The EU research fabric

Bridging Risks to an Inclusive Digital and Green future by Enhancing workforce Skills for industry 5.0

Horizon CL4 · 2023–2026 · TNO (NL) · €4.6M

Greenpulse partner inside · CNAM

CNAM is already a beneficiary (~€367k). Macro/sectoral skill-gap data (2.1M vacancies + 156k collective agreements) feeds Greenpulse's meso-energy layer. BRIDGES closes Dec 2026 — its final results arrive as Greenpulse starts. Zero-overhead clustering, double signal: related action + coordinator track record.

Skill shortages, gaps & over-skilling — EU-wide measurement, all sectors

Horizon CL2 · 2023 · Fond. Brodolini (IT) · ~€3M · 2024–2027

SkillsPULSE (June 2024 – June 2027) is the nearest concurrent EU project on the same object, so it is addressed explicitly rather than tacitly. Its public deliverables D2.1 and D2.2 (both PU) supply the conceptual vocabulary Greenpulse uses for external shortages, internal skill gaps and over-skilling. They also mark the demarcation: SkillsPULSE measures the extent and distribution of mismatch across the whole labour market, largely from employer and survey evidence; Greenpulse explains why mismatch reproduces where it does, in one sector at the meso level, from primary narrative and archival evidence it collects itself. Its results land as Greenpulse begins. Relation: citation of published results — no data dependency, no shared beneficiary since Pisa left the consortium.

TRANSFO-02 2025 sister cohort on industrial transitions

Horizon CL2 · TRANSFO-02 · 2025 cohort

The three projects funded in 2025 on past and present industrial transitions, running 2026–2030 alongside Greenpulse with no shared beneficiary. Non-duplication: TRANSFO-02 reconstructs transitions as its object; Greenpulse's historical-archival strand (HACx) reads archives in the service of competence, in one sector, paired with present-day NECx Circles. The commitment: two joint clustering workshops, joint policy briefs, data reuse and cross-advisory contacts, reported at project end. AUTH (Thessaloniki) coordinates PACT, ST4TE and SKILLAB — one contact, three links.

Twin transitions and inequalities — mixed-methods + narrative interviews

Horizon CL2 · 2023 · AUTH / GSSI · 2024–2026 · €3M

Closest methodological neighbour: modelling combined with narrative interviews and a handful of regional case studies on twin-transition inequalities. Greenpulse differs in scale and level — multi-country primary evidence at the meso level of one sector. ST4TE ends as Greenpulse starts.

Skills mismatch via Cedefop ESJS

Horizon CL2 · 2022 · 3s (AT) · 2023–2025 · €2.4M

Skills-mismatch evidence built on Cedefop's European Skills and Jobs Survey — the Cedefop line the topic asks for. Closed, so it is a baseline without overlap.

Socio-political approach to industry-shaped identities (coal regions)

Horizon H2020 LC-SC3 · Coruña (ES) · 2020–2023 · €3M

13 coal regions; socio-historical case studies on identity, culture and gender in transitions, including affective and narrative dimensions. ENTRANCES covered exit from coal; Greenpulse covers entry into energy-independence competence.

Historical trajectories of carbon-intensive regions

Horizon H2020 LC-SC3 · Wuppertal (DE) · 2020–2024 · €3M

Meso-level dynamics of structural change in carbon-intensive regions, including Ida-Viru (EE) — the precedent for Greenpulse's meso framing and a Baltic comparator for the Latvian fieldwork. Cited in the proposal's opening argument.

Social tipping points, collective visions & narratives

Horizon H2020 · GCF (DE) · 2020–2023 · €3M

Closest project epistemologically — positions NECx as the next step (narrative → competence). Bosnia case bridges to the Montenegro fieldwork round.

Petroculture & heritage in the energy transition · museum pilots

Horizon CL2 · HERITAGE · Stavanger (NO) · 2023–2027 · €2.74M

Direct neighbour of the Musée des Arts et Métiers heritage axis and a natural partner for a joint museum-and-transition event. PITCH reinterprets heritage; Greenpulse asks what heritage says about competence.

Social Sciences and Humanities for Climate, Energy aNd Transport Research Excellence

Horizon Europe · 2022–2026

A peer benchmark for scale: its evidence came from 137 respondents through a call for evidence. Greenpulse sets its multi-country primary fieldwork against such designs.

Already-running cluster of CL5/CL2 just-transition projects

Coordinated by BOLSTER · bolster-horizon.eu/cluster

Greenpulse joins the existing cluster rather than founding its own. Clustering workshops are shared between the cluster and the TRANSFO-02 cohort.

Online vacancy corpus + technology-exposure measures

Horizon H2020 · ifo (DE) · 2021–2023

Multi-country online-vacancy corpus and technology-exposure measures — available for reuse rather than a new scrape.

15-country survey on transitions in work, climate, technology

Horizon CL2 · 2021 · Leiden · 2022–2026 · ~36,000 respondents

Survey items reusable to calibrate the Meso Competence Survey for immediate cross-country comparability.

Green Smart Citizenship Education — GreenComp operationalisation

Horizon H2020 Green Deal · €5.5M

Operationalised GreenComp in educational settings. Greenpulse takes the same lineage into productive systems. User Guide open-access on Zenodo.

European competence framework for a low-carbon economy

Horizon H2020 · CIEMAT (ES) · closed 12/2025

Second EU operationalisation of sustainability-competence frameworks in education. Greenpulse extends to productive workplaces — the niche neither GreenSCENT nor ECF4CLIM filled.

GRETA · EnergyPROSPECTS · EC² · DIALOGUES

Horizon H2020 · already operating as a cluster (energycitizenship.eu)

Multinational survey (GRETA) + 500-initiative database (EnergyPROSPECTS) + psychometric scales for affect (EC²) + multi-stakeholder dialogues (DIALOGUES). Greenpulse cites the cluster as a block.

Energy Supporters — certified community-energy facilitators

Horizon H2020 · NTUA (EL) · 2020–2023

Latvia pilot — direct precedent of competence-pipeline → GreenComp and field relay for Rīgas Stradiņš.

Bolstering inclusion in just transition · 10 carbon-intensive regions

Horizon CL5 · Tilburg (NL) · closed 08/2025 · €3.8M

Photo-voice and community-reporting protocols in 10 carbon-intensive regions including Katowice; lessons from its multi-actor fora. Coordinates the Just Transition Cluster that Greenpulse joins.

Inclusive futures of work in Industry 4.0

Horizon H2020 · TNO (NL)

Company cases + historical analysis of technological revolutions — precedent legitimising Greenpulse's Historical-Archival arm in an employment/competence proposal.

Skills supply-and-demand monitoring — the open-source ESCO skill extractor

Horizon CL2 · 2023 · AUTH (EL) · 2024–2026

ESCOX (MIT licence) extracts ESCO skills from free text. Greenpulse extends it from job-market text to oral, multilingual narrative and benchmarks it there — open-source reuse plus a method contribution back, and the proposal's non-duplication statement.

The official EC × US Department of Labor crosswalk

European Commission · ESCO

The taxonomic backbone every fieldwork strand maps into. Greenpulse reuses the Commission's own interoperability investment and sends change requests back through ESCO's contribution channels.

Shared vision and narratives for the just transition

Horizon CL5 · CMCC (IT) · 2022–2026

Natural partner for a joint session: its work on shared visions and narratives of the just transition meets the Greenpulse policy Roadmap and the Science-Meets-Politics conference.

Democratising just sustainability transitions in 8 energy-intensive regions

Horizon CL2 Democracy · TU Delft (NL) · 2023–2026

Works in Gotland and Norrbotten — the Swedish north where Greenpulse's Swedish fieldwork sits. A natural contact for IRES, the Swedish partner, for joint events.

Barriers to labour-market inclusion (disability focus)

Horizon CL2 · 2022 · OsloMet (NO) · 2023–2026 · €2.87M

The disability dimension of the topic. A candidate source for the inclusion seat of the Greenpulse Advisory Board, which covers disability and occupational health.

Just transitions in energy-intensive industries

Horizon CL5 · VUB (BE)

Indirect bridge via Demos Helsinki (TANDEM + HIT). Advisory contact available with low coordination cost.

Citizen-capacity building in 6 coal regions

Horizon LIFE-CET · closed 06/2025

KERs reusable for Greenpulse's Green Transition Academies adult-worker tracks.

Conservation and promotion of coal-mining heritage

RFCS

Heritage-oriented coal corpus. Memory, oral histories, sites/landscapes/machinery. Feeds the Expo-Action prototype and historical-archival contextualisation.

Historic industrial areas → 'Fab City Hubs'

Horizon H2020-SC5-2019-2

Industrial history as material foundation for circular and inclusive production. Linking heritage with present-day innovation.

Sustainable management of industrial heritage

Horizon H2020-MSCA-RISE-2020

Deindustrialised sites as 'historical laboratories' for governance, participation, sustainable development. Oral-history + archival methods transferable to Greenpulse's Historical Collection Methodology.

R&I roadmaps in coal-intensive regions

Horizon H2020 LC-SC3-2018-2019-2020

Roadmaps and stakeholder processes from 9 coal regions as methodological models for participatory strategy-building.

Narrative Science — narrative as an instrument of scientific reasoning

Horizon 2020 · ERC Advanced Grant · LSE · closed 2022

Its account of how narrative carries explanation underpins the NECx protocol and the criterion that tells an explanation from a merely coherent account. Greenpulse carries it from how scientists reason to how workers account for their own competence; the programme also fills the narrative-methods seat of the Advisory Board.

Evolution of European identity using biographical methods

FP7-SSH-2007-1

Methodological backbone of the NECx biographical-narrative component. Cross-national know-how for biographical interviews in diverse cultural contexts.

Generational approach to social patterns of relation to work

FP6-2004-CITIZENS-5

Comparative framework on youth, ageing and labour mobility — key for the reskilling × transitions axis. Mixed-method protocol (narrative interviews + cross-country surveys) adaptable to NECx.

Green growth and win–win strategies for sustainable climate action

Horizon H2020-SC5-2014-2015

Winning green narratives from innovative business studies. Global Dialogue Process structures (transferable to Greenpulse's policy-dialogue formats). Affective-transition-stories repository: urban mobility, biogas, solar routes.

New European Bauhaus Facility — the NEB Academy

European Commission · New European Bauhaus

One of the two synergies the topic names. The Expo-Action staged with CNAM's Musée des Arts et Métiers, and the experiential formats around it, are designed as a competence-side satellite of the NEB Academy.

Social Transformations and Resilience — co-funded European Partnership

Candidate partnership · CHANSE network · Topic HORIZON-CL2-2026-02-TRANSFO-01 · submission Q3 2026

One of the two synergies the topic names. Greenpulse offers its instruments and the Meso Competence Observatory as a beta-test contribution to the partnership's strategic research agenda — a route for the work beyond month 48.

Erasmus+ Sustainability Teacher Academy

Erasmus+ · University of Crete

Education/training pathway named in the call. Zero duplication: CLIMADEMY trains school teachers, Greenpulse works with workers + communities.

Skills-OVATE · Skills Forecast

Cedefop · with Eurofound's EWCS 2024

The topic's Cedefop alignment made concrete: Skills-OVATE, the Skills Forecast and Eurofound's working-conditions survey are triangulation baselines and the weighting frame for the Meso Competence Survey.