Webinar: Increasing Sustainability and Resilience in Supply Chains
- Time: February 26th, at 11:30h. (CET)
- Online: Zoom (https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87894328543?pwd=hOwDysh7KnLHw1qqDBKJkEpqckNaYq.1)
Globalization has shifted trade patterns and dynamics, value chains and production networks, enabling EU companies to integrate into global value chains and create jobs. However, these transformations also pose social, economic, and environmental challenges, such as productivity divergence, labor market effects, working conditions, and lack of strategic supply security, among others. The need has arisen to conceptualize these patterns in light of the EU’s long-term policy priorities of social resilience and competitive sustainability and analyze the impacts of different trade patterns on EU value added, labor market, income inequalities, decent work, and social cohesion.
New initiatives are mandatory taking into consideration the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and the related public health crisis on trade patterns and global value chains as well as the impacts of international trade disruptions, due to the lockdown measures, on added value, and EU employment.
With this in mind, the TWIN SEEDS, RETHINK GSC and ReSChape EU-funded projects were conceived to study how to increase social and environmental sustainability of resilient supply chains. Policy scenarios and recommendations will also be developed to help supply chains and global value chains in fair, inclusive, and sustainable trade patterns.
The combination of the three projects will deploy multi-disciplinary methodologies and target multi-dimensional aspects, developing cross-sectoral and forward-looking responses, involving external stakeholders and experts, including European social partners, regional and national authorities and international trade, labour market and social policy experts.
The webinar is a good opportunity for an insight on the main aspects led by each project.
TWIN SEEDS will provide a short overview of the impacts of global value chains' restructuring caused by economic crises on value added and employment at regional macro-economic level.
Title: Global value chains’ restructuring: recent trends and impacts on EU countries and regions.
Speaker: Roberta Capello
RETHINK-GSC will present the first results of a survey of European companies on recent changes and ongoing challenges in global supply chains in the light of disruptions caused by COVID-19, the Russia-Ukraine war and the energy crisis.
Title: Assessing the resilience of European companies in the face of global supply chain challenges.
Speaker: Márta Bisztray, KRTK – Institute of Economics
ReSChape will unveil innovative ways to organise SCs for sustainability and resilience explaining how SCs are putting in place actions transforming their processes and changing the way they collaborate at different levels.
Title: Supplier development strategies for social sustainability: evidence from European companies.
Speaker: Dimitra Kalaitzi, Aston University
AGENDA
11:30h. Welcome and introduction
11:35h. TWIN-SEEDS: Global value chains’ restructuring: recent trends and impacts on EU countries and regions
11:55h. RETHINK-GSC: Assessing the resilience of European companies in the face of global supply chain challenges
12:15h. ReSChape: Innovative ways to organize supply chains for sustainability and resilience
12:35h. Discussion and open questions.
12:55h. Conclusions and wrap up.
13:00h. End of the webinar.
