The SSP-IQA-"Sustainable, Secure, and framework for Air Quality" project proposes to design, implement and validate a low-cost IT infrastructure with the necessary functionalities for collecting, transmitting, processing and analyzing data relating to outdoor and indoor air quality, particularly in public buildings such as schools/universities or hospitals. The infrastructure will make it possible to link up different platforms existing locally at the consortium partners, with the specification and implementation of efficient solutions at different levels (Fog and Cloud) and integrating security aspects at the level of data collection and transmission. The aim is to enable efficient, scalable handling of large volumes of data on air quality in general, and indoor air quality in particular. Estimating individual exposure inside buildings is a major challenge, due to the variability of temporal and spatial exposure, linked to individual behavior (e.g. studying in classrooms or eating in cafeterias), but also to the dynamics of the surrounding environment, which can also influence indoor air quality (e.g. meteorological conditions, nearby polluting factories, car traffic in the vicinity, occupational context). In this way, the specific environmental context of each consortium partner will enable rich and varied data to be collected, taking into account the multi-dimensional nature in time and space of the data needed in studies of air quality in internal and external environments. Information sharing (open data) is an important aspect of our project. In the medium and long term, the infrastructure can be used to share the data collected and enrich the data concerning air pollution. The creation of structured data, under controlled conditions (taking into account the context) and with real data, is one of the current gaps in the study of air pollution, particularly inside buildings. An important point is that this proposal also addresses international collaboration, in particular with Latin America (Mexico) and Africa (Cameroon), two countries for which the issue of air quality and its influence on human health is a priority area of research. Also, building on each partner's IoT platform the idea is to integrate our contributions and move towards a multi-platform vision for the constitution of a large volume of rich, structured data. Such an infrastructure will not just collect multi-dimensional data in time and space on the qualitý of the air, but also data on the state of computing, storage and transmission infrastructure resources and their energy costs. All to ensure intelligent operation covering sustainable development objectives specific to partners in Europe, America and Africa.

The European Union (EU) in the “Project Europe 2030” is continuing to follow “Europe 2020” set out as a vision of social market economy for the 21st century. One of the tools to achieve this vision is to increase numbers of social entrepreneurship (SE) and promote this business model. SE creates sustainable and inclusive growth and stimulates social innovations. Social entrepreneurship has a potential to bring forward new approaches to big challenges that Europe is facing such as an ageing population, growing inequality, climate change, and youth unemployment.Only a few universities in Europe such as Roskilde University and the London School of Economics and Political Sciences offer study programmes whereas social entrepreneurship is incapsulated either as a specialization or a module. A survey carried out in partners’ home institutions and the discussions held among partners during the preparatory meetings revealed that: (1) none of the partners has a programme or a model for encouraging educators to incorporate the concept of social entrepreneurship in their teaching practices; (2) none of the partners offer social entrepreneurship as study track, module or study programme; (3) more importantly, teachers critically lack knowledge and skills about social entrepreneurship in Lithuania, Latvian and Cyprus partner institutions. The emergence of social entrepreneurship is prevented by number of barriers. obstacles are different in different countries, but the most common is a lack of understanding of the concept of “social entrepreneurship” across Europe.Poor recognition of this term is in all chains of market from policy makers, public servants to public in general, investors, prospective customers. Another barrier faced by social entrepreneurship is a lack of entrepreneurial spirit, managerial and professional skills, competencies necessary for scaling up activities.Higher education institutions (HEI) are the shapers and innovators of our communities that help foster cultural, social and economic vitality. Social entrepreneurship track their development throughout education sector and notes that young people still lack knowledge of social entrepreneurship and its peculiarities.The problem is lack of understanding of the concept of “social entrepreneurship” and lack of necessary skills to develop social entrepreneurship in HEIs.This project aims at raising awareness about social entrepreneurship and its benefits around higher education institutions’ community and in wider range, to promote the development of this business model. The objective is to raise awareness about social entrepreneurship and its benefits around teachers, students and society. HEI’s academics’ have skills gaps in this area. It is necessary to development teachers’ competences and update study programmes, to make them more relevant to current Europe’s economic, social model and international labor market situation. It is evident that there is an urgent need to promote social entrepreneurship among educators and to produce highly qualified graduates capable of addressing profound social challenges faced by our communities and Europe in general. Therefore, is it urgent to empower teachers so that they could deliver high quality teaching whereas the development of social entrepreneurship knowledge and competences are emphasized. In order to achieve the aim of this project it has to be implemented transnationally in collaboration of institutions from different countries with different levels of expertise in the field.Countries with stronger expertise (Belgium, Finland) will create model of development of “Social entrepreneurship” competencies in higher education institutions and will create training methodology for teachers from countries (Lithuania, Latvia, Cyprus) and will provide training. Trained teachers with new tool and knowledge will make training to local teachers about “Social entrepreneurship” so that they could integrate this knowledge into their teaching subjects. As a result of the training a new curriculum on “Social entrepreneurship” will be created and will be integrated into the study processes of partner universities involved.

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<< Objectives >>With the implementation of this project we want to:●Grow primary school children’s confidence,●Equip partner school teachers with the necessary skills, knowledge, training materials to implement training●Provide parents with knowledge and skills to enhance children’s emotional intelligence●Provide a supportive and affordable online source in small units to implement self-confident activities●Increase organisational sustainability, productivity and service quality<< Implementation >>The main activities we will implement are:●Research where we can find good practices that affect the development of self-confidence and collection of them●Development of a Manual of good practices●Development of training content●Development of workshops for parents●Development of online educational resources●Development of training toolsThe benefits for our target groups will be increased skills and knowledge to increase primary children's self-confidence.<< Results >>The results of the project will be:-The Manual of Good practises for growing primary school children’s self-confidence-Teacher training -Workshops for parents -Grow self-confidence online bite-size learning resource for teachers and parents

Medication safety has been identified as one of the key development areas in the patient safety movement in Europe and globally. Medication errors are the most common types of errors in health care, the consequences can be a serious hazard to patients’ health and safety and increase the costs of health care significantly. Several factors related to health care systems have been identified to be associated with the occurrence of medication errors. However, deficiencies of registered nurses’ as well as graduating nurse students’ medication competence are one of the contributing factors on medication errors. Nurses need to have a solid medication competence to be able to provide safe, efficient and high-quality care. Therefore there is a need for developing undergraduate education. The challenge of developing nurses educational preparation is global, and due to the migration of the nurse workforce especially important for Nordic and Baltic countries.The eMed-PASS project aim was to improve the quality and relevance of higher education in bachelor level nurse education cross-borders in EU-level in the Baltic countries and Finland by modifying, implementing and evaluating the feasibility of portal-based digital learning tool eMedication Passport for ensuring the medication competence and adequate working life skills of the graduating nurses. The evaluation also included an evaluation of the impact of eMedication Passport into the development of medication competence of the students. As an outcome of the project a) shared, innovative culturally adapted and impact evaluated feasible learning tool - the eMedication Passport – with modifications to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to support the development of medication competence of nursing students in the partner higher education institutions has been created and used b) a model for adaption of culturally sensitive learning tool and c) a protocol for the implementation of a method ensuring medication competence development in countries regulated by the EU has been created, d) collaboration among Baltic countries and Finland has been increased. There were 307 nurse students, 37 clinical nurse mentors, 6 nurse educators, as well as 15 persons of the expert panel and 34 head nurses involved in the project activities.The eMedication Passport is one solution for creating common quality standards for medication competence, not only in one country but also over the borders in the Nordic and Baltic countries. By using the tool nurse teachers, nurse mentors in clinical practice, nursing students and students’ employers can follow students’ medication competence development during undergraduate education. It also enhances collaboration between the clinical practice placements and higher education institutions. Modifications, developed through this project, are culturally adapted versions of the non-profit electronic learning tool. The eMedication Passport has been initially created in Finland. The tool is unique and has the potential to be internationally shared learning tool.The project supported objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy and EU Health Strategy Together for Health, by responding to the medication and patient safety challenges faced by member countries through strengthening the cooperation and coordination among universities and registering of nurses’ medication competence development during undergraduate education. The need for developing common education and nursing competence is evident in each of the partner countries. The project consortium consisted on Tartu Health Care College (THCC, Estonia), Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS, Finland), P.Stradins Medical College of the University of Latvia (LUPSK, Latvia), Kauno Kolegija/University of Applied Sciences (Lithuania).The impact of the project is an improvement in nursing students’ medication competence and increased collaboration among educational institutions and clinical practice placements. Although medication competence is one part of nurses’ overall professional competence, it contains elements which integrate into general professional competence. By developing medication competence, the results will also reflect on other professional competencies. Non-direct impact of the project is potential improvement of medication safety by improvement of nursing students’ medication competence and medication education in general. Also, the benefit of the project was transnational and interdisciplinary cooperation which brought the partners together and supported further collaboration in Europe and globally.