Many schools develop programs dedicated to students' social skills, with tools and guides targeting children and young students, in order to improve their mental health and their insertion in adult life. Several training curricula on social skills and competencies have been released in favour of students, financed by European, national or regional funds, but at the present stage there is no evidence of specific curriculum for youth workers who support young people with mental health disorders.In this context, the project objectives are:1.Deepen knowledge about Youth Workers needs and competencies in their work with young people with mental health problems; 2.Valorising the relevance of social and emotional competencies among young people with mental health disease;3.Create a European Framework of Competences for Youth Workers, strengthening their capacity to support social and emotional competencies among young people with mental health disorders;4.Increase the quality of informal and non-formal learning in the caring relationships between youth workers and young people;5.Improve the competencies of professionals and non-professionals who operate in this field;6.Facilitate the access to training on social and emotional competences of young people by local communities (teachers, practitioners, etc.);7.Improve the well being of young people increasing awareness of social and emotional competencies in their life.The participating organizations read as follows:- The International Di Liegro Foundation (applicant organization) has a cultural proposal of education and orientation for families and volunteers and it has gradually developed interventions to prepare the volunteers to interact with and supporting person with mental disease. It has previous experiences in EU projects and organizes several informal and non-formal learning activities for young people and for adult citizen.-The Center for promoting lifelong learning – CPIP - is a non-governmental, non-profit institution active in the educational and social field, that realized projects on various social and educational topics in Romania;- IASIS NGO, born in 2005, is a NGO that provide therapeutic, counselling services and psychosocial support to people with problems of mental health. Beside offering housing and day center services, this NGO provides psychiatric care to adults with mental health problems and their families, also organizing the reintegration into the society, and it is a leading institution for the rehabilitation of people with severe mental disorders in Greece;-The ASL Rome 1 coordinates, implements and evaluates psychiatric de-institutionalization initiatives. It has key institutional role within the Consultative bodies of Mental Health Public Department, Citizens’ representatives and Regional Government regard to social policies, together with policy makers and other stakeholders. For young people aged 14 to 25, ASL Roma 1 offers integrated facilities and services through the “Prevention Center and Early Mental Health Intervention” which specifically targets young people between the ages of 14 and 25;- Merseyside Expanding Horizons is not-for-profit organization working with social inclusion in UK. The working areas of this NGO are numerous, at EU and local level, and MHE has a rich experience in supporting individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds to fully participate in society through adult learning and helps people with mental health problems to develop their skills and competences.The results of YOU.PRO.ME. are as follows:-A European survey on Youth Workers needs about competencies and on needs of social and emotional competencies of young people with mental disorders;-A Competency Framework of Youth Workers, to define Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes and Values on developing social and emotional competencies of young people with mental health issues;-Handbook on the competencies of Youth Workers on mental health, for their empowerment in their work and personal life; -Friendly-Toolbox to involve young people with mental health problems to develop social and emotional Competencies; -An e-based Open Educational Resource (OER) addressed to Youth Workers and to a wider community of educators, trainers, youth practitioners whose aim is to share tools around the question of social and emotional competences when mental health of young people is concernedThe incorporation of social and emotional competencies in the new portfolio of competencies of the Youth Workers as a resource for assisting young people with mental health disorders can be one of the major impact at regional, national and even at a European level. We expect that YOU.PRO.ME will produce innovation, though the transfer of the outputs across organizations, services and into the wider community at a European level.

"<< Background >>Families of people with mental health problems are not sufficiently supported by public or private services operating in this field.The stigma, the isolation and self-isolation of the person with mental troubles equally exclude the family members from social relationships. At the same time the recovery interventions are not only directed to the most fragile person, but also to the whole family. A study conducted in five European countries(Italy, United Kingdom, Germany, Greece and Portugal) shows that family members who care for schizophrenic adults spend an average of 6-9 hours a day in providing care and a survey carried out by Rethink in the United Kingdom found that 95% of operators are family members of users (WHO, User empowerment in mental health, 2010): they have to be valorized and supported (European Framework for Action on Mental Health and Well-being, 2016).The relevant role of the families is reaffirmed in ""The European Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020"", which indicates: ""Identify and provide resources to support families who care for loved ones needing a long period of care, including training, support services and adequate benefits. ""But the interventions and methodologies that are adopted to support families are little known and widespread.FA.M.HE. is directed to sup-fulfills two of the 6 PRINCIPLES to be applied in action according to the ""European Framework for Action on Mental Health and Well being"" of the EU Joint Action on Mental Health and Well being (2016):A) Empowerment and involvement of patients, families and their organizations;B) Ensuring that policy and actions are supported by robust research evidence and knowledge of good practices, for contributing to the improvement of the dissemination of knowledge and the fight against the stigma associated with mental health problems, ensuring the participation of users and families.In this field, the psychoanalyst J.Garcia Badaracco had developed a innovative methodology , in the late 60s in the Borda psychiatric hospital of Buenos Aires, organizing the Multifamily Groups (MFGs) meetings with family members of several families at the same time. Since the end of the 90s his methodology has been spreading in Europe, particularly in Italy, Spain and Portugal, and in the last four years also in Belgium.Partners are working with this methodology but they are reporting many different elements in the organization and management in family meetings. Are different the therapeutic space, number of conductors / facilitators, timing of the group’s meetings, size of the groups, purpose (preventive or therapeutic), management of the group (by psychiatrists, psychologists, but also by nurses, social workers, educators). Even the role and the training of the conductors/facilitators are different.These interventions are insufficiently known both by the public and private institutions and are not supported by homogeneous and recognized methodologies and tools.There are several shortcomings related to multifamily groups, which can be summarized in two large groups:A) lack of research and information, by users and by institutions (stakeholders and policy makers)B) lack of training curriculum on the organization and the management of the MFGs, based on the sharing of tested methodologies, although the start-up and management of MFGs is a complex process that requires qualified interventions and the development of specific skills and competencies.<< Objectives >>Different objectives will be achieved that concern people, families, stakeholders and organizations working in the mental health field, but also all stakeholders and policy makers involved in social policies:A. Increase the knowledge about the Multifamily Groups (MFGs) existing in the field of mental health, and disseminate the collected information obtained trough a specific research on the types of existing models in different territories and at international level;B. Improve the operational methods adopted in GMF meetings, organized according to the theory of Garcia Badaracco, through the definition of standards for the organization and management of the groups, to support professionals, stakeholders and policy makers through a wealth of knowledge shared by experts from different countries and backgrounds;C. Strengthen the role and the figure of the conductor / facilitator of the MFGs in the labour marked and mental health sector, through the design of a European training curriculum based on his core skills and competencies, starting from partners experiences;D. Reinforce local communities for the development of new MFGs managed by conductors trained by an European curriculum, providing information, methodology and tools;E. Strengthen the Practice Community among MFGs key workers on mental health, through the organization of permanent sharing of know-how, of the training courses, of all documents offered as OER.About 1400 participants will be directly involved in the project: multi-family groups, conductors /facilitators, stakeholders and policy makers in the field of mental health. The realization of the intermediate objectives of FA.H.ME will be achieved also through territorial groups of experts and other participants not directly involved in the main activities. This will contribute to widen the number of participants, coming from Universities and public an private mental health services and social services.<< Implementation >>The activities are directly related to the objectives:A) A documentary and field research will analyze: territorial diffusion of the different MFGs models, their characteristics and presence in public/private entities in 4 countries and at international level, through a common survey tool and analysis of documentation, and via the web through a specific tool. A Guide of Multi-family Groups on mental health will be elaborated. These materials will be disseminated via the web platform and in the Universities and public and private organizations , through the partners social networks and the new elements involved by FA.H.ME.B) Each partner analyses the elements and characteristics of at least three MFGs meetings, taking into account the elements and results of the previous research. Areas to be explored : 1) constitution; 2) organization; 3) management; 4) review of results of the meeting.These 4 reports constitute the work materials of LTT activities, during three days of Job Shadowing. Partners:- analyze and compare the results;- identify the common elements of each area;- draw up a first version of a Vademecum.The coordinator of the LTT Activities organizes the final version of the Vademecum, the starting point for the analysis of the competencies.C) The coordinator of this tool set defines the methodology and the tools to identifies the competencies of the conductor/facilitator. The partners make suggestions and coordinator adopt them. A facilitator, expert in skills analysis:- organizes with each partner 1 virtual meetings with 9 conductors/facilitators of the MFGs (psychiatric, psychologist, nurses ...), to detect the competencies performed in four territories;- elaborates the results in a preliminary version.The coordinator shares this preliminary version, collects suggestions and elaborates the Competency Framework of the conductor/facilitator with the inputs received.The Training Curriculum (TC) of the conductor/facilitator includes the following activities:-The coordinator of this tool set defines the methodology and tools for developing the TC, organized into teaching units and modules.- The modules and units are distributed among the partners based on their experience. - Each partner produces learning content and develops the assigned modules, and tests them through a focus group with a local MFG.The coordinator collects the modules and proposes the preliminary version of the TC, which will be tested on the four territories through a focus group of 10 conductors / facilitators, realized with two main objectives: 1. to test and validate the TC and 2. its adequacy to transfer the contents of the program and the underlying skills of other conductors, following a model of training of trainers (ToT).D) Through the Communication and Dissemination Plan created at the beginning of FA.M.HE and the web platform the new products will be disseminated to numerous new users identified during the activities on the territories and by the web.. They are mainly networks of people and organizations, stakeholders and policy makers in the field of mental health who share the same interests and who will use the results of the project in their training activities and/or in their daily activities (therapeutic support , training, information and dissemination activities).The new website will facilitate the availability of materials which, like OER, will be innovative and highly useful tools for other stakeholders and policy makers across Europe.E) Organization of meetings, focus groups, researches and conferences in universities, in mental health services and through the web strengthens the community of practice on MFGs, already active among the partners, but also creates a wide social network of professionals who can collaborate , share and improve working methods and tools, facilitating the spread of MFGs in the field of mental healt<< Results >>The Results of FA.M.HE. are released sequentially:1. guide on “The Multi-family Groups in Mental Health "",2.the toolkit ""Competencies and training of the multifamily groups conductor / facilitator, according to the Garcia Badaracco theory"" which contains three tool sets:-the ""Vademecum on distinctive elements of MFG"", -the ""Competency Framework of professional and transversal of the conductors / facilitators, "" and -the ""Training Curriculum of the conductor / facilitator"".These results are included in the web platform, with all the working documents created during the project, in the partner language and in English. This web platform will be a space opened to health, social and training workers and families, that will access not only to improve their work and deepen their knowledge about MFGs , but also to exchange documents and information.The OER will be opened to a wide community of users, who will be able to:- get a personalized access to learning/training tools developed by the project, so that they can access and pick only those parts or sections of their interest:- develop and upload new contents, maximizing the impact of the project on large scale;;- be linked to web resources accredited on the topic.The features of the OER read as follows:- Various online support tools;- Free downloadable reading / training / activity material related to the outputs of project;- Links and documents to other OER;- Questionnaires / evaluations available to freely test knowledge;- Interaction with partners and institutions at European level.FA.M.HE. will produce other tangible outputs at the level of management (Work plan and its associated instruments, Evaluation strategy, Tools and Reports) as well as for the dissemination and valorization activities, during the project life and on its completions, brochures and presentation, web site, 4 newsletters, information leaflets and other dissemination tools as described in the Dissemination section.Through FA.M.HE., the realization of tangible products is accompanied by the development of equally important intangible products:* in relation to the participants responsible for the project actions:increased knowledge and competencies of all participants; adoption of common working methods and tools that will be used at the end of the project; greater formalization of MFGs experiences, taking into account the different contexts in which they develop and all the actors involved; strengthen and expand the community of practice, through the creation of networks based on the exchange of information and knowledge;* in relation to the participants in the dissemination and enhancement actions (other families, people with mental illness, stakeholders and policy makers):greater involvement of stakeholders and policy makers in mental health issues, taking into account the role of the family and the training of the conductor/facilitator of the MFGs,collaboration in the dissemination of these experiences and in the involvement of families, greater inclusion of families to strengthen their role in the adopted actions.At the end of the project- multifamily groups will have a recognized role in the interventions taken to improve mental health services and measures,- the web platform offers to draw on documents, information and e-learning modules to therapists, policy makers, university students and professors, families and all stakeholders interested on mental health issues;- the training course of the conductor / facilitator will be made available to all the institutions / bodies concerned;- the knowledge acquired through FA.M.HE. on MFGs and on group’s management will be available to any interested parties."

The objectives of LEONARDO are: 1) to develop a new microvehicle based on the smart fusion of the concepts of monowheel and scooter. The monowheel and the scooter have the best characteristics to be used as a means of daily transport and to fully exploit the intermodality. The new microvehicle will take the best features of these two vehicles and eliminate the disadvantages, obtaining a silent, clean, energy efficient and safe vehicle, as well as attractive and affordable to the public so that the barriers for adopting it are minimized. The development includes a) the consolidation of already outlined conpects, through analysis of functionality and comparison with existing vehicles, on the basis of an extensive analysis of user's needs and safety and regulamentary aspects b) structural and electrical / electronic design c) in-house testing 2) to do an extensive demonstration and re-design activity. The vehicle will be tested in a real environment in 5 European cities: Rome, Palermo, Eilat and 2 others that will be identified with a tender. In these demonstration tests, a fleet of vehicle will be tested for free by hundreds of users, on a rotating basis. Each vehicle can be used in stand alone mode or in battery sharing mode, through a system already developed by UNIFI, made available for the project. Operating data will be automatically collected through a platform and users will be asked to give feedback weekly. The pilot in Rome and Palermo will start with 50 vehicles and will be used for a revision and re-design process, to arrive up to a TRL 7. Afterwards, the other pilots will start, in sequence, for 3 months in each city, in which 100 vehicles will be tested. These tests will be used to refine the vehicle up to the TRL8-9 and to do a physical demonstration of the technical and economic feasibility. During the pilots, pre-orders will be accepted. A detailed exploitation strategy and a draft business plan for the vehicle will be draft with the data collected.

Extreme heat and wildland fires are identified as key climate risks in Europe. The two risks are interlinked, as the risk of wildland fires increases during periods of extreme heat and decreasing precipitation. Extreme heat increases the death and disease rates for cardiopulmonary disease (CPD). Wildland fires cause intense air pollution in the form of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone (O3). These are the two major air pollutants threatening human health in Europe, and their main health effects are related to CPD. Episodes of extreme temperatures and extreme levels of PM2.5 and O3 are likely to occur simultaneously and could occur more often, last longer, and become more intense in a warming world. EXHAUSTION will establish exposure projections for extreme heat and air pollution based on the most updated and advanced climate modeling efforts. EXHAUSTION has access to unique retrospective health registries on CPD mortality and morbidity in Northern, Central, and Southern European settings. In addition, EXHAUSTION draws upon a large time-series data base in a multi-country observational study. These data enable us to derive novel exposure-response relationships for heat, air pollution, and CPD. By combining the exposure projections and the exposure-response relationships, EXHAUSTION quantifies the future exacerbation of CPD in European settings and attributes the change in CPD mortality to a changing climate. EXHAUSTION will develop innovative adaptation strategies informed by epidemiological evidence, and address major inequity issues by identifying how age, sex, and indicators of socio-economic status (SES) predict probability for CPD caused by extreme heat and air pollution. EXHAUSTION will model socio-economic cost estimates for the response in CPD, and identify and validate possible adaptation strategies. Cost estimates, including projected health co-benefits of future adaptive measures and greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation measures will be established.