Senior Research Associate at the Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) Helmholtz Centre Potsdam

Interests : Economy Climate
Countries : Austria

Dr. Halliki Kreinin is a Senior Research Associate at the Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, in the Transforming Consumption and Provisioning research group. 
She previously worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Münster and as a Research Associate at the Institute for Ecological Economics at the WU Vienna. 
Her research areas include just transition, sustainable work, postgrowth welfare systems and ecosocial policies, as well as overcoming structural barriers to sustainability transformations.

Trade Unions and the multiple crisis of environment, society, economy and work

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Ecosocial food policies – proposal for a new social-democratic approach

In the run-up to the European elections in 2024, this policy study delves into the essential question of why we need to transform the EU food system and how to do it – adopting an ecosocialist perspective that serves as a basis for a new, progressive, social- democratic and ecological food policy.

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Political Mentor: Niels Fuglsang, MEP S&D
Academic Mentor: Thomas Froehlich, Research Fellow, King’s College London

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PhD candidate in Law at the Transitional Justice Institute, School of Law of Ulster University

Interests : Digital Inequality
Countries : Ireland
Trade Unions

This policy study focuses on trade union approaches to the multiple crises in a sector critical for the sustainability transformation: aviation. Based on empirical research, the authors find that unions, under pressure to face contradictory and complex problems, take divergent positions on societal-environmental issues and their solutions - verging from social-ecological transformation-focused to defensive stances, also in their collaboration with social movements for change.

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Trade Unions and the multiple crisis of environment, society, economy and work

Political Mentor: EP Vice President and S&D MEP Evelyn Regner
Academic Mentor: David Bailey, Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science and International Studies, School of Government, University of Birmingham

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