TITAN will enrich the EOSC Interoperability Framework (IF) with a software platform solution for confidential data collaboration and secure and privacy-preserving data processing. The platform will enable access to sensitive data sets from public entities and government agencies and will be compatible by design with the EOSC IF on the technical, semantic, organisational and legal layers. To promote community adoption of TITAN’s open-source software artefacts, the solution will be practically demonstrated in several vertical cross-border scenarios - notably in the public administration and healthcare sector

Availability of large volumes of user data combined with tailored statistical analysis present a unique opportunity for organizations across the spectrum to adapt and finetune their services according to individual needs. Having shown remarkable results in analyzing user data, machine learning models attracted global adulation and are applied in a plethora of applications including medical diagnostics, pattern recognition, and threat intelligence. However, such service improvements and personalization based on user data analysis come at the heavy cost of privacy loss. Furthermore, practice showed that systems that use such models incorporate proxies that are often inexact, biased and often unfair. In HARPOCRATES, we focus on setting the foundations of digitally blind evaluation systems that will, by design, eliminate proxies such as geography, gender, race, and others and eventually have a tangible impact on building fairer, democratic and unbiased societies. To do so, we plan to design several practical cryptographic schemes (Functional Encryption and Hybrid Homomorphic Encryption) for analyzing data in a privacy-preserving way. Besides processing statistical data in a privacy-preserving way, we also aim to enable a richer, more balanced and comprehensive approach where data analytics and cryptography go hand in hand with a shift towards increased privacy. In HARPOCRATES we will first show how to effectively combine cryptography with the principles of differential privacy to secure and privatise databases. Next, we will build privacy-preserving machine learning models able to classify encrypted data by performing high accuracy predictions directly on ciphertexts across federated data spaces. Finally, to demonstrate how these solutions respond to users’ needs, we will implement two real-world cross-border data sharing scenarios related to health data analysis for sleep medicine and threat intelligence for local authorities.

"TourX is a 48-month project, under the call for Centres of vocational excellence – KA2 Cooperation among organisations and institutions. The general objective of the project is the development of a bottom-up approach to excellence in the Tourism Sector, where the partnering Educational Providers (VET, HEIs) are increasing their ability of rapidly adapt skills provision to evolving economic and social needs, while its specific objectives include the a) fostering of national/ transnational collaboration (WP2) b) increase of skills anticipation in the tourism industry and of sectoral employability (WP3,5) c) increase of investments in tourism related human resources (WP3) d) achievement of a fairer, sustainable and resilient model in tourism (WP3, 4) e) fostering of internationalization to address long standing structural weaknesses (WP2) f) creation of feedback loops to adapt VET provision (WP3) and g) increase the image of VET in the sector (WP6). In order to achieve these objectives, we are to implement the following activities: •Creation the of TourX - Transnational Ecosystem for Excellence in Tourism. •Design of a TourX ""Hospitality Labs"" ToolBox•Pilot Operation of ""Hospitality Labs"" for the Creation of Excellence at a Regional Level•Creation of Sustainable Systemic Impact and•Dissemination and Exploitation Activities.During these activities, we are to involve institutions and individuals to create “knowledge triangles” (KT) among VET providers in Tourism (along with their learners and staff), Market Representatives (tourism enterprises, EU associations, Tourism Chambers) and Regional Authorities. Through the creation of 4 KT, we are to train 1500 learners and award 5000 microcredentials, while 280 persons will participate in short-term mobilities. In this context, the following results are expected after the end of TourX: a) 1 platform for CoVEs b) 4 KTs c) training programmes, Mooc, WBL d) ILAs e) 1 Skills anticipation Mechanism Box."

"Creative industries realise a vast number of activities which includes not only the so called cultural industries (such as media, design, the movies), but also products and services that contain as a substantial element a creative or artistic effort, thus considering also architecture, fashion, communication. Despite the great potential of creative and cultural enterprises - according to the EU Commission there are abt. 900.000 in Europe who represent the 3 % of the overall European GIP (402 billion of Euros) and a relevant quota of jobs - those enterprises are widely undervalued. Therefore, they do not only need support to the entrepreneurial component, but also the establishment of stronger relations with assets of consolidated manufacture.Smart Jump www.smartjump.eu has achieved from the outset the goal of strengthening links between training environments and the world of work through the improvement of the training offer (with a reduction in the lack of specific skills for entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship) and the support of governance of education and training systems, as interactions between training organizations, companies, policy-makers and society as a whole become increasingly more and more complex. More specifically, the aim was to strengthen the quality of the learning offer linked to entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship of young women who already operate within or are approaching for the first time the creative industries sector. Starting from the model of the Quadruple Helix, developed in Sweden with the Women Resource Center and aimed at developing female entrepreneurship through joint actions between representatives of the public, business, academics and civil society, Smart Jump has worked to align the training offer at local level and partner countries to the economic development strategies geared towards growth and innovation. Smart Jump realised a mix of activities and results, sharing the Swedish experience, jointly developing training content for both senior and junior, female and male entrepreneurs, activating transnational training actions (mobility and blended workshops), setting up the Smart Jump community www.factoryofknowledge.net/smartjump, participated by entrepreneurs and professionals who pursue to establish a network at European level on the project’ topics.The strategic partnership consisting of 8 partners from 5 EU Member States (Italy, Sweden, Spain, Hungary and the United Kingdom) has seen the active participation of public bodies (such as the Veneto Region and IAF) and private bodies (such as Confindustria Veneto SIAV, WINNET Sverige, INDICO and ITL Group) representatives of the entrepreneurial world, the academia (CUOA Business School and in the first phase Goldsmiths' University of London) and the development of human capital.The critical analysis of the Swedish approach, adopting the cooperation model, integrating existing practices in partner countries and defining the training contents for entrepreneurial development has generated a model of learning and cooperation that has been validated through 2 transnational learning activities of ""blended mobility for VET learners"" in Italy and Sweden, with combined webinar and training courses jointly attended by direct beneficiaries and staff of the partners: 47 female and male entrepreneurs, companies, researchers, training specialists and human resources, associations and young people. The two pilot actions addressed the topics of sustainable innovation, entrepreneurship, cooperation with Quadruple helix and the resulting methodologies for technology and knowledge transfer between the key players and finally the connection between creative industries and productive sectors. A complete programme for the valorisation and networking of experiences and skills at transnational level has found its expression through face-to-face meetings and the digital hub www.factoryofknowledge.net/smartjump.Regarding benefits and impact of Smart Jump, the project has activated a process of improvement of the training offer of the partners, has allowed the development of skills useful for enhancing entrepreneurial activity, supporting organizations linked to industrial systems. In the long term, Smart Jump intends to have a systemic value in allowing a concrete improvement in the way public and private organizations involved interact and work to enhance the role of young people and women, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs, interested in the creative industries."