Infrastructure is the backbone of sustainable development and forms much of the foundation for quality of life. However, it consumes vast material resources and energy. Hence, educating today's prospective engineers, who will design, construct, and maintain these systems for the next 50 or more years, with the awareness and knowledge of sustainable infrastructure design is critical in achieving a sustainable quality of life for generations to come. Civil engineering covers a wide range of disciplines that incorporates infrastructures: construction, environmental, geotechnical, water resources, structural and transportation engineering. Therefore, it is imperative civil engineering undergraduate students get accustomed to concepts and principles needed to meet the requirements of sustainability in civil engineering projects. As a response, SUSTAIN-CE project will attempt to enrich the contemporary civil engineering undergraduate programs’ curricula, which are mainly focused on regulations, standards, codes and safety and serviceability of infrastructure systems, by incorporating sustainability, resilience and circular economy concepts in various stages of the design courses. The partners will co-create a new innovative undergraduate civil engineering curriculum that covers sustainable infrastructure design to ensure graduates have the ability to apply concepts and principles of sustainable design (SD) and circular economy (CE) in the design and construction of civil engineering projects. SUSTAIN-CE’s partnership comprises of three Higher Education Institutes (HEI), Yasar University and Izmir Institute of Technology, from Turkey and Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki and a research institute, South-East European Research Centre, from Greece, representing Academia, and an international consulting group on engineering, ISQ, from Portugal and a construction company, FOLKART, from Turkey, representing industry, in an effort to combine insights of the industry-academia collaboration, on the SD/CE concepts. A co-creation quadruple-helix methodology will be used to achieve the objectives of SUSTAIN-CE. The quadruple helix target group of SUSTAIN-CE includes universities, students, municipalities, ministries, governorates, regulators, contractors, designers, professionals, construction material producers and the chambers of professions. After identifying a number of best practices of cutting edge open innovation based quadruple helix co-creation mechanisms, a co-creation methodology will be developed. A skills matrix survey will be conducted to identify the skills gap between the quadruple helix stakeholders' needs and employee skills related to SD/CE. Focus groups will be formed to elaborate on the results of the skills matrix surveys and a blueprint for the design of the curricula will be developed. Based on the skills gap analysis and benchmarking results, the Focus Groups will agree on a list of specific thematics (such as structural engineering, transportation engineering, etc.) in the main-curriculum areas for intervention. The academic partners will then perform an in-depth analysis on the curriculum content on the selected thematics and will identify the level of the inclusion of SD/CE concepts in the existing design courses. The partners will then co-create the content that will be integrated to the design courses. The developed blueprint will be used in co-creating the relevant content (syllabi, course notes, case studies, etc.) in order to ensure its ECTS compatibility. The general aim in content co-creation will be to fill the existing gaps and infuse SD/CE insights into the existing courses. The partners will also collaborate to develop a new course on sustainability and the main principles of SD/CE. The new curriculum will be tested during three pilot Training Academies in Turkey, Greece and Portugal. A Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) will be developed to provide an open and distance learning platform that delivers the contents of the new designed innovative curriculum. To enable the transferability of the project’s results, guidelines and policy briefings will be developed to encourage other educational institutions and policy makers to adopt SD/CE concepts in their field. Furthermore, in order to engage a broader audience of stakeholders and disseminate project results four multiplier events and a Final Conference will be organized. The educational approach of SUSTAIN-CE (training academies, co-creation methodology, VLE) will enhance the knowledge and skills of the quadruple helix target group in SD/CE applications in civil engineering and their greater engagement will ensure achieving the project’s long term goals, i.e. increased awareness and knowledge in the general civil engineering community on SD/CE related concepts in civil engineering projects. Thus, the long term benefit of SUSTAIN-CE will be its major impact on the improvement and sustainability of quality of life in Europe.

<< Objectives >>The general objective of the project is; to increase the quality and multicultural dimension of Higher Education in Europe. The specific objectives are;1. to develop an innovative short-term staff training curriculum, a didactical guideline, and a set of teaching materials for HE teaching staff for better management of multicultural and diverse classrooms. 2. to develop an innovative Learning Management System (LMS)3. to develop, implement and test short-term staff training courses<< Implementation >>Development of course curriculum and didactical guideline, teaching Materials for Management of Multicultural ClassroomsDevelopment of LMS (Learning Management System) and Short Term Staff Training (Face to face and virtual), website, newsletters, articles, multiplier events, and an international conference for multicultural and diverse education.<< Results >>-Increasing awareness of multicultural education in higher education-Widespread use of project results and outputs by faculty members of other universities-Open resources (course, course contents, and methodology) on strengthening the dimensions of multiculturalism and inclusive education in higher -education is open to sharing and contributing to the literature-Increasing awareness of university administrations on the dimensions of multiculturalism and inclusive education

The project MISSILE is focused on extremely hot topic, developing key competencies, related to awareness about the information security vulnerabilities, threats and countermeasures. The main goal of the project is to develop a methodology for raising awareness of the information security vulnerabilities, threats and security solutions through learning and training and therefore increase overall security level of users and organizations. It can be achieved by the following objectives: - to define user needs and requirements in the field of the information security training; - to develop a concept for information security training, covering the major issues regarding the contemporary information security issues; - to develop platform, which represents an actual implementation and actualizes the created methodology in a feasible and reliable way; - to create learning materials, related to information security issues, social engineering, users’ beliefs and understandings about sensitive data and information security, as well as selecting and applying properly defined security policies, mechanisms and countermeasures; - to conduct effective valorisation of the created concept and its realization by conducting of piloting with a selected target group of users.By basing our solution into iterative working platform and user trials, we will push our system into piloting for testing and evaluating the created methodology. Apart from the innovative methodology for information security training and learning, we also foresee the formulation and exploitation of security and awareness training methods’ synergies as a major outcome of the MISSILE project. This view is supported by our approach to allow dynamic definition of training and learning and by enabling novel methodology ahead of the state of the art.The MISSILE information security and awareness training / learning strategy is properly designed to have a multi-purposed impact, by (directly or indirectly) affecting the:- creating new ideas and practical results in science;- development of a methodology for training / learning in the field of information security;- reaching a wide public of specialists and non-specialists and new audiences at both European and local levels;- ensuring visibility across Europe, covering different countries and languages;- ensuring further dissemination and strong follow-up.

"Context/background of the project & Objectives;Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management education has been discussed by both academia and business world.While the business world has mainly argued entrepreneurship education in terms of how to foster intrapreneurship, academia’s focus was more on how to design effective entrepreneurship education for university students. In the literature, several definitions on entrepreneurial education exist; and so far, it has been clear that there is no consensus neither on definition, on assessment nor on outcomes.Therefore, a question was: how an EIM course would be developed without falling into clichés and educational inertia?If EIM education aimed to produce entrepreneurial and innovative founders capable of generating real enterprise growth and wealth, the challenge to educators would be to craft courses, programs and major study fields that meet the rigors of academia while keeping a reality-based focus and entrepreneurial climate in the learning experience environment. The gap of entrepreneurship and innovation management training and education program is obvious between what the universities provide and what the businesspersons need. ENOVA Project aimed to minimize this gap by putting forward an effective education program with an up-to-date theoretical content and appropriate practical methodology. The partners of the project were;Yasar University,TurkeyHohenheim University,GermanyUniversity of Primorska,SloveniaBrainplus,AustriaAegean Exporters’ Associations,TurkeyMain activities were;Conducting the Gap Analysis Report: Developing the new course in line with the needs analysis reportDeveloping EIM Course MaterialPublication of a book involving academic articles on EIMOrganization of the IP for Pedagogical Testing Dissemination and EvaluationResults and impact attained were;The main result of ENOVA project was the development and implementation of a new course and course material on ""Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management” that has been confirmed and validated by both business world and academia. Beyond the students of business administration and economics, the programme was designed for all students from different study fields willing to develop their own businesses. A gap needs analysis report reflecting the needed qualifications in business world and offered qualifications of by the universities through the existing courses.New course materials developed according to the confirmed newly developed course contentOne academic international book/publication on ""Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management”2 weeks intensive programme/pilot trainings for pedagogical testing; mobility of 14 students and 10 teachers/experts Increased entrepreneurial knowledge, skills and competences of 14 students through the teachings of international teachers and expertsImproved teaching skills and know-how transfer among the teachersOne final conference at Yasar University (A total of 225 participants attended the conference; 176 participants from other organizations and 49 from the Coordinating Organization) 2 transnational meetings for debating the development of the new course and the materials. Transfer of knowledge and skills between European institutions- not only institutions but also business worldEnriched new partnerships among HEIs and and business world, increased synergies between partnersThe final beneficiaries of the project were the students at partner universities, other HEIs and training centers that might develop the same or similar courses, companies and enterprises benefiting from the more qualified graduates in the middle and long- term of the project as a result of the sustainable implementation of the course. The benefit of the teaching directly, contributed to not only the objective of the project but also to the priority of the strategic partnership programme on “promoting the take-up of practical entrepreneurial experiences in education, training and youth work"". Through the project, the learners improved their knowledge, skills and competencies on entrepreneurship and innovation management."

There is no doubt that Online Social Networks have changed the way people communicate and interact. These platforms have helped to break down barriers and to ease worldwide communication, to share multimedia content or to easily know what is happening in almost any point in the world. Facebook (2004) or Twitter (2006) but also other social media platforms such as Youtube (2005) or messaging services such as WhatsApp (2009) have promoted this new era. However, the meteoric rise of the use of these platforms has also been followed by continuous attempts to subvert their original purposes, using them by the so-called malicious actors for evil purposes. Examples of this can be the generation of mistrust against vaccines, the creation of content supporting climate denial theories, or disinformation campaigns trying to manipulate people's opinion to alter the results of democratic elections. Therefore, there is a wide variety of different types of attempts to undermine social networks and to distorse public discourse. In this project, we seek to reveal and detect the presence of malicious actors in Online Social Networks and to profile these actors through a multidisciplinary approach, including experts in the use of novel computational techniques from the Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision fields and experts from the Behavioural Sciences field. The project will also leverage a multimodality approach, analysing text, images, videos, audio network structures, interactions between users and trust perceptions. From the Behavioural Sciences research field, different approaches, including psychology, discourse analysis, sociology and human-computer interaction will allow us to build a taxonomy of the different malicious actors and to profile them. From the Artificial Intelligence field, tools such as Deep Learning, advanced Natural Language Processing, and Social Network Analysis provide us with the necessary instruments to build a software tool for the analysis and detection of these malicious actors with novel features such as multilingualism, explainability, and a strong focus on an open-source solution.