FishEUTrust represents a consortium of twenty-two organizations from fourteen countries, pooling their expertise to defragment the current food system to ensure sustainability and deliver solutions for a transparent and traceable seafood supply chain necessary to promote high-end, pan-European farmed seafood. The innovation at the heart of FishEUTrust is integrating different actors into a digital platform that links technology providers, supply chain stakeholders, regulatory/policymakers and consumers. FishEUTrust will establish five Co-creation Living Labs (CLLs) in diverse environments: the Mediterranean Basin, the North Sea and the Atlantic Sea. These CLLs will enable user involvement in innovation and development processes and act as demonstrators for the consortium to test and validate digital and non-digital supply chain solutions. Examples include creating sustainable business models, exploiting IPR strategies for aquaculture, e.g., protecting cultural and culinary heritage, short food supply chains, exploiting underused fish species, and innovative engaging activities to stimulate/nudge behavioural change. It will also develop tools for maximizing trust by guaranteeing the quality, safety, and traceability of seafood products based on smart control systems (sensors), a suite of tools integrating metagenomics, genetic biomarkers, isotopic techniques, and digital technologies (labelling, Product Passport/Blockchain). These tools will be integrated into a single cutting-edge digital FishEUTrust platform that will apply the latest in artificial intelligence, data science and human-computer interactions. Finally, an integrated impact assessment and life cycle analysis will be performed to quantify the environmental footprint, health sustainability, and socio-economic benefits of FishEUTrust solutions. FishEUTrust will be supported by a comprehensive scientific, public, policymaker and industrial dissemination plan to communicate results to a broad audience.

The climate system is changing rapidly and some regions have seen increases in extremes beyond what is expected from climate model simulations. To support targeted climate adaptation strategies, EXPECT will enable trustworthy assessments and predictions of regional climate change including extremes by developing a prototype operational capability for integrated attribution and prediction of climate. This ambitious goal is closely aligned with the WCRP Lighthouse Activity on Explaining and Predicting Earth System Change. EXPECT will identify and quantify the mechanisms by which physical processes govern regional climatic changes, including extremes, on inter-annual to multi-decadal time scales. It will do so by exploiting newly available climate simulations and Earth Observations (EOs), and by combining machine learning (ML) with physical methods. The research will target fundamental knowledge gaps related to atmospheric circulation and land-atmosphere interactions, which represent major limitations in current climate predictions and projections, and in particular in understanding changes in European summer extremes. To underpin the research, and benefitting the wider research community, EXPECT will develop tools to efficiently analyse a variety of large data sets in combination that are hosted in different repositories across institutions. This will facilitate the exploitation of recent investments into high-resolution climate models and EO data. EXPECT will further build data science capacity for the scientifically robust, efficient and reproducible analysis of the massive data assets, including novel ML approaches, and provide training for the climate science community and the next generation of researchers in particular. EXPECT will thus deliver significant scientific and technological advances for society and the climate science community that will last well beyond the project, in support of WCRP’s strategic objectives.

SEAFOODTOMORROW aims to validate and optimize commercial solutions for improving the socioeconomic and environmental sustainability of the seafood production and processing industry, while contributing to product quality and safety. Activities will focus on the sustainable production and processing of nutritious and safe seafood products through the demonstration and first application in the market of eco-innovative, sustainable solutions of marine and aquaculture-derived food products and nutrients. The proposal will take into account impacts across different regions and population segments, as well as the specificities of different types of seafood. Activities will include among others: utilization of agro and seafood byproducts to develop sustainable feeds for aquaculture enabling the production of tailor made products fortified with specific essential nutrients for consumers, assess the feasibility of salt replacers in seafood, validate digestible, attractive, functional and nutritionally adapted seafood for senior people and youths, validate strategies to prevent/remove contaminants from seafood, and optimize sensors and biosensors for the assessment of safety, among others. The consortium expects strengthening the wider utilization of eco-innovative solutions, as a result of greater user acceptance, higher visibility of these innovative solutions and creation of scalable markets, and increasing the availability of healthier seafood to improve consumers' diet and health. The consortium is built on interdisciplinary research teams of 19 RTDs involved, renowned by its top-quality applied technological development and with strong and cohesive links gathered in previous funded activities (e.g. FP7 ECsafeSEAFOOD), thus anticipating successful outcomes. In addition, 4 IAGs and 13 SMEs with diverse and complementary interests in the solutions under validation and optimization will also integrate the consortium.

TROYO is organized to train youth on the marine hazards through innovative and scientific tools and methods. Main objective is to endeavor a better understanding of marine hazards and their effects of human life and manmade coastal structures and prepare guidelines and online tools for safety and preparedness. Raising awareness and preparedness against marine hazards are crucial for coastal communities in order to avoid inevitable damages. Hence, young people should be trained and educated about marine hazards, mitigation tools, and disaster management. The main objective is training of youth by youth on preparedness against marine events and protection of coastal utilization and environment. Gaining enunciable skills will provide young generation to take part actively in training of youth for raising awareness and to be prepared against the coastal effects of marine extremities such as meteorological and hydrological induced coastal inundation and their effects on marine environment and coastal utilization. Target group to be trained will be mainly coastal young populations.Youth to be trained by young trainers, experts and professionals with the background of even not necessarily from coastal or civil engineering fields. The training program will enhance knowledge and awareness of young people in the marine hazards and enable them to acquire new methods of preparedness against marine hazards and transfer the acquired knowledge directly to younger people through training activities. In practice, the preparedness against disasters have been carried out through training of mainly professionals, decision makers and stakeholders. It can also be noted that international organizations such as UNESCO Youth Forum is one of the important youth training activity on disasters which is also taken into account in TROYO activities. Essentially, youth can play an effective role in assisting communities for awareness raising on hazards and their effects on the marine environment by i) sharing information they have learned with their families and friends, ii) helping parents and communities in disaster preparedness, prevention, response, and recovery effort activities and issues, and iii) bringing their creativity to mitigation strategies. Therefore involving youth in prevention, preparedness, recovery, and response efforts activities can help to ensure that youth, families, and communities are better prepared and more able to respond to disasters.TROYO activities are divided into four Work Packages (WPs). Work packages starts with transfer of scientific knowledge and experience with innovative methods into enunciable knowledge, and then converting enunciable knowledge of marine hazards into training materials for youth and general public, and afterwards training selected youth from universities, and finally facilitating selected youth from universities to train selected people from younger generation. The work packages are as follows:Work Package 1: Training Materials for Youth on Marine Hazards In this work package the experts will collaborate through workshops and meetings and will develop required training materials and tools for general public and youth by considering different training strategies using different methods for different marine hazards and cases from different countries; Work Package 2: Training of Youth by Experts In this work package selected experts will train selected youth from university students. Trainers/experts from partners will use training materials (from WP-1) through workshops, lectures and exercises with different case studies in this training program. Work Package 3: Training of Younger by Trained Youth In this work package trained youth will train the younger people selected from students (preferable high schools or younger). In this WP, experts will accompany the young trainer as an assistant during training. Work Package 4: Dissemination activities This Work Package aimed to disseminate the project outcomes beyond the project duration for further training and awareness raising activities. Dissemination activities will take place to establish a web site, for preparation of training materials and to develop tools for youth and general public (parents, professionals and stakeholders) mainly on practical methods in social preparedness.