Doing Research Midnight in ROmania (DoReMi-RO) 2020 is the International Year of Sound, an area of high importance for science and technologies for all in modern society. Our team goal is to join the European Researchers’ Night event in Romania with this initiative, in order to emphasize both research activities and technological development mixed with sounds and music: DoReMi-RO. The promotion and dissemination of the research results among young people, in one day event, is at the same time welcome but also insufficient. For the moment the kids' curiosity will be sparked but on the next day they feel that everything is beautifully solved in science and there is not much left to do. Then, the research as a career might be unattractive. After a single successful evening, as the Night is, the event must be transformed into a new public challenge based on the well-known concept of collaborative engagement. Thus, the general objective of the project is to raise awareness on research results baked by experiments, involving the participants in a particular citizen science project whereby researchers and the public are working together. The collaborative process will take place before, during and after the Night event and aims to make the magnetic map of Romania. All together will use common smartphones to measure the magnetic field, throughout Romania. The anonymous collaborative public have to send us the measured data, along with the GPS coordinates, uploaded on an internet web-platform. DoReMi-RO event will be held in more than 15 cities, spread throughout entire Romanian territory, among which: Baia Mare, Brasov, Bucharest, Cluj, Constanta, Craiova, Iași, Pitesti, Timișoara, Sibiu and Suceava. All proposed activities are represented by various minds-on and open-air activities: hands-on experiments, debates about collaborative engagement types, games, quizzes, organized in an amusing and stimulated manner by real researchers.

<< Objectives >>Our main objective is to improve STEM scientists’ ability to communicate their science to diversified audiences. Communicating science beyond expert audiences has been recognized as a key societal priority. Yet, resources and training designed to enable scientists to do so are lacking. This project will contribute to solving this problem by creating digital resources for professional development to assist STEM scientists (in particular women) to better communicate their science to society.<< Implementation >>We will conduct an ethnomethodological study to obtain data from EU STEM scientists (in particular women) on digital science communication practices and identify their good practices. Informed by this study, we will create instructional materials and develop a fully digital (online) training course, a MOOC and a virtual resource hub to help EU STEM scientists communicate more effectively to public audiences through different modes and digital media and enhance their cross-cultural sensitivity.<< Results >>Using empirical data, we will create an inventory of good practices for communicating science online to multidisciplinary audiences. We will create a sustainable infrastructure (a digital communication training hub) to support the resources for the two course types (testimonials of female scientists on digital communication practices, videotutorials, multiliteracy skills development tasks, guidelines for trainers). We target STEM scientists but the hub will be inclusive of non-STEM scientists.

The maritime industry has a shortage of qualified personnel, especially in Europe. Further employment in the maritime sector can help solve Europe's major unemployment crisis, especially youth unemployment. Throughout Europe, maritime education and training qualifications of one country have not been recognised by other countries in Europe. One major contributing factor for this shortage of qualified personnel is a lack of internationally recognised maritime qualifications and lack of entrepreneurial activities, which inhibits the mobility of seafarers and shipbuilding personnel in finding work in their countries and/or different countries, starting up the business and reducing these shortages. The SEAMAP project has addressed the need for cooperation between VET and the world of work in the maritime sector by fostering integration of maritime working life into maritime institution-based VET and enhancing the entrepreneurial skills of the people dealing with the maritime issues. This was achieved by the promotion of more work related activities in the intended VET programmes, including the innovative models of work placement, maritime career platform and entrepreneurship. The project team has identified and map available maritime jobs /placements and business start-up both at sea and ashore in partner countries. The main benefits of the project are to improve the attractiveness of the maritime industry, to provide increased mobility across, to foster the career guidance, to enhance the placement opportunities and to develop the entrepreneurial competences of the people at maritime and VET sectors. The project has four main objectives: to support internationally recognised seafaring qualifications as a response to current identified shortages of seafarers and employees at shipbuilding sector and help companies to recruit personnel who are qualified to undertake various maritime employment and placements opportunities at sea or ashore, including ship operating, ship building, maritime service sector, etc. to create opportunities for young trainees and maritime personnel to find jobs commensurate with their qualifications to develop the entrepreneurial competences at sea or ashore including maritime service sector and ship building sectors by need analysis. to create a web based platform to unify job seekers/trainees and job/placement providers in a medium which will allow both parties easier access to jobs/placements and bring employees/trainees together respectively. The platform will provide a range of support services to aid the skills development of trainees/personnel in order to find jobs which meet their qualifications and to start-up their own business (entrepreneurial competences) in the maritime sector. The project consortium consists of six major and leading maritime and or educational organisations, with most partners having many years of experience in EU projects. Most of the partners are policymakers and decision makers, with some being social partners in the maritime and educational sectors. The expected results during the project and on its completion are: - Need Analysis: Collating, Classifying and Mapping the Available Maritime Jobs (Maritime Job Profiles) - Content Development for the Platform: designing and configuring the content of the online platform – with 5 languages (English, Turkish, Spanish, Romanian and Polish) - Creating and configuring the online platform (Maritime Career Platform): www.see4sea.com - Case Study: Online Questionnaire and Need Analysis about the entrepreneurial skills in maritime sector - Elaborating the content and training material: Entrepreneurship Training Material for Maritime Sector The project has had an impact on creating opportunities for people in maritime sector to find jobs commensurate with their qualifications. As a project impact the project has provided an innovative web-based platform (www.see4sea.com) for seafarers and related personnel and shipbuilding personnel to develop their skills and ultimately find their dream job, whilst similarly catering for employers and helping them to employ the best and most qualified person for a position. Developing an innovative matching platform has reduced the skills mismatch which is the gap between an individual’s job skills and the demands of the labour market which affects all layers of society, from the productivity and efficiency of businesses to the current and prospective welfare of people in the maritime sector. As more qualified personal can be employed by the help of the platform, it will have an impact on safety at sea hence reducing accidents and loss of life, money and adverse effect on the well-being of the workforce / workplace.

Port Cities can be seen as multidimensional laboratories where challenges connected with urban mobility are more complex due to the dual system of gravity centre: the city, the port, not to mention their shared hinterland.These peculiarities are at once a challenge and an opportunity, as they provide scope for planning, researching and implementing integrated mobility solutions in distinctively complex urban contexts. Civitas PORTIS designs, demonstrates and evaluates integrated sets of sustainable mobility measures in 5 major port cities located on the North Sea (Aberdeen and Antwerp), the Mediterranean Sea (Trieste), the Black Sea (Constanta), and Baltic Sea (Klaipeda). The project also involves a major international follower port city on the East China Sea (Ningbo). Thanks to the Civitas Initiative, the partner cities expect to prove that more efficient and sustainable mobility is conducive to the establishment of vital and multi-modal hubs for urban, regional, national and International movements of passengers and goods. To do this, they establish integrated living laboratories clustering local measures according to four major aspects of sustainable urban mobility: 1. Governance: to increase port-city collaborative planning and participation, leading to enhanced forms of SUMPs. 2. People: to foster less car-dependent mobility styles, leading to modal shift in favour of collective and more active transport. 3. Transport system: to strengthen the efficiency of road traffic management to/from the port and through the city, and foster the use of clean vehicles. 4. Goods: to enhance logistics and freight transport, improving the efficiency and coordination of city, port and regional freight movements. Working with port cities, Civitas PORTIS will generate a strong and twofold replication potential: 1) specifically to other port cities, and 2) more generally to cities presenting major transport nodes and attractors for the benefit of the whole CIVITAS Initiative.

Skillsea will foster cooperation on a European level between the industry, education and training providers and authorities to develop a strategy to make the education and training for maritime professionals future proof, adaptable and attractive, to provide maritime professionals with the correct skills for the labour market and to ensure sustainability of the European maritime industry. Besides development of the strategy, the project will support implementation of the strategy and products developed during and after the lifetime of the project. Thereby, Skillsea will provide a concrete, sustainable solution for the qualitative and quantitave mismatch between demand for and supply of labour, will increase labour mobility within the sector (horizontal, vertical and geographical) and enhance attractiveness of the sector. Skillsea follows the approach of skills needs identification (current, medium term and long term), design and delivery of VET, the development of strategy as well as stakeholder mobilisation and awareness raising as sustainable implementation.