"Project title: PART-Y Participation and Youth: Lab for Equal CitiesCall Erasmus plus 2020 KA205The project objectives are: 1: To strengthen youth involvement in European democratic life by promoting their right to the city, to public spaces from a ""generation equality"" and social inclusion perspective. - 2: To improve the innovation capacity in the activities proposed to young people and the internationalization of youth organizations in the countries participating in the project. The project focuses its attention on young people (girls and girls between 13 and 20 years) to trigger their participation in civic life by promoting their inclusion in the decision-making process and linked to the concept of ""generation equality"". This concept has been introduced by the United Nations agency UN Women to promote equal opportunities starting from the youngest. The project will work with young people and youth workers in city public space participative design, in two youth centres owned by the Municipalities of Trieste and Koper (PAG and CMK) to strengthen their role in involving young people in public life.The urban dimension of the project is also expressed by the exchange of good practices between cities, organizing field visits in Koper, Cork, Madrid, Trieste, Umea. Cities have a crucial role and an advantageous position in supporting change at the local level, shaping the daily life of citizens and citizens through the proximity of the service they provide. Matched with the field visits, he project develops 4 SHORT JOINT STAFF TRAINING for project partners and youth sector operators to back up the implementation of LOCAL WORKSHOPS (24 in total) which will take place in Trieste and Koper (PAG and CMK).This learning process (both for youth, youth workers), led by project partners skills and external expertise, will deliver two intellectual outputs:IO1 PART-Y Toolkit: how to build a communication campaign for a young and inclusive placemakingIO2 PART-Y: Learning methodology of placemaking through design thinking Events of dissemination of the project outputs will be organized in Koper, Trieste, Cork and Strasbourg.The project will make these open source outputs available to public authorities and organizations that work with young people as a tool for involving young people in participatory planning processes in public spaces and committing them to public life participation.The project partners are:Kallipolis Trieste www.kallipolis.net - applicantALDA Strasbourg https://www.alda-europe.eu/newSite/Basurama Madrid https://basurama.org/CMK Koper - no web site availableCork City CouncilMunicipality of TriesteMunicipality of UmeaPiNA Koper https://www.pina.si/"

SchoolFood4Change (SF4C) will create a shift to both sustainable and healthy diets on a broad societal scale by directly impacting over 3,000 schools and 600,000 school children in 12 EU countries, providing a replicable good practice across the EU and beyond. The SF4C specific objectives (SO) are: SO1: To innovate and roll out sustainable healthy food procurement, sourced from land, inland water and sea, in line with the EU Farm to Fork Strategy and the SDGs. SO2: Through innovative "planetary health diets & cooking", linked to the identity of the territory, train and empower cooks and urban food enablers in the cities. SO3: To ensure an enabling educational environment through the innovative "whole school food approach" which is a method about achieving a healthy food culture in and around schools, contributing to community-wide whole systems change, and impacting on education, sustainability, inequalities, communities and health. SO4: To assess the SF4C impact, demonstrate real life delivery ("business case"), particularly on health and behavioural change of vulnerable children, and prove that it can be cost-effective. SO5: To seek impact for all EU citizens, demonstrate swift EU replicability, also beyond schools, and engage with EC Services and projects on increased Farm to Fork impact toward 2030. All children go to school and are vulnerable to diet-related conditions and disadvantaged environments. SF4C views schools and children and young people (0-18 years of age) as catalysts for systemic change for the shift to sustainable and healthy diets of all EU citizens. The SF4C triple impact approach (SO1-3) will be implemented by 33 partners, mostly governmental partners that have the mandate over sustainable healthy school meals, including many pioneers from across the EU. SF4C has received official support from 10 EU Members States.

The RUGGEDISED project will create urban spaces powered by secure, affordable and clean energy, smart electro-mobility, smart tools and services. The overall aims are: 1. Improving the quality of life of the citizens, by offering the citizens a clean, safe, attractive, inclusive and affordable living environment. 2. Reducing the environmental impacts of activities, by achieving a significant reduction of CO2 emissions, a major increase in the investment and usage of RES and an increase in the deployment of electric vehicles. 3. Creating a stimulating environment for sustainable economic development, by generating more sustainable jobs, stimulating community involvement in smart solutions and to boost start-up and existing companies to exploit the opportunities of the green digital economy and Internet of Things. To achieve the aims, a key innovation challenge in all three lighthouse cities of RUGGEDISED is to arrange successful combinations of integrated smart solutions for energy and e-mobility (enabled by ICT platforms and open data protocols) and business models with the right incentives for stakeholders to invest and participate in a smart society. Specific challenges relevant for the lighthouse cities are: - to manage peak load variation in thermal and electrical energy supply and demand; - to develop appropriate cooperation structures and business models for exchange of energy; - to develop Smart City (open) data platforms and energy management systems RUGGEDISED has derived 10 specific objectives and planned 32 smart solutions to meet the challenges. The development of solutions in the lighthouse cities is not the primary goal of the project, but a necessary means to find the right incentives and to create validated business cases to enable large scale deployment and replication of solutions. Three follower cities Brno, Parma and Gdansk have selected 27 smart follower solutions to follow the lighthouse cities and to prepare for implementation in the future

The objective of GOGREEN ROUTES is to position European cities as world ambassadors of urban sustainability. Our inspirational approach shifts the focus of NBS towards the co-benefits to multidimensional health-termed 360-Health. GOGREEN ROUTES transdisciplinary consortium will pioneer a unique approach augmenting NBS, urban design with the goal of fostering a positive human-nature relationship, flourishing nature connectedness and promoting citizen engagement through digital, educational and behavioural innovation. GOGREEN ROUTES components focus on nature-based enterprise (GROW), sustainable physical activity (MOVE), digital, cultural (FEEL) and knowledge innovation (KNOW). GOGREEN ROUTES fosters mental health and well-being by optimising human-nature interactions for all citizens. These innovations will increase the uptake and acceptability of NBS across “Cultivating Cities” (Burgas, Lahti, Limerick, Tallinn, Umea & Versailles), “Seed Cities” (Munich, Murcia region & Malta) and a “Cross-Pollination Network: (Beijing, Mexico, & Tblisi). An urban well-being lab, based on the living lab methodology will couple participatory approaches with the Big Data analyses. To advance knowledge, best practice and dissemination GOGREEN ROUTES will cluster with H2020 projects including those involving our partners (e.g. proGIreg, bluehealth2020, Connecting Nature). In addition, linking all open-sourced data to the OPPLA and Think Nature Hubs, delivering online resource (e.g. Urban 360-Health Toolkit, MOOC’s) and empowering citizens in an iterative process of co-creation will ensure perpetuation beyond the end of the project. This novel approach, coupled with the high capacity of the consortium, makes GOGREEN ROUTES an exciting prospect.