The European economy and society are experiencing unprecedented changes towards a greener and more digital future. This transformation is referred to as the Twin Transition. Policies driving the Twin Transition are intended to level the playing field to achieve the European Growth Model and meet the objectives of the EU Green Deal and the UN’s Sus-tainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, these policies have also led to unintended and unforeseen effects, creating new inequalities and/or exacerbating existing ones. Those primarily affected are social groups already at risk and the EU’s most vulnerable regions. Public authorities and policymakers at local, national, and European levels, therefore, need evidence-based insights into these inequalities and concrete strategies to prevent and/or mitigate them.
READJUST aims to contribute to policies for fair and just twin transitions to mitigate existing inequalities driven by these transformations and minimize their unintended consequences for equality in the agri-food and mobility sectors. It achieves this by tracking, assessing, analyzing, and addressing different aspects of inequalities—both intended and unintended—triggered by Twin Transition policies. Subsequently, it provides policy recommendations that help policymakers mitigate and prevent the injustices that an ungoverned Twin Transition could cause.
READJUST strengthens the impact of equality enablers by providing knowledge and compiling existing experiences in an accessible format. Through the READJUST Observatory, policymakers gain access to a Policy Tracker Tool that contains a library of policy actions, a collection of best practices, and a policy roadmap. To safeguard new transition policies from inequality drivers, the READJUST Observatory also includes a Co-Creation Framework and a Self-Assessment Tool, which provide insights into potential unintended impacts on equality before the policies are adopted or deployed. In READJUST, understanding inequalities in the Twin Transition is supported by dedicated Twin Transition Inequality Indicators.
READJUST primarily aims to raise awareness of inequalities in the Twin Transition. The project co-creates policy measures that promote economic growth and social/political equality, for example, by increasing workforce participation, reducing inequalities in pay and opportunities, increasing the representation of women in the workplace, and closing the gender pay gap. It enhances transition capacity through the READJUST Observatory and its equality indicators. The tools within the READJUST Observatory are expected to assist a significant number of policymakers active in the Twin Transition. Advocacy and capacity-building for the Co-Creation Framework and the Policy Action Roadmap targeted at policymakers in the agri-food and mobility sectors are key focus points of the project.
