The promotion of Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA) at all age of life is a “worldwide” key point of public health strategy. Many EU and regional policies recognized nutrition as key element for all citizens’ AHA, in a lifelong care approach. WHO and evidence-based research point out that malnutrition should be tackled through an International common structured approach, based on the integration of different care levels and managed by inter-professional teams. In this context, a skilled public health workforce, delivering high-quality nutrition services in health care settings, is needed.NECTAR addresses a mismatch which has been identified between the skills currently offered by cooks and chefs working in Primary Food Care (PFC) and those actually demanded by healthcare institutions, private service providers and final end users in order to play a pivotal role in this context. Based on a “culinary/ clinical integrated approach”, NECTAR will deliver an EU Occupational Profile for Chef Gastro Engineering (CGE) and an EU Curriculum for the certification of this profile. CGE will be an innovative and pivotal figure in PFC, skilled on food management and kitchens coordination, addressing end-users need such as teste deteriorations/ alterations, personalizing recipes and cooking processes; CGE will be have the technical skills to use various ICT tools for older adults home monitoring and personalization of care.CGE Curriculum will be an European, innovative, learning outcome-oriented and modular one. Thanks to its flexibility and modularity, the Curriculum could be instantiated in national Curricula, considering local and contextual constraints. The Curriculum will be tested through 5 pilots courses delivered in Belgium, Portugal, Austria and Italy. NECTAR Alliance includes 12 partners from 4 Countries. The most of them have been collaborating since eight years in EIPonAHA about this topic and will provide sustainability and scaling-up to project results.

The objective of LANDSUPPORT is the construction of a web-based smart geoSpatial Decision Support System (S-DSS), which shall provide a powerful set of tools devoted to (i) support sustainable agriculture/forestry, (ii) evaluate trade-off between land uses (including spatial planning) and (iii) contribute to implementation, impact and delivery of about 20 European land policies and also selected 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals including climate change resilience goals and the key SDG 15.3 “achieving a land degradation-neutral world”. This objective is achieved by the integration of already existing databases (interoperability) at different scales with the development of high performance modelling engines simulating agriculture & forestry (e.g.crop growth), land degradation and environmental issues (e.g.fate of pollutants, ecosystem services). All the above, including their validation by remote sensed data will be ensured by a technology at the state of art for the developing environment (i.e.COMPSs), high-performing computing (e.g.GPU) and massive raster data management (e.g.RASDAMAN). LANDSUPPORT will be applied at four geographic scales: EU; 3 Nations (Italy, Hungary, Austria); 2 European Regions in IT and HU; 3 pilot sites in AU, IT, HU; and 2 pilot sites in Tunisia and Malaysia. By doing that, LANDSUPPORT will reconcile grand agriculture/environmental sustainability policy ambitions with operational reality as required by RUR-03-2017 call such as the evaluation of “land use trade-offs” and “incentivizing real actions/behaviour/investments”; all requiring activities at detailed spatial scale. LANDSUPPORT fits with the priorities of this work programme, as LANDSUPPORT S-DSS is (i) scientific and technology innovation as driver for rural development, (ii) a framework for innovation and new business models adapted to the rural context, (iii) support for skills development in rural communities, (iv) a new approach towards policies and governance (subarea 1).

"Youth Participation Matters, a long-term project implemented by DYPALL Network and its partners ARS for Progress of People (Belgium), CID (North Macedonia), Europe4Youth (Poland) and FRG Campania (Italy), brought together various non-governmental organisations, local authority representatives, researchers, youth workers, youth leaders and young people to explore and share various models of youth participaiton in decision-making processes at the local level in Europe. The main goals of the project consisted of: - Identifying and promoting projects and models of structures and mechanisms that allow sustainable and quality youth participation in decision-making processes at the local level; - Mapping and promoting innovative practices of youth participation in decision-making processes at the local level; - Developing competencies related to youth workers, in order to better foster participation of young people at the local level; - Encouraging dialogue between youth organisations, civil society and local authorities’ officers; - Training youth organizations, youth workers and local authorities on how to develop quality democracy projects, as well as models for youth participation in decision making at the local level; - Theorizing about key concepts of youth participation in decision-making processes (such as advocacy, policymaking, partnership, participative and representative democracy) and to develop a common understanding of such definitions; - The development of a publication, that consist of the collection of best practices of youth participation projects and that highlights quality indicators for such; - Contributing to the mainstreaming youth participation practices that promote democracy at the local level, and at the European level The activities implemented in order to achieve the objectives mentioned were: 1) Seminar - ""Models of youth participation at the local level in Europe"" 2) Training course on the development of participatory based projects 3) Conference - ""Youth Participation Matters"" In parallel to the project activities, the project partners conducted the Study on models, instruments, initiatives and toold of youth participation at the local level in their respective countries, culminating in the final publication of the Study."