During the last decades, supply chains have become huge networks of heterogeneous organisations involved in the manufacturing and delivery of products to end users. The appearance of IoT is transforming every sector subject to be digitalized. After a period of evaluation of the use of IoT, companies are now moving to complete digitalization of their supply chains. Under this paradigm, iNGENIOUS (Next-GENeration IoT sOlutions for the Universal Supply chain) will exploit some of the most innovative and emerging technologies in line with the standardised trend, contributing to the Next-Generation IoT (NG-IoT) and proposing technical and business enablers to build a complete platform for supply chain management. iNGENIOUS embraces the 5G Infrastructure Association (5G IA) and Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI) vision for empowering smart manufacturing and smart mobility verticals. The iNGENIOUS network layer brings new smart 5G-based IoT functi¬onalities, federated Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) nodes and smart orchestration, needed for enabling the projected real-time capable use cases of the supply chain. Security and data management are fully recognized as important features in the project. iNGENIOUS will create a holistic security architecture for next-generation IoT built on neuromorphic sensors with security governed by Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms and tile-based hardware architectures based on security by design and isolation by default. In the application layer, iNGENIOUS new AI mechanisms will allow more precise predictions than conventional systems. Project outcomes will be validated into 4 large-scale Proof of Concept demonstration, covering 1 factory, 2 ports, and 1 ship, encompassing 6 uses cases. iNGENIOUS is formed by 21 partners from eight countries, including three telecom vendors and manufacturers, two network operators, four logistics partners, two universities, three research institutes and seven high-tech SMEs.

Border authorities and Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) across Europe face important challenges in how they patrol and protect the borders. Their work becomes more problematic considering the heterogeneity of threats, the wideness of the surveyed area, the adverse weather conditions and the wide range of terrains. Although there are several research tools and works targeting these areas independently for border surveillance, nowadays border authorities do not have access to an intelligent holistic solution providing all aforementioned functionalities. Towards delivering such a solution, ROBORDER aims at developing and demonstrating a fully-functional autonomous border surveillance system with unmanned mobile robots including aerial, water surface, underwater and ground vehicles, capable of functioning both as standalone and in swarms, which will incorporate multimodal sensors as part of an interoperable network. The system will be equipped with adaptable sensing and robotic technologies that can operate in a wide range of operational and environmental settings. To provide a complete and detailed situational awareness picture that supports highly efficient operations, the network of sensors will include static networked sensors such as border surveillance radars, as well as mobile sensors customised and installed on board unmanned vehicles. To succeed implementing an operational solution, a number of supplementary technologies will also be applied that will enable the establishment of robust communication links between the command and control unit and the heterogeneous robots. On top of this, detection capabilities for early identification of criminal activities and hazardous incidents will be developed. This information will be forwarded to the command and control unit that will enable the integration of large volumes of heterogeneous sensor data and the provision of a quick overview of the situation at a glance to the operators, supporting them in their decisions.

Project aims were to support national and regional rules on skills recognition according to ECVET system as following: it easier for people to get validation and recognition of work-related skills and knowledge acquired in different countries;increase the employability of VET graduates and the confidence of employers in specific skills and knowledge in VET qualifications.The aims were to develop a method of recognizing core skills in the port and logistics fields. VETPORT focused on the professional figures:Terminal Manager- Planner/ Supervisor-Drivers.These roles have been selected because they are essential for port activities. The roles are transferrable from port to port and can be adopted in other sectors.The Consortium was composed by six members:Livorno Port Authority- Vocational Training Centre manages training, certification and accreditation system for port community;Provincia di Livorno Sviluppo technical assistance EU projects;STC-GROUP Rotterdam provides training for the shipping, transport & logistics, port-bound;Valenciaport Foundation is a research training center for logistics-ports community;NMCI-CIT is specialised on training of maritime professionals;CFLI provides training, re-qualification of workers in LOGISTICS.The main activities of VETPORT were:Studies and Resources on the three port common professional profiles.It was compared qualification framework and occupational standards, designed common grounds and defined the main work processes for each profile. ECVET definition of skills, knowledge and competences has been used to describe the core abilities to carry out the work processes. This has resulted in groupings of abilities connected to actual work processes, reflecting the complexity level of occupational standards.The result was the definition of pilot transnational occupational profiles to which all partners have contributed. Pilot profiles, linked to ECVET standard, have been detailed to become training standards, identifying LO and including breakdown in Units corresponding to ECVET indicative points. A master training programme was designed for the profiles.Programmes were tested during the training mobility week. A Technical English training program was included for port handling vehicle.It was signed the MOU which contains the main features according to the ECVET standards and indications on how the learning outcomes related to the one-week mobility would be assessed and validated.A communication plan was provided, for the dissemination and valorisation of project deliverables. Website was done in IT/EN and linked to partners' websites as well as a social networks page. A video documentary was provide to explain the activities developed.It was designed a guidelines, to propose, at local, national and EU level, a mutually recognizable framework on training of port workers in view of extending this system to all port professions.Contribute to make training mobility an important and recognized tool for professional growth both in job placement training and as an experience exchange for those who are already employed. The method followed has been based on the” competency-based training and minimal training requirement”.79 workers from partner ports were involved visiting terminals in ports of Cork, Livorno, Rotterdam and Valencia. 9 training mobility weeks were carried out between November 2016-April 2017. 18 Drivers, 29 planners and 32 port terminal managers took part in training weeks, visiting container,multipurpose,ro-ro partner ports. 30 terminals were involved in sending & receiving workers,contributed to designing the training week program.5 transnational meetings were carried out:A kick off meeting in Livorno 2015; In 2015 two SC were done in Valencia;In 2016 two meetings were organized in Rotterdam and in Venice;In 2017 the SC met up in Valencia and Cork. The results achieved by the partnership were: Definition of based core competences to be improved during the one-week mobility and the minimal training program required to be assessed in term of ECVET for the profiles and recognised by the partnership embedded into ECVET standard;Design a Technical English training program for port handling vehicle for the acquisition of based competences; Collect VET best practices of the professional training program. Training week had a major impact both on workers and employers.Participants stressed the value of the program in terms of topics discussed and improved skills and knowledge;increased participation in mobility as opportunities for a professional growth.Sustainability to the project aims is the consolidation of the network and its enlargement with the organisms that took part in VetPort Continue working on share methodologies for designing “ competency based training and minimal training required” to validate and certify for professional skills in the port sector in view of getting equivalent professional qualifications recognized at local, regional and EU level.

The Port of the Future will be able to enhance sustainable development and to manage the resources to be invested and their employment for a competitive advantage. Therefore, the port of the future must be oriented to port community and have an operative strategic capability to work, in line with European purposes, on the following: - Smart, through ICT solutions, because it is important to improvement exchange of information flows between port and port community; - Interconnected with the use of a combination of different modes of transport and the integration of different technologies, because it is important to achieve better monitoring and controlling of the freight flows; - Green through the adoption of green technologies because it is important to reduce the environmental impact of port operations saving the resources. All in all, sustainable development is the present and future for ports that want to lead the industry supported by three cornerstones: Operational Excellence, Insightful Collaboration with partners through the supply chain, and top notch Safety, Health and Environmental practices. PortForward proposes a holistic approach that will lead to a smarter, greener and more sustainable port ecosystem and which will include the following features: - The introduction of an Internet of Things (IoT) concept for port assets (infrastructure, vehicles, cargo, people): - The socio-economic analysis of the port interface with its surrounding area and the port-city, as well as the rest of the logistics value chain.

SAFARI’s project aims to develop a generic digital platform for resilient port infrastructure, connected to large port communities, facing extreme weather events, with emergency management modules fed by operational, maintenance and analytical modules. The implementation of the SAFARI project will allow to: Maintain the port operation at 80% of capacity during the disruption periods; Optimize the allocation of multi-modal transport assets before and after the disrupting event to reach 20% of modal cargo shift with less environmental footprint and to minimize the downtime during extreme weather events; Develop resilience measures to strengthen existing port infrastructure against extreme weather events. Ensure the safety of personnel, vessels and protect the biodiversity; Build a governance model and guidelines to address climate risks and hazards for port infrastructure. The SAFARI consortium aims to deploy new measures reaching a TRL 7 by the end of the project in different maritime and inland infrastructures of port partners, from North Sea, Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, that can minimize the impacts of the disturbances issued from the extreme weather events. Three pilot demonstrators are selected from the littorals of Europe, namely Port of Dunkirk (FR), Port of Seville (ES) and Port of Lisbon (PT).