ROSIN will create a step change in the availability of high-quality intelligent robot software components for the European industry. This is achieved by building on the existing open-source “Robot Operating System” (ROS) framework and leveraging its worldwide community. ROS and its subsidiary ROS-Industrial (European side led by TU Delft and Fraunhofer) is well-known, but its European industrial potential is underestimated. The two main critiques are (1) is the quality on par with industry, and (2) is there enough European industrial interest to justify investing in it? Partially, the answer is “yes and yes”; ample industrial installations are already operational. Partially however, the two questions hold each other in deadlock, because further quality improvement requires industrial investment and vice versa. ROSIN will resolve the deadlock and put Europe in a leading position. For software quality, ROSIN introduces a breakthrough innovation in automated code quality testing led by IT University Copenhagen, complemented with a full palette of quality assurance measures including novel model-in-the-loop continuous integration testing with ABB robots. Simultaneously, more ROS-Industrial tools and components will be created by making 50% of the ROSIN budget available to collaborating European industrial users and developers for so-called Focused Technical Projects. ROSIN maximizes budget efficacy by alleviating yet another deadlock; experience shows that industry will fund ROS-Industrial developments, but only after successful delivery. ROSIN provides pre-financing for developers which will be recovered into a future revolving fund to perpetuate the mechanism. Together with broad education activities (open for any EU party) led by Fachhochshule Aachen and community-building activities led by Fraunhofer, ROSIN will let ROS-Industrial reach critical mass with further self-propelled growth resulting in a widely adopted, high-quality, open-source industrial standard.

The Directional Composites through Manufacturing Innovation (DiCoMI) project aims to bring together leading innovatorsfrom across Europe, and beyond, to develop a new method of producing composite material parts with optimised fibredirectionality. The DiCoMI project will integrate advanced manufacturing techniques, composite materials science, and manufacturing system design. As such, it requires a high level of inter-disciplinary cooperation as well as collaborationbetween researchers and industrials. The outcome will be a truly novel composites manufacturing system capable of producing parts with increased accuracy, reduced cost and enhanced functionality. DiCoMI project will focus on Directional Fibre-Reinforced Polymers (FRP) materials and combined different manufacturing techniques into a unique and innovative hybrid system. DiCoMI project will have a direct impact on the European and international scientific state of the art in the fields of composite materials and manufacturing equipment, while supporting the innovation potential in the automotive and aerospace industries.

This strategic partnership educational program presented in this document is established between European Universities, National Regulatory Bodies and Research Institutes. Its content fully complies with requirements of modern educational structures, in the field of radiation protection. In our proposal, the access to learning materials for a large group of student and professionals is made easier through the use of e-learning systems. The program is focused on students from partner – or other European – Universities, as well as on employed professionals (such as members of Regulatory Bodies, hospital employees, firms and research centers), concerned by ionizing radiations and willing to improve their skills or to restore their knowledge in the field of radiation protection. The program consists in 6 intensive courses, and 6 modules on e-learning. The content of each course has been carefully selected. The preparation of educational programs and their later implementation is planned to be a joint effort of all partners. To this end, several working meetings including all European potential partners have already been organized with the purpose of performing an overview of the comprehensive situation in teaching and training radiation protection programs. These meetings have been organized in Mol (Belgium, 17th of February 2014), in Hasselt (Belgium, 25th of February 2014), in Bologna (Italy, 8th of April 2014) and in Thessaloniki (Greece, 27th of May 2014). Another meeting in foreseen in Prague (Czech Republic, 1th of April 2015)An important part of the project is related to the harmonization of training and teaching programs in different European countries, with the perspective of developing the skills defined in the directive 2013/59/EURATOM (5th of December 2013). These activities aim at ensuring a sustainable development of competences for technological key fields for the future, e.g. nuclear energy (including decommissioning and waste management), health (nuclear medicine, radiation therapy), etc. The first year of the project solution will be mainly dedicated to the preparation of the 24 ECTS program, as well as to the promotion of the program in different Institutions. The program will be divided into three types of teaching activities, plus an internship. The teaching activities will be split in distance learning modules, advanced courses and practical training. The distance learning will be proposed for basic knowledge modules. The expected impact of the strategic partnership will propose many significant improvements for students: improving the knowledge in nuclear physics, in nuclear chemistry and in radiation protection; improving the range of knowledge in the field of study through discussions with teachers and researchers from different parts of Europe; improving independence in making decision; improving skills from own results presentation in an international group of students; improving skills to stand up for personal opinion; improving experimental skills by using new devices and data processing; creating new friendships with the students from different European countries – new personal contacts for future collaboration; improving students language skills, etc. The teachers will have the opportunity to participate in experiments, which are often not possible in the standard organization of their own universities. They can also have the possibility to exchange informations about study programs in different European universities in the field of nuclear engineering, which are the basic step for inter-universities study training.

The overall aim of the AMaTUC project is to boost the scientific excellence and innovation capacity in additive manufacturing of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (TUCN) and its high-quality Twinning partners for the benefit of the automotive industry and personalised products markets. To achieve this aim, the 3 year project will build upon the existing strong research and innovation base of TUCN and its twinning partners Loughborough University (LbU), FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences (ACUAS) and Intelligentsia Consultants (Intelligentsia). The AMaTUC project aims to boost TUCN and twinning partners' scientific excellence and innovation capacity in additive manufacturing, as well as implementing a research and innovation strategy focused on three sub-topics: 1. Improve existing AM technologies, 2. Integrate the AM technologies with suitable Rapid Tooling methods, and 3. Design for competitive manufacturing of personalised products and computer planning (CAE-FEM) analysis and simulation The research and innovation strategy takes into account the recent SWOT analysis of TUCN as well as the national Romanian research priorities and Smart Specialisation Strategy. The specific objectives of the AMaTUC project are presented below: • Objective 1: Strengthen TUCN’s research excellence in AM • Objective 2: Enhance the research and innovation capacity of TUCN and Twinning partners • Objective 3: Raise the research profile of TUCN and the Twinning Partners • Objective 4: Contribute to the research and innovation priorities of Romania • Objective 5: Support research and innovation on a European level

"<< Background >>The reasons to plan the project rise from the three United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals: 8 Decent work and Economic Growth, 12 Responsible Consumption and 13 Climate ChangeClimate change is an unprecedented threat happening right now on our planet and it has an ongoing impact on all of us. Climate change is being listed asone of the many important Sustainable Development Goals of the UN: “take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts”. Fortunately, people are paying more attention to behave in a an environmentally friendly way as well as making choices that promote sustainability. However, all the undertakings are still rather fragmented. There is a LACK ofunderstanding how to change business strategy to act with a positive impact and sustainable manner. According to The World Economic Forum’s annual Global Risk reports, the most significant risk facing businesses is the FAILURE to ADAPT to CLIMATE CHANGE. With this project we are addressing the needs of companies and entrepreneurs, that lack easily accessible information, knowledge and methods to make their business sustainable. We also address the needs of students and future work force as well as that of higher education institutions to learn and strengthen their knowledge of the environmentally friendly ways to do business. Our project aims to offer one particular solution and bring a contribution to the global movement to save our planet. ENTREPRENEURS and businesses are functioning as ENGINES of the societies, meaning that if they start to think and act greener, they will have a huge impact on the societal level.Turning into a green company means developing attitude towards sustainability, finding new ways to operate. It is a process that includes many steps, challenges and changes, even a shift of the whole business value perspective towards sustainable thinking. However, there is a lack of actual competence and skills. Plenty of businesses struggle with the process of identifying their own means of adapting, preparing and becoming more resilient to climate change. There is a lack of easy accessible guiding material, education and training on what actually needs to be done, what are necessary steps in the shift towards sustainable operations, how to innovate the business model towards “green” acting.<< Objectives >>The project aims to strengthen the knowledge, understanding and importance of environmental and sustainable issues in business. The knowledge and understanding will be improved among entrepreneurs, students, teachers and other workers in organisations. The most important target groups are the entrepreneurs, that lack easily applicable methods to exercise business in sustainable and environmentally friendly way.Overall objective of the project is to increase know-how of entrepreneurs (current and future), to become more resilient to climate change with the competence to create new business models aiming at positive environmental impact. Specific objective of the project is to create a modern up-to-date knowledge base and digital learning material for education that would enhance entrepreneurial thinking and action towards environmental consciousness and sustainability taking into consideration climate change. This is done by developing digital handbook on Sustainable Entrepreneurship for Climate Action. DIGITAL HANDBOOK IS METHODOLOGY, STEP BY STEP GUIDANCE ON HOW TO INNOVATE BUSINESS MODELS FOR CLIMATE SPECIFIC ADAPTATION STRATEGY.The project defines three particular target groups: 1. Target group directly benefiting during the project – LEARNERS(aspiring entrepreneurs, students) and EDUCATORS(university teachers/entrepreneurship coaches) 2. Project beneficiaries will benefit from the outputs and results of the project in a long run – entrepreneurs globally, businesses invarious industries, local and regional authorities, education institutions globally. 3. Other Stakeholders, having a stake or an interest in the project results and may gain during theproject via dissemination activities or after the project due to the sustainability of results –global business communities, NGOs, governments, policy makers, volunteers, communities.<< Implementation >>The implementation of the project will be done by five work packages. Tasks in the work packages are divided by participating organisations and an organisation will take lead of one work package always. In WP 1 called the Supportive research on Sustainable Business Practices, applied research will be carried out by the participating organisations. WP 2 Development of Digital Handbook on Sustainable Entrepreneurship for Climate Action and learning activities for piloting the handbook in learning setting, includes activities through which the Digital handbook is developed and later distributed to users. WP 3 is called Development of Digital material platform and it includes for example the production of video materialssupporting digital handbook, platform and social media on sustainable and climate change aware business. WP 4 concentrates on dissemination of project activities and results and WP 5 consists of Project Management. The project implementation includes four multiplier events by which the result of the first work package on Sustainable Business Practices are disseminated. Fourth and final multiplier event concludes the dissemination of project results.The project includes two activities belonging to the category of Learning, Teaching, Training Activities. The first, Training for teachers and trainers implementing piloting of the digital handbook will be a short-term joint staff training event. Its goal and purpose is to improve the know-how of educators on sustainable entrepreneurship training methodologies and increase knowledge on climate change issues and how to integrate it with business model innovation. Target group is educators. The second, Digital Handbook piloting with the target group will be an intensive programme for higher education learners. Participants will be eight selected students who are aspiring entrepreneurs from different academic disciplines of all three partner universities and two selected companies (one representative of each company) for Digital Handbook piloting. In the event student teams and entrepreneurs defend their business ideas for sustainable entrepreneurship start-up. The goal is that students know the basic approach in defining the source of innovation for entrepreneurship work in the context of climate change challenges and how these challenges turn into opportunities for creating an innovative business model and business idea.<< Results >>Key results at the project level are increased ""green"" entrepreneurial and sustainable business skills of learners, improved training competence of educators and new training methodology via OUTPUTS, multiplier events and learning events. 1. Supportive research on Sustainable Business Practices - increased knowledge on good sustainable business practices, business model innovation via mapping activity and research that will serve as a reference for handbook2. Digital Handbook on Sustainable Entrepreneurship for Climate Action - digital free access open source educational material and methodology3. Entrepreneurship for Climate Action Digital learning module platform and Social media – increased access to digital material collection, Vlogs and dissemination, thus increasedknowledge and competence by users4. Digital Learning Video Material – Vlog materials supporting digital handbook for engaging learning5. Seminar in Finland, Latvia and Germany to disseminate results of the study on ""Sustainable business practices""6. Training for teachers and trainers implementing piloting of the digital handbook - improved competence and available efficient digital education tool-set7. Handbook piloting with the project target group - increased knowledge, “green” competence of participants and more innovative business ideas and possible new businesses in the region, gained ECTS by students8. Concluding Conference to disseminate project results – more than 250 people raised the awareness on the issue of the project topicThe digital handbook will be based on the guidelines and the following points describe the draft content for the core of the handbook. The guidelines will provide the ""how to do it in practice"" -approach emphasising core subjects on how to develop Green Skills and SDGs competence applied in entrepreneurship; how to discover an innovative opportunity for green business, from problem to solution; how to make Green Value creation through innovation process; how to apply Business Model Innovation for climate-smart action; how to find Eco and SDGs inclusive business ideas delivering market-based solutions and how to carry out climate action based project from start to finish."