Bridges 5.0
Towards a Human-Centred,
Sustainable and Resilient Economy.
Workforce Skills for Industry 5.0.
European industry has embarked on a path of digital transformation.
Whilst the concept of Industry 4.0 has been driven primarily by productivity and technological considerations, the last ten years have clearly demonstrated the need for wider perspectives to make digital transformation work.
Industry 5.0 adds employees, the environment and resilience to the equation, an alternative future in which businesses recognise their role in building a prosperous and sustainable society based on new modes of production.
We need to build human-centred workplaces, where technologies support better jobs and enable people to learn and develop continuously.
We need a greener and more circular economy, making better use of natural resources.
We need to invest in the development of new skills, helping industry and its employees to become more resilient in an increasingly fast-changing and volatile world.
By addressing these challenges, Bridges is building an accelerated pathway to Industry 5.0.
Bridging human &
digital potential.
Bridges 5.0 creates a unique consortium based on active collaboration between researchers, 8 EU industrial companies, 9 Industry 4.0 ecosystems, and the main EU social partners.
Who benefits?
Target groups: enabling managers, job seekers, students and employees to absorb new technological knowledge faster and more effectively.
At the company level: showing how to adapt business strategies to the new demands of the market, especially greening and sustainability, and to build the skills needed to make it happen.
On the labour market: assimilating new ways of learning and training, building on the new networks that support this learning.
Kirchhoff’s journey over more than a decade exemplifies Industry 5.0 in practice through the use of digital technologies to create a more human centric, environmentally sustainable and resilient organisation. Full case study here.
Latest News.
Policy Brief 5 – Directing business policies. The challenges to Industry 5.0. Policy Brief 6 – Finding the Industry 5.0 balance: Supporting companies embedding Industry 5.0. Policy Brief #7 – Social dialogue to support Industry 5.0: What role for social partners?
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This policy brief is part of the BRIDGES 5.0 project’s stakeholder engagement efforts, as it covers the topic of social dialogue and the role of the social partners in advancing Industry 5.0.
The value of this issue lies in keeping these questions grounded. It brings workplace innovation close to the settings in which it is attempted, negotiated and revised.
A summary of the BRIDGES 5.0 Masterclass webinar on the role of managers in the transition to Industry 5.0, held on 12 June 2026.
