ROCK aims to develop an innovative, collaborative and circular systemic approach for regeneration and adaptive reuse of historic city centres. Implementing a repertoire of successful heritage-led regeneration initiatives, it will test the replicability of the spatial approach and of successful models addressing the specific needs of historic city centres. ROCK will transfer the Role Models blueprint to the Replicators, adopting a cross-disciplinary mentoring process and defining common protocols and implementation guidelines. ROCK will deliver new ways to access and experience Cultural Heritage [CH] ensuring environmental sound solutions, city branding, bottom-up participation via living labs, while increasing liveability and safety in the involved areas. ICT sensors and tools will support the concrete application of the ROCK principles and the interoperable platform will enable new ways to collect and exchange data to facilitate networking and synergies. The added value is the combination of sustainable models, integrated management plans and associated funding mechanisms based on successful financial schemes and promoting the creation of industry-driven stakeholders’ ecosystems. A monitoring tool is set up from the beginning, running during two additional years after the project lifetime. Main expected impacts deal with the achievement of effective and shared policies able to: accelerate heritage led regeneration, improve accessibility and social cohesion, increase awareness and participation in local decision making process and wider civic engagement, foster businesses and new employment opportunities. Involving 10 cities, 7 Universities, 3 networks of enterprises, 2 networks of cities and several companies and development agencies, a foundation and a charity, ROCK is able to catalyse challenges and innovative pathways across EU and beyond, addressing CH as a production and competitiveness factor and a driver for sustainable growth.

The partners of the e-PPR project (www.e-ppr.eu) carried out a transnational study between Oct-17 and Jan-18 to identify teachers and students’ needs regarding training on response to the emergencies most likely to occur in schools. In total, 677 school teachers from six EU countries (Denmark, Estonia, Romania, United Kingdom, Spain and Lithuania) participated in this study. Results showed that 22.36% of the teachers and 33.37% of the students have not been trained at all. For 41.46% of the teachers and 47.19% of the students who were trained, the training was 'not enough' because it was limited to evacuation in case of fire (87.75% teachers, 94.18% students) and it was too short (less than 3 hours for 62.53% of the teachers, and less than 1 hour for 58.43% of the students). The emergency areas where more training was demanded were: first aid, fire, terrorist threat, earthquake and toxic cloud.In this context, in order to respond to the identified training needs of primary and secondary school teachers and students across the EU, the objective of the project was to develop the first e-learning platform for primary and secondary school teachers and students on how to respond to the emergencies most likely to occur in EU schools.The e-learning platform is accessible from computers, tablets and smartphones in 5 languages (English, Danish, Spanish, Estonian and Lithuanian) at www.schoolemergency.eu and it has the following sections:E-LEARNING for school teachers on how to respond to the emergencies most likely to occur in EU schools.TOOLKITS for school teachers with ready materials for lessons connected to the emergencies most likely to occur in EU schools.EVALUATION TOOLS to assess the learning and get feedback from the students.ONLINE FORUM AND SOCIAL NETWORKS so teachers across the EU can share their experiences and support each other.Once the first development of the e-learning platform was completed, it was tested by the three partners from the sector of school education, and a Danish school as an associated partner: 15 teachers and 271 students in total participated in the testing. Based on the testers’ feedback, the project partners implemented additional improvements before the final publication of the School Emergency e-learning platform. Beyond the partners, the content of the e-learning platform has the potential to be exploited by a wide range of organisations and individuals. Thanks to its deployment as an OER under the Creative Commons license 'Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)', anyone is allowed to, not only use it, but also to modify it. Therefore, the content of the e-learning platform will serve as the impulsion for future innovations and developments in the sector of school education across the EU.This cross-sectoral and cross-border partnership is an initiative of Frederiksborg Fire and Rescue Service (Denmark) in collaboration with Alcala de Guadaira Fire and Rescue Service (Spain), Estonian Rescue Board (Estonia), Vilnius Division of Civil Protection (Lithuania), Vilniaus 'Genio' school (Lithuania), Gaia school (Estonia), and the high school Profesor Tierno Galván (Spain). The School Emergency project is co-funded by the Erasmus + Programme of the European Union.

Climate change is a human problem, caused by humans, affecting humans, and requiring a human-centric solution. CAMPAIGNers aims to make low-carbon lifestyles a major part of the solution by identifying lifestyle transformation potential, and associated barriers and enablers across 5 continents and 16 major cities with over 20 mil. residents. Feasible pathways to GHG mitigation are developed to include the empirically validated lifestyle changes, and are applied to the principal integrated modelling tools used in the EU to provide robust insights into the system-level impacts of large-scale lifestyle transformation. CAMPAIGNers builds on previous consortium-led projects that substantially improved the understanding of societal structures and interventions that encourage lifestyle shifts, and identified limitations to the existing evidence-base. Namely, current lifestyle transformation research is either limited to narrow, specific contexts or groups, or deals in hypothetical behaviours where most citizens do not have real experiences to draw on. CAMPAIGNers’ ground-breaking approach overcomes these drawbacks by implementing a ‘goal-setting network’, where over 100,000 citizens receive and create challenges to try out tailored adaptations to their daily routines via an engaging app. Their responses to these challenges, associated treatments, and short questionnaires will deliver unprecedented data of behavioural processes, (local) barriers to change, and motivators, allowing for empirically-based scientific support of cities in crafting policies to encourage low-carbon lifestyles. Together with local, national and EU policy makers insights are analysed regarding the ‘right-level-to-act’ and policy-ready recommendations are jointly derived. A workshop in the EU Parliament, hosted by First-Vice President Ms. McGuinness, and supported by 9 more MEPs from 6 countries and 4 political parties, will ensure high-level feedback and contribute to consensus building.

The International Monetary Fund expects the global economy in 2020 to suffer its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Pope Francis has said the fight against COVID-19 is now considered to be the most important in the world at this age. The broader objective of the project – to upgrade the curricula with 3 new harmonized multidisciplinary, personalized MOOC modules on minimizing the influence of coronavirus and negative emotions in a built environment by applying behavior change (MICROBE) to increase cooperation for innovation and strategic partnerships for higher education, enhance the quality and relevance of knowledge of students to the global market needs and to ensure international cooperation.Main objectives of MICROBE project:1. To upgrade curricula of MSc by adding 3 new multidisciplinary personalized, recognised and certificated MOOC modules on consumer behavior change related to MICROBE education, to enhance the quality and relevance of education in participating universities to global issues;2. To develop world-wide innovative MICROBE System. It comprises the following components: Video Neuroanalytics , Web-based opinion analytics and Recommender System for the Protection against COVID-19 and Depression Reduction in Built Environment and 3 new harmonized multidisciplinary personalized MOOC modules. 3. To strengthen educational and scientific networking among EU universities in the MICROBE education. The partner consortium represents all key stakeholders relevant to the project topic – 3 public universities with rich experience in MICROBE education and research (LT, EE and ES), 2 municipalities (LT and IT), 1 adult education providing organizations founded by universities, private companies and local authorities (BG) and 1 Foundation for Urban Innovation (IT). All Partners will play an important role in the realization of the project. The leading partners of the different activities are determined according to the partner’s competences and capacity to carry out the work.The MICROBE project activities and applied methodology involves the following stages:IO1: Personalized MOOC Modules on minimizing the influence of coronavirus and negative emotions in a built environment by applying behavior change (MICROBE):1. Stakeholders’ workshops.2. Development of MICROBE education framework.3. Development of guidelines and accreditation rules for the quality assurance of MOOCs.4. Preparation of the framework report for the common MICROBE curricula. 5. Preparation of the report on common grounds for teaching and learning.6. Training of teaching staff and public employees.7. Development of the MICROBE personalized MOOCs content and teaching materials.IO2: Development, testing and improvement of the MICROBE Method:8. Formulation of the research problem and goals.9. Analysis of former concepts, models, methods, and theories of MICROBE.10. Completion of a Data Protection Impact assessment.11. Portrayal of the Big Picture of the MICROBE.12. Development of the MICROBE Method.13. Testing and improvement of the MICROBE Method.IO3: Development, testing and improvement of the MICROBE System:14. Formulation of the Research Problem.15. Literature Review.16. The Big Picture.17. Scanning a Human-Centered Built Environment and Collecting Data.18. The Integrated MICROBE Method (see IO2).19. Development of the MICROBE System.20. Multiple-Criteria Analysis of Alternatives.21. The MICROBE System Correlation Subsystem.22. Real-time negative emotions and possible COVID-19 indices in Vilnius23. Assessing the Accuracy of the MICROBE System through verification and validation. The main results and impact envisaged will be achieved as follows:- 3 new, personalized MOOC Modules developed;- development of the MICROBE Method and System;- education of 120 students and 21 training staff and public employees;- real-time negative emotions and possible COVID-19 indices in Vilnius.The influence of COVID-19, environment, and climate goals are closely related and are included in the MICROBE System. The main users of the MICROBE System are EU students, training staff, public employees, residents, governmental institutions and business companies. Dissemination of the project results will promote developments of sustainable built environment in EU countries.The project partnership expects that the successful project implementation will produce the following main longer term benefits on European level:- cover the needs for new, modern, experience-oriented and user-friendly approaches for the MICROBE field training for entrepreneurs and managers;- improvement of the competitiveness of the target groups on Single European market in the MICROBE field;- improvement of the attractiveness and use of MICROBE System products through setting up a good example and development of closer connections with the stakeholders (“multiplication effect”).

Climate change poses significant threats to human health and well-being, impacting not only the EU Boreal region but also Europe as a whole. The increasing frequency and severity of extreme events, like floods, wildfires, rising sea levels, and heatwaves have far-reaching consequences for local communities. The need to adapt to climate change's impacts and embrace transformative solutions has garnered recent political attention. Nevertheless, recent extreme incidents, such as the 2021 wildfires in the Boreal region and similar events in Europe, have underscored the imperative of systemic actions and revealed the disproportionate vulnerability of already marginalized populations. The AURORA project aims to enhance resilience against health risks stemming from climate change and contribute to the overarching Mission objectives. It seeks to achieve this by developing a suite of tools capable of: 1) Monitoring climate stressors, 2) Creating climate and epidemiological models 3) Generating forecasts via simulated scenarios 4) Identifying climate change risks and vulnerabilities in the Boreal region. These risks will be complemented by a reliable AI-driven technology that will 5) Issue early warnings and recommend adaptive measures and nature-based solutions. These components will form a robust Decision Support system providing specific recommendations. The AURORA consortium, with its vast experience in research projects, envisions active engagement with stakeholders throughout all project stages via an Implementation Hub. This engagement aims to foster behavioral change and showcase the project's solutions in 5 Demo cities (Riga, Tallinn, Vilnius, Tampere, Pori ) and 3 replicant cities (Klaipeda, Joniskis, Jurmala). The knowledge and insights generated by AURORA will be disseminated through clustering activities, ultimately empowering local policymakers to make evidence-based decisions, reassess strategies, and develop management plans for climate-resilient cities.