SPRINT project intends to give meaning to the concept of social investment as applied to long-term care provision. Its objective is to articulate in more detail the aspirations of the Social Investment Programme, to provide a means for assessing the social costs and benefits of various ways of providing long-term care for the frail elderly, and to present examples of approaches that do indeed, facilitate provision in a way that social benefits are achieved. More specifically, SPRINT will: identify the current landscape of organisation and resourcing of LTC in Europe in order to understand the place in the discussion that social investment currently has and how the principles of social investment used to improve provision in a fashion that is welfare enhancing; investigate how the different resourcing and delivery forms of LTC create social and economic returns, outcomes and social impact and to determine their success factors; evaluate the fiscal and social costs and benefits of various national approaches to LTC delivery; establish a common vocabulary for social investing and for the financing mechanisms of long-term care; identify the most appropriate frameworks for the definition and analysis of social impact of LTC programmes; define the principles for incorporating social considerations in funding decisions of LTC policies and to analyse their relationship with the social innovations addressing the challenges of demographic ageing and of inequities in access to care; develop appropriate instruments, such as the Feasibility Framework Tool, the assessment scales, thresholds and the Impact Map, which will ensure successful implementation of investment in LTC by public authorities, social insurance funds and private investors; create a model of investment in the care sector, emphasizing in social innovations that will be correlated with the broad economic policies; and propose reforms at policy levels.

The House of Brains project is the outcome of several years of cooperation among the project partners and, of course, the result of their expertise. The basic aim of the project is the creation of a training program that unify businesses and academic world, to enhance the knowledge of the entrepreneurial world, by promoting a real and peer to peer collaboration between the two worlds and by covering the gap between what the universities provides in terms of knowledge and skills what the labor market demands.As very often, learners don't really meet enterprises’ needs at the end of their studies, the project has been formulated around the basic idea that a new training path was necessary to be jointly managed by universities and enterprises, accounting for the needs of both, making the training process easily accessible and user- friendly, offering the students the opportunity to practically experiment what they are learning, and introducing into the university programs new elements in terms of experience of entrepreneurs, and technical “know how” that allows youth to be find employment upon completion of the training. For this reason, scope of the HoB project was developing not only a new model of training path, but also an online learning environment (http://www.hobplatform.org) where the HoB pilot online course has been implemented. The HoB partnership was composed by 10 organizations, which have a wide experience and are key actors in the frame of the objective to which the project is focused on. The LP, Unioncamere Veneto has strong and long experience in managing EU-funded projects in many different sectors. Verona University is one of the most advanced in Italy regarding the implementation of applied researches and the development of specific training paths for entrepreneurship. Consorzio IES and CE.Sv.I. both provide financial services to the enterprises and specific training courses aimed to entrepreneurs. The German participants, the Hochschule Fulda and Inter.Research have a wide experience of the Dual Training System and run high training paths where companies have already high influence.Spanish partners, Camara de Comercio de Cantabria (CCIN) and Fundacion Leonardo Torres Quevedo (FLTQ), have a relevant experience in boosting research activities and transferring the results to the business sector. The Slovenian partners, the University of Primorska and the Technology Park Ljubljana are leading entity and key national stakeholder in the development of innovative and knowledge-based entrepreneurship.Concerning the implementation of the House of Brains project, following activities have been undertaken: •Activity1 (O1): Context analysis and good practices detection. In each involved country, a national report has produced with a briefly description of the national university training system, the national policy legislation and, the description of the forms of collaboration/initiatives between industry and academic.•Activity 2 (O2): Definition of the Training offer. Each project partner interviewed local stakeholders to gain understanding of the competences which employers expect from young graduates. •Activity 3 (O2): Definition of Training methodologies. Each project partner has contributed in developing the HoB training path following the indications of Hochschule Fulda that led the process of definition of the training offer. •Activity 4 (O2): Definition of the technical feature and ICT support tools. Consorzio IES with the support of ICT experts has realized and coordinated the development of the virtual environment.•Activity 5 (O2+O3): Realization of the HoB Platform, recognition and validation of the qualifications with an EQF approach under the supervision of University of Verona.•Activity 6: Follow – up. Communication and dissemination of the outcome of the HoB project and open discussion about possibilities of sustainability for the HoB virtual environment.In terms of results, the House of Brains project not only achieved to set up the online platform where three pilot online courses let participants interactively and in a multicultural and virtual environment stimulate their own creativity and soft skills; but gave the opportunity to develop and spread the entrepreneurial competencies and soft skills among youth and graduates. Concerning the longer – term benefits, the House of Brains project is mainly focused on the development and assessment of transversal skills linked to entrepreneurial competencies. Thanks to the experience of the online pilot trials, HoB project has laid the groundwork to start the discussion on the entrepreneurial mindset of competencies that could be potentially used in any educational setting as well as in a workplace. Not only, beside the discussion about the possibilities of sustainability for the HoB virtual environment, partners are interested in the capitalization of the project outcomes for future research/project opportunities

United Nations Model Games (MUN) is a worldwide practice of simulations in which participants take on the role of an international delegate in a simulated committee of the United Nations (UN). Against this backdrop, the goal of Practising Transnational Politics in Blended Learning (PATRAPO) is to contribute to the international MUN community by developing open access transnational teaching kits and a handbook for a two-semester series of online blended learning seminars that train students for the participation in MUNs. To do this, PATRAPO builds on a cooperation of three European Universities and a Canadian associate partner university for training for MUNs. For the time being, neither such a transnational structure nor such teaching kits and handbooks exist. The partner universities are Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Autonomous University Madrid, Zagreb University and, as an associate partner, MacEwan University Edmonton. The partners all have previous experience both in MUN model games and in EU projects and can build on previous MUN activities. The advantages of such a joint structure are the mutual support, the possible synergy effects, a widening of the respective horizons to different input and experiences, and last not least a development and implementation of best practice teaching kits as well as a joint grading scheme. Besides it furthers intra-European relations and fosters EU values. Based on their individual experiences, the partners will jointly develop, establish and implement the following elements and aim at the following results, to be carried out in a yearly rhythm:a)a teaching kit for preparative joint blended MUN training seminars (including work in small groups and virtual seminar sessions; 1st semester of each academic year) at all participating institutions, including: teaching curricula, seminar plans, active-learning methodology, material, content, explanation, organization, training video collection (accessible on the project website). We aim to teach 30 students per semester.b)a teaching kit for joint blended MUN (including delegation work in small groups and a virtual MUN; 2nd semester of each academic year), including: procedure, technical solutions, organizational advice, and detailed description of “how-to” (accessible on the project website). We aim to teach 30 students per semester.c)a handbook including a manual (intellectual property of the partners) and user advice for third parties for the two teaching kits. The handbook will be made available open access on the project website.d)a project website to provide information on the project, the ongoing process and the teaching kits as well as the open access handbook with manual.e)four intensive staff trainings for blended MUN seminars for applying these facilities: the project is a learning system including further training for teachers. We plan four staff trainings with two participants from Fulda UAS, two participants from UAM Madrid and one participant from UNIZG at the beginning of each semester. f)intensive study programmes to attend life MUN (if pandemic allows it, if not, in a big virtual MUN). At least 30 students should participate per year. g)until the end of the project, the blended MUN seminars shall be implemented as permanent elective courses in all participating institutions and a joint ECTS grading scheme established.The project aims at permanently establishing the new seminar series and the cooperation of the participating universities and build appropriate infrastructures in order to provide long-term benefits with respect to student competencies and the quality of the participating universities. Partners will establish a joint ECTS grading scheme. All students will obtain ECTS credits according to the institutional demands at each partners’ university and study program for participating in the MUN seminars. The joint blended MUN training seminars at all participating institutions will be maintained after the end of the EU funding as a fixed part of the partners’ study programmes and teaching activities. A project website will be set up by the partners and include a project description of PATRAPO, the ongoing process, results and links to the two teaching kits as well as the handbook including a manual and user advice for third parties for the two teaching kits. The website will be continued and updated after the end of the EU funding by the partners. In order to organise the seminar series, the regular exchanges in online meetings of the partners will also continue. The project PATRAPO will connect not only the faculty members but also students of the participating universities and thus build a basis for further exchange and collaboration.