"The Hessian Teacher Training Academy (Hessische Lehrkräfteakademie) is applying for a strategic partnership (type""Best Practice"") with the teacher training departments of the JAMK University of Applied Sciences in Jyväskylä (JYVASKYLAN AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU) and the University of Tallinn, the VÕRUMAA KUTSEHARIDUSKESKUS, a vocational school in Southern Estonia, and Gradia's Vocational College in Jyväskylä as an associated partner. It is the goal of the partnership to exchange teacher trainers, teachers and teacher trainees from different countries to come together and to develop teaching concepts and materials on the overall topic ""Teaching and Learning in Heterogeneous Classes at Vocational Schools"". This is supposed to happen during three workshops that alternatively take place in Hesse (Germany), Tallinn (Estonia), and Jyväskylä (Finland). To each workshop the Hessian Teacher Training Academy will be sending two teacher trainers and four teacher trainees, JAMK University of Applied Sciences in Jyväskylä four teacher trainers, Tallinn University four teacher trainers, the vocational school in Voru one teacher, and the vocational college in Jyväskylä as an associated partner also some teachers. The first workshop in Hesse, which takes place in November 2019, is about ""Dealing with Diversity in Vocational Classes"", the second workshop is about ""Teaching Entrepreneurial Competences in Individualized Learning Contexts"". This workshop takes place in Tallinn in April 2020. The third workshop deals with the ""Promotion of Individualized Learning with the Help of Digital Media."" This workshop is supposed to take place in Jyväskylä in November 2020. To prepare each workshop in advance the project coordinators of each partner institution will meet two months before the workshop in question takes place in the target country. A final meeting of the project coordinators in December 2020 will be about the evaluation of the project work and the future development of the partnership.The innovative aspect of this project lies in the fact that each partner institution has special competences and know how to offer, which the other partner institutions cannot offer to such an extent. The five teacher training centers for vocational schools in Hesse (Kassel, Gießen, Frankfurt, Darmstadt and Wiesbaden) and their staff, which are part of the Hessian Teacher Training Academy, have a lot of know how in the field of dealing with diversity in multicultural vocational classes and the teaching of entrepreneurial competences that it can offer especially to the Estonian partners. These and the JAMK University of Applied Sciences have a lot of competences in the field of teaching and learning through the usage of digital media, which they can offer to the German partner institution. Additionally, another innovative aspect might be the fact that teaching experts, teachers and novices in teaching (Hessian teacher trainees) come together, exchange their teaching experiences and develop teaching concepts and materials to be put into practice later on.As a result of the workshops an E-Book will be developed and made public which covers the results (teaching concepts and materials) of all the three workshops mentioned above."

"The use of simulation in teaching and learning in nurse education is gaining momentum, as a result of a growing body of evidence which notes its efficiency and effectiveness. The objectives of this project were to address the lack of universal simulation resources particularly in relation to community care. This project sought to develop a simulation kit - comprising three simulation resources- which could be used across different countries. All the ten partners listed in section 2.1 below, participated in the planning, development, and evaluation of a simulation kit named NURSKit, which is now freely accessible for the next two years through the University of Malta website: https://www.um.edu.mt/projects/ispad/about-us-2/. The NURSKit includes three different scenarios. Each scenario comes with a kit for the facilitator who will be guiding the students during this scenario, pre-scenario resources to prepare the students for the activity and post-scenario resources to enable the carrying out of the student debriefing session. Scenario 1 focuses on a person living in the community without established chronic disease, but with multiple risk factors. This scenario was developed by Lahti University of Applied Sciences, SAMK University , University College Dublin ( leader) Scenario 2 includes a person living with diabetes and experiencing psychosocial issues as a consequence of his chronic condition. This scenario was developed by Molise University, Turku University, Cardiff University ( Leader). Scenario 3 focuses on end of life care. This scenario was developed by Middlesex University, Oslomet University , JAMK ( Leader). The University of Malta was responsible for overseeing the development of all three scenarios. Three experts, all authorities in the field of nurse education, from three different continents - Australia (Professor Simon Cooper from the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare, Federation University Australia), Africa (Professor Abeer Saad Eswi, Cairo University, Egypt), Asia- (Professor Cho Eun-Jung, Yeungnam University College, South Korea) contributed to the project as consultant/ advisors, thus enabling a wide comprehensive universal relevance of the simulation kit. The second objective of the project was to develop and deliver an innovative training programme to two individuals from each of the ten participating universities, with the aim of them becoming ""Simulation Champions"", at their own respective partner institution and championing the development of simulation. This training programme was developed by the University of Lahti and the University of Malta. The programme was delivered jointly by the two universities in 2017. Twenty participants successfully completed the training programme. These participants were academics from each of the 10 participating orgnisations (section 2.1). Two academics from each of the universities were trained in the use of simulation. This training programme entitled ""Simulation In Nurse Education"" (SINE) Champion Award Certificate"" included 5 ECTS at EQF level 6. The training programme and simulation kit were both evaluated. The training programme was evaluated through the use of focus groups with the participation of the trainers who delivered the programme and the students who took part in the programme. The feedback on the training programme was very positive and this programme is now available for delivery by other institutions who may wish to run this programme within their own entity. The NURSKit was evaluated through the use of an online survey which was designed to measure students' knowledge and self-reported competence before and after following the simulation exercise. The students were also included in a number of focus groups to identify their experience in participating in the project. The feedback on the NURSkit was also very positive. The research study indicated that students improved in terms of knowledge and perceived competence with the use of all three scenarios. This suggests that this NURSkit is a useful tool for the teaching and learning of community related nursing. The long term benefits are that both the NURSKit and the training programme which have been developed are available for the use of other Universities via the University of Malta website and can be applied on a universal scale."

SINTRA (Security of critical infrastructure by multi-modal dynamic sensing and AI)-ITEA4-projekti parantaa oleellisesti kriittisten infrastruktuurien tilannekuvaa ja lisää kyberturvallisuuden, yksityisyydensuojan ja datanhallinnan skaalautuvuutta hyödyntäen tekoälyä. \ \ Kriittisten teollisuus- ja yhteiskunnallisten infrastruktuurien, kuten lentoasemien, satamien, energiantuotantolaitosten, rakennustyömaiden ja tieverkostojen operaattorit ja asiakkaat usein kärsivät monimutkaisten ja kehittyneiden turvallisuusuhkien aiheuttamista keskeytyksistä. Markkinoilla on paljon turvallisuusmonitorointi- ja suojausjärjestelmäratkaisuja. Ratkaisut perustuvat esimerkiksi videokameraverkostoon, johon on integroitu analyysikyvykkyyksiä. Nykyiset ratkaisut eivät kuitenkaan mahdollista monimutkaisten, suurivaikutteisten ja kontekstiriippuvaisten rikollisten ja vihamielisten operaatioiden havainnointia. Tällaisia operaatioita ovat ihmis- tai huumesalakuljetus, varkaudet sekä fyysiset ja kyberhyökkäykset infrastruktuuria kohtaan. \ \ SINTRA-projekti tähtää tilanteen parantamiseen kehittämällä alustan multimodaaliseen havainnointiin ja tekoälypohjaiseen data-analyysiin, joka mahdollistaa organisaatioiden välisen yhteensopivuuden sekä kyberturvallisuuden ja turvallisuusmonitoroinnin luotettavuuden. Alusta tukee toimijoiden välistä yhteiskoordinaatiota sekä julkisten ja yksityisten turvallisuusoperaattoreiden tiedon suojausta, jakamista, hallintaa ja analyysiä, luoden laajamittaisen tilannetietoisuuden infrastruktuuriuhkista ja -hyökkäyksistä. \ \ Suomen konsortio tutkii, kehittää prototyyppitoteutuksia ja integroi tekoälypohjaisia tilannetietoisuus-, sensori-, kyberturvallisuus-, yksityisyydensuoja- ja datanhallintaratkaisuja. Ratkaisuja validoidaan ja demonstroidaan soveltuvissa satama- ja liikenneskenaarioissa, mutta ne ovat sovellettavissa myös toisen tyyppisiin kriittisiin infrastruktuureihin. Visionamme on merkittävä uusi kansainvälinen liiketoimintapotentiaali SINTRAn innovaatioille.