Natural hazards, such as extreme weather events, are exacerbated by climate change. As a result, emergency responses are becoming more protracted, expensive, frequent, and stretching limited available resources. This is especially apparent in rapidly warming regions. MedEWSa addresses these challenges by providing novel solutions to ensure timely, precise, and actionable impact and finance forecasting, and early warning systems (EWS) that support the rapid deployment of first responders to vulnerable areas. Specifically, MedEWSa will deliver a sophisticated, comprehensive, and innovative pan-European–Mediterranean–African solution comprising a range of complementary services. Building on existing tools MedEWSa will develop a fully integrated impact-based multi-hazard EWS. This call contained five expected outcomes, all of which will be specifically addressed by MedEWSa. Led by WMO, MedEWSa will be an exemplar of the UN Secretary General’s March 2022 call to ensure that everyone on Earth is protected from extreme weather and climate-related hazards by EWS within the next five years. Through eight carefully selected pilot sites (areas in Europe, the southern Mediterranean, and Africa with a history of being impacted by natural hazards and extreme events with cascading effects), four twins will be created: ● Twin #1: Greece (Attica) – Ethiopia (National Parks): wildfires and extreme weather events (droughts, wind) ● Twin #2: Italy (Venice) – Egypt (Alexandria / Nile Delta): coastal floods and storm surges ● Twin #3: Slovakia (Kosice) – Georgia (Tbilisi): floods and landslides ● Twin #4: Spain (Catalonia) – Sweden (countrywide): heatwaves, droughts and wildfires. The twins will bridge areas with different climatic/physiographic conditions, yet subject to similar hazards, and are well positioned to deliver long-term bi-directional knowledge transfer. They will demonstrate the transferability and versatility of the tools developed in MedEWSa.

ShapeFuture will drive innovation in fundamental Electronic Components and Systems (ECS) that are essential for robust, powerful, fail-operational and integrated perception, cognition, AI-enabled decision making, resilient automation and computing, as well as communications, for highly automated vehicles. Its overarching vision is to bring ECS Innovation at the Heart of Europe's Mobility Transformation, thereby elevating Sovereignty by Perfecting Programmable ECS Solutions for Intelligent, Safe, Connected, and Highly Automated Vehicles. The project will result in the following main tangible outcomes: • Safety, security and reliability of in-vehicle systems to levels appropriate for mass-market deployment. • Availability and supply of leading-edge ECS for the European automotive supply chain and for OEMs to be at the forefront of technology developments in the 2030s. • Increased Accuracy and Robustness of ECS for perception with smaller form factors and lower power consumption. • ECS attributed with cognition features and improved human-Machine Interface (HMI). • ECS with cognitive processing and decision-making capabilities. • ECS for resilient automation and communications. • Increased technology acceptance that will also lead to business sovereignty safeguard. 15 demonstrators and 2 impact studies will showcase the project’s achievements and their capability to deliver innovations and secure future application advances in core markets for European society – Mobility, Green Deal, Digital Society, Safety and Industry. The project innovations will leverage the expertise of world-renowned industrial (5 OEMs, 24 Tier-1, Tier-2 and technology providers) and 12 research partners along the complete automotive and semiconductor value chains, providing Europe with a competitive edge in a growing market. Importantly, ShapeFuture will contribute to ensuring European ECS Sovereignty by shaping the future of ECS in mobility.

AVALANCHE Vision: While technological solutions for investigations and global cooperation do exist, they are mostly fragmented and myopic focusing on providing very narrow and isolated functions within their own boundaries without ensuring interoperability and international cooperation. To alleviate the limitations of existing solutions, AVALANCHE aims to make transformative steps towards the development of a highly innovative, holistic, multi-disciplinary, high-tech, and versatile solution for significantly increasing/broadening the operational capabilities of LEAs in their struggle to detect, analyse, track, investigate and prevent cross-border illicit activities of high-risk criminal networks, migrant smuggling, firearms, drugs, child exploitation, terrorism, cyber and intellectual property crime coordinated through the digital world. Building on Pillars I and II, the AVALANCHE platform will offer tools for semi-automatic collection of evidence to foster explainable investigations and reasoning through intelligence-led methods and contextual-aware gleaning of actions. Also, building on Pillar III, the AVALANCHE platform will provide interoperable systems and interconnection with national and international databases through common standards, data and schemas alignment, and mediation to foster information exchange and international cooperation. To guarantee the wide SMEs solutions adoption by the actual practitioners, AVALANCHE will produce training curricula, benchmark with Europol’s Innovation Lab, contribute to LEAs operational standards and establish a broad ecosystem of crime-relevant stakeholders, and complement its objectives by continuously receiving guidance from the EU Policy Instrument (EMPACT). Finally, AVALANCHE will validate the integrated platform through a demonstration in diverse business scenarios of HP that cover key operational domains (from cross-border illicit activities to antisemitism, and more) with notable societal and market impact.

<< Objectives >>The main aim is to empower current and aspiring artists (with a focus on women and on those from vulnerable groups such as migrants/refugees, long term unemployed, LGBTQI, people with disabilities, etc), through the development of their digital skills and competences, towards facilitating their access to the labour market and fostering their resilience in a digitally transformed post-COVID-19 cultural ecosystem<< Implementation >>Mapping activities and direct consultations with the target groups for further specifying learning needsDevelopment of a Capacity Building methodologyDevelopment of an online course targeted at artists on digital skillsA Train the Trainers activity for adult educatorsMentoring scheme: including guidelines and reports on the progress of the beneficiariesSix national workshopsOne virtual ExhibitionOnline awareness raising campaign Five national Info daysOne international Conference<< Results >>a)A transferable Capacity Building methodology including blended and collaborative learning approachesb)The Artists Go Digital: Aspire to Inspire Handbook with best practices and case studiesc)A tailored, open access online course with multimedia material on developing the digital skills of current and aspiring artistsd)Six national workshops to 120 artists in totale)A mentoring scheme for vulnerable artistsf)A virtual exhibition with at least 30 represented artists from six countries

The healthcare industry is plagued by a myriad of cybersecurity-related issues posing new challenges in the Healthcare Sector. In an increasingly data-driven world, cyber security is no longer just a concern for experts. During the last 24 months, Europe came across an unprecedented number of cyber-attacks in terms of their global scale, impact on business sector and rate of spread.Characteristically, the May’s 2017 attack in England’s National Health Service (NHS) demonstrated in the most flashing way the vulnerabilities of information systems (IS) in any possible way. Healthcare organizations are some of the most-trusted entities holding the most sensitive information about patients: name, date and place of birth, medical records, social security details. Suffering from many flaws (low budget, lack of IT organization, excessive use of legacy systems), healthcare actors have become easy targets for hackers, facing more and more pressure and threats from them.The nature of the healthcare industry’s mission poses unique challenges since cyber-attacks can have ramifications beyond financial loss and breach of privacy.The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016/679 which will be directly applicable in all member states by 25 May 2018 requires for healthcare organizations to re-think about their data flows and how they handle and monitor patient data to make sure they are in compliance with the regulation.At the same time, the expected massive growth of data protection jobs redrives new skills, knowledge and competences from Healthcare employees. As a result, Healthcare Sector is facing the risk of rising skills mismatch between data protection officers/employees across European countries with different occupational profile on skills and competences and most importantly, different level of legislation/integration on data protection.Our proposed Project aims at empowering the major actors with employees that are going to fill the gap and the identified skills mismatch through:•Developing enhanced regional and cross-regional partnerships to ensure that a sufficient number of healthcare employees and learners receive the right training / education based on current needs•Connecting educational and vocational training with healthcare industry and organisations in a more systematic and coherent way•Developing an environment that is going to foster employability of employees in the healthcare sector, providing adequate tools that will better their working conditions and the quality of services provided•Improving comparability and transfer of skills and competences focusing on-line training of current healthcare employees based on a blended approach, while introducing innovative education/ training initiatives•Raising awareness and improving the knowledge on patients’ data privacy protection as well as providing concrete information on rising legal aspects Concise description of the results and/or products expected:-A renewed Occupational Profile for DPOs accompanied by a new Skills Chart-A DPO VET Curriculum accompanied by a Peer Mentoring Scheme-An Awareness raising Curriculum on Data Protection for current and future employees-Data Protection and GDPR Learning Resources for learners and wider audiences-On line Peer Mentoring Toolbox-Development of effective feedback loops to enhance peer mentoringOur partnership has formed a coherent strategy to reach:•Stakeholders: Health associations, health/pharmaceutical industry, VET providers, independent data protection authorities Chamber Unions•End users: DPOs, Information security experts, lawyers of Bars Associations, current and future employees in the Healthcare sector, learners & trainers making use of the learning and training resources developedThe impact envisaged:SecureHealth is going to achieve an important Social and Financial Impact, specifically:1.For Stakeholders:•Strengthened interoperability network across employers and employees•Employers and social partners will maintain an important role in shaping DPOs VET provision•Industry-ready workforce meeting labour market needs•Increased confidence and mutual trust for Data Protection•Increased visibility of outputs through open multifarious dissemination channels2.End users: current and future employees in Data Protection:•Better employability chances•Transparent joint qualifications and trasferrable skills through a viable Certification Scheme•Enhanced competitiveness for the data protection field•Exchange of good practices through trans-regional mobility and advanced peer mentoring schemes•Harmonised but not homogenised learning-outcome based and teaching approach across the five countriesFinally, it must be underlined that within the project, special focus will be given in the management and accessibility of personal data in the context of outbreaks (such as the current COVID19 pandemics), following the European Data Protection Board's statement in March 2020.