ValueFacturing SMEs - Fostering SMEs Competitiveness in Manufacturing GVCs through Social Dialogue

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"The main goal of the ValueFacturing SMEs project is to promote the contribution of sectoral social dialogue practices at national and European level to make Europe (and its individual Member States) ""the most attractive place to start a small business, make it grow and scale up in the single market” (European Commission 2020), this also considering unfolding the full potential of SMEs to address the digital and environmental challenges in place. This will be achieved thanks to a transnational consortium covering 3 main target countries (IT, HU, AL) and the European arena. The consortium is composed of Confimi Industria (IT) and its AE (Confimi Industria Digitale), FIM Lombardia (IT), Fondazione ADAPT (IT) and its AE (ADAPT Associazione), European DIGITAL SME Alliance (BE), Budapest Chamber of Commerce and Industry (HU), Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Tirana (AL), VASAS (HU), FSPISH (AL), IndustriALL Europe (BE), Confimi Puglia (IT), Consiglio Regione Puglia (IT), FIM-CISL (IT). To sum up, alongside the delivery of an innovative multilingual Decalogue containing practical procedures and guidelines for social dialogue at company, sectoral and European level -namely collective bargaining initiatives (potentially replicable in contexts other than the Italian and target countries ones) to support quality labor markets and foster the competitiveness of manufacturing SMEs within GVCs, ValueFacturing SMEs aims also to facilitate dialogue between employers’ organisations (in broad sense, thus including interest groupings like chambers of commerce) and trade unions in national contexts where industrial relations are more fragile (both in terms of trade union membership and collective bargaining coverage), in order to increase and improve SMEs advantage from quality and effective sectoral social dialogue strategies designed and implemented by well-trained business side and workers’ representatives. "