ACTIVAGE is a European Multi Centric Large Scale Pilot on Smart Living Environments. The main objective is to build the first European IoT ecosystem across 9 Deployment Sites (DS) in seven European countries, reusing and scaling up underlying open and proprietary IoT platforms, technologies and standards, and integrating new interfaces needed to provide interoperability across these heterogeneous platforms, that will enable the deployment and operation at large scale of Active & Healthy Ageing IoT based solutions and services, supporting and extending the independent living of older adults in their living environments, and responding to real needs of caregivers, service providers and public authorities. The project will deliver the ACTIVAGE IoT Ecosystem Suite (AIOTES), a set of Techniques, Tools and Methodologies for interoperability at different layers between heterogeneous IoT Platforms and an Open Framework for providing Semantic Interoperability of IoT Platforms for AHA, addressing trustworthiness, privacy, data protection and security. User-demand driven interoperable IoT-enabled Active & Healthy Ageing solutions will be deployed on top of the AIOTES in every DS, enhancing and scaling up existing services, for the promotion of independent living, the mitigation of frailty, and preservation of quality of life and autonomy. ACTIVAGE will assess the socio-economic impact, the benefits of IoT-based smart living environments in the quality of life and autonomy, and in the sustainability of the health and social care systems, demonstrating the seamless capacity of integration and interoperability of the IoT ecosystem, and validating new business, financial and organizational models for care delivery, ensuring the sustainability after the project end, and disseminating these results to a worldwide audience. The consortium comprises industries, research centres, SMEs, service providers, public authorities encompassing the whole value chain in every Deployment Site.

The overall objective of OASIS project is to exchange good practices in the field of social jobs of the future. This exchange will be between European local authorities and also other actors of social action. OASIS means « evOlutive & Attractive SocIal jobS ». The project would like to develop a prospective common vision for social actors in European countries, facing similar social issues and mutations such as, access to social rights and public services, the impact of digital technology on professionals and users, the rise of civil society actors and social economy, the support of new publics such as migrants and refugees, the response to sanitary crisis, etc. Social jobs skills are changing to meet new challenges in the practices and to face a lack of attractiveness. The Département de l’Isère (France) leads the OASIS consortium which brings together 3 other partners : Autonomous Region Aosta Valley (Italy), ONG Red Internacional B-Live (Spain), County Center for Resource and Educational Assistance Alba (Romania). This strategic partnership aims to learn from each other, sharing ideas, experiences and solutions experimented in different European countries on three main topics: How to adapt the tools and methods used by social professionals and how to share them ? How to better meet users’ expectations and strengthen their empowerment ? How to build career paths differently and improve social jobs’ attractiveness ? The project will be implemented through the sharing of theoretical and practical knowledge and of experiences on topics (converging at the European level). To implement the project, the partnership will organize short-term joint staff training events, lasting 3 to 5 days each, alternately in Italy, Romania, Spain and France, between September 2020 and August 2022. The main activity will consist on intra-community learning trips, with delegations made up of 5 social professionals per country, with job shadowing and workshops. A kick-off meeting and a final seminar will also be held, involving 50 to 100 participants – social workers, managers, experts, associations and grassroots community. These 2 seminars are participative events and combine several formats such as roundtable meetings (to share knowledge), project accelerators (for collective thinking), co-construction workshops (to produce), TED-style events, moving debates (world cafe, hackathon, open forum, etc)OASIS project will allow participants to increase practices knowledges by experimenting with new ways of acting, improving project methodologies, experimenting collective actions carried out by citizens, discovering other jobs or fields of social action. The partnership will propose recommendations for initial and continuing training, evolution of social jobs’ referential. Another deliverable will be action sheets on transferable and/or innovative experimentations. The final goal is to promote employability and empowerment.In the longer term, the links established between the European partners will allow the consortium to work together to enrich its practices. This project will contribute to developing of a forward-looking approach in the evolution of social professions and to strengthen their attractiveness.

OPERA project aims at supporting these ambitious challenges with technological innovation on three main aspects: • Design next generation Low Power (LP) and Ultra-Low Power (ULP) systems, • improve energy efficiency in computing by means of heterogeneous architectures, • and provide smart and energy efficient solution for the interaction between embedded smart systems and remote small form-factor data centers OPERA project fits into the mission and scope of the H2020 ICT workplan for 2014 and 2015 aspiring to the European leadership in industrial technologies for the Ultra-Low Power computing devices and sensors enabling an ecosystem of heterogeneous devices and small form factor data centers In this context, OPERA’s vision is to deliver innovation on highly parallel, heterogeneous, reliable, low power, and secure systems leveraging both low power server-class processors and reconfigurable devices. While the former provide energy efficient processing power for the majority of the workloads, the latter offer the possibility of customizing and adapting hardware solutions over time to specific needs. The targets of innovation in OPERA are next generation LP servers and highly parallel embedded computer systems based on ULP architectures. Adopting a mechanism for selecting the best processing element for a specific task is fundamental for achieving good levels in energy efficiency. OPERA aims at exploiting such kind of mechanisms to orchestrate both general-purpose and reconfigurable devices. The OPERA vision is to integrate ULP smart devices into a platform that uses next-generation LP servers to remotely process the data and offering cloud-based services. OPERA's added value to the project is the validation of the technological solutions on three different real-life workloads use-cases. By integrating and optimizing computing systems for energy efficiency at different levels of the computing continuum, OPERA envisages the creation of big opportunities for Europe