<< Background >>The European project ATHIKA (Advanced Training in Health Innovation Knowledge Alliance) was born with the purpose of bringing a humanistic approach to the engineering education while addressing the most important new research in the world of AI and IoT linked to Healthcare. It has been achieved by building a set of advanced training programs for students, involving academia, health public administration, SMEs, startups and entrepreneurs, and health business consultants.<< Objectives >>ATHIKA project has successfully achieved the objectives by developing a KA through the cooperation and involvement of the HEIs, SMEs and Industry of the KA with the final result of an international multidisciplinary free-access online eHealth course for all backgrounds that provides the tools (key digital competences, job-specific skills, ethical awareness, innovative pedagogies, cutting-edge knowledge, Challenge Based Learning) to face eHealth challenges(from technical and business perspective)<< Implementation >>The ATHIKA project designed the ATHIKA Framework for the eHealth Challenge identification and Scenario Planning, the companies designed their challenges using it. In parallel, the HEIs prepared the ATHIKA course platform, focusing on a common part (eHealth sector and Fundamentals) and on a specific part for IoT, AI&Ml and Gov&ethics has been developed. After deploying the course, a workshop, competition and mobility was hosted. A refinement has been applied following the students' feedback.<< Results >>- ATHIKA framework (Health and Smart City Ecosystem Framework)- ATHIKA course (Unit 1-eHealth; Unit 2-Fundamentals; Unit 3-IoT; Unit3-AI Unit3-Governance&Ethics). More than >180 international students involved- ATHIKA IoT Lite (>300 undergraduate students involved)- ATHIKA competitions (>70 students participated; 12 students won)- ATHIKA Mobility (9 students travelled to the companies of the project)

ACTIVAGE is a European Multi Centric Large Scale Pilot on Smart Living Environments. The main objective is to build the first European IoT ecosystem across 9 Deployment Sites (DS) in seven European countries, reusing and scaling up underlying open and proprietary IoT platforms, technologies and standards, and integrating new interfaces needed to provide interoperability across these heterogeneous platforms, that will enable the deployment and operation at large scale of Active & Healthy Ageing IoT based solutions and services, supporting and extending the independent living of older adults in their living environments, and responding to real needs of caregivers, service providers and public authorities. The project will deliver the ACTIVAGE IoT Ecosystem Suite (AIOTES), a set of Techniques, Tools and Methodologies for interoperability at different layers between heterogeneous IoT Platforms and an Open Framework for providing Semantic Interoperability of IoT Platforms for AHA, addressing trustworthiness, privacy, data protection and security. User-demand driven interoperable IoT-enabled Active & Healthy Ageing solutions will be deployed on top of the AIOTES in every DS, enhancing and scaling up existing services, for the promotion of independent living, the mitigation of frailty, and preservation of quality of life and autonomy. ACTIVAGE will assess the socio-economic impact, the benefits of IoT-based smart living environments in the quality of life and autonomy, and in the sustainability of the health and social care systems, demonstrating the seamless capacity of integration and interoperability of the IoT ecosystem, and validating new business, financial and organizational models for care delivery, ensuring the sustainability after the project end, and disseminating these results to a worldwide audience. The consortium comprises industries, research centres, SMEs, service providers, public authorities encompassing the whole value chain in every Deployment Site.