The HPC Digital Autonomy with RISC-V in Europe (DARE) will invigorate the continent’s High Performance Computing ecosystem by bringing together the technology producers and consumers, developing a RISC-V ecosystem that supports the current and future computing needs, while at the same time enabling European Digital Autonomy. DARE takes a customer-first approach (HPC Centres & Industry) to guide the full stack research and development. DARE leverages a co-design software/hardware approach based on critical HPC applications identified by partners from research, academia, and industry to forge the resulting computing solutions. These computing solutions range from general purpose processors to several accelerators, all utilizing the RISC-V ecosystem and emerging chiplet ecosystem to reduce costs and enable scale. The DARE program defines the full lifecycle from requirements to deployment, with the computing solutions validated by hosting entities, providing the path for European technology from prototype to production systems. The six year time horizon is split into two phases, enabling a DARE plan of action and set of roadmaps to provide the essential ingredients to develop and procure EU Supercomputers in the third phase. DARE defines SMART KPIs for the hardware and software developments in each phase, which act as gateways to unlock the next phase of development. The DARE HPC roadmaps (a living document) are used by the DARE Collaboration Council to maximize exploitation and spillover across all European RISC-V projects. DARE addresses the European HPC market failure by including partners with different levels of HPC maturity with the goal of growing a vibrant European HPC supply chain. DARE Consortium partners have been selected based on the ability to contribute to the DARE value chain, from HPC Users, helping to define all the requirements, to all parts of the hardware development, software development, system integration and subsequent commercialization.

"<< Background >>The results of the Europe Engage project, in which consortium partners participated, showed SL as a pedagogical approach that offers students academic credit for the learning that derives from active engagement within the local community working on a real-world problem, yet in an urban context. Rural 3.0 project will implement the SL approach, not in an urban context but in rural communities, that make up over 90 % of the territory and are home to more than 56 % of the population.<< Objectives >>Analyse in which way rural communities can be given access to services that students can provide; Evaluate the extent to which SL occurs in rural areas,in which forms and how effective it is; Establish a structure of rural SL education shared and developed by HEIs and rural partners; Promote education that improves lives of people in rural areas and their communities; Strengthen skills and innovative capacity of adult rural SE;Provide practical SL and SE experiences to students in rural settings<< Implementation >>RURASL consortium involves 16 partners from 8EU countries (Croatia, Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Italy, Lithuania) where HEIs and community organisations are equally represented. Academic students will engage in SL in rural communities, with appropriate educational content and tools that promote education that improves lives of people in rural areas and their communities.The 3-year project will build on the knowledge of existing SL models to support their rural implementation.<< Results >>Report on the needs and the gaps of the main target groups from 8 participating countries; Final report on the ""State-of-the-art of rural SL education”; Module with courses on rural SL and rural SE; OER and MOOC for HE teachers on rural SL; best practices; case-based learning materials; Digital Collaborative and Learning tools (HUB, Online World Café); Hackathon; e-book; newsletters; Community Organization Guide on SL and SE; Exploitation Strategy Plan."

The ISOLDE project aims to significantly support the digital transformation of all economic and societal sectors, to speed up the transition towards a green, climate neutral and digital Europe, to strengthen the design capacity and to achieving digital autonomy EU wide. By the end of our project, we will have high performance RISC-V processing systems and platforms at least at TRL 7 for the vast majority of building blocks, demonstrated for key European application domains such as automotive, space and IoT with the expectation that two years after completion ISOLDE’s high performance components will be used in industrial quality products. To achieve such an ambitious goal, an industrial-grade open-source support for development, verification, and maintenance will be provided. The customizable IPs will be hosted on physically located European servers to address the European digital sovereignty requirement that the ISOLDE project will support. This way, ISOLDE will have delivered a major contribution to the unification and focus of the full-fledged – industry-supported – eco-system for RISC-V open-source architecture, especially in the area of embedded high-performance computing, and thus to the creation of a breakthrough design capacity across the EU microelectronics industry.

Creative and cultural entrepreneurship (CCE) is deemed to innovate the traditional outdated startups with new models, new practices and new governance structures in which the role of society will be enhanced in order to boost social cohesion, mitigate groups at risk and create new job opportunities. On top of this, CCE brings direct added value to promoting culture, cities, places and thus tourism, with an imminent impact on active citizenship and inclusive societies (Abbing, 2016). Nevertheless, there is limited evidence of emphasis being put on CCE in Europe overall (EC, 2018). Training and education are crucial determinants of inappropriately competitive advantage and profitability concerning entrepreneurship and innovation in creative and cultural industry in European and developing countries. Higher education institutions (HEIs) are playing a key role in shaping the next generation of CCE by providing the necessary training aimed at building the proper skills of potential cultural & creative entrepreneurs to achieve a proper startup & scaleup with their idea (and not be limited only to the startup stage). This is of critical importance within the European Union as the majority of startups do not achieve a proper scale-up stage and this is widely due to lack of proper training to access the required resources and networks that would ensure the scaleup. As entrepreneurship is a very dynamic field, HEI teachers & trainers are required to always co-create (transnationally) with entrepreneurs, mentors, investors, policy makers and society in order to ensure that their curricula are infused with the proper knowledge that would ensure the success of their graduates (Chesbrough, 2016). At this stage, in the field of CCE, such co-creation is widely absent – justifying thus, firstly, the limited CCE course offerings within European HEIs, and secondly, the lack of effectiveness of the existing (few) courses in terms of yielding successful CCE. Therefore, TraCCE adopts a transnational & multi-stakeholder approach in order to build a think-tank in CCE through a cross-country blending of complementary expertise towards developing (through open innovation & quadruple/quintuple helix co-creation): a higher education CCE Curriculum and a CCE Train the Trainers Toolkit that will be offered to academia & the CCE community (open access) through a virtual learning environment and piloted through two international workshops.TraCCE will build upon the following CCE skills in order to mitigate the confirmed skill-gap: CCE Opportunities & Idea Identification, including: CCE market opportunities identification, CCE pre-seed development, CCE business models for start-ups, developing partnerships / networks among creative and cultural entrepreneurs, sustainability & responsibility of creative and cultural entrepreneurs, CCE Scale-up and globalisation strategies (the notion of scaleup is of top priority for the EU startup scene), next-generation trends for creative and cultural entrepreneurs, CCE Case studies, including real life CCE examples, good and best practices. Such skills will include also advanced digitalisation abilities. Overall, these skills comply with the EU recommendations of skill-provisions from: SKILL GAP INDEX 2019, CEDEFOP’s report on Responsible Skill Promotion (2016); OECD’s report on Digital Entrepreneurship Skills for Young Entrepreneurs (2015); EU Commission’s JRC Report on 2035 Sustainable Economy (2015); EU’s EPALE platform report on Sustainable Business Skills (2017); EU Commissions New Skill Agenda for Europe (2016); WEF Report on Graduate Skills for Enterprise (2016).Additionally, TraCCE is aligned with the goals of Strategic Partnerships for academia-market-society collaboration and the promotion of innovation and best practices, of providing open education and innovative practices in a digital era, with the Headline Education Target and with the EU Higher Education Modernisation Agenda by providing incentives for higher education internationalization, market-oriented curriculum development, and co-creation with business through integrated features that will lead on the long term of better involvement and support from the market side to academia. On top of this, TraCCE contributes to the social & economic development of the EU by promoting the EU heritage and fostering social inclusion through cultural & creative entrepreneurship. Key numbers include: 80 EU-wide academic staff (different institutions) that will incorporate the CCE curriculum & train the trainers toolkit; 100 CCE stakeholders to be trained during the four international workshops; 35 EU & beyond CCE associations that will gain an open-innovation & quadruple/quintuple helix co-creation best practices; 700 registrants of the virtual learning environment, 300 CCE stakeholders/participants in the multiplier evens, 500 participants with fewer opportunities involved in the project, 48 000 people reached through dissemination.

The overarching aim of RE-WITCH is to deliver cost-competitive, game-changing solutions in the field of sustainable industrial cooling and heating. To do so, RE-WITCH will demonstrate advanced thermally-driven industrial cooling technologies based on ADsorption and ABsorption processes driven by an optimized mix of low-grade waste and renewable sources (innovative high vacuum flat plate solar collectors). Such solutions will be demonstrated in 4 demo sites encompassing food and beverage sectors as well as industrial sectors where heat-to-cold solutions are not yet widely explored (bio-refinery, pulp & paper). The activity will be completed by studying the replicability of proposed technologies in replication sites even integrated with DHN. The project will be delivered by an industrial-driven consortium of 26 partners from 10 countries and it is composed by some of the most innovative SMEs, LEs and R&D centers in the field of industrial renewable H&C leveraging experience from industrial and EU-funded projects (HYCOOL, SO-WHAT, Indus3Es). The multi-disciplinary composition of the consortium ensures that all the challenges (technical and non-) will be addressed to ultimately bring RE-WITCH solutions to the market by 2029. Innovative open access modelling platforms and engineering solutions will be also developed to facilitate the design, upscale, replication and integration in industrial processes of the proposed technologies. Thanks to a stakeholders’ driven dissemination and communication campaign, RE-WITCH will ultimately demonstrate transformative technological solutions that unlock the combined potential of low-grade waste and renewable heat use in industries, hence also targeting integration of heat-to-cold technologies into relevant EU Policies.