Project cooperationUpdated on 6 April 2026
HORIZON-CL2-2026-01-TRANSFO-02: Open topic: Strengthen Europe's social model and sustainable competitiveness through productivity
Senior researcher at Technological University Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
About
We are preparing a proposal for HORIZON-CL2-2026-01-TRANSFO-02 addressing how Europe can create virtuous circles between welfare, sustainability, and innovation-driven competitiveness. The project explores how welfare systems (including social protection) and innovation ecosystems can jointly reinforce inclusion, eco-social justice, and productivity in a context of structural transformation and uncertainty.
The project analyses how innovation ecosystems shape social and environmental outcomes, welfare, and eco-social justice, and how welfare systems and the European Social Model, in turn, enable, orient, and sustain innovation towards sustainability.
A central component is the use of foresight and scenario-building to explore alternative future pathways for Europe’s social model and productive systems, taking into account major uncertainties such as technological change, labour market transformations, demographic shifts, and geopolitical developments.
We are particularly interested in partners with expertise in welfare economics, social policy, innovation systems , and foresight methodologies. Previous experience in Horizon Europe or related EU-funded projects is highly desirable.
Stage
- Design - setting the project scope
Call
- Destination: Innovative Research on Social and Economic Transformations
Type
- Partners for an existing consortium
Organisation
Similar opportunities
Project cooperation
- Completing the consortia
- A consortium to join as partner
- Destination: Innovative Research on Social and Economic Transformations
Pedro Liberado
Chief Research Officer | Coordinator of Radicalisation, Violent Extremism & Organised Crime Dept at IPS_Innovative Prison Systems
Lisbon, Portugal
Project cooperation
Cooperation in social innovation projects
- Completing the consortia
- A consortium to join as partner
- Design - setting the project scope
- Ideation - identifying the project idea
- Drafting - writing the project proposal
- Destination: Innovative Research on Social and Economic Transformations
Roger Singleton
International Project Manager, Pre-Award at Fundació Sant Joan de Déu - Social Innova
Project cooperation
SSH integration and communication in technology-driven innovation
- A consortium to join as partner
Prof. Dr. Colette Schneider Stingelin
Professor at University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW
Olten, Switzerland