After the outbreak of the economic crisis in 2008, EU still struggles with its consequences. It has particularly affected youth, who are still at risk of becoming a ”lost generation” with limited possibilities. Moreover, young people’s discontent in regard to their exclusion from the job market undermines their belief in the capacities of the state as well as the EU in general to satisfy their needs, resulting in growing Euroscepticism and support to extremist political parties. With a lack of responses to these challenges on a state level, various initiatives emerged from the bottom up. Co-working is one of them, a phenomenon that experienced a boom in the last years, bringing a new dimension to self-employment and entrepreneurship. At the core of coworking is the idea of re-establishing community, increasing collaboration between people, increasing their capacities and skills. Such an approach facilitates networking and helps sharing experience, enhances productivity, boosts innovation and creativity. The advantages of co-working is twofold: first, it allows to develop professional work while combining various skills and specialization; second, it facilitates the development of a mentality based on the values of inclusion, belief in the strength of collective actions and solidarity. INCOME investigated the various methods of co-working and how they can be relevant for social inclusion, culture, business incubation and other fields. INCOME was multi-layer initiative aiming to find new opportunities within the concept of co-working by acting within the intersection of culture and economy, brought on by 9 different partners from March 2017 to February 2019. With its eclectic mix of partners - representing both culture organisations, municipalities, NGOs and business incubators - from around Europe, it explored possibilities to achieve job sustainability and opportunities beyond and across traditional formats, borders and methods. Different European dimensions, both theoretical and geographical, were investigated. Putting co-working at the centre of the discussion gives opportunities to map connections between various forms of creative industries, civil society organisations and new types of economies. A critical overview of where and why we are at this moment, including an analysis of how we talk about the issues and what our conceptual understanding is, has been a crucial starting point. Through activities such as transnational meetings, conferences and professional work exchange an array of different approaches were gathered, best practices shared and new ideas were allowed to emerge. INCOME also applied a critical approach to co-working. What kind of social and economical patterns do we reproduce when defining our working environments as co-working spaces? What type of impact on our societies do we strive for when re-designing work as co-working?The project largely depended on accumulating varied types of knowledge and experiences, through professionals visiting each other’s organisations, following their work and activities, taking part in meetings and study visits and getting to know the local situation - job shadowing. This does not only promote sharing of ideas and best practices, but also helps to quickly get insights into each other’s work, allowing to form new networks and relationships and understand how we can make use of the experiences, a good breeding ground for future projects and further exchange. Afterwards, the participants function as “multipliers” through employing new methods in their organisations and spreading the knowledge to their different target groups. At local level, partners have conducted their own local stakeholder meeting or activity, in order to disseminate results as well as to further deepen the knowledge about the topics. Through the INCOME journey partners dove headfirst into the world of co-working. When implementing and spreading the conclusions, these could allow a more dynamic labour market with the contribution of the dimensions of culture, innovation and technology. At the end of this journey made of exchange, research, and inspiration, the project found strategies and actions that can result in successful co-working practices: In short: Be Fully Part of Your Local Community; Give Your Community Specific Added Value; Be Protagonist of the Scientific/Technical World; Learn From Culture and Artistic Methods.The ideas and experiences are gathered in the publication “Exploring collaboration experiences and innovative work spaces in Europe”, where in dept texts and analyses are combined with conclusions and the partner’s own experiences. Within the network of partners, new ideas have already started to form in different constellations. Co-working as a concept will be implemented in many future activities - not only those addressing youth or unemployment, but as a fruitful thought-model and method to develop businesses, communities and culture.

The overarching objective of EASYRIGHTS is to develop a co-creation eco-system in which different actors belonging to the local governance system can cooperate in increasing the quantity and quality of public (welfare) services available to immigrants. The specific aims are to improve the current personalisation and contextualisation levels, empower the prospective beneficiaries of existing services in getting better access and fruition opportunities, and to engage Quadruple Helix stakeholders in joint, purposeful co-creation efforts, facilitated by the use of hackathons. An easyRights platform - with the twin meaning of “aggregation of local stakeholders” and “collection of online and offline services” - will be developed and deployed in four pilot locations (Birmingham, Larissa, Palermo and Malaga). In so doing, easyRights can support immigrants in their search for responses to different needs, making them more autonomous - at least to some extent - from discretionary street level bureaucracies, saving time for both migrants and for social service staff and cutting costs for the public administration.

The growing motorization in our cities has led to an increase in traffic congestion, noise, pollution, carbon emissions and concerns about road safety, resulting in social, environmental, and economic consequences. AntifragiCity’s overall aim is to pave the way to a new urban mobility governance approach that enables cities to understand their business-as-usual modus-operandi (defined as their state of equilibrium) and to monitor (near) real-time continuous stressors and deviations from this state, assess potential implications through simulation and prediction capabilities, evaluate mobility triage scenario public acceptability and justice, and inform adapted decision making to mitigate their consequences, while continuously enhancing sustainability and resilience. AntifragiCity will pave the way to antifragile mobility urban systems that (a) exploit an adapted framework and associated KPIs to continuously monitor the level of resilience of urban mobility and detect (near) real-time potential stressors; (b) characterize these stressors as well as their level of severity thanks to an event ontology; (c) devise adapted short-term responses based on a mobility triage decision support system; (d) simulate and analyse multi-objective transportation management strategies to improve long-term performance of urban mobility and transport systems, through a wide range of measures, including adaptive traffic management systems that ad-just in real-time to disruptions, predictive analytics to preemptively address potential system stressors and innovative, energy-efficient solutions like dynamic routing and adaptive lighting, (e) employ participative methods to engage citizens through a co-creation process via Living labs in three demonstration cities (Larisa, Odessa, and Bratislava) that addresses both their immediate needs and long-term goals. The project results will be scaled up across our 8 participating countries and wider Europe.

"With 10 to 12 Million, Roma are the biggest ethnic minority of Europe. A relevant reason for their permanent discrimination is their low education level. After the obligation to go to school, the participation of Roma in education decreases clearly. Only about 15 per cent finalise the secondary level II. Less than 20 per cent of Roma obtain a finalized vocational training. Only 2 to 5 per cent of all Roma attend a highschool. Less than 5 per cent of all Roma are University graduates. Their unemployment rate is in average higher than 70 per cent, the one of women is even higher. Much more dramatic – even it is not so much noticed in society – is the situation in the field of entrepreneurship. EU-wide, about 15.1 per cent of all people in paid work are self-entrepreneurs (solo-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs with staff). Although a readiness for starting-up a business exists also among Roma, their share within self-employers is so low that there is no statistics about them in the partner countries. Estimations of experts say it is lower than 1 per cent. Opposite to that, more and more people with migration background go their way into entrepreneurship. The share of this group among the entrepreneurs has increased in the last years, despite of the crisis. In Germany for example, each Third migrant opens his own business. This shows that the way into entrepreneurship is a serious alternative to unemployment and that it contributes relevantly to combating poverty and social exclusion, and to promoting lifelong learning and social participation. In the frame of ""A new ENTRance"", the project partners from Germany, Greece, Hungary and Romania have generated high quality Curricula for adult education that make the implementation of entrepreneurship courses for Roma possible with consideration of education and labour market as well as target group specific needs. The Curricula are not only available in German, Greek, Hungarian and Romanian but also in English and Romanes which promotes both the implementation of the entrepreneurship training courses with the target group and the transfer into other European countries. During the Pilot Training that was implemented within the project, experienced and accordingly qualified education actors from the partner countries were enabled to implement entrepreneurship training courses for Roma as trainers what they did for the first time within the Test Phases in Germany, Greece, Hungary and Romania. The development of an Online Self-evaluation Tool for examining the appropriateness as entrepreneur, that is not only available for the target group of Roma but all potential entrepreneurs on http://roma.entre.gr/, ensures the inclusion of ICT competences and responds this way to the digital era in adult education. The project contributes concretely to the EU Framework for National Strategies for the Integration of Roma until 2020 and the according National Strategies of the partner countries."

Cybersecurity is one of today's most challenging security problems for commercial companies, NGOs, governmental institutions as well as individuals. Reaching beyond the technology focused boundaries of classical information technology (IT) security, cybersecurity includes organizational and behavioural aspects of IT systems and also needs to comply to the currently actively developing legal and regulatory framework for cybersecurity. For example, the European Union recently passed the Network and Information Security (NIS) directive that obliges member states to get in line with the EU strategy. While large corporations might have the resources to follow those developments and bring their IT infrastructure and services in line with the requirements, the burden for smaller organizations like local public administration will be substantial and the required resources might not be available. New and innovative solutions that will help local public administration to ease the burden of being in line with cybersecurity requirements are needed. For example, cooperation and coordination is one of the major aspects of the NIS and EU cybersecurity strategy. An enabling technology for cooperation and coordination is cyber situational awareness and information sharing of cyber incidents. In this project we propose a cybersecurity situational awareness solution for local public administrations that, based on an analysis of the context provides automatic incident detection and visualization, and enables information exchange with relevant national and EU level NIS authorities like CERTs. Advanced features like system self-healing based on the situational awareness technologies, and multi-lingual semantics support to account for language barriers in the EU context, are part of the solution.