This project focuses on rapid (40min), simple, Point-of-Need COVID-19 testing, e.g. surgery/home (via first responders)/transit points of entry. BG Research (BGR) has developed direct from crude sample detection of viral pathogens – the QuRapID-XF technology, removing requirement for nucleic acid extraction, expert users or a laboratory; results delivered while you wait. Tests utilise the Gold Standard polymerase chain technology as current clinical reference tests, but using our novel reagent, directly breaking open the virus and a single enzyme system that is resistant to the inhibitory compounds found in crude biological samples. Objectives: 1. Develop a lyophilised assay for direct detection of SARS-CoV-2 from nasal swab samples. 1. Production scaling of a portable instrument for performing the test at Point-of-Need. 2. Demonstration of a pipeline for rapidly deploying new assays in response to future outbreaks and detection from a wider range of sample types. 3. Validation of the assay at 3 independent sites using clinical samples, generating data sets for regulatory approval. Achieving the objectives: BGR has pre-production portable systems in testing for the in-field detection of veterinary diseases from animal nasal swabs. This project will bring scaled production of the product forward by minimally 3 months together with a validated lyophilised SARS-CoV-2 assay. The team has proven experience in diagnostics design and development and will have access to clinical patient samples from Italy and France, generating quantified standards and performance evaluation data that BG Research will document under its ISO13485 quality standard and generate data for EUA regulatory approval. Relevance to Work P: The IMI2 call is seeking innovative diagnostics to have impact in combating the current Coronavirus outbreak and this proposal to provide rapid and simplified differential diagnostics at the point of need, is directly aligned with the scope.

Tourism is the third largest economic activity in the EU and the sector continues to grow. Although tourism has a broadly positive impact on economic growth and employment, it is also a resource-intensive industry that leaves a large footprint on the environment and it can also threaten cultural heritage and local food production.Therefore, sustainable tourism and CSR in the tourism industry are intensively promoted by political decision makers as well as by an increasing number of customers and guests. In this context, sustainability and CSR have become standard elements of all good quality training at the VET and HE level within the last 10 years. Also large tourism chains and global operating service providers usually apply CSR standards.However, one target group has so far had very little contact with the concepts, philosophy, methods and instruments of sustainability and CSR in tourism: micro and small to medium enterprises (SME's). Their managers usually have no access to information about CSR and CSR concepts, to date, have not been tailor-made for SME's. The trouble is that 95% of companies in the tourism sector employ fewer than 10 people. This brings us to the situation that the vast majority of tourism providers in Europe have not even heard of CSR, let alone apply it.In order to overcome this situation, the project group has developed three main intellectual outputs, all arw available for download on the Fair Tourism website; www.fairtourism.eu and the dissemination platform:1.) Implementation of a European survey to obtain a clear picture of the extent to which CSR is known in the tourism industry, especially within SME's. The survey has been implemented all over Europe and has investigated issues such as general knowledge about CSR standards, the prestige of CSR with tourism managers, fields of interest, demand and needs. Results and outcomes of the survey have been evaluated, analysed and published in a survey report.2.) Based on these outcomes the Fair Tourism training course has been developed, tailor-made to the needs, interests and demands of the main target group. It covers 6 modules; CSR in general, human resources and labour conditions; CSR related innovation and entrepreneurship for tourism SME's; CSR issues in supply and service chains in a fair-trade tourism approach; sustainable accessible, food and rural tourism; public policies and labelling in tourism sector; customer services / intercultural competences. The training course, is based on the requirements and standards of ECVET and EQF, and it allows for accreditation of prior learning experience. 3.) Finally, we published the policy paper, which summarises experiences and outcomes from the project activities, and provides deductions for Europe’s VET/HE policy, labour market as well as its regional, economic and ecological development. It has also introduces benchmarks to be reached within the next five years at the local, regional, national and European levels and provides a list of requests to political stakeholder and policy makers concerning what will be needed for promoting and fostering successfully CSR within tourism SME's.Through our project activities we wanted to achieve direct and indirect impact both in the short term as well as in the long term.The European survey provided, for the first time, an insight into the status quo of CSR knowledge and acceptance within Europe`s tourism SME's and it contains their demands and needs concerning this issue. By this, we have provided a reliable and valid basis for any future decisions and actions taken for improving the situation.The Fair Tourism training course allows VET and HE providers to offer tailor-made CSR training to managers of tourism SME's. One year after the projects has ended, 50 VET and HE providers should offer this course to approximately 500 managers all over Europe.The Fair Tourism policy paper has given all political decision makers clear guidelines and recommendations as to what needs to be done next to overcome the lack of CSR standards in Europe’s largest sector of the tourism industry.All project activities are embedded in a wide range of evaluation and dissemination activities. The partnership contained eight organisations in total; five of them are VET or HE providers specialised in the fields CSR in tourism as well as in tourism management; one is an association of tourism service providers, one is a service provider for tourism enterprises and one is the largest European network for the dissemination of European project results. They have all the skills, experience, and resources needed for implementing this project successfully. Representing the UK, DE, AT, BE, LT, LV, RO and FR the partnership will ensure an appropriate European dimension as well as a fine split between larger and smaller countries with differently developed tourism industry. They all have strong relations to their local tourism industry and to political deci

"Lectŭrĭo in Latin means ""I feel like reading"". This is why the project name Lectŭrĭo+ was chosen.How can we help very young children, who are not yet readers, to get into the written world ? How can we encourage this very young audience to develop a desire to read and to learn? Through the Lectŭrĭo+ project we seeked to convince people that this can be achieved by combining stories for kids with multilingualism issues. From September 2017 to November 2019, the seven project partners and their eleven associate partners pursued this idea with conviction. They proposed a set of open educational and training resources. Every resource created within the framework of the Lectŭrĭo+ project is available on the public web site of the project. The resources are designed to be enriched continuously.The Lectŭrĭo+ project brought together three different types of organizations. Coordinated by an association, Apicad, the project was carried out with as well the school sector (represented by a vocational high school, the Lycée Le Mas Blanc), as the university sector (represented by five universities). Some of these were already working with a network of schools, and all have more or less a vast experience with issues of plurilingualism in the field of education : the universities of Barcelona, Corsica, Rome 3, Salento, and Saarland. The partnership had four countries involved : Germany, Spain, France and Italy. Their partner organisations were mainly located in regions where several languages are in use, in cross-border regions, as well as in island or rural plurilingual regions. The associated partners extended the area of influence to also include Romania and, on the American continent, Argentina. In these regions, a wide range of languages with all possible status are in use, and constitute a very rich environment for doing research on this topic. Not only the education systems are diverse, but the different forms of care of the main target audience, children between three and six years of age, are also rich thanks to their differences.This audience of very young children, who do not yet read or are at the very beginning of writing, is not the only target audience. Another target group is schoolchildren in agricultural vocational education who’s career plan is to work in the socio-educational field, and particularly with children between three and six years of age. In addition to these two basic groups, attention has also been paid to pupils with so-called special educational needs - even if they are over 6 - in order to respond to dyslexic disorders. It then remains evident that all the actors being involved in the education of young children are among the target audiences. This starts with teachers and other professionals in contact with the very young public in the exercise of their profession, without fundamentally forgetting the families themselves.The Lectŭrĭo+ partnership had beforehand identified the need for comprehensive social care in education, and particularly in the education of the very young. For this reason they wanted to respond to these needs by setting realistic and concrete objectives. This is why, in addition to resources and training, the partnership has committed itself to design a system for learning in a family context, involving the school as well. The description of this system is part of the available documents on the project’s web site.In the field of multilingualism, the associated didactics, and the teaching techniques already in place, very little work had been done for a very young audience and dyslexic children. The Lectŭrĭo+ project has produced in two Pluralistic Approaches (intercomprehension and language awareness) and has digitally transposed the ""Story Bags"", from which it has drawn much inspiration. It was able to benefit from the long experience of the italian Valle d'Aosta region, an associate partner. The ""Story Bags"" are a pedagogical technique based on short bilingual texts.It is therefore innovative to have chosen this type of public, in the same way as the approach of cross-fertilisation between school and socio-educational sectors and families also is innovative. The Lectŭrĭo+ project focuses on the positive effects of disseminating educational resources and practices. In the long run it aims to combat school failure and early drop-out. It enables to set up a network of schools being engaged in these approaches.The Lectŭrĭo+ project will continue and last. In fact, it has set up a sharing practice between the project actors through a sustainable exchange network and regular, hybrid or online training sessions. All the achievements of the project can be improved but also complemented by new ones over time. The project's coordinating organisation is committed to this approach. The ""corpus of tales"" already reaches hundreds of web pages, and the created resources based on the emblematic tale « Thomas and the watermelon » invite to be creative."