The proposed project seeks to support the development of interconnected innovation ecosystems across the EU with a starting point in three focus regions; the Greater Copenhagen region, Flanders and Northern Portugal. To this end, the partners will apply the S3-Innovation Model for development of Transformational Actions towards a circular economy, specifically focusing on actions for Reducing, Reusing and Rethinking resources within three sectors; plastics, textiles and construction. This methodology will be employed to map and analyse regional capacities and potentials for transformation through the involvement of quadruple helix focus groups to include priorities from different actors in the innovation ecosystems. Based on these mappings, the partners will identify cross-regional actions with potential to drive circular transformation across European innovation ecosystems. To enable concrete collaborations, the partners will develop one joint cross-regional action plan for collaborative actions in each of the three focus sectors, particularly focusing on actions for ‘reusing’, ‘reducing' and ‘rethinking’ resources. To prepare the ground for future implementation of the joint action plans, the partners will focus heavily on dissemination across EU territories and capacity building for ecosystem stakeholders. Moerover, the consortium will establish dedicated virtual collaboration spaces and communities on an already existing virtual platform to convene ecosystem stakeholders around project activities concerning circularity within plastics, textiles and construction. Upon the post-project implementation of the action plans, the proposed project is expected to contribute to increased market uptake and adoption of innovative solutions through concrete actions for connecting innovators to public buyers. Moreover, the project is expected to facilitate an infrastructure which enables closer connections between research institutions and innovators.

Why is Gutenberg considered as the inventor of printing? Because he popularised a process, tailored at contemporary needs, taking advantage of a technical background and enabling a dramatic empowerment of knowledge sharing. XR2Tndustry will be the Gutenberg of XR. Tts priorities are: data privacy, empowerment, industrial relevance, openness. To this extent LNX, hardware platform carrier, gathered key partners alongside with UPV, project coordinator to address these issues towards an open platform: i) a research group (UPV) specialised in technological solution's acceptance, impact on workers delivering key insights in building the right platform, ii) a group of lawyers (LML) delivering key insights in ensuring GDPR compliance and related best practices, along with iii) companies excelling in developing compliant and relevant content, while mastering the technology (ALT, SSQ), iv) an expert partner in large scale delivery of VR/XR solutions (TKP) ensuring no hurdle impairs a full industrial empowerment, while industrial expectations and needs are brought by v) end users (FLX as partners and further through XR2Tndustry's Advisory board). Tn addition, FBA and FBC will provide a critical support in operating cascade fundings. These laters will empower stakeholders in technology structuration on XR platform, bring complementary insights on standardisation, and empower industrial users on the human-centric framework. Bringing XR to industry will be possible only when the full value chain is considered (knowledge holders, technology providers and integrators, distributors, end-users) as in XR2Tndustry. Moreover openness is key to enable empowerment, while not precluding partners' and third-parties' exploitation. XR2Tndustry will gather 9 partners, support 12 third parties, and through advisory board and clustering activities, will leverage impact all over Europe. The foreseen direct turnover is estimated at several hundreds M€, with even larger indirect impacts on end-users.

The Every1 consortium brings together leading experts in energy and education, and experts in ecosystems combined with social sciences to deliver an impactful concept that includes all elements needed to enable an effective participation of all European stakeholders in the digital energy market. Every1 starts from a deep data-informed understanding of stakeholders and ecosystems (citizen, cities, energy communities, companies, regulators, and distribution grid operators) to map who they are, what they know, how they use information and where they look for it. Similarly are existing and emerging solutions (products and services) assessed and validated, and use cases will serve to understand what stakeholders need to know in order to take up a role that matches their potential. This gap is used to develop learning pathways that lead to the identification of the needed capacity building material. Parallel, Every1 works on making a market by exchanging best practices with policy makers and energy regulators, enabling discussions on barriers, and developing joint communication material for their peers. A strong outreach campaign is launched which focusses on the local level with impactful social media campaigns, material in various languages and spread through the media the local stakeholders use. The operation of the ecosystems is based on the proven EXPLORE SHAPE UNITE approach and includes guided one-on-one support, joint activities, webinars, matchmaking, and more. Future ecosystems are actively engaged and trained, while cooperation with diverse activities and networks will lead to a wider uptake of the capacity building material.

The aim of the oPEN Lab is to identify replicable, commercially viable solution packages enabling the achievement of positive energy neighbourhoods within existing urban contexts that are seamlessly integrated into the local energy system as an active micro-energy hub, and to test these technologies and package as an integrated solution at neighbourhood scale. Three open innovation living labs in the cities of Genk (BE), Pamplona (ES) and Tartu (EE) will test combinations of different close-to-market ready technologies and services and study their performance as a unique operating system. Focus is on demonstrating innovations in an integrated approach combining sustainable design tailored to the local context, seamless industrial renovation workflows, renewable energy generation combined with energy storage systems, urban service facilities and smart operation, life cycle thinking and circularity, and this across the whole value chain, targeting the whole life cycle of the building and its neighbourhood, in view of scaling up and wide replication. A user driven and participatory approach with the neighbourhood?s community will be rolled out for a holistic and positive energy vision for the neighbourhood, going beyond citizen awareness raising activities. oPEN Lab is a unique collaboration aligned with the Open Innovation quadruple helix model where a) industry (SMEs, large companies, start-ups and scale-ups in both construction and energy value chains), b) government (local public administration), c) academia/RTOs and d) civil participants (end users, NGOs) work together to co-create and drive structural changes that will result in high TRL levels, with great focus on exploitation of results and wide replication.