To adapt management structures and processes, enabling effective and efficiently balanced short term operational demands with longer term growth.

Doctoral Training Partnerships: a range of postgraduate training is funded by the Research Councils. For information on current funding routes, see the common terminology at https://www.ukri.org/apply-for-funding/how-we-fund-studentships/. Training grants may be to one organisation or to a consortia of research organisations. This portal will show the lead organisation only.

•Context/background of the project;Open the Doors operates on the principle that potential NEET youth and NEET youth are indeed able to develop strong intellectual and learning capacity, given the proper opportunities and learning settings.Therefore, to create new capacity in NEET prevention to support the learning of 21st century competences among young people, the project addressed and worked with the professional staff in NEET settings, mostly teachers, social educators and youth educators, based on the project’s 5 future-oriented methodologies: real-life learning, learning in mixed realities, working with community, entrepreneurial initiative-taking and using creative technology. We wanted the capacity building of the educators to result from the interaction between such practical experimentation and the collective reflections systematically included in the project.The DOCUMENTATION of the project’s extensive capacity building among participating educators generated NEW KNOWLEDGE, on which formed the project’s final intellectual outcomes, offering rich didactic guidance to a wider audience of NEET prevention educators across EuropeOBJECTIUSThe main objectives of the project were:-To create new capacity in NEET preventions by working with the professional staff in the prevention provisions, mostly teachers, social educators and youth workers.- To innovate in the didactics of NEET prevention, linking youth interests with community needs and creating practical learning processes.- To build capacity among NEET to re-engage in learning, community and work.- To link this new experience to the education institutions responsible for training the new generations of teachers and youth workers.- To produce experience-based documentation to share among education institutions in order to unify the criteria in NEET prevention.The extensive, pan-European consortium brought together institutions working and struggling at the heart of NEET youth prevention and empowerment, professional and highly experienced knowledge creators at research level, associations with long-standing European records and solid network partners at European level. The inCOMPOSITIONThe partnership was composed of practice partners from Spain, Hungary, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Romania and the UK; knowledge partners from the UK and Holland and quality partner from Spain. The partnership composition met the original quality criteria through basing the partnership on practice partners from different countries, bringing in strong knowledge creators and supplementing the partnership with organizations experienced in networking and quality assurance.European-nessOne of the key criteria for establishing the partnership was strong participation from NEET provisions from countries with serious NEET youth challenges.Such countries are precisely: Spain, Hungary, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Romania and the UK.This participation offered the project a solid base for authentic experimentation and change – and for creating solid and useful knowledge.The consortium creation was based on the following profile criteria. Profile of the NEET prevention partners: worked directly in special NEET prevention facilities, or facilities in which NEET prevention is a key objective, either in late secondary or post-secondary settings,willing to participate in radical didactic change processes,able to engage a team of teachers or youth educators along the project,had the full support of the management,able to link to and share with local or regional teacher educations and/or youth worker educations or similar.Profile of the knowledge partners:able to create valuable knowledge from the didactic experimentation and transform this knowledge into documentation and policy papers; able to link the knowledge creation to state of the art research; open to experimental knowledge creation and engaging NEET youth professionals and NEET youth as co-creators of knowledgeProfile of the quality partners: capacity to pro-actively develop, manage and implement a solid quality programme and to offer critical project management supportIMPACTSome organizations changed the way we organize the activities with youth. They have learned to function with a new methodology that helps improve the input of young people. Teacher teams now are looking for new strategies to work with youth from the point of view of entrepreneurship.ACTIVITIES: 4 Partners meeting and 2 seminar to reflect.RESULT: www.openthedoors.eu and Guidelines for 21st century NEET prevention.

The wind energy sector continues growing rapidly even under the pandemic, as an estimated 93GW wind capacity was installed in 2020 globally. After installation, wind turbines are expected to run around 20-25years, during which O&M (operation and maintenance) becomes crucial in maximising the economic and environmental benefits of wind assets. This project aims to develop a complete solution for robotic based inspection and repair of wind turbine blades(WTBs), both onshore and offshore. Firstly, we will integrate thermography and shearography with laser heating, so that advanced lock-in techniques will be achieved for in-situ inspection of both surface and subsurface defects within WTBs. (Current techniquesincluding drone-based are limited to surface defects only). Secondly, a compact and efficient robotic deploymentsystem will be developed which will hold the inspection unit and a robotic repair arm. The robotic system will be operated by engineers working on ground (for onshore wind farms) or on a vessel (for offshore wind farms). When defects are detected and deemed reparable, the repair arm of the whole system will be activated to rapidly repair the faulty area of composite components by resistance welding for joining and/or disassembly. Comparing to the traditional adhesively bonding for repair, the proposed resistance welding with optimised processing would significantly reduce the curing cycles/time with much fewer preparation for surface treatment steps while it will be more easily designed to integrate with robotic arm. The whole system will be operated remotely by engineers working on ground or on a vessel without risking their lives working in the sky on WTBs. Field trials on wind towers will be conducted to validate the system.