EDURegio project is a strategic association among regional educational authorities and European Schoolnet aiming for a permanent network that stems from the need to: Foster digital competences and digital citizenship at the regional levelShare good practice and networking among regional educational authorities useful for long-term exploitation, continuous improvement and scale-up.Implement and develop Digital Education Action Plan (DEAP) actions atregional level; highlight the core objectives of DEAP by illustrating howvarious regions face common challenges and assist in establishing a solid European education policy.Our focus is to empower schools, students and teachers in using digital technologies, encouraging them to be proactive and innovative, and to implement the development of main EU Commission priorities related to digital citizenship and skills building, as well as its deployment on actions addressed to K-12 school education according to Digital Education Action Plan (DEAP) at the regional level. Cooperation among regions has clear European added value: helping to solve common problems, facilitating the sharing of ideas and assets, and encouraging strategic work towards common goals. The document Addressing brain drain: The local and regional dimension released by the Commission for Social Policy, Education, Employment, Research and Culture (SEDEC) of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) outlines digital skills as a factor leading to economic growth to avoid flight of rural population, so we expect early digital skills to lead to smoother transition from education to employment.Digital technologies may help to create new opportunities but also generate unprecedent risks, especially focused on younger Europeans. All of them are attending compulsory education in European regions with many different levels of digital technology integration in classrooms, and regional education authorities must be involved to build digital skills. Innovation in school education depend on supportive school leadership, teacher’s preparedness, commitment and capacity, engaged educational community and coherent policy foundations for innovation-friendly learning systems and innovative school cultures, so a bottom-up approach is core in EduRegio project. Partner regional Councils of Education and European Schoolnet expect mutual exchanges and knowledge transfer coming from strategic seminars, study visits and the educational resources generated in a joint EduHackathon (sprint-like events to co-create innovative, concrete solutions on education) to their educational communities and advisory staff. We expect also participants to transfer knowledge directly to their schools to improve the use of ICT in classrooms and teacher training systems. Learnings and recommendations will be implemented both in regional policies and schools.

The UTOPIZE project is a response to the pressing urban, ecological, and social challenges reshaping Europe, driven by climate change, social exclusion, energy poverty, aging populations, and other complex issues. Aligned with the New European Bauhaus (NEB) principles of sustainability, inclusivity, and aesthetics, UTOPIZE proposes a participatory framework that involves communities in the co-design and governance of public spaces across urban, peri-urban, and rural environments. The project is structured around the concept of UTOPIA, not as a static ideal but as an evolving process of community engagement. Through UTOPIA Labs, citizens co-create and transform their neighbourhoods, utilizing digital tools like Extended Reality (XR) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to enhance real-time urban planning and decision-making. These labs foster inclusivity by involving marginalized communities such as ethnic minorities, low-income populations, people with disabilities, and others at risk of exclusion. UTOPIZE's approach is deeply participatory, involving communities at every stage from local activation events to co-design workshops. The project operates across three demonstrator countries—Portugal, Italy, and Sweden—before expanding to six additional countries through a Twinning Program, ensuring scalability and adaptability. UTOPIZE aims to create resilient, sustainable, and culturally relevant public spaces that strengthen social cohesion and reflect the local identity and history of each neighbourhood. The project also integrates Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) and sustainable materials into the design and transformation of public spaces, contributing to environmental resilience and climate neutrality goals. By bringing together experts from multiple disciplines—architecture, engineering, social sciences, and the arts—UTOPIZE ensures a holistic and transdisciplinary approach to urban transformation. UTOPIZE’s comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework.

STARHAUS has Moving from the DIY4U project (H2020), STARHAUS will design, test and validate 8 new hardware module prototypes for the existing DIY4U Manufacturing Demonstration Facilities (MDFs), to manufacture newly designed products for personalized fast-moving consumer goods. The project will focus on 4 new use-cases: pet food, fertilizers, beverage, breakfast cereals. STARHAUS will adapt technologies and design new services and processes in an interdisciplinary approach that involves: human centered design, social science impact and indicators, full technology cycle (hardware + software), creativity and arts, circularity and sustainability. The focus will be on sustainability and circularity, enabling the growth of efficient, effective, sustainable and stakeholder-aligned manufacturing methods through re-use, adapt, re-design and repurpose existing technologies as a value for the larger community. The project will be inspired by the New European Bauhaus, paying particular attention to regenerative design and regenerative and value-added manufacturing and adopting a Human-centric and participatory approach, with contributions from Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), the project will promote collaborative models between domain experts, artists, and technology providers. Improved access to flexible production capabilities in decentralised environments, especially for SMEs will be ensured by FSTP and accurate promotion of collaborative models with domain experts, artists and technology providers. The STARHAUS approach will leverage creativity in interdisciplinary and artistic disciplines and offer a process model towards viable solutions. STARHAUS is focusing on delivering an impact inside modern consumer communities to propagate behavioral and technological changes that can reshape our lives. The consumption habits of modern consumers must change to adopt healthy and sustainable solutions that can be achieved at affordable prices without compromising quality.

RESIST will strengthen the resilience and accelerate the transformation and increase adaptive capacity of 12 climate-vulnerable EU regions, implementing 4 large-scale demonstrators of resilient innovations for Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) with quintuple-helix partnerships (including 1 in a less developed region) and promote transfer of know-how and innovative solutions to 8 twin regions (of which 4 less developed regions) through both physical mutual-learning activities and innovative immersive digital twins. The consortium will engage EU associations, CCA research groups, scientific experts, social engagement and communication institutions, innovation agencies and 1 Venture Capital Fund to co-create and validate innovative solutions, raise awareness, leverage citizens participation and promote sustainable exploitation of results towards the markets. RESIST will contribute to the EU agenda on CCA, through intervention in 3 main areas: Promote and demonstrate an innovative, more participative approach to resilience and CC adaptation in 4 demonstrator and 8 twinning regions (including 5 less developed regions in total) demonstrating >12 new solution lines, accelerating regional resilience and helping reach the adaptation-mission objectives of ‘building resilience and upscaling solutions through 100 demonstrators and accelerating the transition in 200 pilot regions and communities by 2030’ reaching already 4% and 6% of these aims by 2027, with 4 demonstrators and involvement of 12 regions Co-design and contribute to the development of new regional measures, policy instruments and social and technological solutions in 12 regions involving 22m citizens, increasing awareness/resilience by 10% and levels of green investments by 20%, reducing economic losses due to natural hazards such as floods by 14% and climate protection gap by 50%; Reduce time-to-market/risk for >100 new CCA Solutions from providers across Europe, offering them scale-up for their products.