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The international seminar is an initiative of the Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute (TNI) and the GreenPaths/European Knowledge Hub on Just Transition Pathways project of the Horizon Europe research programme (grant agreement 101112305), in partnership with the GRIP-ARM/Green Industrial Policy in the Age of Rare Metals project of the European Research Council (grant number 9500565) and the Postgraduate Programme in Political Sociology, University Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro, at the Universidade Candido Mendes, Brazil.
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The agenda of the seminar focuses on the challenges and perspectives of green industrial policy in the region. The dynamics of exchange and joint production of ideas will be based on a series of presentations by researchers and experts with concrete experience in this field in various Latin American countries.
The seminar will take place within a global and regional context of resurgent theoretical and political debates on development strategies in the framework of the energy transition, which conceive (re)industrialisation and state planning as essential public policy tools to overcome the historical blockages of peripheral capitalism.
In concrete terms, the seminar aims to produce a regional research agenda aimed at transcending the currently hegemonic production model in Latin America, contributing to the definition of criteria and guidelines for the design and implementation of policies aimed at expanding social development in harmony with ecological objectives and leading to higher levels of economic and technological sovereignty. The central themes of the seminar include, among others:
The international seminar is co-organised by three researchers: