Excellence §1.2 · Related actions
33 EU projects across 7 tiers.
33
EU projects
1
Internal anchors
12
Live at submission
CL5: just transitions without competence layer (BOLSTER, TANDEM, AdJUST).
CL2-Transformations: competence frameworks without green transition or narrative apparatus (Skills2Capabilities, Link4Skills, SkillsPULSE).
HERITAGE: heritage narratives without competence question (PITCH).
H2020 coal quartet: communities without competence acquisition (ENTRANCES, CINTRAN, TIPPING+, TRACER).
No project combines competence × narrative × energy at the meso-level. GreenPulse fills that slot.
The EU baseline is not a gap — it is a foundation. SkillsPULSE (101132727, to June 2027) supplies the shortage / internal-gap / over-skilling vocabulary through its public deliverables — the nearest concurrent project, cited and demarcated rather than left unmentioned. BRIDGES 5.0(CNAM, inside · €4.6M · CL4) supplies industry-5.0 workforce taxonomies, finishing Dec 2026 just as GreenPulse starts — CNAM’s work package there was supervised from inside the GreenPulse team, so the handover is a working relationship, not a citation. The energy-citizenship cluster (GRETA · EnergyPROSPECTS · EC² · DIALOGUES) supplies the affective and behavioural scaffolding. The H2020 coal quartet (ENTRANCES · CINTRAN · TIPPING+ · TRACER) supplies thirteen regional case studies on identity, decline and post-industrial trajectory. GreenPulse picks up here and goes further: meso-level narrative evidence on why the gap reproduces, with workers and communities as authors not respondents.
GreenPulse partners are already beneficiaries — clustering is in-house, no external MoU needed. Direct evidence of coordinator track record.
Bridges between Skills and Industry 5.0
Horizon CL4 · 2023–2026 · TNO (NL) · €4.6M
GreenPulse partner inside · CNAM
CNAM is already a beneficiary (~€367k). Macro/sectoral skill-gap data (2.1M vacancies + 156k collective agreements) feeds GreenPulse's meso-energy layer. BRIDGES closes Dec 2026 — its final results arrive as GreenPulse starts. Zero-overhead clustering, double signal: related action + coordinator track record.
Eight projects cited by name in Part B §1.2. Non-duplication paragraphs, data continuity, joint events at TRL of mature programmes.
Skill shortages, gaps & over-skilling — EU-wide measurement, all sectors
Horizon CL2 · 2023 · Fond. Brodolini (IT) · ~€3M · 2024–2027
SkillsPULSE (June 2024 – June 2027) is the nearest concurrent EU project on the same object, so it is addressed explicitly rather than tacitly. Its public deliverables D2.1 and D2.2 (both PU) supply the conceptual vocabulary GreenPulse uses for external shortages, internal skill gaps and over-skilling. They also mark the demarcation: SkillsPULSE measures the extent and distribution of mismatch across the whole labour market, largely from employer and survey evidence; GreenPulse explains why mismatch reproduces where it does, in one sector at the meso level, from primary narrative and archival evidence it collects itself. Its results land as GreenPulse begins. Relation: citation of published results — no data dependency, no shared beneficiary since Pisa left the consortium.
TRANSFO-02 2025 sister cohort on industrial transitions
Horizon CL2 · TRANSFO-02 · 2025 cohort
Sister projects from the 2025 TRANSFO-02 call on past and present industrial transitions. **Non-duplication argument (Part B § 1.2):** TRANSFO-02 reconstructs transitions as primary object — historical understanding. GreenPulse's Historical-Archival fieldwork (HACx) reads archives in the service of competence design under TRANSFO-07 — different research question, energy-specific scope, paired with present-day NECx workshops, operational forward-facing outputs (VET curricula, GreenComp cross-walks, competence-pathway briefs). The two clusters share protocols, harmonise competence-statement formats and run joint Multi-Stakeholders Meetings — cumulative base, not parallel silo. AUTH (Thessaloniki) coordinates PACT AND ST4TE — single contact, double clustering. Demos Helsinki sits in HIT and TANDEM.
Twin transitions and inequalities — mixed-methods + narrative interviews
Horizon CL2 · 2023 · AUTH / GSSI · 2024–2026 · €3M
Closest methodological twin — mixed-methods + narrative interviews on twin-transition inequalities. Mandatory non-duplication paragraph in Part B. Twin Transition Inequalities Index reused to select fieldwork terrains. Finishes just before GreenPulse starts → data handover.
Skills mismatch via Cedefop ESJS
Horizon CL2 · 2022 · 3s (AT) · 2023–2025 · €2.4M
The Cedefop bridge the TRANSFO-07 topic explicitly demands. Now closed → baseline without overlap. Reuses the European Skills and Jobs Survey — directly feeds the Meso Competence Survey's quantitative spine.
Socio-political approach to industry-shaped identities (coal regions)
Horizon H2020 LC-SC3 · Coruña (ES) · 2020–2023 · €3M
13 coal regions; socio-historical case studies on identity, culture and gender in transitions, including affective and narrative dimensions. ENTRANCES covered exit from coal; GreenPulse covers entry into energy-independence competence.
Historical trajectories of carbon-intensive regions
Horizon H2020 LC-SC3 · Wuppertal (DE) · 2020–2024 · €3M
Meso-level dynamics of structural change including Ida-Viru (EE) — legitimises GreenPulse's meso framing and supplies the Baltic comparator for the Latvian round (Rīgas Stradiņš). Typology of regions-at-risk reused.
Social tipping points, collective visions & narratives
Horizon H2020 · GCF (DE) · 2020–2023 · €3M
Closest project epistemologically — positions NECx as the next step (narrative → competence). Bosnia case bridges to the Montenegro fieldwork round.
Petroculture & heritage in the energy transition · museum pilots
Horizon CL2 · HERITAGE · Stavanger (NO) · 2023–2027 · €2.74M
Direct neighbour of the Musée des Arts et Métiers heritage axis. Advisory-board crossover + joint museum/transition event. PITCH = heritage reinterpretation, GreenPulse = competence. Carries the Narrative Science filiation (ERC AdG 694732 closed 2022, no ERC successor).
Protocols, vacancy corpora and survey instruments mobilised without reconstruction. Justifies budget savings under lump-sum.
Online vacancy corpus + technology-exposure measures
Horizon H2020 · ifo (DE) · 2021–2023
Multi-country vacancy scrape GreenPulse mobilises without reconstructing — direct input to the Meso Competence Survey.
15-country survey on transitions in work, climate, technology
Horizon CL2 · 2021 · Leiden · 2022–2026 · ~36,000 respondents
Survey items reusable to calibrate the Meso Competence Survey for immediate cross-country comparability.
Green Smart Citizenship Education — GreenComp operationalisation
Horizon H2020 Green Deal · €5.5M
Operationalised GreenComp in educational settings. GreenPulse takes the same lineage into productive systems. User Guide open-access on Zenodo.
European competence framework for a low-carbon economy
Horizon H2020 · CIEMAT (ES) · closed 12/2025
Second EU operationalisation of sustainability-competence frameworks in education. GreenPulse extends to productive workplaces — the niche neither GreenSCENT nor ECF4CLIM filled.
GRETA · EnergyPROSPECTS · EC² · DIALOGUES
Horizon H2020 · already operating as a cluster (energycitizenship.eu)
Multinational survey (GRETA) + 500-initiative database (EnergyPROSPECTS) + psychometric scales for affect (EC²) + multi-stakeholder dialogues (DIALOGUES). GreenPulse cites the cluster as a block.
Energy Supporters — certified community-energy facilitators
Horizon H2020 · NTUA (EL) · 2020–2023
Latvia pilot — direct precedent of competence-pipeline → GreenComp and field relay for Rīgas Stradiņš.
Bolstering inclusion in just transition · 10 carbon-intensive regions
Horizon CL5 · Tilburg (NL) · closed 08/2025 · €3.8M
Photo-voice + community-reporting protocols in 10 carbon-intensive regions including Katowice. Multi-actor-fora lessons feed GreenPulse's MSM design. Coordinates the Just Transition Cluster (bolster-horizon.eu/cluster).
Inclusive futures of work in Industry 4.0
Horizon H2020 · TNO (NL)
Company cases + historical analysis of technological revolutions — precedent legitimising GreenPulse's Historical-Archival arm in an employment/competence proposal.
Live projects at submission moment. Advisory-board crossover, clustering events, letters of intent.
Shared vision and narratives for the just transition
Horizon CL5 · CMCC (IT) · 2022–2026
Target #1 for a clustering event / letter of intent at submission. Its WP1 — shared vision and narratives for the just transition — overlaps the GreenPulse Policy Roadmap and SMP.
Democratising just sustainability transitions in 8 energy-intensive regions
Horizon CL2 Democracy · TU Delft (NL) · 2023–2026
Operates in Gotland + Norrbotten (SE) — direct overlap with the Swedish anchor region. Without a Swedish consortium partner, DUST serves as the SE relay and citation.
Barriers to labour-market inclusion (disability focus)
Horizon CL2 · 2022 · OsloMet (NO) · 2023–2026 · €2.87M
Disability dimension of the topic. Advisory crossover with OsloMet — partial closure of the disability-partner gap pending European Disability Forum or Inclusion Europe formal entry.
Already-running cluster of CL5/CL2 just-transition projects
Coordinated by BOLSTER · bolster-horizon.eu/cluster
Apply to join the existing cluster rather than create one — strong Impact-section signal, near-zero cost.
Just transitions in energy-intensive industries
Horizon CL5 · VUB (BE)
Indirect bridge via Demos Helsinki (TANDEM + HIT). Advisory contact available with low coordination cost.
Citizen-capacity building in 6 coal regions
Horizon LIFE-CET · closed 06/2025
KERs reusable for GreenPulse's Green Transition Academies adult-worker tracks.
Historical and industrial-heritage corpus — direct feed into the Historical-Archival fieldwork (Pillar 03b).
Conservation and promotion of coal-mining heritage
RFCS
Heritage-oriented coal corpus. Memory, oral histories, sites/landscapes/machinery. Feeds the Expo-Action prototype and historical-archival contextualisation.
Historic industrial areas → 'Fab City Hubs'
Horizon H2020-SC5-2019-2
Industrial history as material foundation for circular and inclusive production. Linking heritage with present-day innovation.
Sustainable management of industrial heritage
Horizon H2020-MSCA-RISE-2020
Deindustrialised sites as 'historical laboratories' for governance, participation, sustainable development. Oral-history + archival methods transferable to GreenPulse's Historical Collection Methodology.
R&I roadmaps in coal-intensive regions
Horizon H2020 LC-SC3-2018-2019-2020
Roadmaps and stakeholder processes from 9 coal regions as methodological models for participatory strategy-building.
Narrative-and-biographical-methods corpus — direct feed into the NECx narrative-cascade fieldwork (Pillar 03a).
Evolution of European identity using biographical methods
FP7-SSH-2007-1
Methodological backbone of the NECx biographical-narrative component. Cross-national know-how for biographical interviews in diverse cultural contexts.
Generational approach to social patterns of relation to work
FP6-2004-CITIZENS-5
Comparative framework on youth, ageing and labour mobility — key for the reskilling × transitions axis. Mixed-method protocol (narrative interviews + cross-country surveys) adaptable to NECx.
Green growth and win–win strategies for sustainable climate action
Horizon H2020-SC5-2014-2015
Winning green narratives from innovative business studies. Global Dialogue Process structures (transferable to GreenPulse's MSM). Affective-transition-stories repository: urban mobility, biogas, solar routes.
Hard requirements of the TRANSFO-07 work-programme text — alignment with EU partnerships and instruments beyond the call.
Social Transformations and Resilience — co-funded European Partnership
Candidate partnership · CHANSE network · Topic HORIZON-CL2-2026-02-TRANSFO-01 · submission Q3 2026
2 of 4 STR axes match GreenPulse (education/skills · just transition). Deliverables (SMP, HACx/NECx datasets) aligned with the STR agenda; joint programming + STR co-fund calls as the sustainability route beyond M48.
Erasmus+ Sustainability Teacher Academy
Erasmus+ · University of Crete
Education/training pathway named in the call. Zero duplication: CLIMADEMY trains school teachers, GreenPulse works with workers + communities.
European Skills and Jobs Survey + Skills-OVATE
Cedefop instruments routed via Skills2Capabilities
Topic-mandated Cedefop alignment. Operational via Skills2Capabilities (closed) + Skills-OVATE benchmark already inside the Meso Competence Survey.
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