The project was implemented in the context of the European-wide development of the innovative entrepreneurship ecosystem. Partners include 5 technoparks (mersin technopark, tartu, madan, espaitec, step c) and an entrepreneurship school (IStec brussels)All partners carry out studies to develop the entrepreneurship ecosystem on a national and transnational scale. Entrepreneurs' motivations for the development of mentoring, which is one of the greatest needs in overcoming the difficulties in realizing their ideas, ensured the establishment of this partnership and the emergence and successful execution of the project.The project generally aims to train qualified mentors for young technology entrepreneurs. Achieving this general goal has been possible with the realization of 3 chained goals. These:1. Training experienced business people who have successfully completed their entrepreneurship processes on how to mentor young technology entrepreneurs and bringing new mentors to the ecosystem2. Providing mentoring activities by matching young technology entrepreneurs with mentors3. Raising awareness about mentoringThe project has 3 main groups of participantsTrainer mentors: This group consists of experienced mentors and provided training to mentor candidates.Mentor Candidates: It consists of experienced business people who have been in the industry for at least 5 years, with or without mentoring experience, and who are motivated to mentor.Young Tech Entrepreneurs (Start-Ups): The participants in this group are young entrepreneurs who have just started their business life and need mentor support in various fields (hard or softskills).The definition of young here refers to the entrepreneur's experience in realizing the business idea, not his age.In addition to these main participant profiles, different institutions that are actors of the entrepreneurship ecosystem have been included in the project activities. These:universitiesNGOsInstitutions like Chambers.The project team implemented the activities determined in the proposal in order to achieve the objectives determined in the proposal period, by making improvements when necessary in response to the changes that took place during the project.Accordingly, the general activities of the project are as follows:Conducting needs analysis and reporting to identify the needs of mentors and entrepreneurs regarding the mentoring processesConducting a comparative study of mentoring processes across EuropeOrganizing national Workshops in every countryPreparation of Curriculum for Mentor Training TrainingRealization of the Training ProgramPreparation of project reportsConducting transnational project meetings and post-COVID online project meetingsHolding the Dissemination ConferencePreparation of the e-PlatformMaking mentor-mentee pairingsWith the project, trainer mentors, mentor candidates and start-ups from all partner countries were reached, and the common problems and needs of mentors and mentees were determined. Thanks to the project, the goal of raising awareness about mentoring was achieved. And one of the ultimate goals of the project, raising new mentors, was achieved after the training, and then mentor-mentee matching was ensured, enabling start-ups to reach the support they needed in areas such as realizing their initiatives and commercializing their products, sales and marketing.

"e-KINE aims to offer a solution to replace classical rehabilitation services with on line services, in particular through building digital education readiness, development of digital competencies and strong cooperation between the world of education, digital technology providers and the world of work. The project should complement efforts to help the medical sector recover from the crisis in terms of innovative online solutions, thereby contributing to the EU’s strategic priorities, addressing to VET on tertiary level. Our general goal is to promote innovative methods and tools for teaching, training and work based learning as drivers of improvements in lifelong learning and to support kinesitherapists/physiotherapist in acquisition of skills for delivery of online medical services needed in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. e-KINE innovative training approaches include:- Development of e-KINE on-line collaborative platform as a virtual place where trainees and trainers will be able to learn, teach and co-create content of courses. Promoting OER in different languages and supporting digital content of training are one of the major aspects. Innovation consists in creation of interactive model of learning and new methodologies in gaining knowledge. - The e-KINE course will be included into the e-learning platform. The training content will be based on a curricula that will equip the trainees with extended knowledge regarding the use of different online tools for telemedicine; a special chapter will be dedicated for on-line rehabilitation tools including real life case studies. A database of rehabilitation protocols in different pathology will be developed.-A pilot work-based learning oriented approach will give the trainees the opportunity to apply knowledge in practical workplace situations and function as an on-line rehabilitation unit. This will function as a virtual medical environment. Under the trainer supervision, the trainee will work on line with the patient, communicate, asses the patient condition, choose the correspondent protocol or adapt it to the patient needs and follow up the process.The DIRECT TARGET group refer to kinesi/physiotherapists that NEED to develop new skills in the new context and better integration into labor market. The INDIRECT target group refers to other medical professionals, patients, stakeholders that would benefit of the new training approaches and on line rehabilitation services. In the development of the present proposal a special attention was payed to ensure CROSS-SECTORIAL cooperation and SYNERGIES between the different involved fields by choosing an appropriate mix of complementary participating organisations In order to answer to the specific necessities required to implement the topic and objectives of e-KINE, the consortium includes 4 partners with different backgrounds, from 3 countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey). Aiming to promote learning based on work /practice we developed a partnership between educators that coordinate the training process of kinesytherapists and lifelong learning of specialists (University of Craiova), work environment and employers (rehabilitation clinics- Nutrilife and Mersin University Hospital, Department Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation) and Regional academic center of BAS Burgas, as an association of organisations including representatives of the economic, non-profit and scientific-educational sector. For e-KINE project we will involve Municipality of Burgas, Medical University ""Prof. Dr. A. Zlatarov ” and Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (stakeholder, medical, IT and research aspects).The project is going to bring positive and long-lasting effects on target groups and participant organisations, as well as on regional, national and EU level. Direct beneficiaries will be equiped with the necessary tools and competences needed to come up with creative and innovative solutions to face unprecedented risks, and societal challenges in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and to overcome skills mismatches. A more dynamic, committed and professional environment will be build inside the partner organisations, strengthening capacity to respond to actual challenges by an adapted educational offer and required competencies of graduates; reinforce the competences and skills of employees to offer on-line quality rehabilitation services and increase the affordability and quality of medical services. Increased cooperation by European exchanges of experiences, knowledge and information by networking with all relevant medical partners, representatives of HEIs and labour market, local/regional public authorities in participant countries will help in offering long-term solutions that will continue to support the process of recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic."

"The impact of the establishment of invasive alien species on ecosystems concerns all stakeholders involved in policy-making at international, European and national level. In the Global Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, Aichi's ninth goal states that by 2020, invasive alien species and the following corridors and priority species should have been identified and prioritized. The European Union puts the issue of invasive alien species very high on its agricultural and environmental policy agenda. Specific Objective 5 of the European Biodiversity Strategy for 2020 concerns the ""Combat Invasive Alien Species"" and through Actions 15 and 16 seek to strengthen the EU plant and animal health regimes and to adopt specific legislation on invasive species. Specific reference is made to Regulation 1143/2014 on invasive alien species, which seeks to address the problems arising from these species in an ecosystem with an integrated approach to protect the inherent biodiversity and ecosystem functions as well as to minimize or mitigate the negative impacts on human health and the economy. In the National Strategy for Biodiversity of Greece, all of the above have been incorporated into General Objective 8 “Protection of biodiversity from invasive / invasive alien species”.The general objective of the proposed Project is to inform and raise the awareness of all stakeholders involved in rural development of intervention areas on the impacts of invasive Alien Species on local ecosystems, human health and the economy. The target group consists of Agronomists, Foresters, Veterinarians and other relevant scientists working either in the public or private sector or in Universities and research institutes. The final beneficiaries will be all people, who work in the primary sector such as farmers, animal breeders, fishermen etc.The expected results of the Project are the following:- Description of the current situation in the EU and in each one of the three participating countries concerning the Invasive Alien Species and their impacts on the local eco-systems with best practices from all over the EU.- Study visits in order to exchange knowledge, experiences and best practices. - Creation of educational material that will be used for the seminars for the professionals (Agricultural Engineers and Agronomists, Foresters, Veterinarians). This educational material will be available for use after the completion of the Project as well.- Seminars for the professionals about the impacts of the Invasive Alien Species in the local eco-systems and the effects in the productivity of the agricultural holdings. - Information and awareness raising workshops for farmers, livestock breeders, fishermen and all people involved in the primary sector.- Dissemination activities."

PHERECLOS builds upon the theory of science capital and the experience that Children’s Universities (CUs) have made in the Third Mission of universities. With their engagement with children and young people, they became intermediaries between various actors in the educational and social landscape. As translators of the concerns, messages and knowledge of other parties (incl. business and industry, the state, civic society organizations etc.) they help to dismantle institutional boundaries of universities towards a wider society. The project will establish 6 "Local Education Clusters" (LECs), which bring together schools and further relevant actors in the education ecosystem of a particular pilot region, supported by a peer mentoring programme. The LECs will be incubators for enabling a dialogue between various parties and help to set up joint activities in (formal and non-formal) education, which help to develop collaborative learning environments as experimental testbeds for schools. At the same time they impact on the quality of science engagement opportunities in these areas. PHERECLOS will implement a digital “OpenBadge” ecosystem which labels institutions as reliable and responsive actors and showcases all LEC parties to become real change agents in education. At the same time, this ecosystem will testify individual achievements with respect to STEAM engagement in formal or non-formal settings or even unintended learning outcomes. The regional effectiveness and impact will be monitored by academic transfer and implementation research and lead to the development of implementation guidelines and policy briefs to enhance the sustainability of the overall approach. PHERECLOS promotes the territorial dimension of local education clusters in all their manifold facets and their catalyzing role relating to access to STEAM and higher education, critical thinking and informed decision making in a wider societal context – including competitiveness and sustainable growth.

The objective of SMARTFISH is to develop, test and promote a suite of high-tech systems for the EU fishing sector, to optimize resource efficiency, to improve automatic data collection for fish stock assessment, to provide evidence of compliance with fishery regulations and to reduce ecological impact. SMARTFISH exploits technological developments in machine vision, camera technology, data processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data analysis, smartphones/tablets, LED technology, acoustics and ROV technology to build systems for monitoring, analyzing and improving processes for all facets of the fishing sector, from extraction, to assessment, to monitoring and control. The SMARTFISH systems will: - assist fishermen in making informed decisions during pre-catch, catching, and post-catch phases of the extraction process. This improves catch efficiencies and compositions in fisheries across the EU, leading to improved economic efficiency while reducing unintended fish mortality, unnecessary fishing pressure and ecosystem damage. - provide new data for stock assessment from commercial fishing and improve the quality and quantity of data that comes from traditional assessment surveys. This provides more accurate assessment of currently assessed stocks and allow the assessment of data-poor stocks. - permit the automatic collection of catch data to ensure compliance with fisheries management regulations. The SMARTFISH systems are tested and demonstrated in several EU fisheries. This contributes to promoting the uptake of the systems by extraction sector and fisheries agencies. An interdisciplinary consortium with technology developers and instrument suppliers, fishing companies, research and fisheries management institutes and universities will realize SMARTFISH. They are active at national and international levels and well placed to ensure the uptake of SMARTFISH systems by fishing industry and fisheries managers and stock assessment scientists.