"Project title: PART-Y Participation and Youth: Lab for Equal CitiesCall Erasmus plus 2020 KA205The project objectives are: 1: To strengthen youth involvement in European democratic life by promoting their right to the city, to public spaces from a ""generation equality"" and social inclusion perspective. - 2: To improve the innovation capacity in the activities proposed to young people and the internationalization of youth organizations in the countries participating in the project. The project focuses its attention on young people (girls and girls between 13 and 20 years) to trigger their participation in civic life by promoting their inclusion in the decision-making process and linked to the concept of ""generation equality"". This concept has been introduced by the United Nations agency UN Women to promote equal opportunities starting from the youngest. The project will work with young people and youth workers in city public space participative design, in two youth centres owned by the Municipalities of Trieste and Koper (PAG and CMK) to strengthen their role in involving young people in public life.The urban dimension of the project is also expressed by the exchange of good practices between cities, organizing field visits in Koper, Cork, Madrid, Trieste, Umea. Cities have a crucial role and an advantageous position in supporting change at the local level, shaping the daily life of citizens and citizens through the proximity of the service they provide. Matched with the field visits, he project develops 4 SHORT JOINT STAFF TRAINING for project partners and youth sector operators to back up the implementation of LOCAL WORKSHOPS (24 in total) which will take place in Trieste and Koper (PAG and CMK).This learning process (both for youth, youth workers), led by project partners skills and external expertise, will deliver two intellectual outputs:IO1 PART-Y Toolkit: how to build a communication campaign for a young and inclusive placemakingIO2 PART-Y: Learning methodology of placemaking through design thinking Events of dissemination of the project outputs will be organized in Koper, Trieste, Cork and Strasbourg.The project will make these open source outputs available to public authorities and organizations that work with young people as a tool for involving young people in participatory planning processes in public spaces and committing them to public life participation.The project partners are:Kallipolis Trieste www.kallipolis.net - applicantALDA Strasbourg https://www.alda-europe.eu/newSite/Basurama Madrid https://basurama.org/CMK Koper - no web site availableCork City CouncilMunicipality of TriesteMunicipality of UmeaPiNA Koper https://www.pina.si/"

Modern critical infrastructures are becoming increasingly “smarter” (e.g. cities). Making the infrastructures “smarter” usually means making them smarter in normal operation and use: more adaptive, more intelligent… But will these smart critical infrastructures (SCIs) behave equally “smartly” and be “smartly resilient” also when exposed to extreme threats, such as extreme weather disasters or terrorist attacks? If making existing infrastructure “smarter” is achieved by making it more complex, would it also make it more vulnerable? Would this affect resilience of an SCI as its ability to anticipate, prepare for, adapt and withstand, respond to, and recover? These are the main questions tackled by this proposal. The proposal envisages answering the above questions in several steps. (#1) By identifying existing indicators suitable for assessing resilience of SCIs. (#2) By identifying new “smart” resilience indicators (RIs) – including those from Big Data. (#3) By developing a new advanced resilience assessment methodology (TRL4) based on smart RIs (“resilience indicators cube”, including the resilience matrix). (#4) By developing the interactive “SCI Dashboard” tool. (#5) By applying the methodology/tools in 8 case studies, integrated under one virtual, smart-city-like, European case study. The SCIs considered (in 8 European countries!) deal with energy, transportation, health, water… Results #2, #3, #4 and #5 are a breakthrough innovation. This approach will allow benchmarking the best-practice solutions and identifying the early warnings, improving resilience of SCIs against new threats and cascading and ripple effects. The benefits/savings to be achieved by the project will be assessed by the reinsurance company participant. The consortium involves 7 leading end-users/industries in the area, 7 leading research organizations, supported by academia and lead by a dedicated European organization. External world leading resilience experts will be included in the CIRAB.

FEAST (Food systems that support transitions to hEalthy And Sustainable dieTs) aims to support the EU's just transition to healthy diets produced by sustainable food systems. Using a Multi-Actor Approach, FEAST will leverage current best practice and co-design novel solutions with EU food system stakeholders, including diverse vulnerable groups, to identify how they can be supported and empowered to facilitate and benefit from the transition to healthy and sustainable dietary behaviour at all levels and in all sectors of the food system. FEAST's objectives are: 1.To better understand, describe and measure barriers and facilitators that influence the dietary behaviour of different groups (particularly vulnerable groups), accounting for geographical, socio-economic, behavioural, gender and cultural differences 2.To collaborate with key stakeholders in Europe’s food systems to identify and/or design and test innovative and effective tools, programmes and strategies, including social innovations, that will enable consumers to make informed food choices that promote the self-management of healthy and sustainable dietary behaviours and lifestyles 3.To empower individuals to adopt healthier and more sustainable dietary behaviours, choices and lifestyles by means of evidence-based strategies and tools addressing all food system actors at the level of Member States, EU and wider international community 4.To increase the adoption of food and health policy interventions that aim to drive the transition to healthier and more sustainable diets by all stakeholders within the food system by designing and testing scientifically-informed ommunication strategies, and associated monitoring approaches, that could be used by policymakers All stakeholders will be invited to our FEAST project and we will not accept that anyone is left behind or is left hungry and wanting because we do not believe in zero-sum games - we adhere to the principle that all must ‘Win’.

Climate change and environmental degradation are an existential threat to Europe and the world. The European Green Deal is a response to these challenges and it aims to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. The European Green Deal covers all sectors of the economy so WE ALL HAVE AN IMPORTANT PART TO PLAY, INCLUDING FIREFIGHTERS. Firefighters are omnipresent in every community across the EU. Between school visits to fire stations, talks given by the fire service to community groups and the lifesaving work, firefighters are very much in the public eye. At a time when there is such scrutiny on all aspects of climate change, firefighters can act as important public advocates in terms of environmental actions. This covers fire stations, which have an environmental impact all day, every day, the transportation involved and the fire fighting work which can be extremely polluting and damaging. Improving the green skills of firefighters will have a positive influence on the day to day environmental impacts that the fire service has in terms of pollution, waste, water and energy consumption. In this context, the objective of the project is to respond to the identified training needs of firefighters by developing the first open and multilingual e-learning platform for firefighters on green skills. The e-learning platform will be accessible from computers, tablets and smartphones. The platform will be available in 5 languages (English, Danish, Lithuanian, Greek and Spanish) and it will contain six e-learning modules:MODULE 1: OPERATIONS. How firefighters can carry out their daily operations out of the fire station (e.g. fire fighting, activities related to SEVESO/COMAH installations and dangerous substances, etc.) in a greener way.MODULE 2: ENERGY. How to reduce electricity consumption in the fire station.MODULE 3: WATER. How to reduce water consumption in the fire station.MODULE 4: WASTE. How to increase the percentage of the station waste that is recycled.MODULE 5: TRANSPORT. How to reduce CO2 emissions. MODULE 6: SOCIETY. How to promote sustainable behaviours in the local community. Each e-learning module will include: an online course on the topic; an online tool to assess the learning outcomes from the online course and to produce a certificate; an online toolkit (set of tools, procedures, and supporting materials) to facilitate to firefighters the effective implementation of the sustainability measures described in the online course. In order to assess how effective the e-learning platform is in improving firefighters’ competences, the e-learning platform will be tested with firefighters from five EU countries. The firefighters will first complete the e-learning and afterwards, they will put in practice what they have learnt by implementing some measures of environmental sustainability in their fire stations. Using the feedback from the testers, the project partners will define the necessary improvements to ensure that the e-learning platform responds to the needs of firefighters.The project will be implemented by a transnational and transectoral partnership involving universities, research centres, experts on e-learning and quality management, and fire and rescue services from five EU countries. Beyond the partners, the e-learning platform has the potential to be exploited by a wide range of organisations and individuals. Thanks to its publication as an OER under the Creative Commons license 'Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)', anyone will be allowed to freely use all the content as well as to modify it and build upon. Therefore, the e-learning platform will serve as the impulsion for future innovations and developments in the European education sector.

GoGreenNEXT will deliver a comprehensive evidence-based policy oriented approach model to convey how ecosystem health and human health are connected. We propose to follow the pathway outlined foA complex array of interrelated problems arising from climate change and biodiversity loss pose significant health risks, both today and in the future . Future risks from climate change are currently predicted to escalate (beyond planetary boundaries) and pass critical tipping points with irreversible changes to our climate with commensurate negative impacts on health, our ecosystems and our landscapes . Global, European and national policy frameworks have emerged in recent years to address this challenge, with a range of initiatives to promote mitigation, adaptation and resilience. Nature-based solutions (NBS), or actions to protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural and modified ecosystems that address societal challenges effectively and adaptively, simultaneously benefiting people and nature, are among the strategies that have emerged to reverse the degradation of nature, notably in urban areas where changes are amplified. In cities, vulnerability to climate change and environmental degradation is high due to dense populations, critical infrastructure, and at-risk communities (e.g. vast differences across social-economic gradient). Cities offer an opportunity to accelerate the implementation of current solutions aligned with emerging strategies and policy initiatives (e.g. New European Bauhaus, 100 Climate Neutral and Smart Cities) combining to form what is termed a just green transition. This refers to a process of far-reaching sociotechnical change leading to a green and climate-neutral economy that preserves biodiversity and ensures social justice. GoGreenNext will address the biodiversity-climate-planetary health nexus, delivering positive policy and city/region pilot outcomes in 4 biogeographic regions across Europe and with input from best practice globally.