The Europlanet 2024 Research Infrastructure (EPN-2024-RI) will provide the pan-EU infrastructure needed to address the major scientific and technological challenges facing modern planetary science and strengthen Europe’s position at the forefront of space exploration. EPN-2024-RI builds on the foundations of a series of highly successful EU-funded projects that have created the leading Virtual Observatory for planetary data and the largest, most diverse collection in the world today of field and laboratory facilities capable of simulating and analysing planetary environments. EPN-2024-RI will provide Transnational Access (TA) to an enhanced set of world-leading field and laboratory facilities, Virtual Access (VA) to state-of-the-art data services and tools linked to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), and Networking Activities (NA) to widen the user base and draw in new partners from Under Represented States (URS), non-EU countries, industry and interdisciplinary fields, and to train the next generation of RI leaders and users. With 56 beneficiaries, from both industry and academic sectors, providing access to 31 TA facilities on 5 continents and 4 VA services linking over 100 data services and catalogues, EPN-2024-RI represents a step-change in ambition for planetary science worldwide. Innovations include the establishment of a ground based observation network to support space based missions, the launch of an interactive mapping service to provide virtual exploration of planetary surfaces, and the development of machine learning tools for data mining to fully exploit and analyse planetary data sets. EPN-2024-RI will establish global collaborations and an international userbase for the RI through inclusion of partners in Africa, Asia and South America. Ultimately, EPN-2024-RI will support the transition of this unique infrastructure to a sustainable future within the structure of the Europlanet Society.

The specialized training of health professionals in organ donation has turned to be one of the crucial factors for increasing donation rates in all countries. China the 2nd largest country in the world is facing the challenge of establishing an ethical and sustainable system of organ donation. The donation rate (PMP) was 2.02 in 2015, which is far behind when comparing with most of the countries in the world. Training for medical professionals is an effective approach to increase donation rate in China. Unfortunately, this work in training is far away from enough.Therefore; University of Barcelona, University of Bologna and University of Nice together with DTI-Foundation initiate KeTLOD project to fill-in the gap of the training lack in the Chinese universities on organ donation. This initiative is based on European great experience in donation activity and on the training of more than 10.000 health care professionals trained form the University of Barcelona through the Transplant Procurement Program since 1991 in this field.KeTLOD project will facilitate the design of a postgraduate program in organ donation field, for the Chinese health care professionals’ customized to their needs that will be implemented in 7 Universities. The KeTLOD curriculum is conceived as blended training program, in accordance with European Space for Higher Education guidelines and will offer knowledge and experience in clinical approach, management and dissemination strategies in Organ Donation. KeTLOD consist in a 625 hours program that will lead to 25 ETCS.KeTLOD will empower professional competences; enhance the detection and referral of potential donors and encourage a positive attitude towards donation in the society. KeTLOD; customized to the Chinese health professional needs, translated in Chinese language and shaped as blended training course, implemented in 7 crucial universities in terms of educational background and capacity and their geographical position will be a great

Ensuring social, economic and environmental sustainability is one major aim of all the countries but priorities are not the same world over. The partner countries, China and Thailand, are fast growing economies attracting significant Foreign Direct Investment but facing a number of social and environmental challenges. Growing cities, expanding industry and increasing pollution of air, water and soil are big problems in both the countries which have several adverse effects on the society, environment and sustainable development.Applications of Geospatial technologies and methodologies in socio-economic analysis, natural resource management, economic planning, environmental management, sustainable developmental planning etc. have been well established during the last decades. However, Higher Education Institutions face a challenge of producing ‘ready-to-deliver’ Geospatial graduates.There are 3 main driving forces of Geospatial education i.e.:- Geospatial Application fields / Domains- Geospatial Data- Geospatial Technologies / ToolsThe interplay of the 3 driving forces is multilateral and reciprocal. The dynamics change in a matter of months, weeks and even in days requiring ‘fit-for-job‘ Geospatial workforce. However, HEIs fall behind in responding to the new job-requirements because they can't change curricula every month or year to incorporate new developments. As a result, by the time fresh graduates enter into the job-market, their skills are largely outdated or missing.The project envisages following outcomes:- Curricular structure, syllabi and teaching/learning materials of 20 problem-oriented case-studies based modules for PG level Geospatial study programmes.- 50 faculty members Professionally trained in delivering the modules.- 150 students with enhanced transversal skills through ‘hands-on’ practical experience of working with the applications of these modules.- An e-Learning platform facilitating free and open access to the modules worldwide.

EDEMTET (eCampus for Dental Education supporting multidisciplinary team-based learning and evidence-based treatment planning) addresses the Chinese need for modernized curricula and in particular the needs for integration of didactically sound online learning, a multidisciplinary approach to oral treatment, team-based learning and development of 21st century skills. The eCampus will be an innovative open online learning environment that promotes critical thinking, and implement international online team-based learning and a multidisciplinary approach to evidence based treatment planning and clinical decision making. Through the platform, information will be transferred from didactic to clinical settings and between various countries and cultures, in order to enhance the knowledge, skills and performance of students, dental teachers and dentists and to improve the quality of clinical decisions in the field of dentistry. Besides, EDEMTET includes a research platform and infrastructure to advance the knowledge base on effects of dental education, and on cross-cultural, evidence based and multidisciplinary treatment planning. Both researchers and students will use the data collected through the eCampus system for research purposes.The eCampus will boost virtual and in-person mobility and cooperation between dental schools in China and Europe and beyond. The eCampus will provide well-structured courses and open educational resources and is emphatically designed to cover more medical fields in the future. It will utilize modern web technology and open online tools and build on state of the art integrated online-learning systems. The contents of the educational program will be made available by a network of Chinese and European dental schools and China’s national dental association. The main element is an interactive treatment planning module, where international teams of students learn through mutual peer feedback on case-based treatment plans and clinical decisions.