Call for Papers: SkiLMeeT conference on workers, firms, and skills in the digital and green transition

Leiden, Netherlands, 25 February 2025 – Project SkiLMeeT is accepting papers for its midterm conference, “Workers, Firms, and Skills in the Digital and Green Transition”, to be held on 2-3 October in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The keynote lecture will be given by Matias Cortes (York University, Toronto).

The deadline for submitting papers or extended abstracts is 1 May 2025. We welcome contributions from researchers across all social science disciplines, particularly papers addressing:

• Effects of the digital and/or the green transition on workers, firms and skills
• Measurement and analysis of skill demand and supply
• Skill gaps and skill shortages arising through the digital and/or the green transition
• Labour-market policies to reduce skill gaps and shortages
• Education measures to reduce skill gaps and shortages.

Please use the ConfTool system, https://www.skilmeet.eu/conftool/, to register and to submit abstracts or papers. Instructions for submitting can be found here.

You can find the detailed Call for Papers here.