"In all European Member States there are telephone or Internet-based crisis helplines for people in need, with suicidal intentions, diverse mental health problems and many life-limiting problems. The task of crisis services is to accompany those people, to provide contact or relationship, to relieve them emotionally, to give orientation and, if necessary, to absorb suicidal crises. Most crisis services work with volunteers who are carefully prepared for this responsible activity for months. According to the International Association of Telephone Emergency Services (IFOTES), there are about 350 crisis centers in Europe with over 20,000 volunteers providing emergency assistance day and night in over 4 million telephone calls and over 100.000 internet contacts. 2-3 thousand volunteers have to be trained every year to keep the crisis helpline around the clock. The recruitment of volunteers is complex and costly and ongoing training is needed. The core competence for crisis support is listening.Against this background, 9 partners from 6 EU Member States have joined in an interdisciplinary consortium with the aim to expand the existing knowledge about listening skills more individually, to study the architecture of listening, to measure the competences of human beings and their ability to heart-listen, and to give new attitudes about the technique and art of competent listening. The Strategic Partnership consist of 6 Telephone Emergency Services (TES) from DE, IT, HU, FR, NL, ES, one research center specialised in emotional and mental health (DE), a training provider and consultancy in the field of social skills, skills assessment and vocational guidance (IT) and a developer of digital platform solutions (DE).The main outcome of the project will be the MonaLiSa testing and learning instrument which allows people to measure their individual listening skills competence (questionnaire) and they will get support to improve listening by using individually suggested learning nuggets on the base of the test. The learning- instrument will be created as a Web-Application that can be connected to different Webpages of institutes which promote listening skills and emotional support in Europe and it will be translated in seven languages (English, German, Italian, Hungarian, French, Spanish, Dutch).It will be an open digital educational resource that enables lifelong learning in the field of soft skill competences. It will help people to develop individual competences in listening, social competence and dialogue competence internationally.The proposal aims at making lifelong learning and mobility a reality, by creating flexible learning pathways and addressing adult learners which can be involved at different stage of their life encouraging international mobility and networking. The proposal will thus pave the way to the EU 2020 target of raising adult education attainment, by making it more attractive with new cross-sectoral subject topics of current international relevance and by encouraging CSO capacity building and the acquisition of key competences through innovative adult education.This project is christened by the acronym “MonaLiSa”: Measurement of nowadays advanced Listening-Skills attitudes. Mona Lisa smiles as an emotionally balanced and Listening-Skills competent person, she is internationally known and this year is the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonorado da Vinci, who spent several months doing mathematical and physical research in libraries and among scholars. Here he had been appointed as a consultant regarding some architectural difficulties in the construction of a cathedral. With the studies on body proportions and faces and anatomical studies, he wanted to ""get to know the inside of the person"" exactly. With the Erasmus+ project MonaLiSa we want to study the architecture of listening to measure the competences of human being and it’s ability to heart-listen, and we want to give new attitudes about the technique and art of competent listening."

A big challenge in the Urbanism/Mobility sector is not anymore to reduce what we call noise but to qualify the soundscape, to shape the vibrations of urban spaces, and to design the ambiance of the city in a way that makes it enjoyable, secure, and familiar. We must consider acting on the sound of the city as a design issue applied to the most immersive “matter” in order to improve the quality of urban life. If Goethe defined music as liquid architecture, he probably meant that this is the dark matter of our urban environment that we should tame, design, and desire. ReSilence will use new technologies (AI & XR) to 1) explore the borders between noise and music in a changing world by producing an acoustic awareness in urban spaces (not only reducing the intensity of noise, but also considering it as an energy producer and designing positive sounds, sounds we want to preserve and multiply), 2) create new types of sonic urban experiences that expand possibilities for accessibility, active participation/engagement, sustainability, and social inclusion, and 3) involve and collaborate with artists in order to leverage multiple sources of inspiration, interdisciplinary collaboration, and build trust around AI & XR technologies. ReSilence will support Art-Driven Experiments (ADE) through Open Calls to artists (type a) and artist-SME teams (type b), with a specific budget allocated for this purpose. Artists in ReSilence will have access to AI and XR technology in order to reflect on novel uses and their impact on society. They will also help in ensuring that the development process and system behavior of the technologies explicitly acknowledge human values and needs.

The current international situation makes the process of energy transition more critical for Europe than ever before. It is a key requirement to increase the penetration of renewables while aiming at making the infrastructure more resilient and cost-effective. In this context, digital twins (DT) build a key asset to facilitate all aspects of business and operational coordination for system operators and market parties. It is of fundamental importance to now start a process of agreement at European level so not to develop isolated instances but a federated ecosystem of DT solutions. Each operator should be able to make its own implementation decisions while preserving and supporting interoperability and exchange with the remaining ecosystem. Exactly this is the vision of the TwinEU consortium: enabling new technologies to foster an advanced concept of DT while determining the conditions for interoperability, data and model exchanges through standard interfaces and open APIs to external actors. The envisioned DT will build the kernel of European data exchange supported by interfaces to the Energy Data Space under development. Advanced modeling supported by AI tools and able to exploit High Performance Computing infrastructure will deliver an unprecedented capability to observe, test and activate a pan-European digital replica of the European energy infrastructure. In this process, reaching consensus is crucial: the consortium therefore gathers an unprecedented number of actors committed to achieving this common goal. The concepts developed by TwinEU span over 15 different European countries with a continuous coverage of the continental map. Demos will encompass key players at every level from transmission to distribution and market operators, while also testing the coordinated cross-area data exchange. The consortium also includes relevant industry players, research institutions and associations with a clear record in developing innovative solutions for Europe.