The public-private partnership, READI, seeks to help clinical studies (CS) to finally serve the complete general population, and therefore more patients. To date CS have struggled to recruit and retain participants from diverse backgrounds and communities, such as marginalized or disadvantaged groups (e.g., sexual, gender, age, cultural, and socioeconomic cohorts). The resulting knowledge gaps entrench or increase health disparities. The READI consortium strives to tackle these challenges by fostering a more cohesive and integrated CS ecosystem for underserved (US) and underrepresented (UR) communities. It will actively connect all key stakeholders who can facilitate access to a wide range of patient populations. It will provide these stakeholders with the necessary tools, training programs, and approaches essential for the recruitment and retention of US/UR patients in CS. In addition, it will design, build and implement a digital platform which is patient-centred, sustainable, open and innovative. This will foster improved access to CS information and READI tools, while also supporting patient connections with the created communities. Finally, at least 4 CS will be used for testing the effectiveness of the developed tools and approaches. READI has a three-fold objective: to help US/UR communities overcome CS participation barriers (e.g., lack of information/awareness, mistrust, poor communication, geographic limitations, prejudice), which in turn will improve research of many diseases and conditions, preventative care and treatment effectiveness in different demographic groups, and better serve society. READI’s success will draw from its interdisciplinary, multi-stakeholder, consortium composition of 73 organizations from 18 countries, with key expertise in drug development and CS (design and operations), engagement strategies for US/UR populations, digital platform development, training and capability building initiatives, effective communication and dissemination, long-term sustainability, ethics and regulatory affairs.

TEACH4SD is oriented towards the ambitions put forward by the European Green Deal on tackling climate and environmental-related challenges. The objective of TEACH4SD is to mobilize industry, research and innovation capacities and link them in new and innovative ways to the education and training sector. For sustainability transitions to become successful, the guiding principle for TEACH4SD is to empower and educate teachers to take on a leading role as change-makers and thereby contributing to the European ambition of a socially fair and just green transition. TEACH4SD will launch five regional Centres of Vocational Excellence each responding to the needs and challenges of one of five sectors forming part of the backbone of the European labour market: health, trade, entrepreneurship, clothing & textiles, and construction. The link between the five CoVEs consists of a European Platform of Centre of Vocational Excellence containing a Digital Hub for collaboration, networking and mobility. Externally, the Digital Hub makes available the sustainability competences by setting up a Digital ESD Academy for the five CoVEs to activate education and training, promote re- and upskilling as well as facilitate exchange of best and next practices in EU networks. These regional and digital hubs of sustainability knowledge and its outreach to 400 teachers will become a tool to shape the future skills governance systems by activating and moving regional development strategies forward in close collaboration with TEACH4SDs five labour market sectors. The TEACH4SD approach will empower teachers and youth in the green transition and shape an ESD movement for schools in Europe through the regional-anchored knowledge hubs and the European Digital Hub offering upskilling activities and continued education. TEACH4SD consists of 16 partners from five countries spanning EQF level 3-8 as well as industry and policy representatives.