REWIRE builds a Blueprint for the Cybersecurity industry and a concrete European Cybersecurity Skills Strategy. This strategy will bring together lessons learned from other initiatives (i.e. CONCORDIA, SPARTA, ECHO, CyberSec4Europe).REWIRE:• Designs and implements a Blueprint for the Cybersecurity industry • Develops a European Cybersecurity Skills Strategy and Framework• Develops a common methodology for the identification of existing and emerging skills needs• Creates a European Cybersecurity Skills Observatory integrated by specific actions, activities and tools that allow for anticipation and matching of skills supply and demands. • Supports the strategy and framework through the implementation of a digital on-line publicly accessible European Cybersecurity Skills Digital Observatory – CyberABILITY (for cybersecurity skills merging the market needs, the profiles, the competencies and the available training courses). • Pilots a federated cyber range hosted by multiple project partners to support the goals of the project.• Creates at least four (4) educational curricula and relevant skills certification schemes for new profiles contained in the Cybersecurity Skills Framework. • Promotes attractiveness of the sector and gender balance through specific actions to engage all relevant stakeholders • Develops actions for encouraging mobility through promoting the use of existing European tools (Erasmus+, EURES, EAfA etc.). • Creates networks to improve skills intelligence and information mechanisms and strengthening exchange of knowledge and practice between the cybersecurity industry and the education providers, adapting VET provision to the skills needs demanded by the sector.

The early years of a child’s life (birth—5) are a major determinant of future educational success. Those who start formal education at a disadvantage compared to their peers are likely to remain at a disadvantage throughout their life, and be in greater danger of economic and social exclusion. They are also more likely to contribute to the education drop-out rates the EU wishes to reduce, and less likely to participate in tertiary education. However, despite this, the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) of those practitioners in early years care and education (ECEC) continues to lag behind that of educational professionals working with older children. For this group of, often lower paid, workers, opportunities to learn from best practice elsewhere, particularly transnationally, are severely limited. At the same time, there is now greater focus on the contribution wellbeing plays in an individual’s life chances, particularly in the early years. The Comenius TODDLER project has already identified best practice and developed materials relating to toddler wellbeing. However, proper training and the development of a holistic approach is vital to bring about a real change in practice for this important group.ToWe therefore aims to provide a unique continuing professional development opportunity for early years practitioners (EYPs) in the three partner countries – Norway, Spain and the UK, focussing on the needs of disadvantaged toddlers. Alongside this, and with full stakeholder engagement, the project will also develop a suite of training materials incorporating tools and strategies which will be of practical use to EYPs in the partner countries and beyond.The CPD will involve two short-term training visits. The first will allow the practitioners to be trained in the use of updated TODDLER and new ToWE tools and materials. The second visit will enable these practitioners to participate in job shadowing in another partner country. These CPD opportunities will not be stand-alone events, but will be integral to the creation of the eventual materials, as participants’ experience will feed into the development of all tools and strategies. This feedback will be ongoing as they use the developing materials in their own settings and participate in local focus groups. This will also contribute to a detailed impact study of the materials’ use by practitioners, giving practical case studies as examples. Three HEIs will provide the robust academic underpinning of the materials, which will be complemented by this practical feedback. Quality will be further ensured by an external evaluation liaison group, drawn from key players in the field.The tools and strategies will provide a holistic approach to ECEC for disadvantaged toddlers and focus on three key areas which have previously been identified – toddlers’ voice and expressions; meal times and toddlers with an additional language. A wellbeing audit tool, with strategies, will underpin all areas. All ToWe tools will be openly accessible and three national workshops will disseminate the training materials and impact study to practitioners in the partner countries. National participants will be able to cascade this learning to their own colleagues in early years settings and local authorities/municipalities. In addition, an International Trainers' Workshop will be held, aimed at academics and training institutes in this field, to promote the embedding of this approach in future research and training.Through the provision of CPD and real practical tools to facilitate a change in practice, towards a more holistic approach to ECEC, this project aims to raise the quality of ECEC in the partner countries and beyond, increasing the opportunities for disadvantaged toddlers and provide them with a better start to their lifelong learning journey.

<< Background >>The European project ATHIKA (Advanced Training in Health Innovation Knowledge Alliance) was born with the purpose of bringing a humanistic approach to the engineering education while addressing the most important new research in the world of AI and IoT linked to Healthcare. It has been achieved by building a set of advanced training programs for students, involving academia, health public administration, SMEs, startups and entrepreneurs, and health business consultants.<< Objectives >>ATHIKA project has successfully achieved the objectives by developing a KA through the cooperation and involvement of the HEIs, SMEs and Industry of the KA with the final result of an international multidisciplinary free-access online eHealth course for all backgrounds that provides the tools (key digital competences, job-specific skills, ethical awareness, innovative pedagogies, cutting-edge knowledge, Challenge Based Learning) to face eHealth challenges(from technical and business perspective)<< Implementation >>The ATHIKA project designed the ATHIKA Framework for the eHealth Challenge identification and Scenario Planning, the companies designed their challenges using it. In parallel, the HEIs prepared the ATHIKA course platform, focusing on a common part (eHealth sector and Fundamentals) and on a specific part for IoT, AI&Ml and Gov&ethics has been developed. After deploying the course, a workshop, competition and mobility was hosted. A refinement has been applied following the students' feedback.<< Results >>- ATHIKA framework (Health and Smart City Ecosystem Framework)- ATHIKA course (Unit 1-eHealth; Unit 2-Fundamentals; Unit 3-IoT; Unit3-AI Unit3-Governance&Ethics). More than >180 international students involved- ATHIKA IoT Lite (>300 undergraduate students involved)- ATHIKA competitions (>70 students participated; 12 students won)- ATHIKA Mobility (9 students travelled to the companies of the project)

Data is being generated at ever-increasing rates with the widespread digital transformation in businesses and society. The continually increasing demand for affordable data storage puts tremendous pressure on storage technologies. New concepts for low-cost, high-storage-density memories are urgently needed to keep storage capabilities in line with the growing demand. FastComet is a colloidal memory concept in which colloidal nanoparticles are considered data carriers. The memory consists of a large array of nanocapillaries in which two types of nanoparticles with antagonistic electrophoresis (DEP) properties can be selectively inserted into the capillary by DEP forces. Data can be stored as the specific stacking sequence of the different particle types. A CMOS circuit at the periphery of the array addresses and controls the electrodes. The long-term aim is to develop an integrated device that is able to store data using nanoparticles smaller than 15 nm. This would ultimately result in ultra-high bit densities exceeding 100 Gbit per square millimeter and potentially reaching 1 Tbit square millimeter at a lower cost than existing data storage technologies. In the FastComet project, we aim to establish a proof-of-concept for colloidal memory by identifying suitable nanoparticles, developing nanofabricated test structures, using advanced nanoscopy imaging techniques to demonstrate the selective manipulation of nanoparticles into passive nanocapillary arrays, and establishing a modeling framework for future technology development.