
Giorgos Bithymitris holds a Phd in Union Movement Strategies, from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. He has published academic articles and book chapters on Greek unionism, public discourse in the context of economic crisis, employment relations, and organized interests. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Political Research, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. Through his postdoctoral research he explores the transformation of collective identities in the context of economic crisis in the deindustrialised area of West Piraeus. He also works as a project manager at APOPSI Group of Companies (Vocational Education and Training, career counselling, business consultancy, ICT services). Giorgos Bithymitris participates, inter alia, in the design, implementation and monitoring of the project "Career counselling – vocational training and certification of unemployed and threatened by unemployment in the industrial zone of Piraeus" (2015) which involves 2,500 beneficiaries.