It is presently acknowledged and scientifically proven than climate related hazards have the potential to substantially affect the lifespan and effectiveness or even destroy of European Critical Infrastructures (CI), particularly the energy, transportation sectors, buildings, marine and water management infrastructure with devastating impacts in EU appraising the social and economic losses. The main strategic objective of EU-CIRCLE is to move towards infrastructure network(s) that is resilient to today’s natural hazards and prepared for the future changing climate. Furthermore, modern infrastructures are inherently interconnected and interdependent systems ; thus extreme events are liable to lead to ‘cascade failures’. EU-CIRCLE’s scope is to derive an innovative framework for supporting the interconnected European Infrastructure’s resilience to climate pressures, supported by an end-to-end modelling environment where new analyses can be added anywhere along the analysis workflow and multiple scientific disciplines can work together to understand interdependencies, validate results, and present findings in a unified manner providing an efficient “Best of Breeds” solution of integrating into a holistic resilience model existing modelling tools and data in a standardised fashion. It, will be open & accessible to all interested parties in the infrastructure resilience business and having a confirmed interest in creating customized and innovative solutions. It will be complemented with a webbased portal.The design principles, offering transparency and greater flexibility, will allow potential users to introduce fully tailored solutions and infrastructure data, by defining and implementing customised impact assessment models, and use climate / weather data on demand.

<< Background >>Aviation industry has utmost importance in the world as well as in Europe since it plays an inevitable role in our daily and social lives. Turkey has one of the fastest growing aviation industries in the world. Undoubtedly, the growth of the aviation sector will contribute with new job opportunities for many people in Turkey and across the EU in near future. The current curriculum is not modern enough to meet the need for future qualified aircraft maintenance engineers (AMEs). Since graduates of aircraft maintenance engineering programs are not well trained in terms of practical skills, this problem leads to waste of sources (e.g. man-power, time, and money).Aircraft maintenance practical training curricula being implemented at educational institutions are not pedagogically well oriented. By simply giving what topics should be covered in a practical course will not be enough to make that content sufficient and sometimes correct compared to actual aircraft maintenance practices in the industry. Therefore, results of this project will give a complete pedagogically oriented solution to common curricula used among educational institutions for aircraft maintenance training. Even though project partners will develop the initial results, with a web based platform, new suggestions on results from all verified institutions and their trainers will be able to contribute the results even after the project lifetime. This will make the project idea be alive for a reasonably long period of time.It is very important for an educational institution to educate its students as being highly ready to undertake responsibilities with minimum get-ready costs. In order to accomplish such a mission, educational institutions should understand industry’s needs and accord its education in that manner. With outcomes of this project, educational institutions will perform a curriculum that is created with a strong collaboration with the industry. It is important to have a methodology that enables to create an up-to-date curriculum for educational institutions. Therefore, when a new set of results of this project is needed or a part of results need to be updated, then a ready-to-use methodology already exists. Then, an institution, by itself, will be able to develop, update, or customize the curriculum developed in this project quickly and efficiently. Maintenance basic training includes both theoretical and practical parts. Theoretical part is clearly regulated by PART/SHY 66 rules of EU and Turkey. The knowledge is divided into 17 theoretical modules that cover all aircraft structures and systems are defined. However, these rules don’t give a clear explanation for practical maintenance training. The rules only indicate that only 7 modules out of 17 should have a practical training besides the theoretical part but don’t give a concrete framework about how to implement the practical training. There have been some efforts for task book creation however these were happen to be for on-duty AMEs but not for students. THESE LOG BOOKS INCLUDE MERELY A LIST OF PRACTICAL TASKS. HOWEVER, THESE LOG BOOKS ARE NOT MUCH OF HELP SINCE:(i) These log books are created for not basic training but as an experience logbook for freshmen engineers,(ii) The list of tasks (for freshmen engineers) is not determined as a representative cross-section of the theoretical training, (iii) They are not pedagogically oriented, they don’t include training needs analysis,(iv) Implementation procedures for these tasks are not defined, thus practical methods can alter from trainer to trainer (i.e. the task “removing/inserting connector pins” refers to multi-pin connectors however, without a concrete worksheet, a practical trainer may infer it as a coaxial cable connectors instead of multi-pin connectors).<< Objectives >>Our aim in this project is to create a framework and a well-designed practical training task (PTT) book in order to deliver a good practical element to aircraft maintenance engineer candidates. THIS EFFORT WILL INCLUDE:1- Determining representative practical training tasks for a set of EASA Part-66 modules of 7, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17.2- Designing execution time, tools required, outcomes, and other related training needs analysis elements for each task.3- Designing how those tasks will be applied. This should include a worksheet that explains step by step how to perform each task.4- Designing evaluation forms that will establish criteria and methods in determining if a student performs the task adequately.5- Assessment that will measure success of the developed curriculum.The main aim of the K220 is to establish strategic partnership on vocational education and training. In that regard, it is desired to create both local and European level collaboration networks designing practical skills of aircraft maintenance engineer candidates. With this collaboration network, it is also desired to impact industry bodies like European Aviation Maintenance Training Committee (EAMTC) as well as authorities like EASA and Turkish DGCA.Aircraft maintenance companies prefer to accept aircraft maintenance engineer candidates that already have sharp skills. With this project, it is desired to improve maintenance skills of AME students and thus quality of aircraft maintenance. When students are trained well on basic practical skills, then their skills and as a result local and EU level aircraft maintenance will be highly qualified.Furthermore, we want the results of the project be alive and get developed as long as possible. By embedding a PTT suggestion area on the project web site, we will urge educators, educational institutions, AMEs, and maintenance organization have the opportunity to offer new learning outcomes, new ideas and the most importantly new PTTs. This will enable that our results will always catch the needs of the industry and stay up-to-date.<< Implementation >>A general list of activities we are going to implement is as follows:ACTIVITIES RELATED TO GENERATION OF PROJECT RESULTS: (i) Industry survey for measuring AME needs, (ii) launching events for measuring maintenance organization needs, (iii) field capacity survey for measuring capacity of educational institutions, (iv)creation of books of PTTs, TNAs, worksheets, assessment forms, (v) pilot training and assessment for measuring effectiveness of project results.ACTIVITIES RELATED TO DISSEMINATION OF THE PROJECT RESULTS: (i) Sharing the project results after completion of the project, (ii) Developing a website that will air our project results online, therefore individuals or organizations seeking information about a web search will readily be able to find information about it, (iii) Social media nodes on the platforms of The LinkedIn, The Twitter, The Facebook, and Instagram in order to air up-to-date information about during- and post project activities, (iv) Newsletters and flyers to be sent to national and EU level aircraft maintenance training institutions and organizations, and civil aviation authorities, (v) Presentation of the project results at respected conferences on aircraft maintenance such as; International Conference on Aircraft Maintenance and Operations, Predictive Aircraft Maintenance Conference, Global Aircraft Maintenance Conference, Maintenance Conference, The AEEC General Session and Aviation Maintenance Conference, Maintenance Cost ConferenceACTIVITIES RELATED TO MANAGERIAL TASKS: (i) At the beginning of the project, two launching events will be held, one in Turkey and another in Croatia. In these events, industry representatives and educators will be informed about the project and expectations from aircraft maintenance graduates will be discussed. (ii) Numerous online meetings for coordination and discussions, (iii) Exchange of emails and files for coordination and discussions, (iii) Preparation and delivery of required documentation and reports.ACTIVITIES RELATED TO POST-PROJECT LIFE: (i) Adding project web site a suggestion section in order to make the results up-to-date for industry needs, (ii) Uploading original project results to popular repositories to make them available to public as long as possible.<< Results >>THE PROJECT RESULTS ARE SUMMARIZED AS FOLLOWS: (i) Report on Industry Needs and Minimum Practical Skill Requirements, (ii) Aircraft Maintenance Basic Practical Training Task Book, (iii) Training Needs Analysis Book, (iv) Worksheet Book, (v) Practical Assessment Book, and (vi) Follow-up Report. Results (ii), (iii), (iv), and (v) constitute the novel curriculum this project aims to create.OTHER PROJECT OUTCOMES ARE BRIEFLY SUMMARIZED AS FOLLOWS: Project quality assessment checklist, a live project management document, interim activity reports, final reports of online/on-site meetings, survey documentations, field capacity reports, PTT book preparation documentation, consultation report from educational scientists, TNA documentation, progress and final reports, pilot training documentation, and web site.

SILVANUS envisages to deliver an environmentally sustainable and climate resilient forest management platform through innovative capabilities to prevent and combat against the ignition and spread of forest fires. The platform will cater to the demands of efficient resource utilisation and provide protection against threats of wildfires encountered globally. The project will establish synergies between (i) environmental; (ii) technology and (iii) social science experts for enhancing the ability of regional and national authorities to monitor forest resources, evaluate biodiversity, generate more accurate fire risk indicators and promote safety regulations among citizens through awareness campaigns. The novelty of SILVANUS lies in the development and integration of advanced semantic technologies to systematically formalise the knowledge of forest administration and resource utilisation. Additionally, the platform will integrate a big-data processing framework capable of analysing heterogeneous data sources including earth observation resources, climate models and weather data, continuous on-board computation of multi-spectral video streams. Also, the project integrates a series of sensor and actuator technologies using innovative wireless communication infrastructure through the coordination of aerial vehicles and ground robots. The technological platform will be complemented with the integration of resilience models, and the results of environmental and ecological studies carried out for the assessment of fire risk indicators based on continuous surveys of forest regions. The surveys are designed to take into consideration the expertise and experience of frontline fire fighter organisations who collectively provide support for 47,504x104 sq. meters of forest area within Europe and across international communities. The project innovation will be validated through 11 pilot demonstrations across Europe and internationally using a two sprint cycle.