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2025 SkiLMeeT CONFERENCE: Workers, Firms, and Skills in the Digital and Green Transition

 

It is our great pleasure to announce that the SkiLMeeT Conference “Workers, Firms, and Skills in the Digital and Green Transition” will take place on 2-3 October, 2025 in Sofia, Bulgaria. The two-day format will feature a keynote lecture and paper presentations.

The event will open with a keynote address from Matias Cortes (York University, Toronto) and will also feature policy keynotes by Simone Rosini (DG EMP) and Mariya Mincheva (Bulgarian Industrial Association). Across two days, participants will engage in thematic sessions, including:
 
  • Skills in the green transition
  • Educational and occupational choice
  • Worker mobility
  • Green jobs
  • Firms 
  • Job quality
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Workers coping with technology
  • Skills and competences
 
The preliminary programme is available HERE
 
Registration for non-presenters: HERE
 
 

Keynote Speakers

 

Matias CORTES
York University, Toronto
Mariya MINCHEVA 
Bulgarian Industrial Association
Simone ROSINI
Socio-economic Analyst, DG employment, European Commission
Mariya Mincheva (Bulgarian Industrial Association)
Matias CORTES Mariya MINCHEVA  

 

Scientific Committee:

Ronald Bachmann, Coordinator, RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research

Vassil Kirov, Local Organiser, the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Christina Gathmann, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research

Piotr Lewandowski, IBS – Institute for Structural Research

Joost van Genabeek, TNO – Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research

Francesco Vona, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage, Utrecht University

No registration fees

Contact to Organisers

Suhendan Adiguzel van Zoelen, Project Manager
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Olga Markiewicz, Communication Officer
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Guide to Sofia