Enhancing socio-ecological dialogue in the automotive industry (SEAD)

2026-07-22

Enhancing socio-ecological dialogue in the automotive industry (SEAD) The SEAD project aims to develop practical strategies for employers and trade unions for strengthening social dialogue and influencing policies for the future of work emerging from the ongoing socio-ecological and digital transformation in the automotive industry in three Central and Eastern European countries (CEE). The automotive industry plays a significant role in the CEE countries' economies, yet faces important dilemmas emerging from just transition processes including digitalization, automatization and decarbonisation. The SEAD project resembles an innovative partnership between research and policy organisations with social dialogue actors directly engaged in the socio-ecological transition processes both at the national and the EU level. The project combines analytical, training and networking activities, in order to seek tailored strategies to tackle the socio-ecological transformation processes via social partners´ intensive involvement in policy dialogue and in social dialogue at the national/sectoral level and at the EU level. Involving representatives of employers and workers from Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia, the project aims at developing profound strategic capacities and action plans for social partners in the automotive sector in these countries in close cooperation with EU-level social partners IndustriAll and CEEMET. Trainings and mutual learning events on strategic planning and capacity building for social partners are anchored in the theory of change approach. The strategy development activities are supported by an original empirical analysis of needs and expectations of players in the automotive industry, analysis of collective agreements in the sector to address the challenges of technological change, and organisation of foresight workshops with a broader range of relevant stakeholders and policy experts. These activities help social partners in strengthening social

Czech Republic

2025-10-15