The European Digital Forum (EDF) is a think tank led by the Lisbon Council and Nesta (secretariat). It was first proposed in the Startup Manifesto and later launched by European Commission Vice-President Kroes at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2014. Its founding partners are European Investment Fund, Telefonica, BBVA and Orange. They provided seed funding to get the EDF off the ground but the financial resources are insufficient to execute the ambitious work programme envisioned by the secretariat. The objectives of the EDF Thought Leadership and Policy Network Exchange (EDFx) are: 1) To scale up existing activities of the EDF, enabling greater policy impact and geographical reach 2) To pursue independent research aimed at highlighting ways to measure and improve the framework conditions for web entrepreneurs 3) To facilitate a deeper, more sustained exchange between the web community and policymakers, thereby informing and shaping public policy The objectives will be achieved through high-level policy summits and fringe events at established tech fora; the development of a one-of-its-kind indicator to measure the quality of the startup ecosystem and a repository of best practices, as well as a hard-hitting communication and community-building strategy, including policy support and monitoring actions. EDFx will operate at the intersection of web entrepreneurship (i.e. founders, investors) and public policy (i.e. politicians, civil servants), exploiting synergies between the two groups and engaging them in a future-oriented exchange. This dialogue will be placed squarely in a broader policy setting - underlining the significance of web entrepreneurship to innovation performance, growth and job creation - and will be underpinned by a dynamic, world-class research and outreach programme. The fact that EDFx will build on a successful project that is already underway will allow it to “hit the ground running” to achieve speedy impact and results.

Human activity is overloading our atmosphere with carbon dioxide and other global warming emissions, which trap heat, steadily drive up the planet’s temperature, and create significant and harmful impacts on our health, our environment, and our climate. Still, children/students get only theoretical and scarce knowledge which leaves open doors to the conventional energy sources. Renewable energy is available everywhere and the technologies of application are mature and relatively simple. It is vital that young people develop a solid understanding of renewable energy’s power and its various possible applications. The project has been a great start for youngsters to learn more about all types of renewable energy, and grow up more informed about the vital role of renewable technologies in changing world’s energy future. The center of this project and event concept is the exchange of knowledge with a high degree of participation and co-creation. The project aims to: - increase young people's competence in renewable energy through innovative and creative learning- Train young people to be able to organize their community for launching a local renewable energy initiative with bottom up approach - Train young people to be able to select the technologically, agriculturally, economically, socially and environmentally best fitting option for their community. The project was planned to be completed in 4 phases. Yet, as a result of difficulties experienced by the partners such as traveling challenges, closure of schools, and overall government restrictions, due to the coronavirus outbreak, 4th phase has been canceled.1st Phase - Kickoff and coordination meetings: 1.Ankara-TURKEY, 2.Bonn-GERMANY, 3.Barcelona-SPAIN, 4.Vienna-AUSTRIA2nd Phase - Production of IOs: There are four IOs in this project; - Information, educational kits and training documents, used during training of young trainers and educators, and during the renewable energy events. - Peer learning methodology, used during the peer learning activities. - Informative media, used for the dissemination of the project during each activity - E-learning module used during the training3rd Phase - Learning, Teaching and Training Activities:University students were trained by the experts from Bilkent University and Viyana Technical University. Approximately 15 young trainers were planned to participate to science trainings, we achieved to train 31 young trainers. There have been learning teaching activities in 4 different cities such as Çanakkale, Trabzon, İzmir and Iğdır. First day of the activities were held at high schools for high school students and teachers. Second day of the activities were held at education faculties of the universities for education faculty students which are the teachers of tomorrow. Third day of the activities were held at renewable energy plants according to regional relevance with university students. There were students and teachers from 22 different high schools, 4 different universities. 31 Young Trainers, 500 high school students, app. 20 high school teachers, 462 university students at education faculties attended to training activities, 170 students attended to technical tours.Since we established renewable energy, peer learning methodology and e-learning tools, this will be a model and hub for youth to learn more about these concepts. Under the professional experience and coordination of the Ankara Provincial Directorate of Environment and Urbanization, the experience of European partner organizations, the technical knowledge of Bilkent University, and the participation of TERA Ankara, a well-organized and meticulously structured training program on renewable energy has been put into use.Young students have been intentionally selected to be trained as the main target group for the project. Because we thought that the education of youth is more crucial compared to the other groups in order to spread the vital importance of renewable energy usage from generation to generation in a sustainable way and to ensure a solid understanding of its technology. Additionally, we have also selected the teacher candidates who study in education faculties in related cities as a target group in order to meet the sustainability goals of the project, so that, they will also educate their students in the future raising them promoting renewable energy mentality.Moreover, academic studies realized within the project scope will be a resource to be used by students and other academicians permanently for years after the end of the EU funding.All the intellectual outputs composed by the experts have been being published on the official website of the project (www.renewableenergyforyouth.org ) and they are downloadable in any time for those who want to know about the field and need to use them.

For the elderly, it is necessary to engage actively in society, to be constructive, to deal with current and social issues. There is a substantial need for opportunities to promote senior’s active inclusion in society and lifelong learning, so they can connect with other people and their social contribution can be ensured.The project aims at the social integration of the elderly and seniors in a unique way where they can engage in social life through high-quality learning opportunities via digital learning solutions through various learning methods.The project will focus on the inclusion of seniors and elderly people in society, for that reason the GAP-IOS project brings together seven partners from 4 European countries, Germany, Spain, Portugal and Turkey who work with and for seniors and are experienced in life-long learning, training and online activities. The cooperation from different EU countries will ensure useful and good practices to the project. The project partners are chosen carefully according to their expertise and experience in the fields which this project involves. They will all bring their unique contribution to the project and its intellectual outputs. Target group will be elderly people and seniors over the AGE OF 65+ YEARS OLD.There will be three intellectual outputs in this project:The first intellectual output will be the GOLDEN AGE PLATFORM (GAP) which is prepared under a curriculum by experts of the related subjects, consists of basic knowledge on digitilization, health, financial, legal issues cultural and hobby activities (IO1) that elderly can use in their daily lives and protects them not to be cheated by malicious people. GAP is free of charge and is organised under the curriculum prepared by the academia and the experts in related subjects from public and private institutions with the collaboration of the project partners. The curriculum and the training programmes include different aspects of views from different cultures, sharing of experiences, searching for the best solutions in a transnational way.The second intellectual output is the TRAINING DOCUMENTS FOR SENIOR TRAINERS (IO2), which will consist of four tasks: Presentation and Teaching Techniques, Basic Teaching Skills, Basic Knowledge about Long-life Learning and Basic Models of Pedagogy. “TRAINING OF THE SENIOR TRAINERS” is organised according to the training document prepared in the (IO2) which will be organised as Short Term Training Activities (STT). These three workshops will be realised in Ankara(C1), Lisbon (C2) and Bonn (C3). The partner organisations in each country will be responsible from the organizational process of the workshop.The last intellectual output of the project will be COMMUNICATION AND DISSEMINATION MEDIA (IO3), which will contain four tasks: Technical developments of the web, content production, social media activities and animation movies, online teaching materials, e-learning tools.During the GAP-IOS project, there will be 4 transnational meetings. From each project partner, 2 participants and from the coordinator partner 3 participants will attend to these four meetings and contribute according to their expertise. The purpose of these transnational meetings is, basically experience and know-how transfer between the project partners. The consortium of the project supports seniors as well as elderly with disadvantaged backgrounds through e-learning tools and digital platforms. The project aims at creating educational environments and provides a BEST PRACTICE MODEL that can be used in various countries to increase the living standards of elderly and provide their social inclusion into society.The project aims the social inclusion of the seniors and elderly people in an innovative way where they can join in social life by high quality learning opportunities on digital learning applications through informal and non-formal learning methods. For that reason all the document and training modules will be uploaded in the web pages of the partners and open axess for everyone.For multiplier event (E1) an international conference is planned “International Conference on The Social Inclusion of Seniors” in Turkey which focuses on the intellectual outputs of the project, besides “Experiences and Best Practises on Seniors” for 2 days in Ankara. The conference will be supported by all the project partners.During the project, the impact of the project is evaluated after every activity of the project by statistical methods via surveys and interviews. Project Management Board (PMB) will continuously monitor the implementation of the work plan, control the project budget and the project activities.The public will be informed from the project activities and results via EPALE.

The concept of PandeVITA enables knowledge transfer between society and science inside of the quadruple helix on the European level. With help of the PandeVITA app, the consortium will create and execute an innovative evaluation concept based on different feedback categories to measure social awareness and acceptability of scientific recommendations and advices. This will include a concept for RRI standards which excludes the uncontrolled transfer of sensitive data provided by citizens for scientific purposes. The PandeVITA project is structured in five stages. After a short stage 1 where basic project preparations will be executed, good practise analysis and framework developments will be proceeded in stage 2. This includes case studies about public health systems in four different countries, comparative reviews about applications which are already developed, and specifications of all data to be collected throughout the project regards privacy, trust, improvements, storage and other areas relevant for the Data Management Plan and for communication, dissemination and exploitation. Stage 3 is mainly dedicated to comparative and case studies where legal and ethical frameworks in different countries as well as decisions and sanctions of politics during the COVID-19 crisis analysed and different case studies about co-operations between science and society in health sectors during the COVID-19 crisis as well as societal voluntariness of participation and trust in knowledge exchange between science and society during the COVID-19 pandemic will be executed. Beside the PandeVITA app and platform will be developed which will be evaluated in stage 4 regarding usability, user experience and adoption as well as efficiency and effectiveness. In the last stage 5, final releases of the PandeVITA app and platform will be proceeded and an exploitation plan will be developed before PandeVITA becomes an independent and everlasting community.

STEM4you(th) seeks to produce a comprehensive, multidisciplinary series of courses presenting key STEM discipline challenges to support young people, primarily high school students aged 14-19, formal and informal education. The content will be organized around 7 STEM disciplines: Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, Engineering and Medicine. For each discipline 7-9 challenges will be presented largely through their practical applications and their impact on our everyday life and work. Also it will be shown which specific skills and competence STEM education develops and how these skills address the current and future European labor market needs. In the effect project will provide a helicopter view of STEM disciplines and job characteristics associated with these disciplines to help young people in taking conscious decisions on their future (subject of, field of study and finally career path to pursue). The scope and tangible results of STEM4you(th) are: - A multidisciplinary guide developed for different exploitation channels (more formal: extra-cirricular activities at school and informal: science festivals, university organized lectures and web open accessible self-study materials) - Formal and informal methodologies and tools tailored to present the scientific challenges in an attractive way (learning by experiment, gamin, citizen science at schools) - Recommendations on STEM learning best practices and formal school curricula (input to the EU education policy) - Plans on project result exploitation on a large scale by Scientific Communities (like SCIENTIX), educational networks, teacher associations and partner networking. STEM4you(th) is a strong consortium with experience in educational methodologies, economy and societal content and to accelerate the project result dissemination process.