Isabel Horizon Research Project

23/03/2026

The 3rd General Assembly of the ISABEL Horizon was successfully implemented in 📍 Katowice, Poland.

🙌 Over two days, the meeting focused on key technical and research progress, with emphasis on the ISABEL Horizon platform and the development of AI-driven tools, including data lakes, crawlers, and advanced analytics solutions.

💡 These technologies support ISABEL Horizon’s goal of addressing the uneven impacts of the green and digital ( a.k.a twin) transition across European labour markets through data-driven and fair reskilling strategies.

Progress across all Work Packages was also discussed, highlighting the ongoing collaboration within the consortium.

17/03/2026

The close collaboration among the ISABEL partners goes on! In a bilateral meeting between the scientific manager Nikos Kapitsinis from Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen and the colleagues from Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, during his research visit in the occasion of our general assembly during this week, the next steps towards data collection and analysis as well as living labs were discussed. Stay tuned!

13/03/2026

The ISABEL project successfully held the kick-off meeting of its Living Lab on labour market transformation in Western Macedonia, organised by the University of Western Macedonia in collaboration with the Regional Development Fund of Western Macedonia.

The meeting brought together regional stakeholders, researchers and policy actors to discuss the major transformations shaping labour markets, including the green transition, digitalisation and technological change, and their impact on job creation and job destruction across regions and social groups.

Participants exchanged insights on:
• key challenges and opportunities for Western Macedonia,
• the importance of stakeholder participation in shaping policy responses, and
• innovative tools developed by the ISABEL project, such as the FAROROMO Observatory, which will support the analysis of the labour market impacts of the just green transition at the regional level.

The active participation of regional actors highlighted the importance of collaboration between research, policy and society in designing effective solutions for a fair and sustainable labour market future.

📂 Presentations from the meeting are available in Greek here:
https://lnkd.in/d4d4Xhz3
https://lnkd.in/dQCaXNyU
https://lnkd.in/dQEBypqv

03/03/2026

We were pleased to participate in the Ninth CareersNet Annual Meeting (online) on the theme “Changing Expectations for Lifelong Guidance.”

During the event, we had the opportunity to present the ISABEL Project (HORIZON 2024) and discuss how it contributes to strengthening evidence-based, inclusive and forward-looking lifelong guidance systems.

The discussion highlighted the evolving role of career guidance in supporting individuals through green and digital transitions, skills transformation and changing labour markets.

Thank you to the CareersNet community for the insightful exchange and collaboration!

02/02/2026

A very fruitful meeting last week between our two partners in Denmark. Colleagues from the University of Copenhagen visited Kalundborg and met with colleagues from Kalundborg Municipality's Job Centre to discuss the development of the living lab in the Sjælland region. Engagement with regional stakeholders is progressing, providing initial insights into the regional labour market transformation driven by the green and digital transitions. Stay tuned!

30/01/2026

Today at the Cedefop CareersNet meeting, ISABEL was presented to EU national CareersNet experts.

The presentation focused on career information tools and processes that support guidance practices responding to green and digital transition skills and changing labour market needs across Europe.

21/01/2026

Europe’s labour markets are changing rapidly as green and digital transitions reshape jobs and skills across sectors and regions.
The ISABEL project shares early insights on job creation and destruction, emerging skills needs and policy challenges, based on its first year of research.
👉 Read the 2nd press release to learn more ..

23/12/2025

15/12/2025

ISABEL Newsletter #2 is out!
Discover key milestones, co-creation workshops and insights on regional labour-market transformation.
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25/11/2025

The ISABEL team is expanding its efforts to conceptualise job creation and destruction in the context of the green and digital transition, with citizen engagement. Today, Nikos Kapitsinis delivered an invited lecture at the University of Copenhagen explaining ISABEL insights into the main concepts of regional labour market transformation in the context of the green and digital transition. This invited lecture was undertaken within the framework of citizen science activities, engaging the public in data collection and in reflecting on insights and interpretations, seeking to co-create knowledge and democratise the research process.

14/11/2025

An excellent second co-creation workshop of the ISABEL project!

In the context of the 2025 Regional Studies Association Regional Futures Conference. ISABEL organised a co-creation workshop, sponsored by RSA, at The Cumberland Hotel in London. More than 45 attendants, in person and online, engaged with very fruitful discussions. The project team members presented insights on the conceptualisation of job creation and destruction in the context of the twin transition and on opportunities for harnessing AI and social sciences for evidence-based regional labour market analyses and policies. Then, a group of researchers and experts working on labour markets, AI, regional development, and the green and digital transitions discussee regional labour market transformations in the context of the potential synergies between social sciences and AI to study these transformations, seeking co-creation of knowledge and feedback exchange. Thanks a lot to everyone, stay tuned!

13/11/2025

ISABEL team held another special session in an international conference. Very successful presentation of our initial work in fully packed rooms at the Regional Studies Association Regional Futures Conference in London. The consortium members, alongside other scholars, presented and discussed initial ideas on regional labour markets transformation in the context of green and digital transition. Debbie, Esteban, Jeisson and Nikos presented the initial insights that our project has generated. ISABEL team had a strong presence in the conference, spreading the word about the project and its research aims. Tomorrow is the second co-creation workshop in the context of the conference. Stay tuned!