<< Objectives >>PLACES supports the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in a European context, and uses SDG 3; “Good Health and Well Being”, SDG 4 “Quality Education” and SDG 10 “Reduced Inequalities” as subject area. PLACES shows how playful learning and the use of storytelling, can create participative and inclusive education, which can promote engagement and active participation among pupils towards the SDG and the European Integration Project that supports Europe’s contribution to the SDG.<< Implementation >>The project design is inspired by creative design thinking and co-creation. These are solution-seeking methods that focuses on the active involvement of partners and users (teachers and pupils), and on cooperation in the creation of solutions and products, while learning along the way. PLACES consists of 5 WPWP 1 – management and coordinationWP 2 – Needs analysisWP 3 – Learning design, teacher guidelines and springboard storiesWP 4 – SustainabilityWP 5 – Good practice and Recommentations<< Results >>PLACES develops 1) a didactic learning design, 2) learning materials that touches upon the importance of European common values to reach the SDG and 3) teacher guidelines. The PLACES material, which will be used in primary schools and lower secondary schools, will be based on a learning design that uses playful activities, storytelling and active participation from the pupils, which will increase their curiosity, creative thinking and their willingness to engage in the society.

The Embracing Dementia project is motivated by the increasing number of people with dementia in the EU, and the need to have a common approach in Europe towards this important societal challenge. With an aging population and the risk of developing dementia increasing with age, a significant rise in the number of elderly people with dementia is expected in the coming decades. The project supports the European Union’s vision on combating Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia as a top priority within active and healthy ageing by Embracing DEmeNtia.The main objective of the project is to create increased awareness about caring as a collaborative process between the four target groups: Persons living with dementia, relatives, health and care professionals and civil society organisations/volunteers.In order to reach the main objective, the EDEN project has produced five concrete intellectual outputs:IO1 - Needs analysis. It is based on 12 individual and 13 focus groups interview with relatives, volunteers and professionals. Results from Needs Analysis are available in the project and is presented in a research article: Valentina Bressan et all: “Needs, issues, and expectations on dementia care at home across Europe to inform policy development: Findings from a transnational research study”.IO2 – Learning and Information material. The main objective of the materials was to provide knowledge, awareness or support living and dealing with dementia regardless of whether it is a family member, a volunteer or oneself. There are developed criterias for the selection of existing materials into following areas: • To be able to cope with the future• To feel supported and collaborate with others• To be socially included• To understand and cope with dementiaAll materials are available on the Embracing Dementia learning and teaching platform.IO3 - Community Collaboration Concept. The CCC builds on existing material and experiences from dementia-friendly communities and goes a step further providing a concrete proposal, on how to actually build up communities that are dementia-inclusive. By creating a close collaboration, transparent dialogue and understanding between all stakeholders; private as well as public. Therefore, the CCC is developed as a process model, which helps the relevant stakeholders to go from a desired wish to be a community embracing dementia, to actually becoming such a community. The CCC i available in a short/pixie model on English, Spanish, Dutch, Italian and Danish on the platform. The entire CCC document with a knowledge base, methods, hand-outs i.e. is available on English on the platform. IO4 – EDEN Interactive Learning Platform. The platform has four target group entrances and each of those are organised according to the structure of materials from IO 2. By this the platform not only brings along information and learning materials for each target group, it also supports common access to the materials of the other groups supporting common understanding and collaboration. The platform is available in all project languages; English, Danish, Dutch, Italian and Spanish. See the English platform here: http://embracingdementia.eu/ IO5 - Policy and Implementation Recommendations. The document gathers all the project’s learning and experiences into a common project summary, and a description of how the partners ensure a more permanent use and implementation of the results from the EDEN project. The partners elaborate the possibilities to continue working with the knowledge from the Embracing Dementia project, and especially the platform and the Community Collaboration Concept.The partners will actively use the platform and its content in educational situations towards health professionals as either qualifying further education or as introductory training for new staff. The Community Collaboration Concept, which is an integrated part of the platform, has already been – and will continue to be – used in workshops where local communities – e.g. elderly homes – want to co-create local solutions for dementia friendly and inclusive societies.The partners have agreed to meet once a year to go through the platform for eventual changes and updates. Each partner will go through the material in their language and SDEO will be responsible for the concrete updating of the website, as this partner has been responsible for the entire development and creation of the platform.ECHAlliance, being the pan European partner of the project, will in the near future try to create a Thematic Innovation Ecosystem (TIE) focusing on Dementia.

"The FUTE project is a collaboration project with partners from Denmark, UK, Finland, Belgium and France, which runs from September 2017 to August 2020. The overall aim of the project is to contribute to a modernization of the European school through the use of design processes and methods, and hereby tackle challenges such as lack of preparation time for teachers which can translate into unmotivated students, who get tired of schooling, and risk to drop out before having reached qualifying youth education.The FUTE project has produced the following concrete material1) The FUTE Needs analysis 2) The FUTE Design Process model2) The FUTE method cards3) The FUTE training material4) The FUTE didactive learning platform5) The Good Practice and Recommendations reportAfter having carried through the needs analysis, the 6C model has as planned been adapted into a process map with 5 categories; 1) Process, 2) Analyse, 3) Ideate, 4) Research and 5) Create. The model is cyclic in nature, meaning that one can go through it multiple times to find the best way to work with the design challenge at hand. It is not a linear process, which means you can shift back and forward between steps as needed. The model is founded on two axes of knowledge; 1) going from producing knowledge about what is to producing knowledge about what could be and 2) going from producing knowledge through thinking to producing knowledge through experience. Instead of app. 100 method cards in the original set of method cards, that was based on the 6C model, the new set of FUTE method cards now contains 42 method cards, all of them specifically focusing on education, teaching and school related situations. There are 18 cards that can be used to facilitate the design process and e.g. establish the team rules, the success criteria and the way to communicate. These cards are designed to be used throughout the entire process. Six methods concentrate on collaboration and the dynamics within the team; six methods are about framing a challenge and evaluating the information and ideas, and six methods focus on communication and visual tracking within the team and on presenting to people outside the team. There are twelve method cards related to understanding “what is”. These methods focus on gathering and visually analysing information and inspiration in order to create learning and insights. Last but not least, twelve method cards can be used to help creating ideas about “what could be”. These cards can be used after you have completed the research, analysed the informa¬tion and decided what you want to focus on, because then you have a base from which you can ideate and create.This Teacher Training Module is designed to help school managers and teachers use the FUTE cards and the FUTE Design Process Method within the school, in collaboration with colleagues and pupils, and concretely within the teaching situation. The Teacher Training Module contains background information on design thinking, shows the potential of design thinking in an educational setting and provides several exercises to get acquainted with the method. Design thinking can be used in different educational settings: teachers can use this method to solve challenges in their organisation (teacher design teams), while teachers can also use design thinking as a teaching method that fosters creative and active learning (pupil design teams).After having developed all the FUTE material, all partners worked together with local schools and teachers, providing training and facilitated the implementation of local pilot projects, where the FUTE material was used in local schools and in concrete teaching and / or innovation situations. There are 4 areas where it has proven to be especially useful;a) the planning and development of learning and teaching processes, b) the creation of collaborative processes to discuss complex dilemmas in the school in general, c) reaching consensus between different groups in order to find concrete solutions to concrete challenges within the school environment or d) animating or facilitating concrete teaching processes with the pupils (best suited for pupils in lower and higher secondary education, or students in higher education)All the experiences and good practices that were gathered from the testing phase have been presented in the good experiences and recommendations report, where promoting factors as well as barriers for the implementation and application of the FUTE material. The report also contains a list of the top recommendations.The FUTE material has been evaluated by project partners and external pilot stakeholders to be innovative, easy to use and ""handy"", and the FUTE dadactive learning platform, that is accessible on www.fute-project.be, presents all the material both as printable material and an online version, which can be used directly from the platform."

The objectives of the Innovation Denmark 2019 project are to: • Provide Key Account Management (KAM) services to Danish businesses, which have been awarded grants under the SME Instrument, Future Emerging Technologies or Fast Track to Innovation programmes • Provide Enhancing Innovation Management Capacity (EIMC) services to SMEs in 2019. Companies will be assessed via the Innovation Health Check tools or other approved tools and depending on results, referred on to relevant organisations in the Danish and European innovation eco-system. In total, under both categories 100 service packages will be carried out. The figure is based on an average of 46 KAM packages coming through EIC programmes, and 44 EIMC cases carried out. If a larger number of grants from EIC are given to Danish participants, the packages will be adjusted accordingly. The figures are based on the experience of the Danish consortium since 2014, which has seen a high and increasing number of cases coming through via the SME Instrument, due to the success Danish companies have in the programme.

The objectives of the InnoDK IV project are to: • Provide Key Account Management (KAM) services to Danish businesses, which have been awarded grants under the SME Instrument, Future Emerging Technologies or Fast Track to Innovation programmes • Provide Enhancing Innovation Management Capacity (EIMC) services to SMEs in 2019. Companies will be assessed via the Innovation Health Check tools or other approved tools and depending on results, referred on to relevant organisations in the Danish and European innovation eco-system. In total, under both categories 170 service packages will be carried out. The figure is based on an average of 70 KAM packages coming through EIC programmes, and 100 EIMC cases carried out. If a larger number of grants from EIC are given to Danish participants, the packages will be adjusted accordingly. The Danish EEN has consistently been one of the absolute top performers across the board, with a strong focus on creating impact for client companies. The network ranks overall #1 in number of Partnership Agreements per FTE during the current period, including #1 for PA Research and #1 for PA Technology. Figures from the EASME in 2019 show that the Danish EEN has an average of nearly six times the network average in PA/FTE, while still adhering to the highest standards. Furthermore, the network has an active policy of counting and demonstrating direct impact on behalf of clients and making this information available to national stakeholders every year. This approach will be maintained by the organisations and staff members involved in the Innovation Denmark 2020-2021 project.