<< Background >>Blockchain is a disruptive technology with innovative business models and new markets emerging continuously. When the proposal was submitted (things are improving nowadays), it was characterized by the lack of proper educational material. Material available online provided a fragmented view leading to a lack of knowledge of its potential benefits in terms of growth and innovation, as well as the lack of skills in the area. DLT4ALL contributed mitigating this challenge.<< Objectives >>DLT4All is addressing the lack of European entrepreneurs, students, angel-investors and incubator managers in understanding and exploiting blockchain technologies. It aimed to co-create and deploy with the above target groups an innovative curriculum of 8 blockchain based courses with a lean-training and personalized implementation methodology, accompanied by a relevant foresight exercise including policy-making recommendations, a marketing sustainability strategy and a final conference.<< Implementation >>The implementation of DLT4ALL was organized around 11 Work Packages. The first 18 months, the work was conducted according to the approved plan after the departure of one of the partners. With the emergence of the pandemic, all online activities were moved online including the face-to-face training that was one of our main deliverables. More details can be found within the final report and the individual deliverables. Please see https://dlt4all.eu/deliverables/ with password DLT4ALL-2021.<< Results >>The first 18 months, the results focused on the co-design and preparation of the curriculum along with the design of the offline/online methodology (had to be modified with pandemic). All thematic priorities were covered while engaging all target groups. The delivery of all activities ranging from dissemination events (> 30) training (>150 hours) and final conference, resulted in the engagement of several thousand of blockchain enthusiasts in the project and contributing to the knowledge space.

The lack of interoperability is considered as the most important barrier to achieve the global integration of IoT ecosystems across borders of different disciplines, vendors and standards. Indeed, the current IoT landscape consists of a large set of isolated islands that do not constitute a real internet, preventing the exploitation of the huge potential expected by ICT visionaries. To overcome this situation, VICINITY presents a virtual neighborhood concept, which is a decentralized, bottom-up and cross-domain approach that resembles a social network, where users can configure their set ups, integrate standards according to the services they want to use and fully control their desired level of privacy. VICINITY then automatically creates technical interoperability up to the semantic level. This allows users without technical background to get connected to the vicinity ecosystem in an easy and open way, fulfilling the consumers needs. Furthermore, the combination of services from different domains together with privacy-respectful user-defined share of information, enables synergies among services from those domains and opens the door to a new market of domain-crossing services. VICINITY's approach will be demonstrated by a large-scale demonstration connecting 8 facilities in 7 different countries. The demonstration covers various domains including energy, building automation, health and transport. VICINITY's potential to create new, domain-crossing services will be demonstrated by value added services such as micro-trading of DSM capabilities, AI-driven optimization of smart urban districts and business intelligence over IoT. Open calls are envisioned in the project to integrate further, preferably public, IoT infrastructures and to deploy additional added value services. This will not only extend the scale of VICINITY demonstration, but also efficiently raise the awareness of industrial communities of VICINITY and its capabilities.

Trillium-II steps forward with an outstanding consortium to further advance global Electronic Health Record (EHR) interoperability. Activities surrounding the International Patient Summary (IPS) standards can nurture digital health innovation, lower trade barriers, and advance patient safety & trust, bridging the gap between strategic intent and capability for action by Standards Development Organization (SDOs) striving for interoperability, quality, and safety through standards adoption. Trillium-II builds on the vibrant community of Trillium Bridge to: (a) Improve international interoperability of eHealth Systems in US, in Europe and globally (b) Accelerate establishment of interoperability standards in eHealth with validated open source interoperability assets and sharing lessons learned with SDOs (c) Facilitate secure, seamless patient summary sharing offering clarity and oversight. Trillium-II aims to bridge, harmonize, evaluate existing patient summary initiatives and guide emerging ones, leading the way toward one IPS standard by establishing a global community fostering the practice of digital health innovation with robust widely-used interoperability standards and joint pilots. Trillium-II objectives are measurable, realistic and achievable objectives: • Highlight the social value of IPS standards. • Bridge IPS initiatives with validated interoperability assets, sharing lessons learned with SDOs • Contribute to IPS Standards Governance under the JIC • Develop, Collect and Assess IPS Learning resources • Engage mobile Health companies and app developers with IPS standards • Foster innovation & inform health policy sharing IPS. Trillium-II will work with the workforce action, EU and US SDO platforms, large scale eHealth deployments, and emergency readiness exercises, to increase actionable interoperability of health systems in Europe the US and globally, nurturing innovation and fuelling creativity with effective use of standards and interoperability