SEISMEC will demonstrate an empowered, human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies in 17 pilots in 19 companies from 14 countries across 14 industrial ecosystems. It will do so through a two-way engagement in the development of technologies, empowering end-users and workers, and supporting social innovation, in a process labelled the SEISMEC shift. It will contribute to increased inclusiveness, by supporting a human-centred approach to technology development that is aligned with European social and ethical values (including gender and intersectional aspects). The benefits of human centrism will be measured in Creativity, Collaboration, Autonomy, Automation, Productivity, Privacy, Safety and job Satisfaction, the CAPS empowerment factors for human-centrism. SEIMSECs two-way engagement introduces technical innovations such as explainability, co-development, feedback methods and interfaces to enhance human centrism, but also incorporates plans, needs and innovations from companies and their workers steering them towards an empowered human-centric Industry 5.0 path. The consortium brings together institutions at the forefront of engineering, computer science, networking and exploitation, coordinated by a world-leading social sciences and humanities university, and building up on groundbreaking European projects on industrial innovation. SEISMEC pilots are representative of all sectors and company sizes, and most European countries and worker roles. Every industrial enterprise in Europe will be able to see some aspect of their activity reflected in SEISMECs pilots and will be able to learn from the project’s outputs through an active campaign of cross-sector empowerment practices exchange. With a strong engagement of European, national and local stakeholders, SEISMEC is landmark effort in European industry’s shift to empowerment and human-centrism, one that puts the worker and European Values at the core of its global competitiveness

The objective of the INNO GREEN is to boost joint collaboration between the innovation support agencies through peer learning, raise their competences in offering practical and innovative tools as a support to SMEs in innovative “green” entrepreneurship. The “Twinning advanced” methodology will be used as a basis for development of joint learning process between the project partners and increase of their competences in provision of efficient support to SMEs in “green” entrepreneurship. This project will focus to upgrade existing competences and practices of innovation support agencies and develop innovative coaching/mentoring or other kinds of suitable programs in support of SMEs on their path to generation and development of green jobs. The special attention of the project will be focused to implementation of the pilot actions on green entrepreneurship in order to test the programs prepared: assessment of green jobs potential, interviews of SMEs, bottom-up work with “green” entrepreneurs, workshops, knowledge exchange, adaptation to local context and transfer of practical knowledge from one region to another, coaching/mentoring for specific skills related to “green” employment. The final result of the project will be the Design Option Paper (DOP) to serve as a practical guide for design and implementing of coaching/mentoring for SMEs on green entrepreneurship. The DOP will address the development of an innovative program to support SMEs on their path to generation of “green” jobs.

PLUS Change brings together 23 institutions from across Europe including 5 Universities, 5 research institutes, 3 stakeholder network organisations, 1 performing arts collective, and 9 practice partners representing regional planning and land management authorities and organisations. The objectives directly address the call with an aim to create land use strategies and decision-making processes that meet climate, biodiversity and human well-being objectives of sustainability, and to develop interventions that leverage political, economic, societal, material and cultural contexts to achieve these strategies, by involving actors at multiple decision-making levels (individual, land management, planning, policy). Activities include land use modelling (including historical and future trajectories of change), systems mapping, causal loop diagrams, performing arts approaches, randomized controlled trials of behaviour change, sociological surveys, and policy and governance reviews. All activities brought together in an integrated research design that draws on their different contributions to a holistic approach to understand multi-scale land use systems across a diversity of socioeconomic and biogeographical contexts, and create usable tools for land managers, users, planners and policy makers. The project is anchored in, and integrated through, 11 location-based cases for co-creation, and in a high-level multiplier cluster to identify challenges and impacts at EU and Global levels. Outputs include recommendations of co-designed and tested interventions to unlock behavioural, structural and procedural changes to achieve identified land use strategies; and a toolkit to support land use planners in enacting these interventions, including knowledge training, a planning dashboard and simulation tools, and methods for engaging citizens and land managers in behaviour change.

"The BIC for SME project builds on the previously completed project, the POWER2INNO (Horizon 2020, 2016-2017), which included peer learning activities between three innovation agencies, directed to raising their competences for empowerment of small and micro companies’ for innovative entrepreneurship. The POWER2INNO project produced knowledge on building a regional system for enhancement of innovation with small and micro companies, one of the key elements being training and education for entrepreneurs. However, the limitations of the POWER2INNO project prevented the partners from preparing concrete usable learning tools for such education. The Erasmus+ programme provided a perfect opportunity to address this. The main objective of the BIC for SME project was to upgrade the POWER2INNO project results by providing concrete tools for the education and training of entrepreneurs for innovative entrepreneurship, training of educational staff of the participating organizations and pilot training for selected individual entrepreneurs. All of these were delivered and in this way, the BIC for SME project contributes to quality improvements of C-VET programs in the area of innovation and entrepreneurship, to innovation excellence of small and micro entrepreneurs as well as to internationalization at the level of participating organizations, through enhanced transnational cooperation between different training providers. Thus, the project: • Contributes to improving the quality and access to vocational education and training in the area of small and micro innovation entrepreneurship; • Contributes to improving knowledge and skills of employees in relevant consulting and training organizations; • Contributes to improving the employability and professional success of learners interested in this subject. Points which were validated from feedback of participants during piloting and dissemination events.BIC for SME has helped to reduce the gap between market demand (people seeking training for small and micro entrepreneurship) and training system supply, which is currently predominantly oriented towards small and middle-sized enterprises / entrepreneurship. This has been addressed as follows: • Development of training program for ""BIC for SME"" for trainers; • Development of training program for small and micro entrepreneurs interested in boosting their innovation activity; • Development of relevant learning materials. The project included five competent partners from five different countries: lead by the WESTBIC, an innovation agency from Ireland, there are also the RDA Green Karst, Centre for Innovation and Development from Slovenia, BIC Euronova from Spain, Tecnopolis technology park from Italy and the EFMD international network which operates actively in the area of training and education in a wide area of EU and beyond. All partners have experience in Erasmus+ as well as other EU-supported programs, such as transnational programs, HORIZON 2020, COSME, FP7 etc., and this experience was vital in helping to guide the BIC for SME project through the challenges posed by Covid 19. All partners are also experienced in entrepreneurial training and other services. They participate in several professional networks and have the potential to ensure the widespread use of the project's result, in accordance with the dissemination plan which was also developed during the project, along with other management and coordination tools, through which successful and quality implementation took place.Some key outcomes to note (and which will be further addressed post project completion) are:BIC Euronova signed an agreement with Fundación Andalucía Emprende (a public regional institution dealing with entrepreneurs and start-ups in the Andalucía region (8 million inhabitants), comprising almost 1000 consultants / mentors, 263 centres, and almost 15,000 entrepreneurs / start-ups), to collaborated on testing of training material and to adapting the BIC for SME tools and materials as a standard for their daily work.In Ireland, WestBIC are to have follow up discussions with Dr. Brían Ó Donnchadha, at the Centre for Adult Learning and Professional Development, on the possible use of the BIC for SME outputs while follow-up discussion is also to happen with GMIT Letterfrack on possible use of the outputs as part of the Enterprise Development module on the Furniture Design and Furniture and Wood Technology programmes. Galway Technology Centre will also consider the Diagnostic Tool as a client management tool.Beyond a European context, EFMD will use the modules in short online trainings called Cápsulas de gestion. The trainings cover various aspects of management aiming to develop entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity in Cuban universities accompanying the modernisation of the Cuban economy. This will act as a model for EFMD to implement a similar format of the programme in other European countries."

Problem to solve: Considerable number of innovation support programmes were developed in the EU that tackled SME (for example SME Instrument, COSME…), however very few programmes and methodologies were developed for specific challenges that face small and micro companies (SMC). This fact is especially relevant for all three project partners’ regions, which have all well over national averages of micro and small companies: 93,7 % in Primorsko-notranjska region (Slovenia), more that 95% in Puglia region (Italy) and 96,4% in Malaga region (Spain). Micro and small companies (much more than middle and large sized companies) are critically bound to the traditional ways of doing business and lack competences needed for modern successful innovative entrepreneurship. One of the reasons for that is also lack of competences and available methodologies of innovation support agencies to tackle this specific problem. General objective of the project: The general objective of the project is to engage in peer learning activities between three project partners to raise our competences for empowerment of small and micro companies’ for innovative entrepreneurship - for transition from production-oriented mentality to scouting for opportunities on global market and creating value for customers. In addition to that, we will disseminate project results across EU. Specific objectives for the project: - Transfer from traditional “I offer what I do” to advanced scouting of “opportunity on the market” - Bottom-up work with entrepreneurs, methodologies for ideas creation, innovation management Inclusion of partners for realisation of ideas, value added chain, micro clustering - Lean approach, market feed-back and use of IT tools - Advanced financial instruments - Internationalisation of business - Implementation of three pilot projects - Preparation of best practice materials and spill-over effects