There are clear indications of shifts in climatic patterns all around the world and climate change is considered the greatest threat facing humanity and its cultural heritage. UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13 aims to "take urgent action to combat climate change and its impact" where the first target is stated as "Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries". Furthermore, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is an integral part of social and economic development and is essential if development is to be sustainable for the future. The 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development recognises and reaffirms the urgent need to reduce the risk of disasters. Flooding and landslides are one of the most destructive types of natural disasters in Turkey. Flood impacts in Turkey are felt severely in major cities of the country. Istanbul (the largest city in Turkey with 15 million inhabitants) and its UNESCO World Heritage historical areas have recently suffered from frequent floods as a result of intense rainfalls under a changing climate. The severe floods of August-September 2009 in the Marmara region of Turkey were categorised as an event greater than the 500-year return period. Many parts of the old city centre (Historic Peninsula) of Istanbul were flooded. The Historic peninsula also suffered from several major floods in December 2010, July 2017, February 2018 and August 2019. Heavy rains cause flooding events more frequently in recent years than in the past. The deadly 2019 floods, rainfall-triggered landslides, and the subsequent moisture problems have resulted in significant structural damages to cultural heritage; in particular Small HagiaSofia and Ahi Çelebi Mosque The first phase of CRAFT addressed the urgent need for flooding and landslide susceptibility mapping of cultural heritage in Istanbul. We have identified 150 cultural heritage places in the Historical Peninsula of Istanbul which could be endangered by hazards of floods and landslides. An index for damage assessment has been developed. We have recognised the inevitability of loss, where the impacts of climate and environmental change may lead to the conclusion that the conservation and perpetuation of some monuments are unsustainable. We have identified two issues that need to be addressed in order to develop an effective framework for assessing climate impact on cultural heritage in Istanbul: (1) efficient communication and interaction between the different stakeholders and government agencies (2) human activities magnify the risks of floods in Istanbul and there is a need to raise public awareness on cultural heritage and the associated risks. Therefore, in the second stage of the project, we focus on two strands of activities: (1) raising public awareness and (2) creating "Istanbul Heritage Forum", a platform for the protection of the heritage aiming at extending the results of the project beyond the project timeline. The IHF will be formed by representatives of the local community, and institutions.

To reach carbon neutrality, cities must adopt new, more adapted energy models for urban mobility, relying on zero-emission and active mobility modes. The uptake of sustainable mobility solutions relies on their inclusivity, affordability and safety, as well as their consistency with users’ needs. Through co-creation activities and innovative digital tools, the AMIGOS project will identify present and future mobility challenges for 5 cities (living labs) and 10 urban areas (safety improvement areas). The digital tools include a Mobility Observation Box and an application for the collection of new mobility data, which will feed a big data platform for their analysis and digital twins to visualize mobility scenarios. They will allow urban stakeholders to identify mobility challenges and will serve as a basis for the co-development of adapted mobility solutions: towards reducing traffic, increasing public and active mobility modes, improving safety and co-habitation between different mobilities for the 5 cities, and towards increased safety for the 10 urban areas. Therefore, key stakeholders such as public authorities and vulnerable users will be included in the definition of technological and policy solutions mobility solutions which will be implemented in the cities. Their environmental, safety, economic and social impacts will be assessed, in addition to their medium- and long-term impact and their replicability, in view of their implementation in 5 twin cities.

Turkey is one of the most archaeologically and culturally rich places in the World with 18 UNESCO World Heritage sites, and an additional 78 locations in the tentative list. Flooding and landslides are one of the most destructive types of natural disaster in Turkey. Flood impacts in Turkey are felt severely in major cities of the country. Istanbul (the largest city of Turkey with 15 million inhabitants) and its UNESCO World Heritage historical areas have recently suffered from frequent floods as a result of intense rainfalls under a changing climate. The severe floods of August-September 2009 in the Marmara region of Turkey were categorised as an event greater than the 500-year return period. These floods caused 31 human losses, affected 35,000 people, and led to significant damages in major urban cities, particularly in Istanbul, with an economic loss more than $100 million. Many parts of the old city centre (Historic Peninsula) of Istanbul were flooded. The Historic peninsula had also suffered from several major floods in December 2010, July 2017, February 2018 and August 2019. Heavy rains cause flooding events more frequently in recent years than in the past. The deadly 2019 floods, rainfall-triggered landslides, and the subsequent moisture problems have resulted in significant structural damages to cultural heritage; in particular Small HagiaSofia and Ahi Çelebi Mosque (which was at that time in a restoration process). Our proposed research will involve susceptibility mapping of cultural heritage to climate-change driven hazards, with a particular focus on the floods and landslides hazards on Istanbul's world heritage sites. The mapping, based on a risk assessment framework, will then be used to develop a response policy. In developing risk assessment frameworks, it is the normal presumption that "heritage assets are irreplaceable and that heritage is a 'non-renewable resource' ". However, the risk assessment framework to be developed within this project will need to recognise the inevitability and potential of loss. We will recognise the inevitability of loss, where the impacts of climate and environmental change may lead to the conclusion that conservation and perpetuation of some monuments are unsustainable. The potential of loss could imply that, where monuments have been damaged by landslides and floods, in addition to the option of reconstructing the heritage to its pre-disaster condition, we should consider a new form of the heritage, where the history of disaster is reflected in the modified monument.

With our project named “Exchanging Best Practices In Europe To Encourage Apprenticeship And Training In Bakery Sector “ Talents4bakery, we aim to exchange, transfer, and implement good practises, experiences and curricula among partner organisations to be able to encourage young people to be trained in Bakery sector starting from vocational high schools and colleges and to provide the current and future labour force to the Bakery Sector. Our primary aim is to examine the good practises in the partner countries and have a better understanding about Bakery trainings in the partner countires to check how to implement these examples in vocational schools and colleges. In order to provide required width in the spectrum of needed expertise we are planning to offer Bakery training as the following:Step 1: Guidlines for Basic Bakery Training in a digital eraStep 2: Redefining EU standards for Bakery training programmes (This study is going to be done with decisionmakers in the partner organisations) in partner countries and these redefined and upgraded standards are going to help us train the bakers of the future more professionally and contribute to the economic development of the country. We also see this project as working to support:• Vocational education which is being supported by our learning provision• Vocational education providers working with the Bakery sector• Labour force and learners (specifically young people) who would like to develop themselves or build a career in Bakery Sector.• Partner organisations who are responsible for vocational education provisionWe will focus on:1) To undertake a comparative analysis of how partners are conducting Bakery training vocational education to support young learners and labour force 2) To examine the examples about the delivery of Bakery training in partner countries and the published reports, research, studies about Bakery.3) To discuss with partners how to transfer Bakery trainings into vocational high schools and colleges in a gradual way starting from basic level.4) To reidentify the EU standards and systems with our partners and implement these standards and systems into our vocational education systems (on organisational and country basis). And we will be able to find out how equivalent these current and redefined standards with the sector needs.5) To start the process of implementing this basic Bakery training in the vocational schools and disseminate the activities in our countries with our network (all partners).For this project we created a partnership between Germany, Greek, Austria, Belgium and Turkey to contribute to the vocational education system at EU level while increasing recognisability of Bakery training in vocational education level (at vocational education schools and colleges), disseminate and ensure that it finds its equivalence at the EU standards. Our partners have strong expertise in the field of Bakery sector with project based and professional experience. They have training models, lesson plans, qualification frameworks, implementation labs and will provide research and promotion of the relationship among the VET schools, centres, companies and with other research departments and links with the sector representatives.

"The youth face many uncertainties regarding their future, due to fast technological change and proliferation of fake news and populism that affect political stability, demographic trends that impact their prospects of income for an elderly age, discrimination and social exclusion, which represent barriers for the youth objectives on being financially independent, taking control of their own life and help others to thrive. The stakes are high as the young generation is at risk of being less well-off than their parents, for the first time since the Second World War.The BLAST! project aims at fostering social inclusion through a non-formal learning programme on the Sustainable Revolution, through Blockchain and DTL emergent technologies. The project objectives are to develop a state of the art non-formal learning programme, complemented with video-based digital learning through digital Stelling to enhance youth engagement.C1 - BLAST! Learning Experience for 10 youth educators/workers/leaders. the BLAST! learning activity is designed to empower the youth workers/leaders that will later implement the learning programme pilots in the methodology and thematic. It will ensure that all the materials are harmonized and they represent a high-quality result which have a real application in real non-formal learning contexts.O3-6: Learning programme pilots. This activity will provide the opportunity to test all results and enable partners to make the necessary reengineering of the products. The learning pilots will take place in three EU countries (Ireland, Portugal and Turkey) counting with 30 young participants (15-22 years old).E1, E2, E3 - having a BLAST! in the Sustainable Revolution' Experience. The project will include national outreach workshops in order to engage a sizable number of participants (minimum 75) and ensure that the project has a wide impact across Europe.E4 - having a BLAST! in the Sustainable Revolution Final Conference (IE). The event will have a minimum of 30 national participants and appropriate media coverage enhancing the exposure of project results and products to relevant stakeholders.IO1– BLAST! Curriculum for Sustainable Revolution through BlockchainThe curriculum will comprise i) the Learning programme aim and objectives, ii) the Learning Outcomes per Learning Unit (climate change, natural disasters, biodiversity loss, ocean-health deterioration, air pollution and water scarcity), iii) the ""BLAST non-formal education methodology for Sustainable Revolution"" with a model of dialogic evaluation, and iv) the learning materials. This result will be available in EN, PT, TR and NL.IO2 – BLAST! non-formal education methodology for Sustainable Revolution The Blast project will adopt a non-formal education methodology, where a range of learning activities will be designed, each exploring one topic (Learning Unit) on the Sustainable Revolution. Youth workers and Youth leaders will have a guideline on how to implement the learning programme and guide the youth participants in achieving the Learning Outcomes. This result will be available in EN, PT, TR and NL.IO3 – BLAST! Learning programme In the scope of this IO, state of the art digital video-based learning materials will be developed (through a digital story telling approach), in bite sized units, on the topics of sustainable revolution. The videos will be have voice overs in EN, PT, TR and NL and will be subtitles in the same languages. At least one short animated video for each topic (Learning Unit) will be developed. After the completion of the videos, the BLAST! Learning programme (the BLAST! curriculum and the BLAST! methodology) will be tested in Ireland, Portugal and Turkey.IO4 – Good practices webinar for the implementation of the BLAST! ProgrammeA series of webinars will be organized by partners and their associated partners that will share there experiences, best practices and solutions regarding the BLAST! learning pilot implementation.All partners jointly cover the expertise needed to carry on project activities and deliver high quality outputs, each partner participating in specific tasks appropriate for their profile. All partners will participate in the Project Quality and Evaluation, Dissemination & Exploitation activities and on the peer-review stage of each output."