Horizon Europe — Social Model & Sustainable Productivity
Funds research and policy tools that raise Europe's productivity while protecting its social model, environmental standards and biodiversity.
This topic funds research into a central policy tension: Europe needs stronger productivity and competitiveness, but it also wants to keep a high level of welfare and social protection and stay within environmental and biodiversity limits.
Projects should study how geopolitics, global trade, climate and environmental change, technology and demographic change are reshaping that balance. The work c…
Researching how Europe can improve productivity and sustainable competitiveness while protecting its social model and high environmental and biodiversity standards. Projects analyse geopolitical, trade, climate, technology and demographic shifts, then produce policy recommendations and a toolbox for Member States and Associated Countries.
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