Talent4Iberia Programme aims to promote research excellence in the Iberian Peninsula, with primary focus on the Extremadura Ecosystem of Science, Technology and Innovation (SECTI), by offering 10 interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral fellowships with a duration of 36 months for the mobility and training of postdoctoral researchers of any nationality to develop R&D activities in the field of energy storage in Extremadura, within the Spanish-Portuguese and international cooperation framework, with the purpose to promote the development of their professional careers in an exceptional research environment. Talent4Iberia will be promoted and coordinated by the Council of Economy, Science and Digital Agenda of the Autonomous Community of Extremadura, Spain, the unit with competences in research policies and programmes in the region. The programme will be implement by 3 Spanish recruiting institutions: the Foundation FUNDECYT Science and Technology Park of Extremadura - Iberian Centre for Research in Energy Storage (Fundecyt-CIIAE), the University of Extremadura (UEX) and the Centre for Scientific and Technological Research of Extremadura (CICYTEX), and will count with the participation of 21 associated partners (13 universities, 4 research centres, and 4 companies dedicated to the energy sector, from 15 different countries: 8 EU Member States (Spain, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden), 1 HE Associated Country (Norway), and 4 Other Third Countries (Australia, Chile, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates). The project is aligned with one of the research lines selected as a priority in the participants' policies, ENERGY STORAGE. With an international and interdisciplinary conception, it will also contribute positively to the development of territories with a high potential for scientific and technological development in the field of energy, and will serve as a pilot in the implementation of the HRS4R of the participating entities.

The Entercom project focused on the importance of the entrepreneurship education in coherence with the EU key policies started in 2003 through the “European Green Paper on Entrepreneurship” and extended in 2016 to the “Entrepreneurship Competence Framework” which tries to reach a shared model connecting the world of education and the labour market. Starting from the analysis of the different contexts within the project partnership, the project responded to the common need to develop new training methodologies for facilitators since the majority of the educational programs are addressed to young people neglecting the role of educator. The project achieved the following objectives: - to develop a new teaching methodology through the transnational background which can be experience to trainers/educators and mentors as well as the organizations that deal with the young entrepreneurship; - to set up a transnational network of trainers, educators and mentors who are involved on common goods based on methodologies and teaching procedures which can be useful to the knowledge exchange among professionals and experts, fostering the dissemination of entrepreneurial projects.The partnership consisted of five partners from four European countries and based on different skills and expertise on entrepreneurship, vocational and educational training, business competitiveness and innovation, creative industries: - Goodwill, Italy - Consorzio Materahub industrie culturali e creative, Italy - Consejería de economía e infraestructuras, Junta de Extremadura, Spain - Inova +, Portugal - Gemeente 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands.The expected results have been achieved through five Intellectual Outputs and a transnational pilot training week:- A Competence Framework to list the facilitator’s key competences who deals with entrepreneurial projects connected to the urban regeneration and the valorization of commons goods. - A Training package on education aimed at identifying the methodologies and tools useful to support facilitators in mentoring activities addressed to young people.- A Social Learning Platform addressed to facilitators involved in entrepreneurship education, willing to approach this topic focusing on exploitation of common goods and urban regeneration. - A Handbook for facilitators providing information related to the training modules and a user’s manual of the platform. - Policy consisting of recommendations in relation to urban regeneration, commons and social entrepreneurship education aimed at making the project methodology transferable in other European contexts and by other actors. The project ENTERCOM had an important impact in the EU dialogue and debate around the application in real cases and initiatives of the EntreComp Framework by the European Commission. For the first time, a project was focusing on the framework application in the social enterprise wide sector, talking about urban regeneration projects and commons.

"The initiative wants to transfer and adapt a model of promotion of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education based on the key concept that education, and in this case entrepreneurship education, happens everywhere, particularly in those environments in which children and young people receives first education (family, school, local community). The original project was developed in Extremadura and has involved 38 AMPAs (parents’ associations) teaching them basic concepts and methodologies so that they help their children to be more entrepreneurial. With that focus that entrepreneurship education has to be ""taught"" at school and outside school, that is as a formal and non formal education transversal content, the aim of this project is that parents, trainers, youth workers, public authorities have to receive a basic training to enhance and facilitate (as facilitators) the talent of young people, whether they still are students or not, so that they all acquire basic and transversal entrepreneurial skills. If these environments and their operators are not ready to transfer entrepreneurial competences, skills and knowledge, young people will not be able to start thinking, acting and seeing themselves as entrepreneurial EU citizens. Therefore the consortium is made of 7 partners that ensure reach to local community actors (Public Authority in charge of local policy for employment and entrepreneurship), one European network representing one of the target group (teachers), two experts organizations on the topic of entrepreneurship education, a technical partner in charge of the networking and e-learning platform, a partner with experience in research and analysis and the last partner with wide experience and representation of training activity for community actors, operators (families, teachers, social workers). The structure of the project that will last for 24 months will be based on five phases. The first one will be an analysis and research work to better understand context and needs of local community actors with regard to entrepreneurship. The second step will focus on project implementation mainly through the transfer and adaptation of original project to new target group. The third phase will consist on two sets of the new training pilot sessions, first at national level and then at European level, taking into account between the two sessions applicability of contents of first session to the daily work of participants and adaptation to real detected needs for the second one. The pilot test will be a training the trainers activity. The programme will include different contents (concepts, techniques and tools, alternative education references, entrepreneurship examples, etc.) that will be addressed through a learning by doing method. All the contents developed for, during and after the pilot sessions will be available for any EU stakeholder through a social platform. It will be the channel used for a repository of lessons, tools, videos, and exercises making the experience of the target group lasting even after the pilot phase. Each partner will also host a final dissemination event to make public the results of the two-years project so that any local, regional or national entity is able to exploit this EU-shared knowledge. We expect several impacts for the project. The direct impact on the community operators participating in the trainings will be partly intangible (motivation, awareness) and partly tangible (knowledge acquisition, posterior use of the techniques learnt for their daily work). Their belonging organisation will gain new insight in how to stimulate entrepreneurial spirit in young people and also in the overall community. The local/regional community of each partner/participant will also be more aware of the need to work on new approaches towards entrepreneurship. The partners will improve internal competences making them able to exploit project results and outputs to expand their field of activity. The indirect target groups include families, school teachers, children and young people, but also policy makers, by having a community aware of the importance of entrepreneurship for all. The VET sector and trainers will also be reached."

HousEEnvest aims to demonstrate the viability of the financing scheme, defined for the full energy renovation of multifamily houses in Extremadura, which will count on a combination of innovative tools for standardization, pooling, bundling and de-risking. This investment financing scheme focuses on a regional market with investment higher than 35 M€. HousEEnvest is the result of 2 years of work between key institutions of Extremadura region from the energy, economic and building sectors, combined with international resources coming from IEB and EU cooperation programmes, which have allowed designing one financing scheme made to measure of Extremadura building renovation necessities. HousEEnvest will have results in Energy renovation of multifamily building, and introduce EU added value through the combination of several proved innovations, which are applied and customized for the multifamily buildings with central heating. Will develop a Innovative financing scheme, implementing a Guarantees Fund created with public ESIF, moving from non-reimbursable grants into FI, and it is leveraged with EFSI and finally with private contribution (biggest part). HousEEnvest aims to be a showcase in the unlocking of investment through pooling, when supported by a proper Fund scheme, which can be applied and replicated in other geographies and even other sectors.

The twin green and digital transition is expected to bring benefits to all parts of EU society. However, for it to successfully happen, education, VET, and businesses in particular need to join forces. EU citizens are called to upskill and re-skill themselves in the domain of entrepreneurship, together with digital and green skills to be able to contribute with sustainable solutions to a stronger and more resilient Europe. Indeed, entrepreneurship is the key to enable this change. The EntreComp4Transition aims at developing new, innovative, multidisciplinary approaches to teaching and learning paving the way for the future “Green Transition Facilitator” by fostering an entrepreneurial mindset, facilitating co-creation and ensuring recognition of learning outcomes. It will rely on country clusters forging innovative alliances to support teachers, trainers, businesses and end users in the learning pathway. Activities include an in-depth analysis of skills gaps, the development a dual blended methodology with innovative learning content delivered via a MOOC in line with ECVET and EQAVET frameworks, pilot sessions, a mobility scheme, and the creation of open badges to support HE/VET and enable businesses to verify acquired competences. The project will also produce a sustainable AI-based tool to support companies in identifying skill gaps and raise their competitiveness. More than 30.000 stakeholders across the EU ranging from businesses, HEIs, VET providers, public authorities, civil society, and students will be involved and directly benefit from the project in the short-term and/or long-term. The project will produce 27 outputs, including high-quality insight reports, guidelines, and digital tools. Thanks to its well-defined governance at national level, the EntreComp4Transition project is designed to gather actors together in a strong alliance for innovation, the results of which will bring benefits to each of them, to different contexts and beyond in the long-term.