Information technology is all around us – at work, home and on our mobiles. Communication networks and software systems are becoming more and more interconnected as we expect to access services and applications anywhere and anytime. Scientific and technological advances are therefore required to develop secure, reliable and trustworthy information and communication technology (ICT) systems and services. The goal of this strategic partnership was to respond to this challenge and to the increasing demand for specialists in the area of security, reliability and trust in information technology by exploring the possibility of developing an international joint Master’s programme in information security between the participating HEIs, all of which are leading institutions in this field. The partner institutions were the University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg), as project coordinator, the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (Portugal), Warsaw University of Technology (Poland) and National Technical University of Ukraine - Igor Sikorsky Kiyv Polytechnic Institute (Ukraine).In order to reach the project goal, the project leaders closely collaborated in carrying out a feasibility study for such a joint curriculum, including the development of tables of conversion for grades and a model Memorandum of Understanding between the participating HEIs. Regular transnational project meetings were held to this effect, alternately in Luxembourg, Warsaw, Lisbon and Kiev, completemented by virtual meetings through online platforms. In addition, three five-day Intensive Study Programmes took place with the participation of students and teaching staff from all the European partner institutions as well as teaching staff from the Ukrainian partner institution. The first ISP took place in Luxembourg in March 2015, the second one in Lisbon in April 2016 and the third and final one in Luxembourg in April 2017. These ISPs offered over 80 participating students the opportunity to benefit from the specific expertise of teachers/researchers from the partner HEIS and to work together in multinational groups.

The NURECAB is 24 months CSA project related to the implementation of Euratom Work Programme 2023-2025 and focused on Education, training, capacity building and networking actions to strengthen Ukrainian and EU nuclear research. The NURECAB ambition is to support further integration of UA nuclear research community into European research networking and Euratom Research and Training Programme with paying attention to improvement of Ukrainian education and training academic framework for human capacity building and ensuring safe operation of Ukrainian nuclear installations and inclusive collaboration in fission and fusion. There are 6 specific objectives of the project: - Quality improvement of nuclear education and training programme in Ukraine, - Reducing the gap between nuclear educational and training programme of Ukraine and nuclear sector needs, - Attracting young people to nuclear research and engineering, - Strengthening cooperation between UA and EU research entities and academia to improve the participation of their researchers in Euratom Research and Training Programme, - Enhancing UA Euratom NCP competences and communication tools, - Raising awareness about Euratom programme among Ukrainian stakeholders. The NURECAB project is divided on 6 Work Packages: WP1 - NUCLEAR EDUCATION ENHANCEMENT: IDENTIFYING GAPS AND STRENGTHENING PATHWAYS, WP2 - STAFF TRAINING FOR UA EURATOM STAKEHOLDERS, WP3 - STRENGTHENING NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, WP4 - CAPACITY BUILDING OF YOUTH, WP5 - COMMUNICATION, DISSEMINATION AND EXPLOITATION, WP6 - PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND COORDINATION. The NURECAB consortium is represented by 9 organization which are 5 Ukrainian nuclear education Universities, Ukrainian NPPs operator, Ukrainian nuclear society, the largest Ukrainian research center in the nuclear field that is a host of Euratom National Contact Point and European nuclear education network from Belgium.

Greenhouse gas emissions, pollution and rational energy use are civilization-scale challenges which need to be resolved urgently, in particular by the conversion of abundant waste heat and undesired vibrations into useful electricity. However, the low efficiency of existing conversion methods does not provide an attractive solution. Here we propose a new and highly efficient method and apparatuses for the simultaneous transformation of mechanical and thermal energies into electricity by using zero-emission nanotriboelectrification during non-wetting liquid intrusion-extrusion into-from nanoporous solids. To tackle these phenomena, we bring together a consortium of multidisciplinary teams specializing in physics, chemistry, material science and engineering to address the project by the state-of-the-art methods of MD simulations, high-pressure calorimetry and dielectric spectroscopy, materials synthesis and characterization, and prototype development. The FET-PROACTIVE call is a key solution to bring this early stage multidisciplinary concept to higher TRLs, fill in the large knowledge gaps in the solid-liquid contact electrification and heat generation during intrusion-extrusion as well as enable its full impact on EU innovation leadership, competitive market and energy sector security. The proposed method can be used for energy scavenging within a wide range of technologies, where vibrations and heat are available in excess (train, aviation, domestic devices, drilling, etc.). In particular, using European Environment Agency data we estimate that the use of the proposed approach only within the automobile sector can reduce the overall EU electricity consumption by 1-4% in 2050. With this regard, the final stage of the project implies regenerative shock-absorber development and field-testing for a drastic maximization of the maximum range of hybrid / electric vehicles.