Find out more about EGRUiEN's researchers sharing insights on the stateownership and the paradoxes of workers' rights, and economics of new technology and global change!
The University of Jyväskylä hosted the first joint DeCrises and EGRUiEN Horizon Europe projects Early-Career Research Seminar on 22–23 October 2025. The event was held in a hybrid format, bringing together participants both onsite and online from the University of Jyväskylä and LUT University. Theories and research topics discussed included multi-level governance (MLG), EU-level legislation, twin transition and industrial relations. On the first day, three papers were presented:
I) The Paradox of Protection: State Ownership and Eroding Worker Rights in Finland’s Green Transition — Zamzam Elmi (EGRUiEN)
II) Data Governance in a Digitalised Energy System: A Case Study of Fingrid Datahub in the Context of the EU Green Deal and Digital Strategy — Paul Arteaga (DeCrises)
III) Mind the Gaps: Addressing Structural and Procedural Weaknesses in EU Multi-Level Governance for the Twin Transition — Mashiur Rahman (DeCrises)
On the second day, two papers were presented:
IV) Distributive or Integrative? Social Negotiations During Structural Changes — Sarah Tornberg (EGRUiEN)
V) Horizontal Governance in the EU: The Role and Impact of Transnational Municipal Networks and Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations in the Twin Green and Digital Transitions — Giga Mukutadze (DeCrises).
The seminar offered an excellent opportunity for early-career researchers to reflect on their research from interdisciplinary perspectives and to gain valuable input on potential theoretical and methodological developments.
The DeCrises and EGRUiEN teams plan to organize the seminar every six months. The seminar is open to all project partners of both projects.
Marta Fana and Fabio Landini (University of Parma) participated in the workshop on the "Economics of New Technology and Global Change", jointly organized by a network of Italian universities that includes the University of Parma on 17th and 18th of September in Milan.
The workshop aimed to provide a forum for junior and senior scholars conducting state-of-the-art research in the fields of economics of innovation, industrial economics, labour economics, economic geography and international economics. The workshop has been organized around three major thematic tracks: 1) intangible assets and resilience to disruptive shocks; 2) twin transition: impacts on firms and workers; 3) automation, innovation, and global value chains.
Members of the EGRUiEN project presented and discussed research papers studying to the impact of the green transition on labour dynamics. In particular, Marta Frana presented a paper titled "The Transition is in the Details: Evidence on Firm Greenness and Wage Inequality from Portuguese Administrative Data." Fabio Landini acted as co-organizer, discussant, and co-author of a paper titled "The Returns to Green and Digital Hiring: Evidence from Linked Employer–Employee Data".
Furthermore, on 2nd and 3th of October in Macerata Fabio Landini co-organized a Special Session in collaboration with the Italian Association of Industrial Economics and Policy (SIEPI) on "Labour Transformations and Worker Voice: Insights from Applied Economics" within the frame of the conference of the "Italian Association of the History of Economic Thought (AISPE)". The aim of the session was to discuss the role of organized form of worker representation in shaping the trajectories of technological change.
The two members of the EGRUiEN project, Marta and Fabio, presented research papers studying how employee voice interacts with technological and organizational change in shaping the trajectories of the digital transition. In particular, Fabio Landini presented a paper titled: "Contested Transparency: Digital Monitoring Technologies and Worker Voice". Marta Fana presented a paper titled: "The impact of organisational changes on workers' power and control".
The third event in which participated our colleagues from the University of Parma was the workshop on the "Green and Digital Transformations. Skills, Jobs and Policy". It was held on 6th and 7th of November in Ferrara. The workshop was co-organized together with the European Commission’s JRC Seville (Unit B6) and brought together researchers and policy makers interested in the impact that the green and digital transformations have on jobs and skills. Sessions featured discussions on: green skills, education and labour market transitions; automation, AI, digitalisation and the future of workforce skills; twin transition and the geographical and sectoral dynamics of labour skills dynamics.
Fabio Landini was member of the Scientific and Organizing Committee that selected the papers and defined of the final programs. The Committee was also responsible for the selection of the keynote speakers (Christina Gathmann, Luxembourg Institute of Socio–Economic Research) and the organization of the policy roundtable, which featured intervention by representatives of EU institutions such as: JRC, DG EMP, European Training Foundation. In the context of the workshop, Fabio Landini presented a paper titled: "The Value of Green Job Attributes: A Discrete Choice Experiment".