WHAT

Industry 5.0 is about the future of work and skills. It shows how technology can support good work, make production sustainable, and deliver value for society as well as productivity.

It matters because Industry 5.0 will reshape jobs and skills not by replacing whole occupations but by redesigning work around people and technology, with a strong emphasis on worker wellbeing, empowerment, and continuous learning.

The Industry 5.0 platform (often shortened to i5.0) is an online community and resource hub designed to help people learn about, discuss, and apply Industry 5.0 in practice – bringing together companies, workers, social partners, policymakers, researchers and students.

It’s a free-of-charge “one-stop platform” that combines: a large knowledge bank, themed “Labs”, e-learning courses, discussion forums, content sharing (blogs, resources), events, and in-platform video calls/messaging, with bespoke pathways for different user groups.

https://freshthinkinglabs.com/industry-five-zero/

Our blogs

Keep up to date with i5.0 articles and research.

  • Novozymes: Rethinking tomorrow

    Novozymes is a biotech-based company, headquartered in Denmark and employing approximately 6,000 people in 30 countries. Innovation and sustainability are core to Novozymes’ business values and objectives.

  • Creative display of 'Innovation' spelled with wooden letter tiles on a wooden surface.
    Workplace Innovation: The Missing Capability in Europe’s Strategic Autonomy and Industry 5.0 Agenda?

    Europe’s push for strategic autonomy will rise or fall on how work is organised. Beyond factories, chips and critical raw materials, the decisive question is whether our workplaces can learn faster, innovate continuously, and deliver both productivity and quality jobs. That is the promise of workplace innovation—and why it belongs at the centre of Industry 5.0.

  • AI-agreement at Solvay

    Will the share of monotonous, repetitive jobs decrease, or will new ones be created? Will there be fewer dangerous jobs, or will new dangerous tasks emerge? Will algorithmic management of workers lead to greater efficiency, or will it also bring permanent surveillance and privacy problems? And so on.