"The goal of the Young & Smart project was to improve the quality of work with youth by developing and spreading through the partnership a comprehensive program called a practical compendium of the trainer's knowledge - the Young & Smart on-line booklet. It was planned in the application form that it would be entitled ""Young & Smart - a comprehensive educational program in the field of entrepreneurship and social activity of youth”, having in mind that this form will be more encouraging to read and use materials.It was planned that the booklet and related workshops would consist of 7 components, i.e. entrepreneurship, building your own business, creativity, design thinking, improvisation, design work and a sense of value. In the course of working out the results for each of the above-mentioned components, 3 practical scenarios of classes with guidelines for the lecturer were developed. Therefore, materials were created with the content of innovative methods and tools used in non-formal education in the field of youth entrepreneurship - based on the best practices and new, not yet undertaken ventures. As it has been mentioned before, the developed booklet is practical, focused on preparing mentors, coaches and youth trainers so that they can convey their knowledge in an accessible way and help young people (2nd target group: 150 people - program recipients - 110 people taking part in 2 PL / GR dissemination editions and 40 people taking part in pilot workshops) preparing to enter the labour market, functioning safely in public, social and professional space (1 target group of users of the ""Y & S"" program, youth from 16 to 26 years old - 25 people participating in testing meetings). Each scenario has been enriched with an introductory video, which includes instructions for the exercises contained therein. The purpose of these 21 films is to limit the role of the trainer/tutor to control the educational process and to support participants while going through individual activities. Thanks to their use, even people with lower coaching competencies will be able to use the scenarios (this was confirmed by pilot meetings/workshops as one of the stages of IO).The attractiveness of the ""Young & Smart"" program has been increased by the use of new technologies in the educational process. For this purpose, they produced the online version (with a description of the methodical and practical use in youth work, taking into account the specificity of coaching work with young people) 3 simulation games in the field of entrepreneurship, project work and design thinking. The value of the films is that they work on mobile phones (a basic tool commonly used by young people), thanks to which the trainer, who runs the workshop, can also plan a field game.The project was a response to the problem of a too low level of entrepreneurship among young Europeans, leading to maladaptation to the modern labour market, making ill-considered educational and vocational paths, the need to work below their ambitions and qualifications, and finally - a high level of unemployment. The partnership set itself the goal of preventing the abandonment of 16+ education and promoting and inclusion in fields related to education, training and youth work in order to make high-quality non-formal learning available to all young people. PRIORITIES AND THEMATIC RANGES SELECTED AT THE APPLICATION STAGE:HAVE BEEN COMPLETED AND IMPLEMENTED.The following sentence best summarizes the partnership's choice of horizontal priorities: ""Specialists without social competences have no future ahead of them.” (source: W. Lanthaler, J. Zugmann - ""Action I. A new way of thinking about a career""). The current youth are the future specialists and whether they will be competent employees aware of their own development needs depends on comprehensive actions that should be taken for them now.The results developed in the project support the stimulation of innovative and entrepreneurial attitudes among young people by introducing entrepreneurship as one of the key competences in informal learning programs. Therefore, the creation and promotion by the partnership of materials that cause digital inclusion of young people and motivating them to work on their own development is justified and indispensable in a developing Europe and can be freely multiplied for other ages.All goals and results achieved under IO (booklet, film production and transcription, online simulation games and an educational platform containing all results) were developed in 3 languages, i.e. English, and the languages of the partners: Polish, Greek and are implemented on an open educational platform and other open educational resources."

BIOGENTS is a world leader in the development and production of surveillance Traps for Mosquitoes, a key supplier for public and private organizations. BIOGENTS, together with IRIDEON, a specialist in IoT sensor applications, and TEIC, a specialist in bioacoustic species recognition, want to address the problem of disease-carrying mosquitoes that invade Europe due to climate change. Our goal is to prevent the loss of billions of Euros, the infection of millions of citizens and most importantly, the deaths of thousands registered every year worldwide. BIOGENTS and its competitors have a conservative business model: continuously develop increasingly efficient trapping methods, for the best price. However, the customers’ real need is to get reliable information about mosquito populations in a given area, and thus have to periodically inspect traps manually. This is where the real costs are; therefore the next disruptive leap lies in making the traps smart. REMOSIS t will attract insects with great efficiency, and perform stand-alone field monitoring, by automatically counting insects, identifying species, and transmitting the data wirelessly. This reduces inspection costs by 80% improving surveillance programmes, which will prevent unnoticed disease outbreaks, and will save lives. With the new electronic trap, we will be the first in the world to combine human mimicking with automatic pest information in their value proposition. This allows a whole new population of consumers to establish surveillance programmes that were only accessible to those with significant resources. BIOGENTS and IRIDEON will produce the solution, and use their own customer and distributor networks as initial commercial routes, which already cover Europe, USA, Australia, Latin America, Africa and Middle East.

"Europe is looking to Industry 4.0 – or the Digital Transformation of Industry – as the opportunity to lead the world in advanced technology. Automation, greater flexibility, adaptive control and autonomous decision-making processes are at the core of this transformation. The OPENIN project aims to help higher VET, HEI´s institutions and technical Universities, as well as enterprises using automation systems (especially SME´s) to cut costs and embrace innovation by providing them with training materials for both students/employees and teachers, using free open source hardware and software for designing and configuring automated systems.In consequence the OPENIN project aimed to and carried out the following:• An analysis of the teaching possibilities that free hardware / software offers the design of automated systems • Development of teaching materials for designing automated systems using the Arduino open source application (considered the best software option after research) • Development of innovative high technical level training materials for higher VET, HE institutions and enterprises • Creation of pedagogical tools for the training of students based on real cases • Creation of a working methodology that allows the adoption of common criteria for designing automated systemsThe project subsequently developed the following:1. An OPENIN Course for students in Industrial Automation using the Arduino open source applicationThe fully developed training course for students in the field of Industrial Automation at EQF level 5 or above is freely available on the project web site (http://www.openinproject.eu/). The revised course covers the following topics over 14 units of learning A. - Introduction to basic programming (Units 1-6)B. - Industrial Sensors (Units 7-8)C. - Industrial Actuators (Units 9-11)D. - Industrial Communication (12-14)Beyond the initial scope of the project and in response to pilot student requests, the partnership also facilitates access to ""hands on"" design development practice for students/those with no access to Arduino boards via an OPENIN online Arduino lab. The Ardlab can be accessed and reserved via the homepage of the project website for individual use. 2. An OPENIN training course for teachers and employersThe OPENIN training course for teachers and employers is also available on the project website to prepare trainers to apply open source applications in their schools or companies. Materials for staff include the advantages of using open source platforms and applications, supporting, units of learning for use with students/trainees, pedagogical explanations, a list of pre requisites for each unit, solutions to different cases and exercises, expected learning outcomes, credit allocation and assessment criteria suggestions.The 4 OPENIN project partners, three HEI - ISEP (PT), TEI Crete (EL) and Politeknika Txorierri (ES), and one VET institution APRO (IT) actively promote free open-source software as an effective way to modernize educational technical training and small or medium sized industrial organizations and support innovation. Each partner has widely piloted the OPENIN training materials with teaching staff in their countries in 30 h´ training courses between 2017-2018, with full follow up testing of materials with students in their organizations carried out in 2018. All materials for students (units of learning) are available in English, Greek, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Explanatory and pedagogical materials for teachers are also translated into the four partner languages with sections B, C and D as well as solutions available in English.By offering training, easy to download materials and further open source access to an online Arduino lab for ""hands on"" experimentation, integrating automation systems learning is now widely available to high level technical educational institutions/students and employees of SMEs who wish to upskill and prepare their workforce for Industry 4.0 digital parametres. During the project lifetime the OPENIN project has had a significant impact on the four partner institutions and network institutions as well as their industrial partners with the OPENIN training embedded into their educational offer for students and into their teacher training catalogues. Partners are now continuing to promote the project broadly to more educational and industrial stakeholders. The tested and revised materials using open source arduino platforms as well as the freely accessible project Arduino lab will continue to be of considerable use in the educational and industrial fields of Electrical, Electronics and Informatics Engineering where Industrial Automation is part of the course curriculum and an increasingly prevalent part of the industrial-economic landscape. Those who have the need to prepare/update or to prepare others for the realities of the Industry 4.0 can now more easily do so at minimum cost and effort."

"The ELBYSIER project primary objective was to provide a deep introduction to its participants for the Electronics Beyond Silicon Era. More particular ELBYSIER reflects the scientific titanic effort to address the Moore’s law saturation with the introduction of (a) new and of lower cost solution processed materials; (b) new architectures and charge motion principles; and (c) applications of these new materials & principles in Biology, Quantum Computing, Energy Harvesting, Electronic Devices. A secondary objective is the adaption of innovative assessment schemes. The Journal Club action was introduced as the main assessment pathway for the participant students. TEI of Crete has identified this gap regarding the teaching of electronics beyond silicon since 2010. TEIoC has organized since then several Erasmus IPs in the fields of organic, transparent & flexible electronics and spintronics. The curricula of these IPs became the core material of new undergraduate modules and in the case of the Organic Electronics & Applications (OREA) project converted into a joint MSc degree between University of Crete, TEIoC and IESL-FORTH. The ELBYSIER was setup, thinking the expertise should exist in order to address the aforementioned objectives. Six HEIs participated; each one of them with a unique expertise in what we call ‘electronics beyond silicon era’. More particular: 1.Technological Educational Institute of Crete (TEIoC): Fabrication & Characterization of graphene based and 2D materials, Graphene Based Organic & Perovskite Solar Cells, Planning & Execution of the Journal Club Action, Rich experience in the Erasmus Project 2.Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint – Etienne (EMSE): Biolectronics, Brain electrode interfaces3.University of Crete (UoC): Transparent Conductive Electrodes (metal oxide based electronics) for light harvesting, pollutants destruction and smart window applications4.University of Warsaw (UoW): Spintronics, Quantum Computing, Graphene & 2D materials theory5.New University of Lisbon (NUL): Paper Electronics: From Materials to Electronic Devices (Displays, Transistors, Schottky Diodes)6.University of Bucharest (UoB): Solar Cells, Modern Fabrication Techniques in ElectronicsThe activities took place during the ELBYSIER can be split into the following categories: 1.Management & Administration; the objective is the implementation & reporting of the project activities according to the regulations have been set by the Greek NA2.Dissemination Activities; the objective was to inform projects’ stakeholders about its outcomes3.Sustainability; refers to the planning has been made to exploit the projects’ outcomes beyond its funding period 4.Academic; these actions included: (a) the production of the educational material (notes, assessment tests); (b) the organization of Intensive Courses focused in specific scientific themes The main results include: 1.The implementation of five Intensive Courses in Organic Electronics ,Transparent Electronics, Bioelectronics, Paper Electronics, Spintronics 2.The implementation of a review Intensive Course in Electronics Beyond Silicon Era3.The participation and training of more than 300 students 4.The participation of 60 scholars as lecturers 5.The delivery of 240 hours of lecturing; that is translated to the presentation of 56 different themes 6.The production of dissemination material & tools; printed and online material, videos 7.The organization of dissemination multiplier events where staff from Industry and scholars beyond consortium participated 8.The production of assessment reports regarding the quality and impact of the implemented intensive courses in students9.The production of a chapter book submitted in Springer Nature (""Revolution of Perovskite: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications"") entitled: ""2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides for Solution-Processed""The impact attained should be reported per projects’ stakeholder:1.The students’ informed & trained in new technologies. 2.The academics interact each other & new collaborations arose: New projects granted: a Strategic Partnership project called CRETE (TEI of Crete, University of Warsaw) (2018 – 2020); New publications (NanoBio Conference 2018) (TEI of Crete, New University of Lisbon joint oral presentation ‘Gas sensing elements based on graphene related and hybrid perovskite materials’)3.The Universities have signed bilateral agreements for student & staff mobility The longer-term benefits are related with the sustainability of the project. The following actions have planned: 1.To further strengthen the collaboration with the partners; (a) A joint Erasmus project has been granted to UW & TEIoC; (b) TEIoC, UW & EMSE will re-submit a Capacity Building Project in Graphene; and (c) research collaboration between TEI & NUL has started in the field of paper sensors 2.TEI of Crete runs modules of the ELBYSIER into its undergraduate & postgraduate curriculum"