Lisboa can be more than one may ever imagined. With almost 2000 years of history, it is now a global city, just as it was in those early days. However, it aims to go further. As the gateway to Europe facing the Atlantic, Lisboa is cosmopolitan and entrepreneurial, the result of an economic and social dynamic that has borne fruit in the last decade. More than just being a trendy city chosen by welcomed tourists and digital nomads for temporary remote work, Lisboa aspires to create value through the talent it attracts and the innovation it promotes and supports, to invest that capital in benefit of social justice and environmental sustainability. This is the vision of a city that aims to blend scientific and technological research with culture and social innovation. This is the path that the current municipal executive leading the city government wants to take, inspired precisely by the European Way. It is a sustainable and humanistic model of development, in contrast to models that rely on volatile premises and are sensitive to flows and circumstances. The vibrant entrepreneurial community that took its first steps in Lisboa is now mature and aspires to take the next step, to grow and scale. Lisboa is no longer just a Startup city, Lisboa is becoming a Scaleup city, and aims to be a Unicorn Capital, fostering and nurturing research and innovation in open labs, welcoming students, investors, dreamers. Because Lisboa is the Home of the Believers. Lisboa aims to be iCapital Europe 2023, as a Unicorn Capital, an open lab available to innovation and experimentation, committed with sustainability, thinking global and acting locally, with the citizens needs as focus and their participation as lever. From the returns provided by the innovation-driven economy, the city will be able to invest in policies that develop social welfare, culture, and citizenship, without losing site from Lisboa's identity and reinforcing its authenticity. Landing page: https://icapital.lisboa.pt

The active participation of citizens in science related issues has significantly increased in the past decades and citizen science is top-priority in many institutions and governments across Europe. Portugal, however, is still lagging a little behind. This proposal for the European Researcher’s Night 2014 and 2015 in Portugal – CITSCI – has two broad aims. First, CITSCI aims at addressing this national insufficiency, through i) the active mobilisation of university researchers, science museum professionals, municipal authorities and the civil society (associations, NGOs) and ii) the compilation and broader dissemination of what is already being done in terms of citizenship-based research activities in Portugal. It is hoped that these activities become more mainstream in Portugal after CITSCI. Secondly, in Portugal the relations between contemporary science, socio-economic development, environmental sustainability, and employment, are not yet clearly perceived by the public. Through a broad range of scientific activities, CITSCI aims at raising awareness of the role of research in the citizens daily lives and encourage their direct and active participation in the construction of scientific knowledge. Special attention will be given to the engagement of minorities, citizens with special needs and women. The University of Lisbon (ULisboa), through its National Museum of Natural History and Science (MUHNAC), coordinates CITSCI. It will mobilise, together with the University of Coimbra, the research community, science centres, NGOs, and local authorities to act as associated partners in their respective regions. The proposal will also have the Municipality of Lisbon as partner, which will play an important role in mobilizing the participation of citizens, local companies and associations, as well as the regional and national media. The Municipality of Lisbon and the NGOs will have a very important role in the co-organization of the build-up and outdoor activities.

<< Objectives >>The FEPL project strives to build a network of engaged librarians that meet and translate EU policies into relevant language and activities for adult learners in their community. Librarians across Europe will work to develop a mutual understanding on 3 thematic areas: digital skills, the green transition, and civic participation.<< Implementation >>The project will have 3 camps organised in Aarhus, Ghent, and Lisbon where public librarians will be convened for 2 days to build their knowledge and understanding of a topic. From these camps, a briefing note will be developed that encompasses the messages libraries want to communicate on digital skills, the green transition, and civic participation as well as case studies.<< Results >>A briefing note that empowers librarians to be multipliers of EU policy knowledge. It will contain key messages, language relevant to the library sector and case studies on each of the thematic areas selected. This will be used to develop activities that disseminate the knowledge to adult learners in each community. Long term network of librarians that regularly meet and exchange on EU policy and translate this into their community in relevant language and activities.

"There has been an increasing demand for multi-agency policies in urban governance to resolve issues of public order and social wellbeing. In particular, the regulation of social order in public space has increasingly become a shared responsibility for authorities and welfare institutions, as multi-agency approaches are believed to be more effective and supportive to marginalised people. Stakeholders are urged to work together in a model of security and safety governance, despite their different ideologies. The starting point for this project was seen in social practice, as vulnerable people such as substance users and homeless persons are ""clients"" of both professions – police officers and social workers. Vulnerable people are sometimes considered a problem of social disorder and at the same time they are in need of help in terms of social and medical care. However, the two professions show fundamental differences in responsibilities, organisational structures, professional cultures, and in their work methods. Therefore, they may be sending ambiguous and incoherent signals to vulnerable persons in public spaces with severe consequences for their wellbeing. The project team of practitioners and researchers in social work and policing developed a special training to provide a forum for exchange on various functions and responsibilities for the benefit of vulnerable persons in society. A 5-day training for approximately 15 to 20 participants from both professions – social work and police - has been developed. This training curriculum is structured in three modules: In Module 1 professional cultures, organisational structures, professional concepts and practicalities of partnership programmes between police and social work organisations are discussed. A clear understanding of basic work ethics shall contribute to reduce prejudices and build trust between members of the different professions. Module 2 is dedicated to a more specific field at the interface between social work and policing: the use of psycho-active substances among young people in the nightlife. Here, the SWaPOL training focuses on two ways of interpretation of the same problem: Perceived as a problem of health (addiction) social workers apply methods of harm reduction; conceived as a criminal offence (drug dealing) the police argue they must enforce the law. Without a process of communication and collaboration, this leads to controversial policies and a game of cat-and-mouse. Module 3 is dedicated to the problem of homelessness, which is a multifaceted and complex social problem, and it concerns several fields of social policy beyond housing. As homelessness more often becomes a problem of public (dis-)order, it is not only a matter of lifestyle of the homeless person, but rather a problem between three parties: the homeless people, the general public who raise complaints about social disorder, and the police who have to settle the dispute. And that makes it a case for community policing and calls for joining forces with institutions of social work and welfare.The SWaPOL training schedule has been explicated in a Handbook for Trainers, published in 4 different languages (English, German, Portuguese and Dutch). The handbook presents the modules in more detail and will help future consortia to structure future trainings around keynote themes and learning activities. Practical exercises for educational practice follow recent high school didactics of ""constructive alignment"" and ""student-centred learning"". Exercises have been carefully selected for a classroom situation when social workers and police officers meet. Excursions and field trips to public places and to social service facilities for substance users and homeless people are conceived. Spending quality time together was conceived one of the major factors to a successful collaboration between actors of very different professional cultures. This could and should not be replaced by online teaching and distance learning.Partners in the SWaPOL project have disseminated their findings widely in international conferences and in so-called national multiplier events, which attracted various practitioners from federal and local police, city councils and social work associations. Although these meetings could only be held as online conferences, they had a significant impact on local governance. In all partner countries the SWaPOL model curriculum will be implemented in future training activities on a local level. A permanent integration of SWaPOL trainings will show positive long-term effects on the way social workers and police officers interact and collaborate in joint prevention projects."

The maritime activity in Europe, and in particular the port sector, has been changing significantly over the last ten years due to the rapid technological development and the increasing geopolitical importance of world sea trade. In the context of higher volatility and trade diversification, the increasing economic growth of the port activity has lead to further challenges, mainly for the so-called ‘Ports of 4th Generation. Today, the diversity of port activities within the sector incurs in a higher diversification of job occupations, with future trends related to the inclusion of advanced technologies, effective port management procedures and sustainable requirements. As a result, the port sector has become one of the key economic sectors of high strategic value generating new occupations and jobs. The general objective of the Port VET Hub is therefore to build a sustainable transnational VET-port business cooperation to adapt VET specializations and skills with the port trends of tomorrow, attracting high-level talent and increase hiring future prospects across four key ports of Europe in the Atlantic (Lisbon), Mediterranean (Barcelona), Baltic (Ventspils) and Back Seas (Constanta). The specific objectives are the following: (1) to adapt VET port studies curricula and training offer (both of technical and non-technical specializations) according to new sector trends and skills demanded by the port companies; (2) to influence port companies about the advantadges of VET education as fundamental educational path to meet their demands and get port employeers highly capable and skilled and (3), to raise awareness and attractiveness of VET port studies and professions as a career option of strategic importance among youngsters of every partner country. Convinced by the central role of VET system in the education change processes, the innovative idea of the Port VET Hub is driven by the global attempt of gathering both social and economic groups involved in society transformation as could be port sector experts, VET staff and youngsters as a way to cooperate and exchange best practices, analyze and offer recommendations for the adaption of VET to the European port sector. The Port VET Hub is thus expected to set the basis for a long sustainable collaboration in time, based on common strategic issues and stimulating direct exchange inter-paria among strong partners with equal needs, challenges and solutions to adapt to the future of work in front of other emerging regions.