A fundamental challenge in design research today is to define the design programs that suggest how we can turn our days scientific knowledge and technical development into design for new forms of living that will provide foundations for a more sustainable way of life. Through a cross-disciplinary and cross-national network in architecture, textiles and interaction design the consortium will build and train a new research community to take on this challenge in practice based design research from a broader perspective, in collaboration between academia and the private sector, combining areas of design where Europe by tradition have a very strong position. The proposed ArcInTex ETN aims to strengthen the foundations of design for new forms of more sustainable ways of living by connecting architecture, textiles and interaction design in a training network for Early stage researchers. Deepening connections between textile, architectural and interaction design will open up for new reflective foundations of the design for living in an age of technological innovations, designing for adaptive and responsive environments connecting the scales of the body, the interior and the building. By a combination of in depth specialization, collaborative project work training and company internship, the ESRs of the network will form a highly trained avant-garde ready to take on fundamental challenges both in academia and in the private sector building their work practice on new ideas of material thinking and design thinking with emphasis on sensitive design expressions for reflective living. By strong focus on practice based design research the ETN will contribute to further establish design research at a level similar to that of engineering science in areas of special importance for the design of our future ways of living, which is crusial for academia and private sector collaboration in the given areas of design research.

"Eurhythmics in Education & Artistic Practice (EEAP)Music is a worldwide phenomenon and understood by all people, regardless of ethnic, religious or linguistic background. The occupational market in music is also becoming more and more international. Therefore, it is important to equip students for an increasingly global professional life. All future musicians and music teachers need to be trained for working in a global multi-cultural society. Eurhythmics is a pedagogy that combines music, natural body movements, imagination, improvisation and reflection. Eurhythmics is taught as a subject in higher music education and other performing arts education. Eurhythmics is also used as a method in pre-school, primary schools, and in music and dance education for all ages, as well as in work with senior citizens and people with special needs. Eurhythmics Teacher Education is to be found at 18 Higher Education Institutions in Europe. International contacts through conferences have been traditional in Eurhythmics, since its beginning in the early 20th century, but the network-building has been very loosely organized. Building a network, aimed at supporting and connecting Eurhythmics teachers, students and alumni in Europe, would promote development of a subject that, within its methodology promotes democracy, inclusion, creativity and cooperation. This international project, with participants from four European countries and one associate, has as its main goal to strengthen the quality of education and to promote internationalization. The aim is to build a sustainable network for Higher Education Institutions offering Eurhythmics education throughout Europe. To achieve the aim, the EEAP project intends to create a structure, with common activities, available resources, a digital platform for communication, and a Joint Master's Program.All of the partners are Higher Education Institutions (HEI), with a focus in the arts:Kungl. Musikhögskolan i Stockholm (project leader) Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, Austria,Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany,The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, Katowice, Poland,Haute école de musique de Genève, Switzerland, associated project partnerAll partners offer Eurhythmics Teacher Education. In the project, a number of activities will take place, and common modules will be produced:• Workshops, • Translations; articles, teaching materials, national and local documents, • Planning and applying for a Joint Master's program in Eurhythmics,• Building and launching of a digital platform for communication, sharing knowledge and developing teaching materials. In the ""Learning Teaching Training"" workshops, (hosted by the different participating HEI, each visited by another of the HEI), students and teachers will meet for trying new common modules, new material and new methods. The workshops will include both teaching and creative work, as well as visits in schools and community groups. After the workshops, the teaching material will be edited, and the experiences will be summarized. All material will later be shared and available on the digital platform.The project should be carried out trans-nationally, as its main purpose is sharing and developing knowledge in an international context. The artistic and pedagogical characteristics of the partner universities of this project, have developed and diversified through the very different professional specialties of each country. Bringing together this diversity among the teachers and making it accessible and networkable, is particularly important for the further development of the subject of Eurhythmics. It enables for strengthening the quality of education, enriching the didactic method and artistic means, as well as broadening the areas of influence and application of the Eurhythmics method. It is innovative because it also allows for the development of a new quality of modern work methods, considering sustainability, democratic values and a multi-cultural approach to teaching and learning.Through dissemination of the project results and the continuance of cooperation, the aims of the project are to:•Promote artistic and didactic development of Eurhythmics teachers in higher education, with emphasis on the connectedness of movement and music as an art practice,•Integrate artistic and scientific research,•Point out the relatedness/correlation in Eurhythmics of arts and pedagogy, as well as the practice/content and its didactics,•Work out a joint Master's Programme with emphasis on Eurhythmics in higher education,•Explore and create Eurhythmics materials in multi-cultural and inclusive contexts,•Promote internationalization,•Expand mobility,•Develop common international practice.The project spans over three years and concludes with an international dissemination event in Stockholm 2023, followed by national dissemination conferences both inside and outside of the project."

E-textile is rapidly developing segment of electronics with an estimated growth from 2.3 billion USD in 2021 to 6.6 billion in 2026. They facilitate many socially important applications such as personalized health or elderly care or smart agriculture and production. Unfortunately, today, e-textiles are highly problematic in terms of environmental impact. Problems range from toxic materials used for production, through energy/water requirements to the difficulty end-of-life processing systems that combine traditional electronics and textile components. The aim of this project is to develop circuit technologies for e-textiles that are based on materials that minimize environmental impact, are compatible with the life-cycle of normal textiles to facilitate easy re-use in the spirit of circular economy and can be produced (and recycled) in an energy efficient way. The main breakthroughs with respect to the current state of technology will be in three areas: (1) A combination of digital inkjet, 3D printing and atmospheric plasma to produce sustainable textile electronics building blocks from environmentally friendly materials (e.g conducting polymers such as PEDOT:PSS and carbon based polymer nanocomposites). (2) Going beyond embedding electronics in textile structures on substrate and layer levels as is state of the art today, and using fibrous materials (enriched with electronic properties as stipulated above) as such to create electronic components such as transistors, capacitors etc. and combine them into more complex circuits. (3) Comprehensive, lifecycle-oriented model of the environmental impact of such e-textile technologies and their applications. Overall STELECT will create the foundations for a new paradigm for e-textiles development that is not just environment friendly and sustainable but also fundamentally changes the way e-textiles and wearable systems are designed and built facilitating whole new application domains and associated markets.

Do-It-Yourself networking refers to a conceptual approach to the use of low-cost hardware and wireless technology in deploying local communication networks that can operate independently from the Internet, owned and controlled by local actors. MAZI means “together” in Greek and MAZI [http://mazizone.eu] invests in this paradigm of technology-supported networking, as a means to bring closer together those living in physical proximity. Through an experienced interdisciplinary consortium, MAZI delivers a DIY networking toolkit that offers tools and guidelines for the easy deployment and customization of local networks and services. MAZI toolkit is designed to take advantage of particular characteristics of DIY networking: the de facto physical proximity between those connected; the increased privacy and autonomy; and the inclusive access. Such characteristics are used to promote information exchanges that can develop the location-based collective awareness, as a basis for fostering social cohesion, conviviality, knowledge sharing, and sustainable living. To achieve this objective, MAZI brings together partners from different disciplines: computer networks, urban planning and interdisciplinary studies, human-computer interaction, community informatics, and design research. These academic partners will collaborate closely with four community partners to ensure that MAZI toolkit benefits from the grounded experience of citizen engagement. MAZI draws from the diverse mix of competencies of its consortium to develop a transdisciplinary research framework, which will guide a series of long-term pilot studies in a range of environments, and enhanced by cross-fertilization events. The main goal of this process, and measure of success, is establishing DIY networking as a mainstream technology for enabling the development of collective awareness between those in physical proximity, and the development of surrounding research and theorizing of this approach.