Demographic change is a globally recognized societal challenge. All countries in Europe are experiencing an ageing of their populations, and this trend will even increase in the future.Moreover, the number of older people with multiple and complex chronic conditions – the segment of the population that is already putting the greatest demands on health and social care services – is growing rapidly. It is expected so that demand will rise for both technically less complex care, as for instance, in Home Care for Elderly People and technically more complex care, as new technologies, such as genomics, metabolic testing, and computer-assisted surgery,… However currently there are not sustainable models for health and care delivery.In this context, the Integrated Care model has erupted in Europe as a new approach to get the long-term sustainability of health and care systems. This new approach promotes a better coordinated care pathway for patients, through team work of multidisciplinary professionals from the health and social services fields. Integrated Care services are more closely oriented to the needs of patients /users, multidisciplinary, well-co-ordinated and accessible, as well as anchored in community and Home Care settings.An enabler that will support the process of transformation of health and care delivery towards integrated care is the workforce. The CAREVOLUTION Project focuses on the side and perspective of professionals that work at Home Care Service, the homecare workers. Home care workers are the closest professional in contact with the elderly. It is for that reason that it is expected they might support the process of implementation of integrated care systems and models, delivering new higher added value tasks. Currently they cannot complete these tasks, because they do not have the necessary competences to complete them. Existing professional qualification frameworks for homecare workers do not contemplate which potential roles homecare workers might play within integrated care systems and models, hindering thus any kind of training efforts of such workforce on the skills necessary for the adoption of such roles. The overall goal of the CAREVOLUTION project was to improve and uplift the competences and skills of the professional profile of Home Care Workers in Europe by the update and review of their current professional profile and qualifications, for the inclusion of new competences and skills demanded for the adoption by these professionals of new tasks and roles in the framework of Integrated Care models.Consequently, the CAREVOLUTION partnership was established with 5 different organizations which have a complementary profile and are all working in the fields of the people dependency, the health and social care services and the VET training for care workers. In addition, 4 different countries are represented in order to enlarge the geographical scope of this project.The CAREVOLUTION project has led to the realization of a) 3 PREPARATORY ACTIVITIES (description of Good practices of Integrated Care Models; description of Unmet needs of elderly people with chronic diseases; description of the new Professional Profile of Home Care Worker.); b) 1 GENERAL TRAINING CURRICULA composed of 4 Units, responding to the new competences and skills to be provided to Home Care Workers on Integrated Care models; c) 4 ADAPTATION AT REGONAL / NATIONAL LEVEL taking into consideration the specific needs and context; d) 3 PILOT TESTING implemented and evaluated in Spain, the Netherlands and Scotland, which involved 56 Home Care Workers and 8 Trainers, and outreached indirect beneficiaries (approx. 164 Elderly people and 260 Informal caregivers); e) 1 SPANISH TRAINING CURRICULA WITH THEIR LEARNING MATERIALS adapted to the Basque Country; f) 1 ITALIAN TRAINING CURRICULA adapted to Emilia Romagna Region; g) 1 DUTCH TRAINING CURRICULA WITH THEIR LEARNING MATERIALS adapted to the Netherlands; h) 1 SCOTTISH TRAINING CURRICULA WITH THEIR LEARNING MATERIALS adapted to Scotland; i) 5 DISSEMINATION WORKSHOPS in 3 different countries (Italy, Scotland and the Netherlands) with 94 local participants; j) 1 FINAL CONFERENCE in Spain with 21 local participants.; and k) 37 DISSEMINATION ACTIONS were ran all along the project in the different participating countries.As a result, CAREVOLUTION project contributes to foster and facilitate the implementation of new Integrated Care models in Europe, allows Home Care Workers to access to new training opportunities on competences demanded for new integrated care models, enhancing their professional qualification and employability and uplifting the social consideration of these professionals, by the adoption of new functions and roles requiring a bigger qualification, and definitely enhances the quality of life and empowerment of patients and their family.

1. CONTEXT:The rapid aging of the population in Europe and the consequent increase on the number of people with some degree of dependence that need attention, creates an increased demand for care workers in Residential and Assisted Living Care field, where there is a growing need of qualified workers all over Europe.In this context, CAREMPLOY goal is to actively promote people's (specially women) labor integration in the sector of White Jobs (Residential and Assisted Living Care - RALC) through the updating and transfer of a specific Training Programme tailored to the needs of the sector and to the National Qualification Frameworks (NQFs) of partner countries, which promotes entrepreneurship of students, through Social Economy models.CAREMPLOY is based upon the PREPÁRATE Training Programme, implemented successfully by the Association of Social Economy Entities of Navarra (ANEL), in Spain, since 2009, leading to the qualification of women with low education levels, on 2 qualifications on the social and health care field regulated by the Spanish NQF.2. PARTNERS:Project has been carried out during 24 months by 5 partners from 5 European countries, which show complementing areas of expertise on management of European projects, VET training, Social Economy, ICT solutions in VET and/or Health and Social Care: Iniciativas Innovadoras (Spain, social economy company with broad experience in promoting entrepreneurship and coordination of European projects), FormAzione Co&so Network (Italy, Consortium of 10 Social Cooperatives with longstanding experience in job insertion on RALC sector, specialized in Social Economy models, entrepreneurship and training), SIC (Lithuania, specialized in social work and non-formal education), ORT France (expert in VET education and ICTs) and CPIP (Romania, VET center on educational and social fields specialized in Adult Training ).3. PROJECT RESULTS:a) CAREMPLOY Training Programme:The CAREMPLOY Training mainly aims to promote the labor integration of people (especially women) on the white sector and improve the quality of the services in the sector. The program combines training in the sector's needs, in collective entrepreneurship and in seeking jobs in the sector.It is available in 6 languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian and Lithuanian. The English version is generic, applicable to different contexts. Other versions besides being translated, they are adapted to the realities of the countries participating in the project: Spain, France, Italy, Romania and Lithuania.Training has an estimated duration of 250 hours, of which 150 are designed to be taught face-to-face and 100 online. It has 12 modules: 1. Gerontology: dependency care; 2. Professional caregiver; 3. Mental health; 4.Palliative Care; 5. Basic health care; 6.Nutrition and health of dependent people; 7. First aid; 8. Prevention of labor risks; 9. Mobilization techniques of dependent people; 10. Professional development and social skills; 11. Collective entrepreneurship; 12. Personal plan of active job search.b) Guides CAREMPLOY Training- Student and Trainer versions:The Training Guides CAREMPLOY, student and trainer versions, have been developed during the project. Guides are available in the following languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Lithuanian and Romanian.They contain all the necessary information for the implementation of the Training Programme. They provide information about its contents, as well as technical information on the use of the Platform.4. HOW TO ACCESS THE TRAINING AND THE GUIDESIt can be accessed from this link: www.projectcaremploy.eu/moodle and ERAMSUS + Project Results Platform. In the link national contact points can be found to facilitate the access to CAREMPLOY Training in order to participate as trainee or implementing entity:1. Italy: Sofia Jobbagy: cooperazione@formazionenet.eu and Marco Gianrossi: gianrossi@formazionenet.eu. 2. Romania: Rodica Pana: contact@cpip.ro. 3. Lithuania: Justina Kiudyte: j.kiudyte@socin.lt and general: visiems@socin.lt. 4. France: Anne-Elisabeth Lenel: anne-elisabeth.lenel@ort.asso.fr. 5. Spain and other countries: Maria José Vivar: mjvivar@anel.es.5. IMPACT:The CAREMPLOY project has achieved:- Increased offer of high quality Training on Residential and Assisted Living Care sector.- Increased number of skilled and trained professionals in RALC field.- Contribution to employment, by the promotion of the Social Economy initiatives in RALC field.

GATES will develop a serious game-based training platform, in order to train professionals across the agricultural value chain on the use of Smart Farming Technologies (SFT), thus allowing deploying its full economic and environmental potential in European agriculture. The positive impact on the adoption of Smart Farming Technologies (SFT) in crop farming has been well established for the last 10 years. In fact, many SFT are available at present time, but farmers find it difficult to grasp which are the technologies that can be used and furthermore, which are the productivity and environmental benefits brought by their adoption. Likewise, SFT companies face barriers in the commercialization of their equipment due to the lack of knowledge and training of the farmer community. GATES provides the farmer community, agronomical students, extension services and the SFT industry sales force an easy to use and understand gaming experience that will allow a first approach to the concept of SFT, their uses, available equipment and simulation on the adoption of such technologies. GATES will develop a near-to-market (TRL7) serious game-based training platform that, through the use of a range of gaming technologies (3D scenarios, interactive storytelling, modeling and data), will train professionals and other stakeholders in the value chain in the use of SFT. GATES will develop a cross-platform (Desktop/Mobile/Web) serious gaming available for Android, iOS and Windows featuring online and offline synchronized modes. GATES will represent a successful example on the use of serious gaming as a training tool, applicable on formal and informal educational settings, on a complex and multidisciplinary subject such as SFT, benefitting from serious gaming capabilities such as virtual environments and worlds, personalized tutorial tools, competition between peers, wide personalization to real life and simulated case scenarios, etc.

"The European Union stresses the need of promoting key competences for lifelong learning on its Europe 2020 Strategy and on the Recommendations of the European Parliament and the European Council of 2006 (2006/962/EC). However, as the Euridyce´s 2012 report “Developing Key Competences at School in Europe” reveals, there is a lack of more strategic approach in supporting the key competences integration at school. Introducing new and innovative models or improving the applied ones requires dedication and time, which constitutes an obstacle for the KC integration.In this context, KEYCOLAB is a project which, based on the exchange of experiences of different models developing KCs at primary school (strategies, materials, tools, training programmes…), will enable partners to exchange, improve and test models and resources with the objective of improving the applied ones and provide the knowledge to develop new ones. This project is a space for exchange, for cooperation and testing, based on the applied good and innovative practices in different EU regions and countries. Moreover, the project aims at raising awareness on the importance of integrating KC at school curricula and involving the different stakeholder groups in its practical implementation.For doing so, KEYCOLAB will produce these intellectual outputs:• KEYCOLAB Case Study Report: It will compile the strategies, methodologies, materials, tools, training contents, improvement recommendations… applied internally by partners. It will be developed after individual cases analysis, a face-to-face exchange workshop and Individual Action Plans based on the lessons learnt.• KEYCOLAB Training Programme: Joint Training Programme on key competences at primary school composed by three modules addressing the different target groups of the school community (school management teams, teachers and families). It will be developed after a training modules exchange workshop, the elaboration of a report on the aspects to be improved by partners regarding their training programmes and the different groups´ needs identification. The Programme will be adapted to the partners´ regions and countries´ specificities. • KEYCOLAB Laboratory: Set of activities and resources for the testing of projects developing key competences at primary school (materials, methodologies, tools, evaluation systems…), as well as training modules. It includes the development of the KEYCOLAB Platform: Online platform which will contain all project outputs. Access will be open to all stakeholders free of charges (at least during the project lifetime). It will be a cooperation and exchange tool which will give the possibility to upload and share materials, methodologies, tools, training programmes… through the working groups that will be created, to participate in a community forum, to be updated on KC field though the news section…The KEYCOLAB project will be carried out by 6 partners from 5 different EU countries. Four of them are school or teachers associations active on KC integration at primary school curricula (from Spain, Romania, Belgium and UK), grouping a high number of school centers and teachers. Additionally, P4 will offer to the partnership the perspective of a University expert in primary school education and teachers training in Finland. Finally, P2 will complement this technical knowledge with its experience in Erasmus+, Lifelong Learning and other EU programmes. KEYCOLAB directly responds to the Erasmus+ priorities “Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods”, ""Effective strategies for enhancing basic skills"" and “Addressing low achievement in basic skills through more effective teaching methods”. All project activities promote these aims.KEYCOLAB will have the following impact:• Increased number of school community members trained and involved on KC integration at primary school curricula. • Increased case study analysis, materials, tools, methodologies… already tested at the disposal of the school community for the practical integration of the key competences at primary school.• Increased cooperation and exchange between EU stakeholders of the school education sector.• Increased awareness of the general public on the benefits, context and situation of the key competences at primary school.KEYCOLAB will have long term impact. The materials, methodologies, resources, training modules, testing models, knowledge… exchanged and shared, the Case Study report, the KEYCOLAB Training Programme, the projects tested under the KEYCOLAB Laboratory and all resources and information exchanged at the KEYCOLAB Platform will last after the end of the project. Moreover, the KEYCOLAB Platform compiling all project outcomes is expected to be running long time after the end of the project. With this aim, in the framework of the Exploitation Strategy, a Platform Legacy Report will be developed and agreed by all partners."

European agriculture is increasingly challenged by climatic variability and weather extremes causing drought and temperature stress to crops that are very often highly sensitive to abiotic stress conditions, resulting in low productivity and yield loss. Camelina sativa is a reemerging native European oilseed that has retained its natural stress tolerance and receives attention because of its untapped breeding potential, adaptability, yield stability and high performance in variable environments. UNTWIST will unravel the stress response mechanisms of the climate-resilient crop Camelina and reveal its successful stress adaptation strategies for implementing them in new agronomic solutions. UNTWIST brings together a unique consortium with complementary expertise in stress mechanisms, (epi)genetic regulation, physiology, metabolism, crop modelling, and crop management to drive biological discovery. Stakeholder expertise by three SMEs will allow smooth knowledge transfer into crop improvement and new management strategies. UNTWIST will use genetically diverse Camelina cultivars in open field and stress-controlled experiments together with sophisticated systems-based approaches to uncover the plant’s adaptive multi-layered stress response mechanisms. Complex data integration will provide genome scale models revealing plant strategies for managing uncertainty and a validated accurate model to predict crop performance in variable environments. Moreover, UNTWIST will deliver new tools and markers for effective translation into other crops. Finally, UNTWIST will meet the climate challenge in agriculture by providing elite-adapted Camelina germplasm and developing agronomic management practices for ready adoption by farmers into new climate resistant cropping systems.