The Contractions (Analyzing past and future energy industry contractions: Towards a better understanding of the flip-side of energy transitions) project focuses on analysing the mechanisms and the historic rates of decline of energy industries and comparing these to the decline rates and mechanisms expected in the future energy transitions. Contractions brings together researchers from the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformations at the University of Bergen, Norway the Rokkan Centre, the Energy Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, and the Physical Resources Division at Chalmers University, Sweden. It is funded by the Research Council of Norway under the Climate change research program. The project ran from 2017 through 2022.