The European submarine networks are vital critical infrastructure for the EU member states. This submarine cable and pipeline network is crucial for the European society and any failure or damage to it could potentially have an enormous effect on the societies. Due to the rapidly evolving threat and geopolitical landscape, especially with incidents like the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas infrastructure, organizations overseeing critical infrastructure face significant challenges. They must handle intentional threats while also grappling with growing problems caused by accidental and natural factors as well as climate change. These issues can worsen the effects of deliberate actions. To address these challenges effectively, it is crucial for these entities to implement resilience-enhancing measures. The aim of VIGIMARE is to strengthen the resilience of Critical Infrastructure operators against threats to the European submarine critical infrastructure by developing, testing and evaluating an innovative solution to enhance security and reduce risks of physical and cyber-attacks on submarine cables and pipelines. This will be accomplished by 1) mapping submarine systems, surveying cables and landing stations, and assessing vulnerabilities in the European submarine critical infrastructure network, 2) develop an automated threat detection approach, creating a real-time shared awareness of the surface above the submarine infrastructure to promptly indicate incidents to both critical infrastructure owners and member states authorities. By integrating a comprehensive resilience ecosystem with real incidents at sea, the project seeks to 3) identify early warning signals, support analysis, and pinpoint potential response activities to address physical, cyber and hybrid threats. The result will be enhanced resilience for submarine critical infrastructure owners, supporting authorities to enforce the CER and NIS2 directives implementation in the EU member states.

This is a follow-on project from the ECML project PlurCur (2012-2015, www.ecml.at/plurcur). The project’s aims are to develop further the plurilingual, inclusive and intercultural whole school policy by means of both new and existing partner schools in secondary education in an international context. The innovation of this project will be that it is based on version 2 of the plurilingual whole school curricula (see Allgäuer-Hackl/Brogan/Henning/Hufeisen/Schlabach 2015) and that in Plur>E, we will focus on involving school administration and educational politics.Plurilingual whole school policies are designed in such a way that languages taught as subjects are not treated in isolation and language and content-matter subject instruction overlap so that content-matter teaching is also language teaching. This consistent implementation of content and language integrated learning will be transferable to all non-language content lessons. The languages to be used will include languages already present at a given institution, i.e. family/heritage/migrant languages, modern languages taught at the school and the language of schooling.The multilingual approach to language teaching and learning also means that learners get insights into the structure of languages, study possibilities of positive transfer and interferences between the languages they use, train productive and receptive skills, develop metalinguistic and crosslinguistic awareness as well as language learning strategies and strategies of language use. In this way, we aim at developing competencies that go beyond individual languages, and plurilingual proficiency, a concept that will have to be defined, described and assessed into more detail in the course of the present project.Given that classrooms all over Europe are becoming more and more intercultural and multilingual, teachers are facing the challenge to provide learning opportunities which use those competencies and skills which learners bring with them to their learning environment, and this includes different levels of skills in a large variety of languages. The main target group will be students and teachers in secondary education. Decision makers (school management, educational politics) will also be targeted.The main outputs will be:1) Results in form of reports and best practice examples by the partner schools about the implementation of version 2 of the prototypical plurilingual whole school policy at their schools; to be used by other schools in aid of their own plurilingual projects and by decision makers in aid of including plurilingual approaches in school policy. The work towards these outputs will also entail a change in the individual partner schools’ structure, i.e. new plurilingual courses will be established, teachers will train in plurilingual teaching, teachers’ meetings across languages will be established etc.2) Results from evaluating version 2 of the plurilingual whole school policy, including new approaches containing objectives, content and assessment tools of plurilingual language teaching in order to present models for best practice in plurilingual education, will be made available to teachers and school management, as well as to educational politics and multilingualism researchers. This will help spread the idea of the policy and facilitate its implementation in other schools and educational institutions.3) Research results on students’ language attitudes and their experiences in plurilingual classes – specifically in a multilingual theatre group and in classes on Germanic intercomprehension – will be produced and published, to be used in multilingualism research as well as for decision-making in school management, school policy and educational politics.4) Recommendations on school development and to decision makers in secondary school education about best practice in the implementation of the plurilingual whole school policy will be produced based on the experiences in this project.5) Plur>E Online Modules for networking, expanding the number of future partners and the types of schools, sharing best practice examples with teachers across Europe.

Agro-food and Paper mill side streams and by-products are sources of unexploited organic fractions exploitable into safe microbial biomasses, functional ingredients and intermediates, e.g. prebiotics, pre-fermented ingredients, bioplastics and chemicals. The INGREEN bio-based ingredients/materials will be used to produce innovative functional products for food, feed, packaging, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and cosmetic sectors. The INGREEN outcomes will be obtained by validated tailor made biotechnologies based on safe microorganisms or eco-friendly approaches. Logistics and storage conditions will be optimized to favor the flow from feedstock to the bio-based prototype producers. INGREEN aims to demonstrate in industrial environments the efficiency and sustainability of the target biotechnologies to produce i) lactobionic acid (LBA), galactooligosaccharides (GOS), microbial safe biomasses from whey; ii) polyhydrohyalkanoates (PHA) enriched biomasses and purified PHA, as prebiotics and bioplastics respectively, from paper mill wastewater; iii) functional pre-fermented ingredients from rye/wheat milling fractions. Safe and characterized INGREEN ingredients will be used for innovative functional cheeses, bakery products and nutritious feeds. Functional GOS, LBA and pre-fermented bran will be used to produce prebiotic immune-stimulating gel, nutraceutical supplement and cleanser for human health. INGREEN biodegradable material will be valorised into bag in box to boost INGREEN fluid prototype sustainability. Prototype safety, shelf-life, quality and functional performances will be compared to benchmarks. Also LCA/LCC, sound business cases and plans and compliance with REACH and any relevant EU safety legislation will be applied over the whole project to assess prototype benefits compared to benchmarks. INGREEN product specifications will contribute to define/standardize the regulatory requirements for outcome innovation deals, market uptake and societal acceptance.