"NEw TOOls for Learning in Adult age - NEver TOO LAte is a 27-month project (October 2019-December 2021). The project is developed in 6 European countries: IT-GR-ES-PT-A-D. These are Countries affected by: general progressive impoverishment due to economic-socio-cultural crises occurred over time; political issues related to the lack of measures in favor of processes of integration and inclusion of people in marginal or deprived conditions; high unemployment rate mostly affecting young people, women and people poorly or at all qualified; incoming strong migration flows from countries afflicted by poverty and conflict.The priority addressed is social inclusion. In particular, the project aims to:a) develop tools to encourage young people and adults with poor or no schooling, EU and non-EU citizens, to improve and/or develop their functional lityeracy, numeracy and digital skills; to increase the ability to learn how to learn; to improve social and citizenship skills, such as the ability to act as responsible citizens and to participate fully in civic and social life. The project aims to involve 200 young people aged 16-30 with a particular focus on: poorly or not literate adults with a high risk of socio-cultural marginalization and with limited access to citizenship rights; applicants/holders of international protection; women at risk of exclusion and/or victims of trafficking and sexual/labor exploitation, beneficiaries of protection measures; unaccompanied foreign minors no longer subject to compulsory schooling (over 16); young and adults of Roma ethnicity, both male and female.b) provide methodological tools to 80 professionals in basic education and citizenship for adults, identified by partners among trainers, educators, teachers, cultural linguistic mediators.I partner sono:Legal entities participating in NEver TOO LAte are representative of 6 European countries: Italy, Greece,Germany Austria, Spain and Portugal. Project coordinator is Dedalus (IT), a social cooperative actively engaged in the promotion of inclusive services and paths targeting minors, young people and adults, both EU and foreign.The partners are:• STUDIO ERRESSE (IT) cooperative company expert in monitoring, evaluation and consultancy for third sector entities; and research, orientation and skill assessment;• DAFNI KEK (GR) institutions with strong experience in educational activities, particularly in digital skills learning, life skills and soft skills;• TEI WEST (GR) institution expert in the design of innovative digital technologies for learning;• VHS CHAM (D) involved in training for women (migrants and refugees) especially in the field of digital and linguistic skills development (English, German);• VHS WIEN (A) institution working in the field of professional training and social research;• CLUBE (PT) non-profit organization operating in Portugal in the fields of youth, education, training and employment;• UHU (ES) public university in Huelva which manages Erasmus + mobility projects for students and professors and participates in several Erasmus Mundus projects.The Macro phases of the project are:• PREPARATION AND IMPLEMENTATION (Lead partner DEDALUS)• MONITORING AND EVALUATION (Lead partner Studio Erresse and VHC Wien)• DISSEMINATION (Lead partner VHS CHAM).• COMMUNICATION (Lead partner STUDIO ERRESSE)4 Multiplier events are planned in 4 of the partner countries (Spain, Greece, Germany, Italy), to disseminate intellectual property and Recommendations.To achieve its goals, NEver Too LAte will produce 3 Intellectual outputs:a Comparative Research, with the analysis of methodologies and positive experiences in partner countries (Italy, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Austria, Greece) in the the project field of interest; a ‘MyDigital FlipBooks’ Multimedia Library for the use of professionals, to support young people and vulnerable adults in lifelong learning paths; a Basic Learning Platform compatible with all digital devices and aimed at motivating young people and adults to complete learning paths to basic and citizenship skills.Expected outcomes are:- increased number of adults and young people, EU and not-EU, with poor or no schooling, motivated to develop/improve functional literacy, numeracy, digital, social and citizenship skills according to their social inclusion needs and aspiration.- improved abilities of professionals, in motivating the project target groups to learn and enhance their skills.- effective ""awareness, orientation, and motivation to learn"" strategies implemented at the community level, for the benefit of particularly vulnerable non-literate people"

FIC-FIGHTERS is a local democracy project. It is the search for new economic models deliberately agreed to manage of waste that harms the natural and cultural heritage. It is a space for discussion on the adoption of alternatives for wastes that has been accumulating near our cities for decades. The project will involve different local actors, industries, authorities, SMEs, RTD centers, and universities to inclusively scale up to TRL6-7 waste recovery processes under the premises of the circular economy, focusing on the valorization of phosphogypsum waste (PG) to generate sustainable raw materials for use in the paper, cement, batteries, fertilizers and detergents industries. For 48 months, the different actors, in cooperation with the CCRI, will be involved in making the new circular business models a reality. The project will: 1) Build a mobile pilot plant (TRL7) based on optimised results and digital twin of the processes to demonstrate the sustainable production of raw materials (sodium sulfate, REE and P, aluminum hydroxide, ammonium sulfate and precipitated calcium carbonate) for different industries, starting from phosphogypsum and other wastes. 2) Create a PG forum for local discussions and develop local workshops in each of the 6 case studies, including citizen participation, addressing socio-economic, environmental and regulation aspects of the new circular business models developed to become a reality and reaching trust and acceptance. 3) Address the flexibility and replicability of the valorization processes by involving 7 case studies and create the first known PG Exploitation Portal aiming to identify, characterise, and reach all European cities with same problematic. 4) Contribute to knowledge exchange in clustering and CCRI events; creating a Community of Practice and making the results of the project publicly available and exploitable, addressing IP protection. 5) Provide guidelines to reach circularity based on LCA, LCC, social and H&S studies.

XTREMOLIFE will accelerate the bioprospection & biodiscovery of novel extremophile microorganisms. XTREMOLIFE uniqueness is advancing next-generation sampling technologies tailored for extreme conditions: [1] Enhanced Ferrybox for boats (self-operating), [2] novel XTREMOsensor for hand-held use, and [3] automated microscopic imagery identification. In addition, we explore (a large) biodiversity from 3 extremophilic ecosystems by bioprospecting across 5 regions (Route 1), and 5 untapped culture collections (Route 2). We will join those two routes by identifying promising extremophilic microorganisms, produced metabolites, elucidating their bioactivity and structure, optimizing their cultivation, and guaranteeing a baseline pathway towards full exploitation. We will focus on microalgae, cyanobacteria, and their associated microbiome, with a particular interest in bacteria and fungi. The culture collections NORCCA (Norway), ACUF (Italy), BEA (Spain), LEGE-CC (Portugal), TII (Abu Dhabi/UAE) will be prospected. In parallel, we will assess the microbiome and plan sampling from 5 locations: [1] Antarctic, [2] Volcanic aquatic environments in Canary Island, [3]Azores, [4]Mexico, and [5] Abu Dhabi: focusing on hypersaline and extremely hot springs. We will assess the complexity of extremophilic ecology resorting to physical, chemical and biological data gathered. The chemical prospection will cover bioassays in the human, fish and plant health fields. Bioactive compounds will be isolated, and their structure fully characterized. Together, the consortium will select up to 7 different microbial compounds of interest-producing strains to be cultivated at lab scale, followed by a scale up to TRL 5 (feeding an Exploitation Roadmap). Finally, XTREMOLIFE will cover the legal framework of sampling, preserving and exploiting genetic material. The pathway towards full industrial exploitation (5-10 years after the project) in the various markets of applications will be characterized.