The MBUILD - Master Degree in Sustainable Design, Construction and Management of the Built Environments - is a JMD delivered and awarded by the University of Porto (Porto, Portugal), University of Cantabria (Santander, Spain) and Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen (Gieβen, Germany).MBUILD is a 2-year 120 ECTS MSc with full involvement of the partner HEI. The students will spend the first 3 semesters successively in UP, THM and UC, choosing one of these for their thesis in the 4th, in connection with supporting companies.MBUILD aims to give an answer to difficulties faced by European Construction Industry (CI) companies, mainly in developing countries, when implementing projects with a high level of sustainable and environmentally aware solutions.The course plan addresses the issues of Sustainability in CI under the views of Strategies and their application in the Design and Construction stages, as well as its Management under an Integrated Project Development (IPD) model. The modules will make the students follow the sustainability perspectives pertaining to Buildings through their impact in Urban context and, finally, to its framework in what concerns Infrastructures and the Built Environment as a whole.MBUILD aims to offer to its graduates learning outcomes that will give them the competences and skills to contribute to the development of CI projects bound by sustainable and environmentally friendly choices. These will be pertinent in the design and project development stages but also by improving the capability of students (EU and non-EU) in bridging the gap in the implementation of new technologies and work methods in developing countries, with higher concern for sustainability and lifecycle approaches.Also, the mobility that MBUILD requires will be a major experience in an increasingly international industry, both at HR and available technologies levels, will give the students improved skills for working in and managing multi-cultural and expertise team.

<< Background >>As part of the European Green Deal, the European Commission proposed in September 2020 to raise the 2030 greenhouse gas emission reduction target, including emissions and removals, to at least 55% compared to 1990. Such actions is required across all sectors, including increased energy efficiency and renewable energy, and started the process of making detailed legislative proposals to implement and achieve the increased ambition. This will enable the EU to move towards a climate-neutral economy and implement its commitments under the Paris Agreement by updating its Nationally Determined Contribution. That may bring difficulties for EU members that depend on production and use of fossil fuels, especially in workforce distribution between different industrial sectors.In Estonia, historically, Ida-Virumaa County is an area where oil shale is mined and processed. Power plants that produce electrical energy for Estonia are located in Ida-Virumaa County and still use fossil fuels – namely oil shale as well as shale oil. Implementation of the European Green Deal will affect the workforce in the region in the following years, the bulk of the workers involved in oil shale mining and processing may lose their jobs. Most of the specialists working on power plants have an engineering background that was gained based on the industry needs several decades ago when automation and robotization in the target area were relatively low. To meet the requirements of modern industry (including Industry 4.0 demands), the project proposes retraining courses for the soon-to-be-available workforce. The project's main topic is Mechatronics engineering, an interdisciplinary branch of engineering that focuses on the engineering of electronic, electrical, and mechanical engineering systems. The retraining will include electrical drives, automation, robotics, power electronics, and condition monitoring of industrial systems. Focused fields are strongly interconnected and overlapping, and they can be considered the main technological pillars of the modern mechatronics-oriented industry of the 21st century.The partners chosen in the consortium for the proposed project are institutions active in education and research of a variety of innovative and modern engineering fields. Hence, the partners have all the needed competencies to be successful in the objectives of the proposed project, from technological and pedagogical perspectives. Furthermore, all the partners are institutions specializing in the technological education of people, incorporating a large number of industry contacts, hence, being able to get instant requirements from the industrial sector and direct feedback. Moreover, one of the partners representing the Silesian region in Poland, which has always been the center of the coal mining industry for Poland and Central Europe. Like Estonia's situation, the mining and coal processing industry will decrease in size, meaning again that many coal mining industry workers must find their place in other fields. Project partners from the Czech Republic and Germany are characterized by extensive cooperation with industry and their high integration into the local community. The extensive experience of the lecturers in industry, and the structure of the courses, ensure practice and promote the innovative power of business and society, will help build a strong consortium and prepare the retraining module focused on modern industry needs.<< Objectives >>The main expected results of the REMAKER project will be prepared as a joint effort of all the consortium partners. They will be related to developing retraining courses and respective modules for the mining-related workforce that may lose their job due to new regulations and highly probable decrease of the fossil fuel mining and processing industry. The main objectives will be to develop retraining modules on modern mechatronics for two target regions (Ida-Virumaa County in Estonia and Silesian region in Poland). The retraining modules will consider the rules and requirements of national professional education systems and the traditional industrial character of the target areas. For example, the translation of the courses into the Russian language in Estonia is required, as many former trials to launch retraining in the target region have failed due to low knowledge of other languages by the local population, which in majority is Russian speaking.Two retraining modules will consist of five retraining courses related to different areas of modern industry. All the objectives are strongly intertwined and connected. The courses are composed to be suitable for the retraining of people from the fossil fuels industry, considering the possible lack of basic theoretical knowledge, but at the same time, emphasizing the applied character of the subjects. These courses can be used separately or bound together as a full module of studies. All training material is created to be used in distant learning to ensure flexibility, using digital tools. REMAKER project will be developed in close cooperation of four partners from four European countries – Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic, and Germany. All partners have the necessary extensive experience not only in the respective professional areas but also in transnational cooperation in different EU projects and programs. The knowledge and competencies of partners are complementary, so all partners together create a strong, powerful, and effective team that can realize all objectives of the ambitious project plan. The strength of the partner institutions and the team members' skills guarantees the widespread dissemination of the project's results and their use after its completion.<< Implementation >>The activities of the REMAKER project will include next activities:- Four study visits (C1, C2, C4, and C6) dedicated to achieving O1-O5. The study visits distributed between the participants and will take place in Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, and Estonia. - Two industrial visits (C3 and C5) are planned to the Czech Republic and Germany. - Two working visits on re-training modules (C7 and C8) to achieving O6-O7 to Poland and Estonia are planned. C7 and C8 activities will conduct simultaneously with Multiplier Events in target regions, so the participants will take part in pilot re-training modules.<< Results >>The aim of the project is to develop courses for the implementation of retraining activities with the use of digital techniques for distant learning possibilities. Developing these courses in a universal manner (with the possibility of extending to other courses and topics) and test them in an international environment through pilot workshops will allow to obtain functional tools used by partner centers, but also by external partners for education in electrical drives, automation, robotics, power electronics, condition monitoring, or mechatronics in general. These are dynamically developing disciplines, and the use of up-do-date courses and digital tools in them will not only affect the feasibility remote education, but it will also enable the modernization of such positions. In this way, a long lifetime of the project results will be ensured, not only during its implementation, but much longer. The applicants hope that the developed intellectual results will constitute the basic retraining kit that will become the basis for its development and obtaining tools commonly used by technical education centers. The sustainability of the project results will also be ensured by implementing them into education as part of integrated studies. This form of education, implemented in the international dimension, is in the development phase, and its enrichment with new didactic approaches may contribute to its increased interest and availability. The second area of the project's results is international cooperation. Internationalization is one of the priorities of education not only in technical universities, but in all the areas of education. This is due to the strong globalization of the labor market - there are no more important entrepreneurs who are not open to the global market (they produce for the market foreign or provide services commissioned by foreign partners). This meaning of internationalization forces the centers educating future engineers, inclusion in education of activities that open people to international activities. Therefore, it should be recognized with almost 100% certainty that the channels developed in the project international cooperation will be continued after the end of the project and will be a source of new initiatives and activities influencing the quality of education. It is particularly important for project partners who have so far conducted mutual international cooperation to a limited extent. The activities described above ensure the sustainability of the project result over a period well beyond its implementation. The social importance of these results makes it impossible there will be a problem with financing activities to which the results of the project will be incorporated.

Metastatic bone cancer is an incurable disease and one of the most complex cancers to treat. Due to the high dose, tumour imaging is currently performed at the beginning and end of standard particle radio-therapy (PRT), making personalised treatment difficult. The main goal of BoneOscopy is to develop a radically new technology to enable informed medical decisions by monitoring bone cancer on a daily basis during PRT. At the heart of BoneOscopy is the ability to detect prompt gamma (PGs) emitted by cancer during PRT and separate them from healthy tissue, unlocking the full potential of spectroscopic analysis without the need for additional dose. The development of a highly specialised detection and collimation system will enable accurate spectroscopic analysis of a very small volume or region within the cancer. As the number of PRT centres grows, we anticipate that within 10 years BoneOscopy will benefit all patients treated with proton and carbon ions. The objectives of BoneOscopy will be achieved by its interdisciplinary consortium, which brings together six partners from five European countries with key expertise in bioengineering and PRT (DKFZ), medical physics and engineering (CSIC), fast electronics for PRT (LIP), Monte Carlo simulations and clinical PRT experience (THM), turnkey software for high performance medical devices (Cosylab) and EU project management, communication and dissemination (accelCH). If achieved, the proposed science-to-technology breakthrough will have a transformative impact on current cancer treatment by providing a safe, personalised and quantitative measure of daily treatment efficacy, thereby contributing to the global fight against cancer. In summary, BoneOscopy will lead to a significant reduction in the health burden in Europe and worldwide, improved quality of life for patients, reduced costs for healthcare systems and improved sustainability of healthcare.

The project is planned as a cycle of innovative and educational activities devoted to ensuring the appropriate quality of practical education in technical studies and technical secondary schools. The project is primarily aimed at counteracting the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the academic education process at technical universities. The introduction of the remote learning mode, as a result of decisions of authorities in many countries, resulted in the fact that practical classes were either not implemented at all or were carried out in a very narrow and simplified (impractical) manner. Conducting education in such a way makes it impossible to achieve appropriate educational results, in particular in the field of engineering and practical studies. Therefore, it is necessary to undertake activities that will make it possible to organize education in such a way that practical education, including that carried out remotely, enables the proper transfer of practical knowledge, and thus ensures the achievement of educational results in this area. Applicants took up the challenge of developing an IT and hardware tool enabling the implementation of remote education in the field of electrical engineering, mechatronics and automation, and related fields. The tool based on network interfaces, educational platforms as well as virtual reality and “Industry 4.0” tools will combine the practical part of the laboratory with the IT part, available remotely. It will therefore be possible to carry out practical exercises in an almost identical way as in classical education in a laboratory. An important aspect of the project is also the possibility of using the tools constituting the results of the project in education carried out at a time when there will be no restrictions on access, especially in international cooperation. The results of the project will enable the participation in the education process of students from other universities, in particular foreigners, and will enable the implementation of joint education programs (integrated studies) between universities, without the need or with a reduced scope of the student's stay abroad.The project is to be implemented by a consortium of six academic centers and one secondary technical school. The leader of the project is the Silesian University of Technology, an academic university, winner of the Initiative of Excellence - Research University competition. The leader's activities will be supported by Tallinn University of Technology - Estonia's largest technical university, a Lithuanian university Vilnius Gediminas Technical University - Vilnius Tech, a large academic center of Romania: University Politehnica Timisoara and a large technical university in Central Hesse: Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, as well as the University of Zielona Góra and the Technical School Complex from Wodzisław Śl. It should be emphasized that five of the partners have been cooperating for many years in the field of teaching in the CUCEE network (Cooperation of Universities in Central and Eastern Europe) and provide education as part of integrated studies (with a double degree). In addition, three of the partners in 2017-2019 implemented the Strategic Partnership project focused to improve the quality of technical education in secondary schools.The project activities include the development of four intellectual results in the form of four different laboratories on the subject related to the project, four training and education activities and three dissemination activities. As part of the developed intellectual results, each laboratory, in addition to a different thematic scope (mechatronics, power electronics, electronics and smart grid, and sensor technology), will have a slightly different form of the digital platform interface through which it will be remotely accessible. All laboratories will have a modular form that will enable further expansion, and the developed interfaces will be prepared to facilitate adaptation to other subject areas. As part of training activities, two study visits and two educational events for students and school youth in the form of summer schools are planned. One will be conducted for a mixed group of participants by the staff of the leading center, while the second will be attended only by students of the host unit, and the lecturers will be doctoral students from all partners. This event will take the form of a competition for the title of the best lecturer - the evaluation will be made by the staff from partner units accompanying the doctoral students. Dissemination events, carried out as national events in Poland, Germany and Estonia, will be directed to a different audience related to education in technical areas. The obtained results of the project will be made available for public educational access and will be developed in terms of new laboratory exercises and new thematic areas.

Our project aims to fill the gap between flexible electronic technology and design by developing highly predictive, generic, open-source, design-oriented organic and oxide based TFT compact model libraries, to be integrated in commercial Electron Design Automation (EDA) environments for full large area low cost circuit design for novel applications. These model libraries will be released together with parameter extraction standard templates to assist in the fast transfer between initial prototype device measurements to full product design. Such a facility will open the opportunity for wide flexible electronics design