BRIDGE - Building Resilient International Development through Green Employment in the EU and Asia.

CALL: HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01 (HORIZON Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Postdoctoral Fellowship) Type of Action: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-GF (HORIZON Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Global Fellowship)

TITLE: Building Resilient International Development through Green Employment in the EU and Asia (BRIDGE acronym)

DURATION: 3 years from 01.08.08.2025 to 31.07.2028

RESPONSIBLE: Dr. Riccardo Rinaldi

SUPERVISOR: Prof. Fabio Landini

SCIENTIFIC AREA: Economic Sciences

GOAL SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals): Goal 13 Fighting Climate Change; Goal 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth

The project ‘Building Resilient International Development through Green Employment in the EU and Asia’ (BRIDGE) aims to comprehensively examine the structure and evolution of 'green jobs'—those essential for the green transition—along global value chains, in response to the growing international economic shifts toward sustainable development. The project’s core premise is that the ecological transition transcends national borders, representing a global process. As a result, labor dynamics related to this transition are deeply interconnected across regions worldwide. Asia, particularly China, plays a key role in the development and production of goods and services crucial to the green transition. These processes form a ‘global value chain’ of green jobs and tasks, encompassing every stage from design and planning to raw material extraction, production, logistics, and distribution. The exploration of this ‘global green-employment chain’ (GGEC) is critical for identifying potential areas of collaboration and competition, while also assessing the feasibility of regional development strategies in both the EU and Asia. The project starts from previous studies on labor economics to develop an analysis on a global level, adopting a multidisciplinary approach, encompassing empirical analysis and qualitative interviews to key actors to develop empirical informed computer simulation experiments (EICSE). The project will be hosted by two top-class academic institutions, the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Parma (UNIPR, Italy), under the supervision of Prof. Fabio Landini, and the School of Management and Economics at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in Chengdu, under the supervision of Prof. Daitian Li, with the addition of a period at the Joint Research Center (JRC) in Seville, under the supervision of Dott. Enrique Fernández-Macías.

Riccardo Rinaldi discussed his PhD in Economics in October 2019 from the University of Siena. His doctoral thesis addressed the impact of technological innovation on the structure of the labor market, using data from European surveys such as the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) and the Labor Force Survey (LFS). He has a background in political science and international relations. For the past three years, he has conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Parma, focusing on topics such as migrant entrepreneurship, employment, and innovation in strategic Italian economic sectors, as well as the sustainable transition in Emilia-Romagna. He has also served as a teaching assistant at the University of Bologna, teaching subjects related to applied economic analysis and industrial studies.