian Social Research Centre (LT), University of Belgrade (RS))

Affiliated Entity: Associazione ADAPT (IT)

Associate organisations: Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (FI), Federation of employers' associations of the Slovak Republic (SK), Association of Industrial Unions (SK), European Social Observatory (BE), European Trade Union Institute (BE)

Co-funded by the European Commission

I SKILL is a research project to study how industrial relations and social dialogue can drive progress in adult learning in the EU. It will look at how these can support universal right to adult learning and ensure that all workers can exercise this right through access to quality learning opportunities during the green and digital transition. The project will provide comparative knowledge on how industrial relations and social dialogue contribute to adult learning, identifying key mechanisms, tools and successful factors to promote inclusive and quality adult learning. The six partners in the consortium will bring their expertise together for a mixed-method research approach, covering diversified national case studies (Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Italy, Slovakia) and the analysis at European level (EU level and across EU27). Research activities include desk research, quantitative analysis on existing datasets and qualitative analysis on primary data collected through interviews, roundtables and workshops. The investigation will cover adult learning rights, access, inclusion and quality, focussing on sectors that are important for the digital and green transition and on different adult learning policy measures. The project has an EU and a national dimension, integrated through a comparative analysis. It has cross-cutting sectoral dimension to focus on industries that are key for the transition, where up- and re-skilling is most needed. To consider the diversity in adult learning systems and different roles that social partners can play, the project will compare industrial relations and social dialogue with respect to different policy approaches to adult learning. The conclusions and recommendations will be validated through dedicated workshops. Throughout the project, findings will be disseminated by several activities and thanks to the collaboration with the Lifelong Learning Platform (LLLP) (associated organisation).

Coordinator: Centre for European Policy Studies (BE)

Partners: Institute for Philosophy and Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BG), FONDAZIONE ADAPT (IT), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (BE), University of Southern Denmark (DK)

Affiliated Entity: Associazione ADAPT (IT)

Associate organisations: Lifelong Learning Platform (BE)

Co-funded by the European Commission

CODEBAR focuses on three questions in the 8 countries, in comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives:
1. What are the (new) opportunities and limits in legal systems and collective bargaining structures for company level bargaining?
2. What are the (new) strategies and practises of employers, trade unions and bodies of employee representation in decentralised bargaining on terms and conditions of employment?
3. What are the effects and results of these (new) decentralised bargaining practices? What are the legal results, how is the power balance in bargaining processes, and how is the quality of regulations in collective agreements? Do partnerships or conflicts emerge in the relationships between employers and workers’ representatives and between the different representative bodies at the workers’ side (between trade unions on the one hand, and works councils or other firm level bodies in employee representation on the other side)?

Coordinator: University of Amsterdam (NL).

Partners: ADAPT (IT), Institute for social and economic research, IRES (FR), University of Duisburg-Essen (GE), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (SP), University College Dublin, UCD (IE), SGH Warsaw School of Economics (PL), Lund University (SE).

Associate organisations: 15 social partner organisations in the 8 countries and at EU-level (e.g. industriAll, European Trade Union Institute, FNV, AWVN).

Co-funded by the European Commission

REWIR aims to study the role that industrial relations play in extending the involvement of EU citizens in the labour market through work retention and integration after exposure to chronic conditions, at the EU- level, the national-level and the company-level, against a background of demographic and technological change. REWIR starts with an EU-wide analysis (covering 27 member states), further enriched with in-depth analyses for selected countries (Belgium, Estonia, Ireland, Italy, Romania and Slovakia). This research is supplemented by benchmark studies in France, the Netherlands and the UK. In so doing, REWIR will enhance the collection and use of comparative information on social partners’ involvement in the design and implementation of return to work policies across various industrial relations systems in the EU; gain further understanding of how social dialogue can contribute to tackling relevant social issues, such as ageing population, intergenerational fairness, demographic change, equal working rights and labour market access of workers with chronic conditions; collect and disseminate best practices of company-level intervention for return to work support through interaction between the employer and employee representatives

Coordinator: CEPS (BE)

Partners: CELSI (SK), University L. Blaga in Sibiu (RO), ADAPT (IT), University of Tallin (EE), Dublin City University (IE), Ziv Amir as subcontractor.

Co-funded by the European Commission

The project aims at strengthening the role and contribution of industrial relations, in particular the social dialogue in the banking sector in responding to the major challenges brought by demographic evolutions through innovative search activities to deepen the analysis on topics/key findings on Age Management, Active Ageing and Intergenerational Solidarity of workers. The project has as its strengths the multicultural and experiential approach and the transnationality. The main objective of the project is to demonstrate that the most effective response to the challenges of demographic changes is the correct management of the ageing of the working population through Age Management policies and Intergenerational solidarity. The modern theories tend to re-evaluate the work of older people and highlight the risks associated with the inclusion in companies of massive shares of young people if not balanced by the presence of more mature experiences. The experiences and the qualities of older workers are the result of the evolution of the individual who tends to base its action on the wisdom, on the precision and accuracy rather than speed to act, typical quality of young people. Probably, a lot of unwanted effects of the financial crisis that has devastated our economy, would be limited by the greater balance in companies between young experiences and mature.

Coordinator: FIRST CISL (IT)

Partners: UVEG-POLIBIENESTAR (ES), ADAPT (IT), University of ŁODZ (PL)

Co-funded by the European Commission

Agreenment aims at investigating how and why collective bargaining can contribute to embed the principle of environmental sustainability into labour relations. By stemming from the idea that that there is no contradiction between environmental sustainability and the fundamental ideals and functions of labour regulation, the international consortium of Agreenment will develop a theoretical framework under which rethinking collective bargaining in the light of sustainability. The framework will be used to analyse social partners' views and clauses of collective bargaining in 6 European countries (France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK). From the collection of best practices and guidelines, a policy toolkit will be devised to the benefit of social partners.

Coordinator: ADAPT

Partners: Aix-Marseille University (FR), University of Almeria (ES), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (ES), University of Szeged (HU), University of Warwick (UK), Vienna University of Economics and Business (AT).

Co-funded by the European Commission

Bargaining for productivity analyses the potential and effective implications of collective bargaining on labour productivity. Based on the assumption that productivity is an objective that can be taken up and dealt with in collective bargaining, its aim is to shed light on the reasons behind labour productivity trends in 6 EU countries: Germany; Italy; the Netherlands; Poland; Spain; the UK. With the aim to turn knowledge into skills and competences, the overall results of research will be transferred to workers’ and management’s representatives within a capacity building programme organized in each country.

Coordinator: ADAPT

Partners: UvA/AIAS - Universiteit of Amsterdam/Amsterdam Instituut voor Arbeids Studies (NL), UAB - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Institute for Labour Studies (ES), University of Greenwich (UK), The Institut für Arbeitsforschung und Transfer e.V. (IAT) (DE), Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) (PL).

co-funded by the European Commission

co-funded by the European Commission

In current production systems, the use of outsourcing has increased considerably reaching the central core business of companies. This phenomenon tends in practice to set up, to different degrees, triangular employment relationships involving the subcontractor which limit the scope for negotiating wages and working conditions, thus contributing to the process of casualization. From a qualitative approach based on case studies, especially in the metal sector, the project focuses on the analysis of the innovative responses presented by the social partners in the field of collective labor relations in response to the fragmentatoion of the business network

Coordinator: Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)
Partners: Université libre de Bruxelles, International Business School of Budapest, CCOO de Andalucía, METALLOS-MWB, EADS-CASA, ADAPT