Team Hub. Delivering sustainability to the e-commerce supply chain
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Lead Partner
Italian Federation of Transport Workers (FILT-CGIL)
Partners: Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini (FGB), Belgische Transportbond (BTB), Elliniko Idryma Evropaikis Kai Exoterikis Politikis (ELIAMEP), University of Jyvaskyla, University of Taru, NOTUS, Fundacja Instytut Spraw Publicznych, Institut de Recherche Economique et Sociale (IRES), Vereinte Dienstleistungs-gewerkschaft Ver.di
Associated partners: Federation Europeenne des Travaulleurs des Transports (ETF), Organizacja zakładowa, Federación de Servicios a la Ciudadanía de CCOO.
Team Hub! – Delivering sustainability to the e-commerce supply chain is a two-year project funded by the European Commission as part of the call SOCPL-2021-IND-REL (Improving expertise in the field of industrial relations).
The project brings together universities, research institutes and trade unions from nine EU countries (Belgium, Germany, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Finland, France, Italy, Poland) to jointly address the complexities and challenges of e-commerce supply chains, especially with regard to storage and delivery activities, through a set of desk and field research activities, training, networking and development of policy recommendations.
The aim of the project is to analyse the implications of the e-commerce boom, especially following the COVID-19 pandemic, and to equip trade unions with the knowledge and skills necessary to propose a sustainable reshaping of business models and work organization in the supply chain, also in view of the digital revolution and environmental sustainability objectives. A bold dissemination strategy has been designed to promote the active involvement of logistics workers in key project initiatives.
Indeed, privileged objects of the project will be the working conditions and needs of logistics and e-commerce workers, the current and potential business strategies, the possible initiatives by trade unions and political decision-makers aimed at shaping the future of the working activities most affected by e-commerce developments.
As a partner, Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini will lead the research activities of the project, ensuring the scientific quality and coherence of the activities by providing the overall scientific supervision and producing the scientific reports. The skills of Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini in the field of EU-project management and dissemination will also be put at the service of the lead organisation, FILT-CGIL, in order to ensure a correct and timely implementation of the project and an effective dissemination of its results.
