This proposal for a European Cancer Patient Digital Centre (ECPDC) Information Portal, EU-CIP, addresses the information needs of cancer patients, survivors, relatives, and caregivers. EU-CIP aims to create a patient-centric cancer information portal that improves health literacy, empowers patients, and reduces inequalities in access to cancer care information across Europe. The EU-CIP primary goal is to improve quality of life and enhance cancer patient care by improving access to general and personalized knowledge, delivering comprehensive information on cancer prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment options including risks, side effects and late effects as well as information on rehabilitation and management of recurrence and palliative care. EU-CIP will prioritise high-incidence cancers, those with poor prognosis, and paediatric cancers. A Common Library of Contents available to all Member States will be created and EU-CIP nodes will be deployed in 10 Member States. The Library of Contents will use information from evidence-based sources such as the Knowledge Centre on Cancer and the European Cancer Information Service, existing Cancer Information Portals, and European guidelines. A governance framework for scalable content creation and review processes supported by AI tooling will be established. The consortium partners, including several patient organisations, will ensure that the patients’ view is reflected in the content review and technology usability aspects. The EU-CIP Central and local nodes will be built in a modular fashion to allow integration with existing electronic health infrastructures. To align with the EU Cancer Mission goal to improve lives through prevention, EU-CIP will raise awareness about the Mission and Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan. Alignment with the Mission’s overall plans will be realized through collaboration with the EU funded projects of the related 01-01/01-02 calls.

CircularPSP brings together 7 procurers from 7 countries, representing 45 million citizens, to invest €5.64 million in R&D to tackle the common challenge of accelerating digital transition towards a Circular Economy (CE). The Buyers Group represents highly attractive national markets (DE, FI, TR, SE, IE, PT, SI) supported by a Preferred Partner in UK, including capitals with global influence (Berlin, Helsinki, London, Istanbul). The consortium represents European CE-transition and PCP leaders in science and practice. Suppliers are expected to deliver a new green digital public service and data platform enabling entire municipal operations (city) and the local economy (market) to choose, open up, and consume existing and new data. The solution is to support business processes and workflows to plan, procure and implement innovative CE-solutions across Europe more quickly and at larger volume. The unmet procurement needs are: tools to improve organisational and operational performance; data analytics using taxonomies to exploit and exchange CE information and data; removal of language barrier to unlock EU-wide knowledge and learnings. To enable the transition suppliers will answer with ICT innovation in the cross-cutting combination and leveraging of existing and new strategic digital technologies: 1) scalable platforms for city and SMEs users, 2) CE data analytics using EU taxonomy, open linked data, injected by AI, and 3) natural language processing (NLP) to break language barriers across the EU and beyond. The envisaged solution is relevant for all European authorities including cities, ministries, agencies, and housing. Activity triggered by the solution will increase the volume of circular procurement and widen commercialisation opportunities for green digital companies and result in EU leadership in Circular Economy. With interoperability at the core and innovative tools for data sharing and open standards, the solution will provide a use case for the upcoming Common Industrial and Green Deal European Data.

The Agile EDU project aims to identify key success factors for supporting the implementation at scale of digital education ecosystems that enable inclusive and high-quality digital education. The consortium comprises European Schoolnet (coordinator) and partners from Portugal, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Spain, France and Slovenia. The project aims to establish a European learning community engaged in dialogue and collaboration on digital ecosystem governance, to develop relevant organisational and individual capacity and to formulate recommendations to improve digital strategies through agile transformation of education systems. The project uses agile transformation methodology involving cycles of feedback and improvement of tasks to maximize the quality, usability and sustainability of project results. The spiral of agile transformation in the project includes three iterations of a survey of ministries and national agencies, four iterations of expert validation workshops, four rounds of Country Dialogue Labs involving the main stakeholders and three rounds of EU Dialogue Labs. In each iteration, case studies, learning stories, recommendations and training resources are improved, enriched and validated to ensure that final results are usable in different education contexts and countries. The use of data for learning is at the core of the project and questions such as the following are addressed: For what purposes are data collected and do they in fact serve those purposes? Which data are needed to lead to action? (pedagogical issue); Which actions are needed to keep data safe? How to guard against plagiarism and cheating in student assignments and grade tests? (trust and data security issue). Who owns the data, how are data stored and who should have access to data? (data ownership issue). Do teachers and parents need to be able to see everything a student has done online? Which rules should govern the use of Artificial Intelligence in schools? (data ethics issue).