Section outline
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PROGETTI DI RICERCA E BANDI
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2017-2019 • Your first EURES job" – Targeted mobility scheme - YfEj TMS 5.0 co-funded by the European Commission
YfEj 5.0will build multi-stakeholder partnerships, bringing together EURES NCOs, regional and local governments, employment service providers, business, social partners, education and training organisations and youth and employers themselves, to design common youth result-oriented Targeted Mobility Scheme. YfEj 5.0 will be implemented at the local, national and European levels to promote the adoption of best practices, effective models and tools by stakeholders in the youth employment and job mobility system, in order to create quality, high-impact recruitment, outcome oriented skill development services and financial incentives that meet both employer and youth needs.
Coordinator: ANPAL (IT)
Partners: Città Metropolitana Roma Capitale (IT), National Agency of Employment /Agentia Nationala pentru Ocuparea fortei de Munca (RO), Croatian Employment Service/Hrvatski zavod za zapošljavanje (HR), National Employment Agency/Агенция по заетостта (BG), K MILIOS AND SIA OE (GR), Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional, I.P. (PT), FUTURELEARN LTD (UK), SERVICIO PÚBLICO DE EMPLEO ESTATAL (ES), UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA "LA SAPIENZA" (IT), MINISTRY OF LABOUR, WELFARE AND SOCIAL INSURANCE - DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR (CY)
Associate organizations: ADAPT (IT), Agenzia Emiglia-Romagna Lavoro (IT), Agenzia Regionale Molise Lavoro – Coordinamento regionale EURES (IT), Regione Toscana (IT), Provincia di Lecce (IT), Employment Service of Slovenia (SI), Eurodesk Italy (IT), Città Metropolitana di Genova (IT), Regione Piemonte - Direzione Coesione Sociale (IT), OCHOTNICZE HUFCE PRACY(PL), Agenzia per la Formazione, l’Orientamento e il Lavoro di Monza e Brianza (IT), Regione Autonoma Friuli-Venezia Giulia (IT), Regione Marche - P.F. Formazione e Lavoro e Coordinamento Presidi Territoriali di Formazione e Lavoro (IT), Ente di Area Vasta di Treviso (IT), Agenzia del Lavoro di Trento (IT), Agenzia Metropolitana per la Formazione Orientamento Lavoro di Milano (IT), Città Metropolitana di Venezia (IT), Agenzia Piemonte Lavoro (IT), Unione italiana delle Camere di commercio, industria, artigianato e agricoltura (IT), REGIONE UMBRIA (IT), REGIONE CALABRIA (IT), REGIONE SICILIA (IT), PROVINCIA DI BENEVENTO (IT), Regione del Veneto - Direzione Lavoro (IT), Regione Lazio (IT), Provincia di Teramo (IT), UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DEL MOLISE (IT), Bundesagentur für Arbeit (DE), EUROPEAN TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION (BE), Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta (IT).
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2014-2018 • 2014-2018 • CUPESSE – Cultural Pathways to Sufficiency and Entrepreneurship• website FP7 Framework Programme for Research of the European Union – Collaborative project Social Sciences and Humanities. Grant No. 613257
CUPESSE has five main objectives. The first objective is to obtain a more refined understanding of the supply side of young adults’ employment by concentrating on how the inter-generational accumulation of social capital and cultural capital influences the economic self-sufficiency and entrepreneurship of young people in Europe. The second objective is to examine how supply-side factors and demand-side factors affect the unemployment of young adults. The third objective is to understand the implications of young adults’ unemployment in the longer term, including the effects on the unemployed individuals and on society as a whole. The fourth objective is to investigate the degree to which flexicurity policies, policies supporting business start-ups and self-employment, and policies promoting education and training platforms are embraced by the European states and to assess their impact on youth unemployment. The fifth objective of the CUPESSE project is to present ideas for new policy measures and strategies for overcoming youth unemployment in Europe.
Coordinator: Heidelberg University (Germany)
Partners: University of Mannheim (Germany), University of Vienna (Austria), University of Economics Prague (Czech Republic), Aarhus University (Denmark), Central European University (Hungary), University of Catania (Italy), University of Granada (Spain), Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona (Spain), University of Bern (Switzerland), Koç University of Istanbul (Turkey), Newcastle University upon Tyne (United Kingdom), Eurice - European Research and Project Office GmbH (Germany)
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2015-2016 • FAYP – Fostering Agri-Culture Among Young People • presentation • website co-funded by the European Commission
FAYP aims to bring together employer’s associations from four EU countries with high
youth unemployment rates (IT, ES, PT, GR), to discuss and analyse the role that they can play in putting the occupational and entrepreneurial potential of the agri-food sector into reality
Coordinator: ADAPT
Partners: CIA - Confederazione Italiana Agricoltori (IT), Unións Agrarias-UPA (ES), Confederação Dos Agricultores De -
2013-2014 • YOUnion – Union for Youth • website | cooperative platform co-funded by the European Commission
The project aims at analysing the dilemma of youth participation in trade unions in seven countries (BE, DE, HU, IT, NL, ES, UK), focusing on unexplored sides of the relationship between young people and trade unions
Coordinator: ADAPT
Partners: UvA/AIAS - Universiteit of Amsterdam/Amsterdam Instituut voor Arbeids Studies (NL), UAB - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Institute for Labour Studies (ES), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (BE), University of Greenwich (UK), Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena (DE), SZGTI - Szakszervezetek Gazdaság és Társadalomkutatási Intézete (HU)
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2021-2023 • Green Skills in VET Tender awarded to Fondazione ADAPT in quality of external expert by SGI EUROPE
This project aims to create lasting relationship between providers of education and training and of public services and SGIs.
Such articulations will be indispensable for an efficient transition to climate neutrality, which will be the very core of EU action for the coming decades.
The key angle for this project will therefore be to focus on education and training and the subsequent skills delivery to the labour market. In 2 years of activity (2021-2023), the project will target six Member States: the Netherlands, Portugal, Belgium, France, Germany, and Spain.
SGI Europe and EFEE will work with project partners from their membership for identifying the current and future demands for green skills and jobs, improving VET providers’ capacity to deliver green-oriented training and design common solutions for adapting skills delivery in the context of a framework of collaboration between education and public services’ providers.
Fondazione ADAPT, in quality of external expert, will be responsible for animating three sectoral workshops and delivering a research report covering the issues prior to the project.
The report will be drafted relying on multi-method approach which makes use of surveys, interviews and statistical and literature reviews.
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2021-2023 • Green@Work – achieving emission-free production in energy-intensive industries – a joint pilot project by German, Croatian and Italian unions • website ADAPT involved in quality of external expert by IG BCE
Green@work will promote the adoption of best practices, effective models and tools by stakeholders particularly of German, Croatian and Italian unions, in chemical and energy sectors. The achievement of climate neutrality, sustainability are a particular challenge for the chemical industry and for the energy industry, since in addition to the ecologically sensible goals, the maintenance of the existing value chains and the future security of the jobs of industrial employees must also be in focus. The project aims to answer the following questions, in particular what technical possibilities of transformation are there and what is their social acceptance like; what possibilities of influencing the necessary transformation processes do the trade unions have at the European and national level, in order to fully achieve the short and long term goals of climate neutrality also established by the "European Green Deal" and the "Masterplan for a Competitive Transformation of EU Energy-intensive Industries Enabling a Climate-neutral Circular Economy by 2050".
Coordinator: IG BCE (Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie) (DE)
Partners: EKN (Samostalni sindikat energetike, kemije i nemetala Hrvatske) (HR), UILTEC (Unione Italiana Lavoratori Tessile Energia Chimica – Italian Union of Textile and Chemical Workers) (IT)
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2020-2021 • Project on Skills, Innovation and Training. The Project is part of the joint activities of the INTEGRATED PROJECT of the EU SOCIAL DIALOGUE 2020-2021 (VS/2019/0431) Tender awarded to ADAPT Servizi in quality of external expert by the European Cross Sectoral Social Partners
The project focuses on the following broad objectives:
- Innovation and its link to the long-term skills strategy development of enterprises to meet changes.
- The nature and extent of cooperation between enterprises, social partners, education and training providers and organisations that aim to foster research and innovation, with a focus on how to organise partnerships effectively so as to improve access to high quality and innovative employee training and to improve the relevance and updating of curricula.
- The different ways in which countries and enterprises provide and foster access to training, including through new approaches, such as digital learning, training entitlements, and the effectiveness of training in responding to the changing needs of employers and workers.
- The changing nature of work and training content in view of new trends and developments – the need to combine technical and soft skills.
- The project will bring together the European Social Partners and their member organisations. It will also dialogue with a wider range of relevant EU level organisations that are active in this area, including EU sectoral organisations.
The aim is to identify different approaches to innovation, skills, provision of and access to training and to produce a final report and policy recommendations using the outcome of the mapping study, the survey and interview outcomes, and 3 thematic seminars to identify a number of positive examples of integrated approaches to innovation, skills, provision of and access to training which could be promoted at EU level. The project will be closed by a joint conference at the end of the project to discuss main findings, disseminate reports, and discuss possible following steps.
The 3 thematic seminars will be structured around the following themes:
- Provision of and access to training to support innovation: The role of social partners and collective bargaining.
- Game changing technologies and innovative approaches to the identification of new skills.
- Financial incentives for research and development and skills investments.
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2015-2018 • EuroDuaLE - European cooperative framework for Dual LEarning - Erasmus+, Strategic Partnerships for higher education • cooperative platform • website funded by the European Commission
The goal of the project is to find cost-effective ways for EU Member States to establish and expand the apprenticeship approach, with the development of an integrated Dual Learning framework, where HEIs and relevant stakeholders in the labour market establish a synergy and provide students with new curricula, combining formal training on-the job, physical and virtual mobility.
Coordinator: the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (IT)
Partners: Fondazione ADAPT (IT), SOPHIA R&I (IT), the Italian-German Chamber of Commerce (IT), the Otto-Von-Guericke University of Magdeburg (DE), the University of Southampton (UK), Fondazione Politecnico di Milano (IT), the UC Leuven (BE), Cofora International Projects (NL), the European Foundation for Education (DE), the University of Seville (ES), the University of Padua (IT) and the University Roma Tre (IT) -
2015-2018 • WOODUAL - Wood sector and dual learning for youth employment and skills - Erasmus+, Strategic Partnerships for higher education • website | cooperative platform funded by the European Commission
The goal of the project is to build up strong and continuative partnership among different stakeholders active in the manufacturing and furniture sector and experts in education and training issues in order to update and improve current professional profiles in wood and furniture sector answering to the skill gaps. The project wants also to open a road for a more extensive use of dual learning system.
Coordinator: FederlegnoArredo (IT)
Partners: Fondazione ADAPT (IT), SOPHIA R&I (IT), the Italian-German Chamber of Commerce (IT), Proskills (UK), AIDIMA-Asociacion de investigacion y desarrollo en la industria del mueble y afines (ES), Regione Lombardia (IT), Cofora International Projects (NL), ASLAM-Associazione Scuole Lavoro Alto Milanese (IT), OCHCFB-OpleidingsCentrum Hout vzw (BE), BFI OOE-Berufsforderungsinstitut Oberosterreich (AT), OIGPM (PL), EEO Group (EL), FIATEST (RO) -
2014-2017 • SuperProfDoc - Doctoral supervision of multi-disciplinary practice based doctorates Erasmus+, Strategic Partnerships for higher education • website funded by the European Commission
The project objectives are to access best practice in the supervision/advising of modern doctorates and develop a framework of practice (supported by training resources) suitable for modern doctorates, in order to produce a sustainable impact on supervisory practice throughout the EU
Coordinator: Middlesex University Higher Education Corporation
Partners: Fondazione ADAPT, the Maastricht School of Management (MSM), Trinity College Dublin, EURODOC - The European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers
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2024-2026 • IncreMe(n)tal – Increasing Metalworkers’ representatives’ Awareness and Skills on Mental Health Protection & Promotion in the Workplace • webpage co-funded by the European Commission
IncreMe(n)tal aims to provide quality training to trade unionists and worker representatives in the metalworking industry across 7 target countries and at the transnational level, with the aim of increasing their awareness of emerging psychosocial risks related to the work environment and work organization, as well as the strategic role of social dialogue and collective bargaining initiatives in protecting and promoting workers' mental health. This will be achieved through (1) close collaboration among research partners, experts, trade unions, and associated organizations and the implementation of 22 thematic training sessions (at national and transnational levels); (2) the implementation of communication and dissemination activities designed to integrate with other European and international initiatives organized on the theme of risk prevention and promotion of mental health in work contexts.
Coordinator: FIM-CISL (IT)
Partners: Fondazione ADAPT (IT) UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA (ES), UGT FICA (ES), KU Leuven (BE), VZW (BE), UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI (SI), SKEI (SI), HACETTEPE UNIVERSITESI (TR), TMS (TR), DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY (IE), SIPTU (IE), CELSI (SK)
Associate Organisations: OS-KOVO (SK), INDUSTRIALL EUROPE (EU)
Affiliated Entities: ADAPT (IT)
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2024-2026 • Fin-AI - Anthropocentric approach to AI to support people and companies. Developing social dialogue on e-skills of workers in the European financial sector • webpage co-funded by the European Commission
In line with the general dynamics influencing European economies, the banking and insurance sectors are heavily impacted by digital transition. In fact, in recent years, the financial world has undergone significant transformation due to declining revenues and the COVID-19 pandemic: from 2010 to 2020, traditional banks have reduced staff and even more so, branches, a phenomenon recently termed 'banking desertification.' In light of this, banking and insurance companies have recently invested in digitizing most of their services - also aiming to meet the expectations of digitally advanced customers. The FinAI project arises from the belief that, in the current state of digital transition, there is a need to find a balance between the needs of financial companies in terms of operational efficiency and effectiveness and the safeguarding of jobs, skills, and working conditions of workers - a balance that can best be achieved through constructive dialogue and exchanges between representative associations of these groups, i.e., social partners. Therefore, the underlying idea of FinAI is to analyze the impact of new technologies (particularly Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning) on the financial sector in Europe and in 9 Member States (+ 1 candidate country and 2 EEA countries) - including effects on the labor market - with the subsequent aim of facilitating the exchange of best practices among social partners active in those countries and at the European level. The project involves a research phase, complemented by training activities and dedicated communication and dissemination tasks aimed at spreading the impact of the project even after its conclusion.
Coordinator: FIRST-CISL (IT)
Partners: Fondazione ADAPT (IT), KU Leuven (BE)
Associate Organisations: : UNI Europa (EU), CISL (IT), OTOE (EL), NFU (SE), BBDSZ (HU), Sindicatul UPA (RO), BASISEN (TR), FeSMC-UGT (ES), CFDT B&A (FR), ANIA (IT)
Affiliated Entities: Fondazione FIBA (IT), ADAPT (IT)
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2022-2024 • GDPiR - Managing Data Processing in the Workplace through Industrial Relations • webpage co-funded by the European Commission
GDPiR: Managing Data Processing in the Workplace through Industrial Relations. The project idea is to provide trade unionists with adequate information and training in order to manage the dynamics connected to workers' data processing and to data processing in the workplace in the broad sense. The objective is to provide workers' organisations with the skills and knowledge needed to harness, with a proactive attitude, the potential of small and big data in their action. Indeed, while the analysis of workplace data is usually managed by the employer to inform business decisions, trade unions can play a role in these processes and exploit the potential of data also for the improvement of workers' conditions (i.e. regarding wages, work organization and health and safety). Moreover, the same skills and knowledge are fundamental to enable workers’ organisations to protect workers from the expected risks of datafication (i.e. intensified monitoring of the work and the workers; data-driven decision making). GDPiR aims at improving collective bargaining and social dialogue initiatives in this field and enhancing the adoption of collective solutions for the protection of workers’ rights in the midst of technological surveillance and a sustainable digital transformation. While other actions financed under this budget line have been intended to foster the role of industrial relations in managing the digital transition, this would be the first action to address the topic from the specific perspective of data processing in the workplace.
Coordinator: FIM-CISL (IT)
Beneficiaries: ADAPT (IT), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (ES), Federacion de industria, construcción y agro de la union general de trabajadores (ES), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (BE), Universiteit Van Amsterdam (NL), Recht en Plicht vzw (BE), Izmir Katip Celebi Universitesi (TK), Turkiye Metal, Celik, Muhimmat, Makina, Metalden Mamul Esya ve Oto, Montaj ve Yardimci Isciler Sendikasi (TMS) (TK), Stredoeuropsky Institut Pre vyskumprace Zdruzenie (CELSI) (SK).
Affiliated Entities: Fondazione ADAPT (IT)
Associate Organisations: IndustriAll Europe (EU), Konfederácia odborových zväzov Slovenskej republiky (SK).
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2021-2023 • Industrial relations and Social dialogue for an economy and a society “4.0” (IRSD-ES4.0) • website co-funded by the European Commission
The increasingly accelerating digital transformation is rapidly changing the ways in which people contribute to societies, live and work. According to the DESI Index (2019), over the past years, all EU member states are significantly improving their digital performance, while the Innovation Scoreboard results demonstrate annual improvements within the EU. Such swift digitalisation has an enormous impact on the nature, quality and productivity of work. These changes, however, are not well reflected in collective labour agreements and overall bargaining practices. In Italy, for example, there are over 800 national collective agreements, but they are outdated and rarely correspond to the new digital realities. This leads to growing management difficulties among companies, especially SMEs, it worsens the quality of employment relationships, etc. Therefore, this project aims to enhance the social dialogue and quality of employment by guiding social partners, along with other stakeholders, towards a better understanding of the implications of digital transformation on the collective labour agreements. The project will analyse how these two areas impact the state-of-play in the workplace, how they are currently reflected in the social partners’ collective bargaining practices and, particularly, in the collective labour agreements. The project will strengthen the social dialogue by providing guidelines and recommendations for enhancing smart working and digital skills development through the collaboration between social partners and potentially updated collective labour agreements.
Partners:CONFIMI (IT)
Partners: ADAPT(IT), EUROPEAN DIGITAL SME ALLIANCE(EU), FIM-CISL VENETO (IT)
Supporters:CONFIMI Servizi, CONFIMI Industria Digitale, FIM-CISL, industriAll
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2020-2022 • EMPOWER – the European platforM to PromOte Wellbeing and hEalth in the workplace • Project number: 848180 Topic: SC1-BHC-22-2019 Mental health in the workplace • Project Website co-funded by the European Commission
EMPOWER is a multidisciplinary research and innovation effort aiming to developing, implementing, evaluating and disseminating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a modular eHealth intervention platform to promote health and well-being, reduce psychological distress, prevent common mental health problems and reduce their impact in the workplace. In collaboration with stakeholders, project partners will adapt existing effective interventions focused on different components (awareness and stigma, workplace conditions and psychosocial factors, stress, common mental health symptoms, early detection, comorbidity, lifestyle, and return to work) to create a combined online modular platform feasible in various workplace settings by culturally and contextually adapting it. The intervention will be implemented through a randomized controlled trial directed to employees and employers of small and medium sized enterprises and public agencies from three European countries (Spain, Finland and Poland). Both qualitative and quantitative methods will be used in the evaluation of the individual health outcomes, cost-effectiveness (from a social, economic, employer and employees’ perspective), and implementation facilitators and barriers. Implementation strategies relevant to the uptake of the EMPOWER intervention will be identified, including a realistic appraisal of barriers to uptake as well as evidence-based solutions to these barriers. Through scaling-up pre-existing effective and cost-effective interventions, EMPOWER is aimed at addressing the overarching challenges from different perspectives, including individual level (e.g., addressing stigma, mental health, well- being and lifestyles, taking into account legal, cultural and gender issues) and organizational level. The main outcomes effort will help employees, employers and policymakers in decision processes of new legal and contractual framework at EU and national level covering the new economy landscape.
Coordinator: Fundacio Sant Joan De Deu (FSJD)
Partners: Fondazione ADAPT, Universidad Autonoma De Madrid (UAM), Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (EUR), Fondazione Irccs Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta (Fincb), University Of York (UOY), Schweizer Paraplegiker-Forschung Ag (SPF), The Australian National University (ANU), City Of Turku (CITY OF TURKU), Omada Interactiva Sll (OMADA), Instytut Medycyny Pracy Imienia Prof. Dra Med. Jerzego Nofera W Lodzi (NIOM), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).
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2020-2021 • BargainUP - Bargaining upfront in the digital age • cooperative platform • website co-funded by the European Commission
Tackling digitalisation as one of the priority areas set by the European Social Dialogue Work Programme for 2019-2021, BargainUp aims at enhancing social dialogue and collective bargaining to strike a balance between competing interests (of the many stakeholders involved) for an inclusive and sustainable digital future. To achieve this goal, BargainUP can count on a strong and valuable partnership, composed of trade union organisations and research centers from 6 Member States, many of these already involved in the previous SUNI project, that will be engaged in capacity- and knowledge-building initiatives targeted to workers’ representatives in the manufacturing sector. Within an increasingly interconnected world, due to both market pressures and technological advancements, these activities will be developed with a strong transnational dimension, which could allow workers’ representatives to act and bargain in a far-sighted manner, with a focus beyond territorial and national borders.
Coordinator: FIM-CISL (IT)
Partners: ADAPT (IT), Office of Cooperation between the Ruhr University of Bochum and IG Metall (DE), Luleå Tekniska Universitet (SE), IF Metall (SE), UGT-FICA (ES), Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (ES), HIVA KU-Leuven (BE), ACV-CSC Metra (BE), WETCO (BG).
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2019-2021 • Il Testo Unico di salute e sicurezza sul lavoro e la tutela assicurativa alla prova della IV rivoluzione industriale – BRIC 2018 • website co-funded by the INAIL
La ricerca Il Testo Unico di salute e sicurezza sul lavoro e la tutela assicurativa alla prova della IV rivoluzione industriale ha preso avvio nell’aprile 2019 e si è conclusa nell’aprile 2021. Il progetto, commissionato al Centro Studi Internazionali e Comparati dell’Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (DEAL), è stato cofinanziato dall’Istituto Nazionale per l’Assicurazione contro gli Infortuni sul Lavoro (INAIL) nell’ambito della linea di finanziamento BRIC e ha avuto come partner Fondazione ADAPT.
Obiettivo della ricerca è lo studio degli impatti sulla normativa di salute e sicurezza sui lavoratori dei profondi cambiamenti (tecnologici, demografici, ambientali) che vengono indicati con il concetto di IV rivoluzione industriale. Il rapido passaggio da una dimensione fisica ad una più intellettuale del lavoro, l’ascesa di forme innovative di interazione tra uomo e macchina nell’era degli esoscheletri, l’affermazione di nuove modalità organizzative rese possibili dalle nuove tecnologie (smart-working e co-working). Tutti questi cambiamenti determinano l’insorgenza di nuovi rischi, non solo di natura fisica ma anche psico-sociale, per i lavoratori. Il progetto di ricerca accoglie così la sfida di ripensare interamente la normativa di salute e sicurezza nei nuovi ambienti di lavoro, sia in termini di tutele e obblighi previsti dalla normativa italiana in materia di salute e sicurezza sul lavoro che si assicurazione dei lavoratori.
I risultati della ricerca sono stati raccolti in diverse pubblicazioni. Oltre alla ricerca vera e propria, condotta con un approccio comparato e multidisciplinare, sono stati pubblicati prodotti utili ad orientare la pratica degli operatori della salute e della sicurezza sul lavoro. Sono stati coinvolti esperti provenienti da altri Paesi per arricchire la conoscenza dei cambiamenti e degli impatti condividendo i risultati del progetto e facendoli dialogare con chi si occupa da anni del tema.
Coordinator: Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Partner: Fondazione ADAPT
Coordinated by the Centre for International and Comparative Studies of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (DEAL), Fondazione ADAPT participated in the project cofounded by Italy’s National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work (INAIL). The project aimed to provide an examination of legislation in five countries – Italy, France, Spain, the UK and the USA – concurrently analyzing OHS, insurance coverage in the event of job-related accidents and the new skills needed to adapt workplace protection measures to the changes resulting from the digitalization of work processes.
Specifically, Fondazione ADAPT, was in charge of the following project activities: a) analysis of the legal, institutional and contractual framework in all the countries under evaluation in order to identify the best practices to deal with the issues arising in new work settings and put forward amendments to current legislation b) identification of the new skills required in the field of OHS to cope with workplace risks c) result dissemination. Fondazione ADAPT worked in cooperation with DEAL, which provided support to the following tasks: a) evaluating how changes to work affect, either directly or indirectly, OHS and insurance coverage in the event of accidents, pinpointing new risk factors b) in each country surveyed, identifying case law dealing with protection against work-related accidents c) contributing to the drafting of legislative amendments
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2019-2021 • SoDiMa - Social Dialogue for the future of Manufacturing • cooperative platform • website co-funded by the European Commission
SoDiMa (Social Dialogue for the future of Manufacturing) is intended to to put social dialogue at the center of the transition towards the manufacture of the future and wants to do it right at the European level, by strengthening the Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee on Metal Industry answering to the challenges of the EU document. A new start for social dialogue, its activities and its visibility with new and innovative results and activities. The reinforcement of the Committee and the involvement of countries with different maturation levels of digital manufacturing will favor the exchange of good practices and the development of guidelines that can help individual states to increase both business innovation levels and workers’ skills.
Coordinator: Federmeccanica (IT)
Partners: ADAPT(IT), FUNDAE (ES), GSZ (SLO)
Supporters: Ceemet – European Tech & Industry Employers, IndustriAll European Trade Union, UIMM, FIM-CISL, FIOM-CGIL, UILM-UIL.
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2018-2019 • SUNI - Smart Unions for New Industry • cooperative platform • website
co-funded by the European Commission
SUNI (Smart Unions for New Industry) is intended to strengthen the ability of workers’ organisations to deal with the challenges arising from the digitalisation of production. It brings together research centres and workers’ organisations from EU countries, excelling in manufacturing production and representing different types of economies, in a view of designing and performing information and training measures as well as social dialogue initiatives targeted to employees’ representatives in the manufacturing sector.
Coordinator: FIM-CISL (IT)
Partners: ADAPT (IT), Ruhr University of Bochum (DE), Luleå Tekniska Universitet (SE), IF Metall (SE), Universidad a Distancia de Madrid (ES), FICA-UGT (ES)
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2017-2019 • Active ageing through Social Partnership and Industrial Relations in Europe (ASPIRE) • cooperative platform • website • elearning course co-funded by the European Commission
The aim of the project is to understand processes through which social partners develop, pilot and implement active ageing interventions (including collective agreements) and reorient away from a collusion toward early retirement. European social partners have developed programmes to support older workers delay retirement and ASPIRE’s aim is to understand how Industrial Relations (IR) systems can facilitate and/or inhibit such agreements.
Coordinator: University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK)
Partners: Fondazione ADAPT (IT), Universidad de Granada (ES) and University of Lodz (PL)
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2015-2017 • INDUSTRY 4EU - Industry 4.0 for the future of manufacturing in the EU • cooperative platform co-funded by the European Commission
The project aims at bringing together social partners and institutions in an effort to identify concrete actions to turn Industry 4.0 challenges into opportunities. It tries to build a new development model to deal with the skill mismatch arising from the digitalization of production of Industry 4.0 and drive innovation and technological development.
Coordinator: FEDERMECCANICA
Partners: ADAPT (IT), CEEMET - Council of European Employers of the Metal, Engineering and Technology (BE), NORDBILDUNG (DE), CCIS- Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia (SI) -
2015-2016 • IR-MultiLing - Industrial relations in multilingual environments at work • website co-funded by the European Commission
The project will research areas of (mis)understanding and (un)intended outcomes arising from language choices and whether the costs and benefits of language diversity map differently for employers and for employees
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Partners: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (DE), Universitat Autònoma de -
2009-2010 • Elders – Elder employees in companies experiencing restructuring • website | cooperative platform | pdf co-funded by the European Commission
The overall aim of ELDERS project is to address the consequences of restructuring and economic crisis in terms of stress and well-being for older workers, and to identify the proper measures with the aim of preventing, managing and mitigating such consequences
Applicant: ADAPT
Partners: Middlesex University (UK), ESADE – Business school (ES), IBW– Institute for Research on Qualifications and Training of the Austrian Economy (AT), BAuA – Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (DE), FIOH – Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FI)
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2009-2010 • WiRES – Women in Renewable Energy Sector • website | cooperative platform | pdf co-funded by the European Commission
WiRES’ main objective has been to investigate the role of social dialogue in boosting female employment rates and improving working conditions of women workers in the renewable energy sector in Europe
Coordinator: ADAPT
Partners: UPEE – Union for Private Economic Enterprise (BG), Szeged University (HU)
Associate partners: Businesseurope, Città di Chemnitz-Zwickau (DE), Enel Green Power (IT), ISTUR (BG), LIFE-Genanet (DE), Consigliera Nazionale di Parità (IT), Regione Sardegna (IT), VBFF (DE), Etech (DE), Cisl nazionale (IT), Flaei Cisl (IT) -
2007-2008 • Promoting new measures for the protection of women workers with oncological conditions • cooperative platform | pdf co-funded by the European Commission
The project intends to promote awareness-raising and information campaigns on this issue, aimed at company management and human resources departments. The aim of these initiatives is to create effective strategies for the protection of women workers with oncological conditions
Coordinator: ADAPT
Partners: Marco Biagi Centre for International and Comparative Studies of the Department of Business Economy –
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2016 - 2017 • European Platform tackling undeclared work • website co-funded by the European Commission
The overall aim of the contract is to provide a range of support services to DG EMPL to help manage and implement the Platform’s Work Programme. The services encompass thematic learning, information exchange and capacity-building, as well as additional conceptual analytical work in the area of undeclared work (UDW) and other mobility-related topics. Through the process of cooperation and joint action, mutual learning and increasing knowledge, Member States (MS) will be able to design improved measures and policies to better prevent and help formalise UDW. Over time, such interventions should help to drive evidence-based reforms in the area of UDW, ultimately leading to structural and organisational change.
Coordinators: ICF (BE) and the University of Sheffield (UK)
Partner organisations: ADAPT (IT) and Centre for the Study of Democracy
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2015-2016 • ENACTING - Enable cooperation and mutual learning for a fair posting of workers • website | collaborative platform co-funded by the European Commission
The strategic aim of ENACTING is to strengthen practical cooperation and mutual learning among control authorities and social partners engaged in the enforcement of Directive 96/71/EC
and in the new challenges settled by the Directive 2014/67/EU and related transposition by Member States into national laws
Coordinator: Fondazione Istituto Guglielmo Tagliacarne
Partners: Istituto Sindacale per la cooperazione allo sviluppo – ISCOS CISL (IT), Labour Inspection (RO), ADAPT, Ministero del Lavoro e delle Politiche Sociali – Segretariato generale (IT), Csc-Transport Et Communications (BE), Confederazione Italiana Sindacati Lavoratori – CISL (IT), Arbeit Und Leben Dgb Vhs Berlin (DE) -
2013-2014 • ENFOSTER – Enforcement Stakeholders Cooperation co-funded by the European Commission
ENFOSTER is aimed at supporting cooperation among stakeholders’ (social partners and control authorities) for the enforcement of the Directive 96/71/EC and of the Directive 2014/67/EC, by fostering a shared knowledge and the exchange practices for a fair and responsible posting of workers within EU. ENFOSTER specifically focus on posting of workers in the building sector and in the road transport sector
Coordinator: Fondazione Istituto Guglielmo Tagliacarne
Partners: CISL (IT), Ministero del Lavoro e delle Politiche sociali (DG Attività Ispettiva e DG per le Politiche dei Servizi per il lavoro) (IT), ISCOS-CISL, EFBWW, Arbeitundleben (DE), CSC-Transcom (BE), Labour inspection (RO)
Associate parter: FILCA-CISL (IT), FIT-CISL (IT), Confartigianato Marca Trevigiana (IT)
Subcontractor: ADAPT
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2023-2025 • Corporate Responsibility toward Empoyee's Family through Industrial Relations co-funded by the European Commission
The proposal comes in a context in which the Covid-19 pandemic has produced serious consequences in the socio-economic life of especially the most vulnerable, such as families: the “the main victims of the crisis”, but also the "cornerstone" of European society (EP - draft report on the EU Semester to the Council and the EC, 2022). Taking Directive 2014/95/EU as the main legal reference, the action, relying on a holistic approach, aims at enabling a new model of Industrial Relations in the financial sector where companies and TUs pay attention not only on workers’ needs but also on those of their families, thus benefitting both from quality Corporate Family Responsibility (CFR) policies. Starting from the hypothesis that TUs and companies can both increase employee well-being and corporate productivity by implementing CFR policies. The main strengths of the project are several: the multidisciplinary scientific approach towards the construction of an original CFR policies indicator for the financial sector -relying on solid statistical foundations-; the analysis of families' and companies' needs -by deploying qualitative investigation tools-; the empirical verification of the impact of CFR policies on companies; the delivery of a EU legislative framework of reference; the TU approach, strategic for the collection of good practices; the transnationality and multiculturalism from the TU perspective: 12 TU organisations from 15 EU countries are involved (IT, FR, GR, CZ, ES, HU, RO, MT, DK, SE, FI, BE), 1 candidate, TR, 2 EEA countries: NO and IS and the UNI Europa Federation; the presence of a major bank, Crédit Agricole, which will provide the companies' point of view; the co-operative and interactive approach between the partners; the attention to gender equality & diversity; a strong dissemination approach (i.e. delivery of a workshop, a training course, a final conference, a book, a TU "dissemination tool" and a dedicated webpage).
Coordinatore: FIRST CISL (IT)
Partners: Fondazione ADAPT (IT) Universidad de Murcia (ES), Trinity Business School (IE), University of Lodz (PL)
Entità affiliate: Fondazione Fiba (IT), ADAPT (IT).
Organizzazioni associate: EWC C. Agricole (IT), FEC FO (FR) MUBE (MT), BASISEN (TR), OTOE (EL), NFU (SE), UNI EUROPA (EU), FeSMC-UGT (ES), BBDSZ (HU), Sindicatul UPA (RO), OSPPP (CZ), CISL (IT). -
2018-2020 • Closing the gender pay gap in public services in the context of austerity co-funded by the European Commission
his project focusses upon convergence and divergence with regard to the gender pay gap in EU public services in the context of austerity coordinated by EPSU and three other research partners ADAPT, CELSI and WERU. While the wider factors that reproduce the gender pay gap are well known, horizontal and vertical labour market segregation, the concentration of women in part-time work, maternity, gendered and opaque pay systems and discrimination, this project will deepen analysis by identifying how and why austerity has or has not disproportionately affected women’s pay within and between EU countries. It will share and promote expertise by identifying cases, geographically spread across the whole of the EU, where unions have addressed the pay gap. It will capture the interface between collective bargaining and the use of equality legislation, the efficacy of each and how unions can make progress at organisational level in a way that is seen by the actors to translate into outcomes. The project will engage with actors on the basis that research, and practice will be transferred to social partners throughout and at a capacity building workshop organised by EPSU.
CoordinatoreWERU – the Work, Employment and Research Unit located in the Business School at the University of Greenwich (UK)
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2011-2012 • LIBRA – Let’s Improve Bargaining, Relations and Agreements on work and life times balance • website | pdf co-funded by the European Commission
The overall aim of the project is the experimentation of a new and best models addressed to workers’ representatives on work-life balance, diversity management, equal opportunities and flexibility issues in order to strengthen workers’ representatives abilities in collective bargaining activity and to improve the development of better industrial relations and social dialogue on such relevant issues, starting from a comparative analysis of the legal framework and the analysis of best practices in Italy, Belgium, Hungary, and Romania, about flexible working time schedules
Coordinator: ADAPT
Partners: IAL - Innovazione, Apprendimento, Lavoro (IT), CISL – Confederazione Italiana Sindacati Lavoratori (IT), ABVV-FGTB – Algemeen Belgisch Vakverbond-Fédération générale du travail de Belgique (BE), INCSMSP – National Institute for Science Research in The Field of Labour and Social Protection (RO), MOSz- National Confederation of Workers’ Council- MOSZ (HU)
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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)
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2023-2025 • PSYR-IR – The opportunities for industrial relations to prevent and manage psychosocial risks in post-pandemic workplaces • website 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)
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2023-2025 • BroadVoice - Broadening the spectrum of employee voice in workplace innovation • Project Webpage • Project Twitter account 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).
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2023-2025 • ValueFacturing SMEs - Fostering SMEs Competitiveness in Manufacturing GVCs through Social Dialogue •
ENG Webpage • IT Webpage • Project Cooperative AreaCo-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)
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2022-2024 • GreenFIN - Financing the Green Transition. Transnational collective bargaining and the role of EWCs in supporting European banks' shift towards environmental and social responsibility. Focus on new job profiles and P&Ms reskilling 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).
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2022-2024 • TIR-H: Transporting Industrial Relations towards Hydrogen • webpage 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)
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2022-2024 • E.A.T.S. - Empowering Agri-Food Chain actors Through Social Dialogue 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).
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2022-2024 • NExt StEp: TRANSITION. NEw competences for workers' representatives in a Sustainable Energy Transition • webpage 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).
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2021-2023 • DEFEN-CE: Social Dialogue in Defence of Vulnerable Groups in Post-COVID-19 Labour Markets 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)
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2021-2023 • I SKILL - Industrial Relations And Social Dialogue To Kick-Inclusive Adult Learning • webpage 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)
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2020-2022 • CODEBAR: Comparisons in Decentralised Bargaining: Towards New Relations between Trade Unions and Works Councils? 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).
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2019-2021 • REWIR - Negotiating return to work in the age of demographic change through industrial relations • website 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.
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2018-2020 • Agreenment • cooperative platform • website 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).
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2016-2017 • Bargaining for productivity • website 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).
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2015-2016 • NEWIN - Negotiating Wage (In)equality • presentation | website co-funded by the European Commission
The NEWIN project aims at increasing the awareness of social partners in 5 countries (IT, UK, SK, DE, NL) on their role in determining wage (in)equality
Coordinator: ADAPT
Partners: The Institut für Arbeitsforschung und Transfer e.V. (IAT) (DE), CELSI - Central European Labour Studies Institute (SK), University of Leicester/Centre for Sustainable Work and Employment Futures, -
2013 • PRESUB - Industrial relations in a context of development of subcontracting project • website 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
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