Webinar: BARMETAL Final Conference - 2024

BARMETAL Final Conference discussing digitalization, automation, and decarbonization in the metalworking industry.

About the BARMETAL Project

Since 2022, the WageIndicator Foundation has been part of a consortium studying situation and opportunities for strengthening collective bargaining in the metalworking industry in conditions of technological change, including in particular digitalization, automatization and decarbonization. With this focus, the project directly responds to evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic accelerates the technology dissemination and the digital transformation of metal, engineering and tech-based industries and workplaces.

Having completed the research, the consortium presented its findings in an online event on the 20th of September.

This project is funded by the European Commission (Project Code: SOCPL-2021-IND-REL).

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Webinar Agenda

9 AM - 9:05 AM	Welcome and introduction to the BARMETAL project: Mariaenrica Virgillito, SSSA Pisa
9:05 AM - 9:20 AM	Digitalisation, Automation and Decarbonisation: Current trends in Europe and expected labour market effects Prof. Gerhard Bosch - University of Duisburg-Essen (access the presentation Gerhard_Presentation)
9:20 AM - 9:30 AM	Video screening
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM	Panel Discussion: Responses of Collective Bargaining to D-A-D across European economies Bengt Larsson - Linnaeus University Armanda Cetrulo - SSSA Pisa Tibor Meszmann, CELSI Alina Popescu - Bucharest University of Economics Mihail Arandarenko - University of Belgrade Marta Marta Kahancová, CELSI
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM	Q&A
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM	Coffee Break
10:45 AM - 11 AM	Facing D-A-D challenges at the EU-level and key learning points for the metal sector across Europe Monika Martišková, Charles University (access the presentation Monika_Presentation)
11 AM - 11:15 AM	Collective agreements as a regulatory tool for responding to D-A-D Gabriele Medas, WageIndicator Foundation (access the presentation Gabriele_Presentation)
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM	A toolkit for social partners at the company level Barbara Surdykowska, Institute for Public Affairs (access the presentation Barbara_Presentation)
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM	Social partners' panel discussion: Key lessons for the metal sector across Europe Paulien Osse, WageIndicator Foundation Isabelle Barthes, Deputy Secretary General, IndustriAll European Trade Union Isabel Sobrino Mate, Senior Policy Advisor, CEEMET Maurizio Oreggi, Coordinator, Fiom-CGIL
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM	Q&A
12:30 PM - 12:45 PM	Closing address Mariaenrica Virgillito, SSSA Pisa