CREA aims to promote ICT development and creativity as new drivers able to produce specific structural changes and arrangements in the European entrepreneurial base, to influence the future paths of social change and innovation to a large extent. CREA project wants to validate a new European Model of Summer Academy for students who wants to develop business ideas focus on creativity and ICT and able to explore innovation in advanced fields: new products for new markets, social innovation, meaning drive innovation in old sectors, service innovation, technology driven innovation etc. CREA will test 2 edition of Summer Academy simultaneously organized in 6 European Cities (Milan, Stuttgart, Ljubljana, Newcastle, Tallin, Utrecht), which will end with an international event (CREA ICT Business Idea Contest) for the presentation of results to international investors and the awarding of a prize. The project includes training courses, mentoring activities and the incubation program for start up companies that will be able to use the opportunities of ICT and Creativity to propose new business model with a European vision. The general objectives of CREA project are: - To create European wide system of Summer Academies for university and last year high school students entirely focused on ICT entrepreneurship; - To create a model of Summer Academy action oriented with a strong focus on ICT and entrepreneurial skills development and a rich offer of mentoring, support for business planning, matchmaking opportunities and generation of ICT related business idea; - To stimulate the development of new start up business ideas boosting on ICT and creativity; - To complement and extend similar existing Summer Academy program while strongly focusing on ICT and creativity entrepreneurship; - To organize and promote ICT Business Idea Contests.

SOCIO-BEE proposes that community engagement and social innovation combined with Citizen Science (CS) through emerging technologies and playful interaction can bridge the gap between the capacity of communities to adopt more sustainable behaviours aligned with environmental policy objectives and between the citizen intentions and the real behaviour to act in favour of the environment (in this project, to reduce air pollution). Furthermore, community engagement can raise other citizens’ awareness of climate change and their own responses to it, through experimentation, better monitoring, and observation of the environment. This idea is emphasised in this project through the metaphor of bees’ behaviour (with queens, working and drone bees as main CS actors), interested stakeholders that aim at learning from results of CS evidence-based research (honey bears) and the Citizen Science hives as incubators of CS ideas and projects that will be tested in three different pilot sites (Ancona, Marousi and Ancona) and with different population: elderly people, everyday commuters and young adults, respectively. The SOCIO-BEE project ambitions the scalable activation of changes in citizens’ behaviour in support of pro-environment action groups, local sponsors, voluntary sector and policies in cities. This process will be carried out through low-cost technological innovations (CS enablers within the SOCIO BEE platform), together with the creation of proper instruments for institutions (Whitebook and toolkits with recommendations) that will contribute to the replication, upscaling, massive adoption and to the duration of the SOCIO-BEE project. The solution sustainability and maximum outreach will be ensured by proposing a set of public-private partnerships schemes and innovative targeted communication means to streamline exploitation and accessibility to the project impacts.

De wachttijden binnen de geestelijke gezondheidszorg (GGZ) in Nederland overschrijden de (treek-) norm en lopen helaas nog steeds op. De mobiele applicatie (app) Tijd-Lijn (zie afbeelding 2) is ontstaan vanuit onderzoek naar de gepercipieerde Wacht-Tijd van psychiatrische patiënten in het Universitair Medisch Centrum (UMC) Utrecht. In grote lijnen informeert de Tijd-Lijn app de patiënt in realtime over zijn/haar persoonlijke wachttijd status. Daarnaast ervaart de patiënt meer regie over zijn/haar wachttijd proces en draagt de app zo bij aan het vergroten van de patiënt autonomie. De app versterkt de relatie tussen de zorginstelling en de patiënt vanaf het eerste moment door helder te communiceren en zo onduidelijkheden en teleurstellingen te voorkomen.

With the joint programme Creative Talent Works, higher art education institutions HKU, AHK and ArtEZ build sustainable collaborative relationship with SMEs both within and outside the creative industry. Aim is to contribute to the innovative capacity and agility of the partners in a rapidly changing world. At the same time, it provides the future artists and creative professionals trained at these universities of applied sciences with relevant experience and important competencies that ensure a better connection to the labour market.