As climatic conditions are constantly changing and the frequency of extreme events increases, there is an urgency of planning, designing and retrofitting the built environment in order adapt it to present and future risks. Too frequently the built environment is a driver of vulnerability, rather than being a shelter for citizens. For this reason, mitigation and adaptation need to be pursued actively, putting built environment and human resilience at the center of a climate and future-proofing action. The MULTICLIMACT project aims to develop a mainstreamed framework and a tool for supporting public stakeholders and citizens to assess the resilience of the built environment and its people at multiple scales (buildings, urban areas, territories) against locally relevant natural and climatic hazards and supply-chains, as well as to support them to enhance their preparedness and responsiveness across their life cycle. The mainstreamed approach will include a method specifically targeted for including several types of built environment assets, including human well-being, health, and quality of life as an essential scale of analysis and action. MULTICLIMACT will support resilience-enabling ACTions by implementing a toolkit of 18 reliable, easy-to-implement and cost-effective Design methods, Materials, and Digital Solutions, enabling users to easily estimate the impact of their implementation on the resilience of the targeted asset, integrating a multidisciplinary approach integrating socio-economic, life, engineering, and climate disciplines. The MULTICLIMACT approach is integrated with relevant international and European initiatives, building upon existing knowledge and instruments, and demonstrating the proposed approach in four case studies that represent various geographical location, natural and climatic hazards, social and economic systems and scales of analysis, ranging from single buildings (including cultural heritage) to the urban and territorial scales.

DiverSea develops novel marine observation and monitoring technology by combining: 1a) The new DNA-based identification approach “DNA-marks”: This approach will harnesses low coverage/cost genomic data to document genetic diversity and discriminate beyond species, to the population and individual level. This opens revolutionary possibilities, both for environmental samples (eDNA) and for monitoring species key biological parameters beyond simple identification, and, 1b) The experimentation required to quantify uncertainties in marine eDNA/eRNA interpretation, while developing general indictor methods with novel approaches harnessing new approaches and theory on mechanisms of molecular shedding and degradation; 2) emerging molecular techniques and approaches integrated with autonomous systems satellite remote sensing, citizen science, existing monitoring program data collection and, covering EOVs/EBVs, for comprehensive mapping of important marine habitats; 3) A novel data integration processing and interrogation AI-ML architecture that processes incoming biological, physical and biogeochemical data from diverse data platforms and from case studies in (2). The analysis module overarching framework will combine EOVs/EBVs for spatial and temporal biodiversity prediction, gap analysis identifying urgent data needs and investigating causal links/feedbacks between abiotic cycles, multiple stressors, biodiversity dynamics and biogeochemical cycles 5) An interactive platform to communicate the scientific outcomes of DiverSea to policy makers, stakeholders and the general public, the “Biodiversity Services Dashboard”. The dashboard visualizes key environmental and socio-economic indicators with quantified scenarios for societal and functional biodiversity interaction, connections of biodiversity to ecosystem functions and services. This will facilitate evaluating and comparing policy and planning alternatives considering the requirements of different target stakeholders.

MUSE GRIDS aims to demonstrate, in two weakly connected areas (a town on a top of a hill and a rural neighbourhood), a set of both technological and non-technological solutions targeting the interaction of local energy grids (electricity grids, district heating and cooling networks, water networks, gas grids, electromobility etc.) to enable maximization of local energy independency through optimized management of the production via end user-driven control strategies, smart grid functionality, storage, CHP and RES integration. Two large-scale pilot projects will be implemented in two different EU regions, in urban (Osimo) and rural (Oud-Heverlee) contexts with weak connections with national grids. These pilots will test and promote the main project concepts: Smart energy system and Local Energy Community. A Smart Energy System is defined as an approach in which smart electricity, thermal, water, gas grids etc are combined with storage technologies and coordinated to identify synergies between them towards maximization of energy independency and reduction of operation costs. The purpose is to reduce energy carbon footprint while meeting energy demands and creating real and sustainable energy islands. To achieve this both physical networks (electricity, natural gas, district heating and cooling, water) and non-physical networks (mobility and citizens/communities) have to interact in order to become a Local Energy Community where inhabitants can act and exchange energy to provide reliable and cheap energy in colaboration. MUSE GRIDS will promote these two concepts not only in pilot projects but also in virtual demo-sites in India, Israel and Spain. Social and environmental aspects of smart multi-energy system transition will be investigated Osimo and Oud Heverlee citizens will be directly involved.The project involves leading EU companies and energy utilites and will be a muse of inspiration for dedicated policy redaction also providing insights to the BRIDGE initiative

The BIG project aims to increase the digital, international, business and financial management skills of 80 workers of small companies in Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Greece and Poland functional to define a correct and sustainable planning of digital, international company projection.The project responds to the strongly felt need of small European companies to enter, develop and remain in international business. In fact, according to the DESI Report 2018, in 2017 10% of the EU workforce does not have adequate digital skills and does not use the internet (35% does not even have basic digital skills). It criticizes the situation in IT, SI, EL, PL; slightly higher than the EU average, the ES figure. Only around 10% of the European small business workforce has digital skills to monitor technological solutions and devices such as cross-border e-commerce, cloud services and automation. Against a growing number of EU consumers who habitually use e-commerce (equal to 68%) there is an inadequate implementation of these digital solutions mainly in EU small businesses with IT, PL, GR in the last positions. SI and ES are average. According to the results of a Google-Doxa survey, there is also a close correlation between the use of e-commerce and revenue generation. The percentage of small businesses that have relations with foreign countries (the analysis involved 5,000 European small businesses) - thanks to digital, is four times higher than the percentage of non-digitized companies. As the level of digital maturity grows, the percentage of companies that export also grows, going from 55% of non-digital to 67% of companies advanced from a digital point of view. Digital maturity and exports also have a direct impact on turnover: digitally advanced companies declare that 24% of export turnover is achieved through digital means, a sign of the web's potential as an incremental channel for export.In response to these critical issues the project intends to:• co-elaborate a European, blended training supply which is innovative and in line with the needs of workers and companies to improve their development opportunities in the globalized economy• test the learning path with at least 80 workers from European small businesses involved in the partnership, integrating the following 3 dimensions of learning:- cognitive, with the use of OER developed in the form of video tutorials and additional materials developed/sought by the partnership, contained in the learning environment as well as participation in face-to-face sessions during the e-learning course- operational, with the conduction of check-ups by the learners to guide their small businesses, in the implementation of efficiency procedures in international business development processes by exploiting digital solutions- behavioural with the scripting and recital of sketch-coms to stage relational dynamics typical of digital marketing conversational processes• align a group of partnership trainers, involved in an international mobility to acquire the methodological references of Movie Education and guide learners through action learning activities to create educational sketch-comsThe project deals with a theme of transnational relevance with a multi-stakeholder partnership cooperation strategy that involves actors of:a) the Chamber system• Camera Di Commercio delle Marche (IT) – Lead Partner• Camera Di Commercio Italiana di Salonicco (EL)• Polish Chamber of Commerce of Importers, Exporters and Cooperation (PL)b) Training and consultancy• CONFORM - Consulenza Formazione e Management S.C.A.R.L (IT) • FEI (ES)• AKMI Anonymous Educational Organization (EL)• GZS CPU (SI)c) The academic system• Università Politecnica delle Marche (IT)• Poznań University of Economics and Business (PL)d) Business associationsASECOM (ES)e) Local authorities BSC Kranj (SI)The expected impacts of the project can be summarized as follows:• Increased level of professional performance in the management of digital internationalization processes in partnership reference territorial contexts by virtue of the acquisition of an integrated set of target skills based on a systemic vision of a technological, organizational/managerial, commercial, relational and marketing nature• Adoption and implementation of a flexible, interactive and innovative European model of education inspired by the movie education logic, capable of evolving methods, tools, solutions and learning situations, to raise digital, international business management skills levels, through a lifelong learning process.