The world demographic growth and global climate change are major challenges for human society,hence the need to design new strategies for maintaining high crop yield in unprecedented environmental conditions.The objective of TomGEM is to design new strategies aiming to maintain high yields of fruit and vegetables at harsh temperature conditions, using tomato as a reference fleshy fruit crop.As yield is a complex trait depending on successful completion of different steps of reproductive organ development, including flower differentiation and efficient flower fertilization,TomGEM will use trans-disciplinary approaches to investigate the impact of high temperature on these developmental processes.The core of the project deals with mining and phenotyping a vast range of genetic resources to identify cultivars/genotypes displaying yield stability and to uncover loci/genes controlling flower initiation,pollen fertility and fruit set.Moreover,since high yield and elevated temperatures can be detrimental to quality traits,TomGEM will also tackle the fruit quality issue.The goal is to provide new targets and novel strategies to foster breeding of new tomato cultivars with improved yield.The main strength of TomGEM resides in the use of unique and unexplored genetic resources available to members of the consortium.It gathers expert academic researchers and private actors committed to implement a multi-actor approach based on demand driven innovation.Tomato producers and breeders are strongly involved from design to implementation of the project and until the dissemination of results.TomGEM will provide new targets and novel strategies to foster the breeding of new tomato cultivars with improved yield under suboptimal temperature conditions.TomGEM will translate scientific insights into practical strategies for better handling of interactions between genotype,environment and management to offer holistic solutions to the challenge of increasing food quality and productivity.

eSGarden project aims to improve inclusive quality education and students' skills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGLfU3c_mlM Ecological school gardens deal with many sustainable development targets (SDGs) such as ensuring healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, inclusive and equitable quality education, gender equality or responsible consumption. eSGarden makes a step forward in School Gardens with an innovative technology transferring pilot which pretends to transfer to the classroom activities the garden through the creation of a virtual environment that transform garden observation and work in data and information which allow the teacher to, on the one hand, build own educational resources and on the other hand, establish a connection between the physical world (garden) and the digital (virtual), linking non-formal activities outside the classroom with the content of the programs of the teaching guides. It eases the integral development of the students, helping to improve their self-esteem and personal satisfaction because the activities carried out are highly motivating and link the process of learning with the development of both personal and academic skills. Moreover, school gardens improve the relationship between the community and the school, since social and educative networks are created, fostering the feeling of belonging to a bigger community, encouraging cultural exchange, sustainability values, social integration and digital responsible use in a globalized Europe. The ambition of the project leads to a multidisciplinary project with partners from schools, universities, organizations and business: - Colegio La Purísima-Hermanas Franciscanas de la Inmaculada (Spain). - Agrupamento de Escolas de Paredes (Portugal) - Directorate of Primary School Education (Greece) - Osnovna sola Smartno pod Smamo goro (Slovenia) - Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain) - Universidade do Porto (Portugal) - Universitatea Tehnica Cluj-Napoca (Romania) - Fundación CajaMar de la Comunidad Valenciana (Spain) - TB Agrosensor S.L. (Spain) The cooperation among formal and non-formal educative organizations foster the creation of a community that addresses the integration of ICTs in schools cooperatively, taking into account technological innovations, research and the real needs of schools. Project results are focused on developing a new methodology approach based on the adoption of school gardens in the school’s curriculum within an ICT approach. The methodology will be implemented as a transversal programme to primary and secondary curriculum within different topics such as environment, society, economy, nutrition, etc. Relevant skills improvement will be focused on linguistic, technological, cultural and social skills. Project quality is based on the definition of targets and quality indicators, especially sensitive to improve low achievers, special needs as well as education for global citizenship. Quality covers different dimension and key axes of it measured by students’ motivation; students’ critical thinking and responsible attitudes; students’ cooperative attitudes and social challenges commitment, as well as curriculum integration assessed by integrated teaching practices and teachers´ mind set changes. The potential of technology has two aspects. On the one hand, the interaction of students and teachers within their local environment. On the other hand, the openness towards a community that shares, collaborates and grows around a project. Therefore, the sustainability of the project is based on providing a background on experience and best practices, but also with open resources such as a software open library to control, virtualize and manage information related to school gardens; a MOOC (Massive Open On Line Course in School Gardens and ICT Activities Design; and a Screenplay book on School Gardens. Students, teachers and staff necessities should be translated into control, management and interaction requirements attending to the variety of plots, agro-uses and agro- specific planning of schools. Resources will help teacher to design gardens explaining items such as agronomic aspects, management techniques, eLearning and educational prospective. The project involves several target groups: schools’ teachers and students, families, higher education professors, university students, higher education adult students, managers and experts and personnel in organizations. In addition to the schools' students, other beneficiaries of the project will be, therefore, university students. In addition, it opens up new ways of educational research on the application of technology to holistic education in the field of schools. Among the associated partners, the project is of interest to associations that promote values such as coherence, caring for people and the planet, equity, co-responsibility, participation, solidarity and transparency.

Tomato is a paradigm of crop domestication: a widely cultivated and consumed vegetable but with reduced genetic diversity and therefore highly vulnerable to emerging diseases and climate change. Fortunately, tomato is rich in genetic resources and information to overcome those difficulties and a coalition of scientists and breeding experts which have generated a large amount of this information have been organized under an effective management structure and a series of objectives to overcome those threats. HARNESSTOM aims to demonstrate that increasing use of Genetic Resources is key for food safety and security and can lead to innovation and benefit all stakeholders. By capitalizing on the large effort done recently in several EU-funded projects to connect phenotypes/genotypes in a large number of accessions from different germplasm banks and academia, HARNESSTOM will first collect, centralize and normalize this wealth of information in a way that is easily searchable and displayed in a user-friendly manner adapted to different type of users. Second, HARNESSTOM will develop four prebreeding programs addressing the major challenges of the field: 1) introducing resistances against major emerging diseases, 2) improving tomato tolerance to climate change, 3) improving quality 4) increasing resilience in traditional European tomato by participatory breeding. And additional goal is to increase speed and efficiency in prebreeding what is needed to be able to respond to the emerging challenges in a timely and effective manner. Joint leadership of both academia and industry in each of the WP and the participation of two NGOs representing different stakeholders guarantees the results of the project will have an impact in industry innovation and also in the society. An efficient management and outreach and communication platform is also in place to make sure the project runs smoothly and the interests of all stakeholders are protected