SUNRAISE aims to promote sustainable management of Arctic and high mountainous ecosystems in Bhutan, India and Russia (partner countries – PCs) through enhanced tertiary education linked to labour markets and wider stakeholder circles. This aim will be achieved through the following objectives:1. To revise and upgrade selected BSc, MSc & PhD programs in PIs to make them end-user-oriented & policy-relevant, and enhance opportunities for LLL education.2. To develop SUNRAISE open education environment Platform (SUNRAISER) and online training services of the new generation (MOOC) for qualitative improvement of the education process and academic workflow support among universities and stakeholders across the PC and EU Member States.3. To create sustainable feedback mechanisms to end-users, ensuring adaptive and practice-relevant teaching contents, knowledge co-production opportunities and stakeholder support to post-project course development and teaching.4. To develop capacity for academic mobility, shared experimental facilities and joint research by PIs and beyond.Achieving of these objectives will significantly enhance the quality of educational provision in PCs, as the expertise of the whole consortium will become available to individual and group learners (including the students from other programs and, in particular, the learners from remote regions). PhD students will access research facilities at other PCIs through joint research arrangements and benefit from new methods and richer data for their thesis. Likewise, revision of research agendas PhD studies and integrating to them emerging problems and methods, will build teaching capacity at PC HEIs and motivate business and policy actors to engage in closer cooperation. The proposed vehicles for such engagement are national (RU) and regional (IN+BT) SUNRAISE sector collaborative platforms to be set-up for the Arctic and High Mountainous Areas to create a “community of practice”.

One of three key focuses of the European Researchers' Nights “exploREsearch” in Austria will be to enhance the understanding and promote current research in the fields of climate and sustainability with a focus on the European Green Deal. The second key focus is citizen science, which is an efficient way to democratise science and to bring the public and science closer together for enhancing both public knowledge as well as understanding of science. Moreover, in order to open up new perspectives of seeing the world, it is more than necessary to understand arts and show the diversity of research in this area. In this context, the third focus of the European Researchers' Night events "exploREsearch" will be Arts & Research. Besides, we will also emphasize on the Horizon Europe Missions. For the first time in Austria, the ERNs will be organised in several major cities (Vienna, Salzburg and Innsbruck) at the same time covering Austria from East to West and enabling about a fourth of the Austrian population to directly participate at the events. The events will, on the one hand incorporate on-site formats such as Scientific Booths and Workshops, Science Talks, Science Cafes, Science Slams, the EU-Corner as well as several Social Activities to bring public and science closer together. On the other hand, virtual formats will integrate lectures and workshops as well as a live stream from the on-site stage program for online visitors. Furthermore, the project incorporates a large number of pre-events of which several are dedicated to Researchers at Schools activities. Support for the event and its promotion was stated by Austrian ministries (including also financial support), other public stakeholders, funding agencies and initiatives. The project "exploREsearch" integrates 7 partners with different competences, backgrounds and public outreach, therefore being able to implement successful European Researchers' Nights in Austria in 2022 and 2023.

CHALLENGEAccess to, quality, effectiveness and benefits of adult education remains elusive for many people with health-related conditions. Learners with health issues, who are often more in need of education to increase opportunities for social inclusion and employability, actually benefit less from it, because adult education (AE) providers do not often account for associated challenges. There is a moral and social obligation to improve AE providers’ functions and provide learning offerings adapted to the needs of all, as a means of strengthening social inclusion. The lack of systematic evaluation & monitoring of impact on learners with health-related conditions prevents AE providers from designing improved practices. AE providers can significantly benefit from a systematic review of their effectiveness and from cross-fertilisation and transfer of experience on relevant policies; they need to adopt a systematic monitoring system to assess their impact on learners with health issues and develop informed quality improvement plans.OBJECTIVES1. Develop an integrated framework for AE providers that will cater for the specific needs & particularities of people with health-related conditions1. Identify the factors that affect AE effectiveness on learners with health problems2. Provide an integrated framework, for AE providers to evaluate the impact of their offerings on learners with health problems 3. Share recommendations to enable AE providers to successfully address the needs of persons with health-related issues PARTNERSHIPINDUCATE brings together 5 organisations from the worlds of adult learning provision, educational research & policy development, from 5 EU countries with different experience in monitoring AE effectiveness. PLUS is experienced in educational research, social pedagogy and research on inclusion of disadvantaged people. AGORA is an AE provider, experienced in the establishment of frameworks in AE and addressing adults from vulnerable groups at risk of social exclusion. PROMEA has extensive experience in design and implementation of research activities for education and projects targeting the improvement of adult education. ZIDINIO offers educational services to adults focusing on socially disadvantaged groups and the development of teaching tools. GIP-FCIP CRÉTEIL is experienced in adult education policies & programmes, qualification and training for people with disabilities.ACTIVITIES & METHODOLOGY1. Research on factors affecting AE effectiveness on learners with health-related conditions2. Develop an Integrated Assessment Framework & online tool for adult learning providers to measure their effectiveness on learners with health problems3. Produce road-map with recommendations for AE providers on how to successfully address the needs of persons with health related issues 4. Activities for valorisation of INDUCATE results and creation of an INDUCATE network & repository of self-assessment reports, quality improvement plans and a Memorandum of Cooperation5. Transnational training workshop on the use of the INDUCATE framework and the design of institution specific measures for improvement6. Promotion of INDUCATE outputs through 5 multipliers events in partner countries.RESULTS & IMPACT1. Analysis of factors for measuring adult education effectiveness on learners with health-related conditions to provide trainers and staff of adult leaning providers with greater understanding on needs of adults with health-related problems and help them design & deliver more efficient education programmes (4500 individuals to be reached).2. A framework and online tool for the evaluation of the effectiveness of adult learning providers towards persons with health-related issues to engage AE providers in a self-assessment process to evaluate impact of their programmes on learners with health problems and enable them to develop quality improvement plans (450 providers).3. Road-map with recommendations for adult learning providers to help them improve their effectiveness, adapting education provision to the needs of learners with health problems.4. Network of INDUCATE adopters: signed Memorandum of Cooperation & repository of assessment results and quality improvement plans to allow the exchange of practices and promote the adoption of INDUCATE outputs (60 adopters during project life).5. 5 national infodays to reach and involve target groups (300 participants).LONG-TERM BENEFITS1. Uptake and adaptation of INDUCATE Assessment Framework and Tools by AE providers in EU.2. Uptake of INDUCATE framework from national bodies involved in monitoring, quality assurance and evaluation of AE systems in Europe, with the aim to improve current monitoring techniques.3. Participation of a growing number of adult learners with health related issues in lifelong learning programmes that have been improved based on INDUCATE outputs, resulting in social inclusion or persons with health-related conditions.

ENDONANO (Quantitative detection of bacterial endotoxin by novel nanotechnological approaches) addresses a key regulatory and safety issue, i.e., the unbiased quantitative detection of bacterial endotoxin in products for medical use and in drug development and toxicological studies. The currently adopted LAL assays are reliable only in limited conditions and prone to interference at several levels, and therefore cannot be applied to all products and substances. ENDONANO will exploit new concepts, based on the capacity of metal nanoparticles to adsorb endotoxin, and new detection methods, based on molecular beacons, for developing novel assays to quantitatively detect endotoxin in complex matrices and in a wide range of conditions. The scientific and technological goals of ENDONANO include: 1. Investigating the capacity of endotoxin to specifically inducing inflammatory reactions in human primary blood cells; 2. Developing new methods based on endotoxin capture by metal nanoparticles in complex matrices (biological fluids, emulsions, gels, etc.); 3. Designing and implementing signal generation and detection methods for the quantitative endotoxin measurement; 4. Planning assay prototypes to be developed and validated for commercial purposes. ENDONANO will train 4 PhD students in an overarching training programme that will include training-by-research, courses of technical, scientific, and transferrable skills, active participation to public scientific events, and intense intersectoral networking. The ENDONANO consortium encompasses three academic institutions with strong expertise in inflammation, advanced biosensing, and top expertise in nanotechnology and use of nanoparticles for modulating bacterial functions, two SMEs expert in development and commercialisation of diagnostic detection assays and one biotech company specialised in (magnetic) microbead technology, and two Participant Organisations (SMEs). All have proven experience in higher education and training,

Aviation is one of the most critical infrastructures of the 21st century. Even comparably short interruptions can cause economic damage summing up to the Billion-Euro range. As evident from the past, aviation shows certain vulnerability with regard to natural hazards. The proposal EUNADICS-AV addresses airborne hazards (environmental emergency scenarios), including volcano eruptions, nuclear accidents and emergencies and other scenarios where aerosols and certain trace gases are injected into the atmosphere. Such events are considered rare, but may have an extremely high impact, as demonstrated during the European Volcanic Ash Crisis in 2010. Before the 1990s, insufficient monitoring as well as limited data analysis capabilities made it difficult to react to and to prepare for certain rare, high-impact events. Meanwhile, there are many data available during crisis situations, and the data analysis technology has improved significantly. However, there is still a significant gap in the Europe-wide availability of real time hazard measurement and monitoring information for airborne hazards describing “what, where, how much” in 3 dimensions, combined with a near-real-time European data analysis and assimilation system. The main objective of EUNADICS-AV is to close this gap in data and information availability, enabling all stakeholders in the aviation system to obtain fast, coherent and consistent information. This would allow a seamless response on a European scale, including ATM, ATC, airline flight dispatching and individual flight planning. In the SESAR 2020 Programme Execution Framework, EUNADICS-AV is a SESAR Enabling project (project delivering SESAR Technological Solutions). The project aims at passing a SESAR maturity level V2, which includes respective service validation activities, including validation exercises. Work will be also done to prepare a full V3 validation.