It is demonstrated that Nature Based Solutions (NBS) efficiently and effectively contribute to climate adaptation. However NBS need to be adapted locally and to be coherently chosen in order to assure sustainability and “no side effects”. To achieve this, ARCADIA will mobilise 8 European regions and communities – from Italy, Croatia, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia - to accelerate NBS adoption and assist them in accessing up-to-date, evidence-based actionable knowledge, guidance, knowledge-intense tools and services, mutual learning and networking opportunities. The project will foster enabling conditions to accelerate regeneration using NBS, by analysing individual and socially determined perceptions of risks and solutions, and experimentally designing incentives and behavioural nudges fostering social acceptance and community actions. In ARCADIA, the definition of regional ambitions and of methodologies and approaches co-developed at consortium level, will be followed by the implementation of 15 co-innovation labs with the engagement of the interested communities and societal partners; the learning across policy areas will be exploited to up-scale and deploy at large scale the solutions in the regions, developing robust policy and economic tools (regulations, funding schemes, business models, investment tools). Strategic objectives of the proposal are: 1. Co-design regional strategies to accelerate transformative adaptation, building upon and mainstreaming innovative, actionable NBS with demonstrated feasibility, effectiveness and social value 2. Assist and empower communities, public administrations and businesses 3. Stimulate collaborative knowledge building and transfer, developing capacities and capabilities 4. Promote coherence and exploit synergies, value and production chains, and public and private spheres of business innovation 5. Advance EU research & innovation agenda on NBS and EU Mission Adaptation.

GEMINI’s vision is to accelerate the progress towards climate neutrality by reinforcing a modal shift through the demonstration and uptake of new shared mobility services, active transport modes, and micromobility and their integration with public transport in new generation MaaS services. GEMINI will contribute to Inclusive, Safe, Resilient Transport and Smart Mobility services for passengers and goods in 4 areas: (i) Developing and testing sustainable business models for New Mobility Services (NMS), including shared connected automated vehicles and shared mobility public transport and public-private partnerships, to increase shared mobility (MaaS and MaaC) solutions for enterprises, families and tourists. (ii) Creating digital enablers to accommodate mobility services (collaboration platforms and multimodal MaaS solutions) (iii) Actively engaging stakeholders (co-creation) and integrating in NMS Social Innovation practices, towards incentivising behavioural shift and user acceptance. (iv) Creating policy recommendations to enable scale-up and replicability of the delivered results in the elaboration and implementation of SUMPs, urban mobility planning frameworks and contribute to the CIVITAS impact assessment framework. GEMINI will define, ideate, co-create, validate, amplify, and upscale five dimensions of innovation (Business, Social & Behavioural, Operational, Technology Enablers, and Governance & Policy Framework) for delivering safe, resilient, accessible, affordable, and sustainable shared mobility solutions and demonstrate them in 4 Mobility Living Labs (Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Munich, Turin) and 4 Twinning Cities (Helsinki, Paris, Porto, Ljubljana). The MLLs will stimulate improved access to public transport whilst introducing sustainable mobility business models in urban and peri-urban contexts, in turn leading changes in mobility patterns and behaviours, aimed at less car-centred urban mobility systems.

Background: In 2015 began a large migration process in large parts of the EU. Many countries and education systems were challenged, and had different ways of creating intercultural competence. The need for this became a most important educational perspective and was emphasized in international agreements by the UN, UNESCO and the Council. Two of the EU’s eight key competences is about this. All educational programs within the EU tells us that respect for the individual, diversity, openness and tolerance towards other cultures must be stated as major objectives and an ambition to live together with in our global, multicultural complex world. The need to exchange and share experiences is crucial on issues regarding the mapping of the student’s previous school experiences, learning processes based om previous school experience, the methodology of work and the guidance to inclusion. The project aimed to increase the knowledge of the participating countries, England, Belgium and Sweden.Objectives: ORGANIZATIONS WITH COMPETENCE TO EFFECTIVELY SUPPORT YOUNG NEWCOMERS TO BE INCLUDED IN EDUCATION OR TRAININGFour development objectives: To share our experience around the Mapping /screening process, Initial learning processes, Methodology/tools used and the Guidance provided. Participating organisations: The Local School Authority of Helsingborg with about 4000 employees and offers preschool, primary school, lower and upper secondary school and free-time arrangements to about 20 000 young children and students. The educational center is a supportive department of this Authority. In 2014 the Department got a mission to develop the mapping of newly arrived children and young people's previous school experiences. Kent County Council is a large local authority in the South East corner of England. It has responsibility for a number of public services such as education, transport, strategic planning, social services, public safety and waste disposal. With a staff workforce of nearly 20 000 people it is also one of the largest employers in the county.AGSO, Antwerp is the general service organizing the Community Education in the city of Antwerp.It consists of 5 big divisions and in total the AGSO has about 55 000 students and 6545 teachers and other employees. Antwerp is a city of 510 000 inhabitants and about 165 nationalities entailing all the complexities and challenges of diversity. GO! Brussels is responsible for providing community education in Dutch speaking Belgium on behalf of the Flemish community. GO! is one of the three main educational networks in Flanders. GO! provides education from nursery school, through compulsory school age through to adult education and including schools and provides curriculum development and teacher training for staff in its 773 schools for 27 000 members of staff serving 200 000 students.Description of activities: The project processed four themes as part of the action of bringing the newcomer into the school system of the receiving country. Starting with a transnational training event of one week, on to a project meeting, finally four local training and dissemination events, the themes were explored to find good practice in the ongoing work. During each training event each partner organized a mix of shadowing, discussion, filming of good practice, SWOT analysis, GLL reflection and report writing in the group. This report was brought back to the steering group to be used in the next project meeting and to be presented by one of the group members. The project meetings were built around theoretical input by researchers, reports from the transnational training event, input from the hosting partner on the current theme and lead to dialogue on what will be wise start doing or keep on doing in the ongoing work. The local training and dissemination events disseminated findings from the project meeting to a wider group of staff and stakeholders. Results and impact:1:Encourage the use of trans language and provide support in mother-tongue/strongest language in all learning and guidance processes. 2:Encourage the creation of multi-disciplinary teams around schools to support newcomers. 3:Encourage the exchange and the adaptation of existing methods and approaches on an EU-level via open licenses and networks.4:Encourage comprehensive and long-term guidance in order to improve learning pathways, integration and wellbeing of the newcomer.5:A methodological result. The concise planning of the different work phases presented in the description of activities was a factor of success for the project. Out of this the “Policy recommendations” brochure is created by the steering group. Long term benefits: When stakeholders and policymakers agree on the results presented in the “Policy recommendations”, and start organising work according to this, it will give young newcomers more opportunity to participate in inclusive education. It also will strengthen the teaching profession.

GREEN-LOG accelerates systemic changes in last mile delivery ecosystems for economically, environmentally and socially sustainable city logistics. The project establishes city platforms comprising of inclusive stakeholder Urban Living Labs for nurturing social innovation, designing and deploying innovative delivery solutions while allowing the most effective exchange of ideas, the development of robust, harmonized regulatory and policy frameworks, and cooperative business models that build upon effective public/private-sector collaboration and joint investments. The GREEN-LOG approach provides an innovative simulation environment for scenario building combining different solutions that allow the integration of last-mile delivery interventions with the highest possible impact on environmental sustainability and traffic reduction, while considering their financial viability. On the operational level, GREEN-LOG provides cargo-bike based innovations for sustainable micro-consolidation design and deployments, multimodal parcel deliveries integrating public transportation, Logistic as a Service platforms for interconnected city logistics and automated delivery concepts with the use of autonomous vehicles and delivery droids. The solutions are supported by interconnected city logistics dataspaces that feed dynamic services for proactive optimization of the ecosystem, respecting the interests of consumers, businesses and city stakeholders. The approach is deployed and validated in five cities and areas: Athens, Barcelona, Flanders, Oxfordshire and Ispra. Special focus is given on the transferability of the proposed innovation, starting from three follower cities with high interests in tailoring and replicating the GREEN-LOG solutions, and continuing with a pan-European outreach with intensive transfearability accelaration actions, setting the ground for the establishment of multiple city logistics Urban Living Labs.