Objective
In the White Paper Growth, Competitiveness and Employment, the European Commission (1993) identified the need "to analyse in which ways economic growth can be promoted in a sustainable way, which contributes to higher intensity of employment and lower intensity of energy and natural resources consumption".
From a technological perspective, it is widely agreed that sustainable development requires a shift from end-of-pipe technologies to clean production.
The relationship between enhancing cleaner production and creating jobs is still controversial and not well understood. Strategies to identify and promote treble dividends (ecology, growth and jobs) have to be very specific and selective. It is crucial to know which synergies and/or conflicts exist for single countries, sectors and products, and how to handle them strategically.
Such specific information can only be generated by micro-studies such as surveys and case studies.
Following the Commission's White Paper on "Growth, Competitiveness and Employment", the activities of the TSER programme "aim at producing new knowledge and elucidating decision-making required in future at a decentralised, national or Community level and to lay the foundations for sustainable economic and social development of Europe's economies, enabling them to withstand international competition and create jobs". The IMPRESS project directly addresses these goals for TSER projects. In particular, the objectives of IMPRESS are as follows:
- To establish a Europe-wide methodological framework for analysing the impact of clean production on employment,
- to use, wherever possible, data from European innovation data banks to examine the relationships between eco-innovation, employment, and competitiveness,
- to supplement existing information with in-depth case studies in selected industrial and service sectors,
- to obtain detailed, yet representative, information about eco-innovations through customised surveys on eco-innovation,
- to achieve a better understanding of synergies and conflicts between clean production, employment and competitiveness, and
- to provide policy makers with sector and country-specific micro-data which can be used to help strengthen synergies and to mitigate conflicts.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences biological sciences ecology
- social sciences economics and business business and management employment
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Programme(s)
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Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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Coordinator
68161 MANNHEIM
Germany
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