Our vision consists of revolutionizing dental and orthopedic surgery by introducing a new paradigm, model-based theranostics, which consists of an integrative coupling of therapeutics, diagnostics and numerical simulation in order to optimize the performances of the surgical protocol and to predict its clinical outcome. The success of surgical protocols involving endosseous implants is limited by i) the empirical methods employed to assess implant stability, which is a strong determinant of the surgical outcome, ii) the absence of therapeutic approaches to stimulate osseointegration phenomena and iii) the difficulty of predicting the implant outcome. The aim of UltraSimplant is to develop a radically new unified model-based theranostic concept using innovative ideas in the domain of quantitative ultrasound (QUS). The new concept will combine characterization, simulation and stimulation of osseointegration phenomena, leading to the foundation of a revolutionary approach capable of providing a decision support system to the surgeon, to improve osseointegration in a patient specific manner and to predict the surgical outcome, thus leading to a drastic decrease of the implants failure rate. We will conceive and validate (in vitro, in silico, in vivo and in a clinical trial) a minimum viable product and consisting of a medical device using QUS techniques to assess dental implant stability. A validated model of the evolution of the bone-implant system will take into account the complex multiscale nature of the interface in order to validate in silico the QUS device and to predict the effect of ultrasound stimulation and implant outcome. The model will be used in order to optimize the parameters to be employed in the stimulation. UltraSimplant will first focus on dental implants because of the important failure rate and to the easy access of the implant. In the long term, model-based theranostic approaches will be applied to other implants in orthopedic surgery.

<< Background >>CONTEXT & MOTIVATIONWe are living historic times that define the new normality as volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. The world is still facing the COVID-19 pandemic, the largest of four epidemics of the last decade. Yet every year we face accelerated challenges that are becoming a permanent phenomenon - i.e. grave climate disruptions, cyclic economic crises, overlapping refugee crises. An increase in populist governments is appearing as the widespread socio-political answer to these phenomena, while ecologically we are also living what is scientifically known as the Anthropocene with the 6th mass extinction in the history of the planet.From this complex and dynamic situation urgent needs emerge: the need for a more just, equitable and resilient society and the need for a regenerative stewardship of the environment combined with transformative economic practices which give place to decent and regenerative livelihoods.At the same time, UN proposed the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, and in 2016 adopted the interpretation of the SDGs from the perspective of resilience. In 2019, the EU passed the European Green Deal, also framing targets and funding for the next few years.As a partnership of five organisations and one institution, we share the concern that cities are getting most of the resources related to resilience adoption, despite an observed rapid rate of adoption by rural territories. When combined with (1) the availability of high quality learning, (2) an increasing civic engagement and participative democracy, (3) co-created policies for community resilience and social and solidarity economy, we postulate that rural territories can become a leverage point for change in the cities, helping them reduce their overpopulation, providing them a healthy and sustainable food supply, and prototyping social, economic and ecological innovation at a low cost, while establishing more diverse, sovereign and mutually supportive regions.For these reasons, we have designed the proposal for the transnational project “Catalysts for Civic Engagement and Community Resilience”.MEETING THE NEEDS OF THE TARGET GROUPSThis project responds to two different but complementary needs of the target groups mentioned below. On the one hand the need to experience learning collective processes and sustain and experiment innovative resilient practices. On the other, the need to transfer methodologies and tools to further engage the local population, and to ensure the sustainability of the project results.More specifically, the project responds to the target groups needs by:1. YOUTH & ADULT RURAL COMMUNITY MEMBERSOffering innovative learning opportunities, embedded in a networked learning environment, both in-person in their rural communities as well as digitally, so that they can gain the skills and competences required to be more resilient and adaptable to times of change and uncertainty, while helping their community as a whole become more resilient through participatory policy development and planning. 2. COMMUNITY EDUCATORSOffering high quality resources for educators to facilitate learning environments that engage community members in participatory processes aimed to build community resilience. 3. PUBLIC & PRIVATE TECHNICIANS Offering innovative learning opportunities, embedded in a networked learning environment, both in-person in their rural communities as well as digitally, so that they can gain the skills and competences required to be able to carry out their specialist work in the framework of civic engagement and community resilience.4. POLICY MAKERSOffering innovative learning opportunities, embedded in a networked learning environment, both in-person for rural policy makers as well as digitally for both rural and European policy makers, so that they can gain the skills and competences required to be able to carry out their specialist work in the framework of civic engagement and community resilience.<< Objectives >>MAIN GOALIn response to this context, we have designed this project “Catalysts for Civic Engagement and Community Resilience” (CCECR), whose main goal is:Developing methodologies and tools to catalyse rural regions so that they can become leading innovators and policy contributors of the European transition towards overcoming the systemic crisis; training potential catalysts through the development of practical and educational resources, an educational platform and a community of rural resilience practitioners at the European level.SPECIFIC CROSS-CUTTING OBJECTIVES1. COMMUNITY RESILIENCE AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: To establish a transversal and intercultural dialogue that evolves the democratic processes in our rural territories, making space for collective activation of civic engagement, participation and policy development and integration.2. SUSTAINABLE AND REGENERATIVE DEVELOPMENT: To teach new ways of understanding and planning for rural bioregions, based on the promotion and the bridging of local cultures and European policies that steward and regenerate our natural and cultural heritage.3. SOCIAL AND SOLIDARITY ECONOMY: To promote collective entrepreneurship through social technology in rural areas, generating learning environments that act as hubs of resilience innovation, adaptation and adoption in our territories.4. EUROPEAN RURALITY, AS NATURAL AND CULTURAL HERITAGE: To create a broad and diverse learning community of rural practitioners and researchers who share experiences and solutions to common problems, working together to understand, map and scale up tools, strategies and methodologies that are applicable to other European territories.<< Implementation >>In addition to general project management tasks, which include ongoing monitoring evaluation & learning activities as well as communication & dissemination, the project Catalysts for Civic Engagement and Community Resilience proposes to implement the following activities:1. Project Result: Toolkit on Community Resilience - Create a toolkit for youth & adult rural community members, local policy makers & leaders, public & private technicians, so that they can have the tools and strategies needed to generate civic engagement and catalyze community resilience in rural territories.2. Project Result: Teaching & Training Curriculum on Community Resilience - Develop teaching & training curriculum for educators and trainers to teach youth & adult rural community members, policy makers & leaders, public & private technicians and the university students, so that they can have the skills and competences needed to catalyze community resilience in their rural territories.3. Project Result: Pilot Training in Civic Engagement and Community Resilience - In order to be able to design a learning process that is flexible and adaptable, we need to test it in a prototype form, to be able to receive feedback, and coherently improve it.The focus of this comprehensive training is to test the teaching of practical community resilience tools, methodologies and strategies with local actors according to the four transversal objectives, as well as engaging university students in this pilot training process from the perspective of future practitioners, policy makers and/or researchers.The four transversal areas to be covered in this training are in line with the four transversal objectives of this project:· Civic engagement for community resilience· Sustainable and regenerative development· Social and solidarity economy· European rurality as natural & cultural heritage4. Project Result: E-Learning Platform for Community Catalysts - Design and establish an online learning platform to disseminate tools and methodologies to catalyze community resilience in rural territories, through strategies and concrete tools for civic engagement, community resilience, social solidarity economy and regenerative development. This will be done through webinars and self-guided educational modules, and the facilitation of an online community with local hubs nested in a transnational space of dialogue, learning, exchange and innovation.5. Four regional Conferences on Catalysting Community Resilience - Carry out regional conferences in four rural regions across peripheral Europe, with the following objectives: · Learn about and explore the Project Results through the participatory and co-creative method called “Hackathon” to be able to harness and further innovate these results· Promote a broad participation in the E-learning platform on community resilience· Involve participants in the dissemination and multiplication of all Results at the regional and national level 6. One International Practitioner & Policy Conference - The International Practitioner & Policy Conference hosted by EPE in Brussels aims to create an exchange space between practitioners working towards socio ecological transitions in rural areas and European policy makers concerned with achieving the green and digital transition, while strengthening Europe’s resilience and social contract.The objectives of the conference are threefold:· to present to the educational outputs of the project which includes tools for the contextualisation of the Green New Deal to peripheral rural communities in Europe;· to create space for dialogue bridging the gap between rural practitioners and policy makers and charting new ways of collaboration in the context of the future of Europe and on matters related to civic engagement;· to question and deconstruct basic assumptions informing the urban-rural divide debates in Europe in the context of the necessary shifts and diverse roles towards net-zero societies.<< Results >>The CCECR project aims to achieve the following outcomes:1. Local community members, technicians and policy makers skilled and active proponents of community resilience processes and local & European civic engagement.2. Networked local communities in the rural case study regions, as localised community resilience learning and practice hubs.3. Transnationally networked local communities learning and working together to advance community resilience in different rural areas across Europe.4. Increased awareness around SDGs, European Green Deal and their potential implications for policy co-design and co-implementation at the local and European level5. An accessible E-learning platform that engages learners, practitioners and educators in topics related to building community resilience, through civic engagement, social solidarity economy and regenerative development proposals and content.The following project results and outputs contribute to achieving these outcomes:· A toolkit about the practical implementation of community resilience in rural regions for local agents, based on an innovative theoretical-methodological framework in community resilience and systematising local patterns and processes of community resilience in the rural case study bioregions. This toolkit is designed for community catalysts, including general youth and adult community members, community educators, technicians and policy makers. Toolkit aims to stimulate citizen participation, the creation of spaces for intercultural dialogue and social inclusion, the design of public policies, etc.· Open-source downloadable pedagogical material (including teaching posters and videos) and a community resilience curriculum for community and university educators interested in and/or needing cutting-edge innovative teaching material and curricula on how to foster and embed community resilience in rural communities and other marginal or vulnerable communities.· Pilot trainings for local community members and university students, in the practical application of community resilience in rural regions.· An E-learning platform dedicated to the exchange and learning between participants of the different activities of the project. Embedded into the E-learning platform are webinars on the different transversal topics and concrete outputs of the CCECR (i.e. Toolkit & Curriculum).· Local participatory conferences on Civic Engagement and Community Resilience strategies and tools, providing a space in which local community members, technicians and policy makers can exchange and participate in the collective learning around all four of the project results shared during these multiplier events.· A transnational participatory conference in Brussels on Civic Engagement and Community Resilience, providing a space in which local community members, technicians and policy makers can exchange with European policy makers regarding tools & strategies for accelerating community resilience processes in rural communities, with special attention to disseminating the four project results.

While the need for integrating palliative care (PC) services into heart failure (HF) care has been well recognised, as of yet this integration lacks behind, especially when compared to cancer care. Currently, only 5-7% of patients with HF utilise PC services, due to a focus on optimising therapy and an unpredictable disease trajectory with exacerbations which hampers prognosis. As a result, many symptoms and concerns that are not directly related to HF are not recognised and undertreated and patients are often referred to PC services only at the very end of their lives. The RAPHAEL consortium sets out to take the next big step in integrating PC into HF care by integrating the RAPHAEL palliative care approach in existing HF care pathways. This flexible and patient centred approach starts with the identification of multidimensional symptoms and concerns, prioritise needs with patient and informal carer and formulate a proactive care plan. The symptoms and concerns will be monitored by the patient at home using the PAL@HEART application. The app can be used to evaluate interventions, support communication and earl identify new or increasing needs. As a result, the care needs of each individual patient with HF are addressed faster and better, improving their quality of life and autonomy. Moreover, this will lead to a reduction in emergency hospitalisations, unburdening the healthcare system and reducing costs. The RAPHAEL project sets out to adapt the RAPHAEL approach to HF care within a European context and test and validate its (cost-)effectiveness via a feasibility and large-scale evaluation study performed in 7 EU countries, the UK and Switzerland. It brings together experts in palliative care, cardiology, and primary care as well as professional organisations and patient representatives. Together the RAPHAEL consortium is uniquely situated to demonstrate the (cost-)effectiveness of the RAPAHEL approach and launch its implementation in Europe and beyond.

"The EU Climate Action Strategy considers young and childhood students a critical sector of civil society to promote Climate Action (CA). Youth and childhood ’s commitments (or lack of it) today will lead to institutional commitments (or lack of them) tomorrow. However, the Eurobarometer surveys highlight a noticeable gap between the concern of children and young Europeans for Climate Change (CC) and their personal commitments & skills on CA.Research conducted by education sciences experts confirm that scientific knowledge is not enough to change children and young attitudes to actively engage with CC. They require a social conscience and a citizen responsibility that emerge from values and education.In pre-school/primary formal education, the pupils are motivated about topics related to earth care and CC. But in the school´s curriculum these topics are only “touched on” and mainly in subjects related to science. Thus, motivation, opportunity and ability to act decrease when the pupils become aware that CC and CA seem not linked to their cultural, emotional and ethical values. Recommendations for new methods in young and childhood formal education are central to the EU Climate Action Strategy. With that on the mind, it is necessary that future teachers of pre-school & primary learn about how they can link the scientific knowledge about CC with cultural, emotional and ethical values to more effectively educate children’s minds and acts.The religious beliefs are some of the most powerful values to significantly influence a community’s understanding and experience of CC adaptation. Over the past years, most religious communities have released statements on CC and the need to educate in Climate Action. One of the most active religions is the Catholic one. The Francesc Pope´s encyclical LS 201 related to education on the UN Sustainable Development Goals has had a lot of impact on an international level in the context of the Agenda 2030.The CHANCES consortium is composed of 3 universities and a EdTech SME. These 4 organizations, expert in education sciences, catholic religion and sustainable development declare the ambition to innovate through a powerful tool: to construct a 3 ECTS itinerary for education degrees/masters coupled with new assessment mechanisms by means of digital OERs. With this itinerary, future teachers of pre-school & primary schools will learn how to bring the CC subject into the classroom linking Catholic religion values and science. These 4 organizations will work in association with several local working groups consisting of pre-school/primary schools and Catholic bodies which are responsible for the curriculum of the subject of Catholic religious education. The CHANCES methodology combines, for the first time, scientific knowledge with some of the most powerful values & beliefs, the religious ones, increasing the effectiveness of the formal education system’s understanding and experience of CC competences. The project aims to invest in HIE professors and students of education sciences degrees and postgraduate studies. Thanks to CHANCES, they will start and lead their CA venture for when the moment will come to teach in pre-school & primary schools.CHANCES develops next IOS:• An innovative METHODOLOGY will permit that the future teachers of pre-school/primary, who want to be specialised in the subject of catholic religious education, will learn how to bring the CC subject into the classroom linking religion and science.• By means of the new methodology, a new CURRICULUM on the topic ""How Catholic religion education can educate pupils on CC and CA"" will be developed for degrees/master´s in sciences education and Catholic religious education. The course will consist of 3 ECTS consisting of few face-to-face classrooms, most instruction being e-workshop and self-directed learning via e-portfolio.• A European E-PORTFOLIO will be adapted and improved. It will be used by students of the new CC curriculum to collect artifacts & reflections. The eportfolio will serve to:- Evidence of the new kind of competences & skills needed to link religion and science for CC teaching- Use it by HIE students during their practices at the schools. The result will be the first digital repository of best practices related to learning CA through religious education- Make HIE students more digitally literate when teaching religion related to CCThe IOs will be piloted in a degree and/or master at 3 universities and at pre-school/primary schools in Spain, Italy & Poland. Training & face to face or blending learning implementation actions, one transnational and several local ones, will ensure that the project is not only FOR professors, students & alumni but also BY them. CHANCES´ impact on deans, schools ‘principals & policymakers will make them permeable to the acquisition and validation of CC skills linked with the cultural and ethical values of students to increase their commitment towards CA."

The Employment Package (2012) recognised the potential of entrepreneurship in contributing to a job-rich recovery, while the Entrepreneurship Action Plan 2020 highlights that universities should become more entrepreneurial, recommends promoting entrepreneurship education and to support groups that are under-represented among entrepreneurs. In addition, the European Parliament’s report on EU policy for cultural and creative industries (June 2016) recommends to the EC “the creation within HIE institutions of relevant joint programmes between arts & culture, business and technology for the development of work-learn trajectories”.Europe's cultural & creative industries (CCIs) offer a real potential to contribute to the EU 2020 strategy. Studies show that CCIs represent highly innovative companies with great economic potential and are one of EU's most dynamic sectors contributing around 4.5% to the EU GDP and providing quality jobs to around 3.8% of total workforce. CCIs are also important drivers of economic innovation in other sectors.At the crossroads of creativity and entrepreneurship, it remains difficult for CCIs to find creative arts graduates with a mix of creative and entrepreneurship skills to set-up companies. One of the main reasons for that is that HIE is not following in entrepreneurship´s footsteps. In fact, in the EU, only one-third of entrepreneurs have tertiary education (Eurostat 2014). You have more possibilities to become an entrepreneur if you don’t pursue university careers! There is clearly a lack of innovative entrepreneurship education for creative arts graduates throughout EU.A pan European investor network for the CCI (MEDIA DEALS), 4 universities with mixed teams from creative arts & business departments (EUC, UAB, UPV, UIC) and a SME focused on EdTech and on digital art (MYD), declare the ambition to create synergy of expertise and innovate through a specific targeted entrepreneurship methodology, supporting curricular materials and IT tools for faculties in cultural and creative arts fields so that once graduated, alumni will create their own businesses. 4ArtPreneur project wants to empower culture & creative arts faculties, deans, students, professors, professionals and policymakers so they become more permeable to the acquisition, validation and share of entrepreneurship skills aligned to the specific needs of the entrepreneurship world in the CCI.One of the most effective ways to introduce the entrepreneurship is through Project-Based Learning (PBL) and Student-Centered approaches. 4ArtPreneur will not tend to have a singular focus on students taking more business-oriented courses. It will tend towards the acquisition of INNOVATIVE THINKING competences needed for starting up the new type of CCIs SMEs that operate in a complex and fast-moving eco-system, where networking and experimenting are paramount. Teaching innovative thinking competences well beyond traditional business skills, exploring target group specific methods to simulate the business behaviours at the university; providing innovative digital tools to evidence the learned competencies for when the moment will come to face financiers, are new framework conditions that 4ArtPreneur will pursue.4ArtPreneur develops next IOS:• An innovative methodology supported by several teaching & learning SYSTEM DYNAMICS materials. System dynamics models will put forward and simulate the behaviour of business cases suggested by partners and local working groups. The models will be used for computer simulation.• A modular ENTREPRENEURSHIP CURRICULUM, that will correspond to 3 ECTS credits, will be developed and integrated into the system dynamics methodology. The curriculum´s teaching & learning materials will be embedded into the system dynamics models that simulate the business cases/topics.• The adaptation & improvement of a European E-PORTFOLIO (IT tool) so that creative arts students can collect and show evidence of their entrepreneurial skills to confront future investment prospects. By identifying the entrepreneurial skills, a student has gained through his various experiences and how they relate to the business career he is interested in and by putting them in an easily understood e-portfolio format, will help him better articulate his skills when facing investment opportunities being offered while simultaneously alleviating investor fears and concerns.Training & face to face or blending learning implementation actions, one transnational and several local ones, will ensure that the project is not only FOR creative arts professors, students & alumni but also BY them.With 4ArtPreneur, professors, deans & policymakers will dispose of an adequate framework. Obviously, they can find already shaped entrepreneurship competencies frameworks. The difficulties come when they want to implement these non-specific frameworks to make creative arts degrees more permeable to entrepreneurial skills. 4ArtPreneur will provide it.