"The project Teaching Entrepreneurship for Sustainability aims at implementing sustainability in a comprehensive way in entrepreneurship education. This goes two ways: involve sustainability more strongly in the entrepreneurship courses and ""marry"" sustainability with the entrepreneurship approach in one module. It should create a better understanding of in which ways and dimensions sustainability and entrepreneurship are compatible, and in which ways and dimensions they are not. Additionally, the project needs to contribute to the quality of teaching in sustainability and entrepreneurship education. Furthermore, the project aims at developing a working approach which students can adopt in order to achieve sustainable results in a highly uncertain and changing environment. This work approach focuses on soft skills development for students as future actors of sustainable entrepreneurship, as there is not a “syllabus” to follow in reality. This includes re-gearing entrepreneurial processes to a variety of contexts and situations and embedding uncertainty into the learning process.There are in total 3 participants involved in this project, all with their own courses and programmes in entrepreneurship:1. Uppsala University (Campus Gotland), Sweden Course in master's programme 'Sustainable Destination Development': Introduction to Entrepreneurship in the tourism industry2. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Campus Fryslan), The Netherlands Master's programme Sustainable Entrepreneurship3. Nord University, Norway Courses in the bachelor's programme 'Business Administration': Knowledge based business development and Sustainable Business Development All three universities will be actively involved in the development of the project and each university is responsible for one workpackage. The project is divided into three workpackages, consisting of various goals, activities and outputs, which follow up on each other in a chronological order. This means that the work being done in each workpackage contributes to the following workpackage and the goals, activities and outputs of these workpackages.WORKPACKAGE 1: MAPPING AND SYSTEMATIZING CURRENT PRACTICESIn workpackage 1 the focus lies on gaining a thorough understanding of the current available approaches to teaching sustainability in entrepreneurship education. This will provide the required knowledge base for developing a module that teaches sustainable entrepreneurship in an integrated way.> Responsible: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen> Result: Report on Sustainable Entrepreneurship EducationWORKPACKAGE 2: DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHING MODULEWith the knowledge base created in workpackage 1 and the views and feedback of experts and stakeholders collected through a LTT-activity and multiplier events, the new teaching module for higher education will be developed. > Responsible: Uppsala University> Result: Curriculum for Teaching ModuleWORKPACKAGE 3: IMPLEMENTATION AND ASSESSMENTThis workpackage consists of two elements, namely to train the trainers and to develop assessment tools. To successfully implement the module, firstly the teachers active in the relevant programmes and courses of the partner universities need to be trained in the course content. The assessment tools will be developed in order to measure the success and quality of the teaching module.> Responsible: Nord University> Result: Train the Trainer Guideline & Assessment Tools for Teaching ModuleThe work being done in the workpackages leads to the aim of this project: to develop a new teaching module for sustainable entrepreneurship education at the partner universities and other universities in Europe and the world. Furthermore, they contribute to the fulfillment of the following objectives:1. To provide an accessible framework on available approaches to integrating sustainability in entrepreneurship education2. To provide universities with an evidence-based teaching module on ‘sustainable entrepreneurship’, applicable in different higher educational contexts3. To provide students with motivation, capabilities and opportunities to become agents of change and active actors in sustainable entrepreneurship4. To provide educators with tools and guidelines in order to teach an integrated ‘sustainable entrepreneurship’ module5. To provide educators with the tools to monitor and evaluate the quality of the ‘sustainable entrepreneurship’ moduleThe project impact is as follows: Students will have an increased awareness of entrepreneurial solutions to sustainability challenges and will have gained an entrepreneurial mindset. Teachers will gain experience of teaching sustainability principles and entrepreneurship in an integrated way. Local enterprise incubators will have increased long-term opportunities to be involved in the entrepreneurship education. The activities of the project will continue as permanent additions to existing operations."

Farmed seafood is an important source of protein for food and feeds with a low-carbon footprint which has an important role to play in helping to build a sustainable food system. A strategic and long-term approach for the sustainable growth of a resilient EU aquaculture is, therefore, more relevant today than ever. However, the efficient and cost-effective control of pathogens remains among the main challenges for the sector, particularly relevant for Europe, where there is a great variety of species and production systems, which hinders the implementation of good husbandry practices tailored to each aquatic species. Through active engagement with key stakeholders, Cure4Aqua aims to jointly improve the resilience of EU aquaculture under environmental, biological, and socio-economic stress, by improving aquatic animal health and welfare and supporting the environmentally friendly, inclusive, safe, and healthy production of seafood. Cure4Aqua will do so by 1) developing cost-effective vaccines to prevent disease caused by 5 pathogens of economic significance to EU aquaculture; 2) Identifying markers with diagnostic capacity to be integrated to selective breeding programs to improve stress and disease management; 3) Developing innovative, bio-based and sustainable solutions as an alternative to antibiotics for controlling fish pathogens at various life stages and alleviate the pressure of global antimicrobial resistance; 4) Developing new tools and technology to improve health and welfare monitoring at the fish farm level and diagnostics of fish pathogens both at the laboratory and the fish farm levels; 5) Placing fish welfare at the foreground of aquaculture production, through the development of high welfare standards that consider different life-stages, production systems, and knowledge of welfare needs, and 6) Ensuring effective external communication, dissemination and exploitation of project activities and results to all relevant target groups.

Aquaculture, the process of controlled fish and shellfish cultivation, is a sustainable alternative to fisheries. The sector has seen tremendous growth and Nile tilapia is one of the most important commercially farmed species worldwide. To date, the optimization of production yields is limited to traditional selective breeding programs, that exclusively focus on genetic markers. As a result, unknown variability in growth selection remains, which may be diminished through epigenetic selection. Prof. Jorge Fernandes’ group has found evidence for the direct involvement of multiple categories of epigenetic markers in growth rate and size of Nile tilapia. During the ERC Consolidator project EPIFISH (#683210), Fernandes’ group observed important differences in expression levels of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs): full-sibling groups of Nile tilapia with distinct growth rates expressed different sets of ncRNAs in muscle, despite being reared under the same environmental conditions. EPISELECT will explore the technical and commercial feasibility of a multi-panel for the assessment of epigenetic markers for fish growth optimization. This multi-panel will assess the newly discovered ncRNAs in combination with the previously identified DNA modification markers. As a result, EPISELECT may improve selective breeding programs, leading to higher profitability and increased sustainability of the aquaculture sector. To reach the proof-of-concept stage, we will: 1) Explore ncRNA markers for growth prediction and validate the multi-panel of epimarkers; 2) Define an IPR position and strategy; 3a) Assess the market size, added value, cost analysis, and commercialisation route of the novel multi-panel of epigenetic markers; 3b) Establish connections with aquaculture industry and embed the project for commercialisation.

Domestication and selective breeding of the major commercial fish species are essential to enable sustainability of the rapidly expanding aquaculture sector. The existing improvement programmes are based exclusively on genetic markers, overlooking the fact that selection for complex traits is strongly affected by environmental conditions and that epigenetics likely account for a large proportion of the observed phenotypic variation. Non-coding RNAs (e.g., miRNAs) and cytosine methylation (5mC) and hydroxymethylation (5hmC) of DNA are key mechanisms underlying epigenetic regulation of gene expression. We have recently identified a panel of 5mCs, 5hmCs and miRNAs that are potential epigenetic markers (epimarkers) of improved growth in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). EPIMARK will evaluate the commercial feasibility of our novel kit of growth epimarkers, so that they can be applied in selective breeding programmes. This will be achieved by (i) validating the miRNA, 5mC and 5hmC epimarkers, (ii) developing an assay for their quantification, (iii) investigating the commercial and financial feasibility and (iv) developing the optimal business strategy, consolidated in a business plan. The EPIMARK kit will lead to a more efficient selection of fish in breeding programs based on growth potential, thereby increasing the profitability and sustainability of the aquaculture industry. The technology developed in EPIMARK will also open important avenues of innovation, including the use of epimarkers for selection of other superior production traits and disease resistance in Nile tilapia and in other species of commercial importance.

<< Background >>During the past years security issues has become an important aspect to many European countries. World is coping with wide range of challenges as migration, cyber-attacks and other new difficulties, including recent (current) virus led crisis.This leads to fact that there is a need not only for high quality training for young security specialists, but also for the trainings that will allow them to be better prepared for the crisis, as well as possibly to eliminate many dangers before they happen and turn into crisis. There is a great lack of digital teaching and learning materials in the security field, especially if we are talking about security risk management.Also there is need in common approaches how European Universities train and prepare those young specialists in digital era.<< Objectives >>This project aim to establish sustainable security socialists’ network, which can cooperate on long term bases. During the project we will develop recommendation for Universities which are preparing security specialists in Europe, making special focus on the digital learning possibilities and tools. Such recommendation will create common ground for unified methods and synergy in education approaches. Also partnership will develop and maintain comprehensive and up-to-date digital teaching materials and tools, gathered in one web platform which contains the most updated information on security risk management aspects available for all security experts, students and academics. This platform will serve also an on-line know- how forum and digital learning tool to exchange the views and practices also during the crisis situations and enable various country experts to react more timely to security threats.<< Implementation >>Seven partners will from 6 countries will join the forces in order to examine existing situation and practices of Security education in partner countries, will analyse the needs of the labour market, will develop common recommendation for teaching security specialists. Partners using our experience will develop modern and up-to-date teaching materials for security specialists – reading materials, practical tasks, vocabulary, video lessons. During the project we will also organise Intensive course for Security students with main aim to raise students’ knowledge, ensure them international training possibilities and to test teaching materials developed in the project. Additionally, project includes international dissemination Conference in Riga and many dissemination activities in partner countries.<< Results >>Main target groups of the project are teachers and students of Security field, faculties and Universities and training centres providing education and training on Security and security field professionals. Project will create sustainable network of European Universities teaching security specialists. Also we will create solid bases for the unified and high quality teaching materials for any EU University tackling security field. Project will create long term positive impact in security field in general and will also provide solid digital teaching material portal for security specialists. Also long term impact is foreseen on the students and later – young security specialists. With the developed common standards and materials we (and other EU Universities) will be able to prepare better specialists.