Collaboration between universities and industries is critical for skills development, the generation, acquisition and adoption of knowledge and the promotion of entrepreneurship. Through collaborative interchange, the university becomes “a more vigorous partner in the search for answers” . The social and economic community provides a context for civic discourse and the reciprocal, interactional creation of knowledge. Community engaged education establishes the context for the exploration of pressing and complex problems, of which e-health and medical informatics is an example. Out of this reciprocal need comes the development of a model for interdisciplinary education that centers community as the context for learning. This model represents the theoretical and physical space where the university joins with others to address complex issues. Thus, the main objectives of this project are: 1) To establish and sustain effective Industry cooperating with University (ICU) Centres of e-health Innovations at some partner universities in LB and EG (LEG) 2) To develop a web platform based on Knowledge Triangle, innovation approach to develop and commercialize of e-Health innovative technologies and tools. 3) To develop a new integrated professional short term (6 months) and long term (one year) diploma program in e.Health and Medical informatics 4) To develop in-service lifelong learning training (LLT) program in the area of e-health innovative Medical/health/IT/engineering. The consortium consists of experienced partners, which have different levels of knowledge and skills in the fields of e-Health and Medical Informatics. The partnership has the necessary capacity to implement the project and achieve the expected outcomes. It will have an important impact on students, on the higher education institutions involved & on society at large such as increasing the number of MOU signed with health enterprises & ncrease the number of placements and job opportunities.

In the Mediterranean, freshwater availability is put under increasing pressure by global warming, land use changes, and water abstraction. Moreover, deteriorating water and soil quality put agricultural productivity and safe water supply for the population at further risk and urgently demand sustainable solutions. PureCircles wants to realize such solutions at four Mediterranean study sites (2 in Europe and 2 in the Maghreb) by integrating water technology with agrotechnical setups and management strategies. For the first time, we will demonstrate the power and effectiveness of a combination of agrophotovoltaics, hydroponics, smart irrigation and innovative water storage and treatment technology, all of which are intelligently linked and regulated through Artificial Intelligence (AI). Sophisticated, but robust technology (e.g., flexible greenhouse photovoltaics (PV), water-harvesting field PV-arrays, energy-efficient RO/NF treatment, AI-assisted farm management) will meet nature-based and sustainable water treatment solutions (hydroponics, microbial bioremediation) and shall be assembled and activated dependent on need and framing conditions (financial resources, availability and quality of water, crop choice, weather forecast, etc.). The work plan proposed will provide and validate concepts and tools to buffer water availability between extreme weather events, reduce the net water extraction, unburden natural water bodies from nitrates, pesticides, salts and other pollutants, and at the same time, advance agroecological production sustainability. Our multidisciplinary consortium of academic, management and industry partners brings together long-standing scientific expertise and broad experience from other projects. Building up on this and being reinforced by a reliable network of stakeholders, we want to develop site-specific solutions that are sustainable beyond the project duration. For this, all study sites will adopt the “Living Lab” approach, which is crucial for stakeholder-centered innovation, co-creation, sustainable implementation and long-lasting success beyond project duration. We will encourage entrepreneurial spirit and establish co-creation spaces (virtual and real ones) to motivate all stakeholders to get involved actively. Special emphasis will be put on the integration of the young generation and local women, which will be aided by our existing connections to women entrepreneurial initiatives in the Maghreb region and innovation networks in Europe. To aid widespread implementation, technical developments and tailoring will be discussed and optimized together with our expert stakeholders. Moreover, all solutions developed (and their systemic combinations) will be evaluated by life cycle (LCA) and sustainability analyses, as well as with regard to socioeconomic implications and cost-benefit ratios. Finally, modelling and decision support tools for the catchment areas of our study sites will be developed to validate the envisaged effects of the PureCircles concept with regard to water pollution, salinization, and availability. Our study sites and technical solutions shall become reference sites for the Mediterranean region and respective KPI, recommendations and best practice examples widely adopted by farmer cooperatives and regulating-authorities on municipal, regional and national level to leverage the great potential of the concept proposed. As reliable partners for political and societal stakeholders we will support the implementation of National and European Action plans and pave the way for a more sustainable and competitive agriculture in marginal Mediterranean regions.

Inter-professional student-led clinic (IPC) is demonstrated to improve the efficiency of healthcare delivery as well as patient outcomes (World Health Organization; WHO, 2010). IPC needs inter-professional education (IPE) to be implanted into the medical and health science curricula. IPC & IPE aims to impart knowledge, skills, and attitudes that will enable future academic and non-academic healthcare professionals to function effectively in a university-enterprise collaborative care environment. This project develop and establish “I CARE” centres and Clinics which provide education, training, research, Primary health care patient treatment and community engagement. Some benefits of the inter-professional student-led clinic (SLC) model are:I. for the medial and healthcare science students: an opportunity to develop clinical skills within a supervised environment and II. for Patients: increased access for underserved and disadvantaged communities to free health care services. The main objective of this project and the IPC/IPE model is to strengthen the university- enterprise (healthcare sittings) cooperation and also allow students to directly contribute to patient health and feel valued for what they can provide the society during their training. The expected tangible outcome are:1) “I CARE” University-Enterprise Centres at 9 partner universities & web Platform 2) “I CARE” Inter-professional student-lead clinics (9 IPCs) 3) A Primary Healthcare Professional Diploma4) In-service Training (IST) and Capacity Building elements

The reason of this project is to tackle the lack in South-Mediterranean countries of Engineers that are well trained in Wind Engineering “WE”. This lack of Engineers with multidisciplinary knowledge of Wind Technologies hinders the potential of Wind as a source of reliable, cost-effective and pollution-free source of energy in those countries: The key to development of WE companies in those countries is the capacity to acquire technically qualified manpower of international standard. This would certainly create job opportunities for graduates in Engineering, which is very relevant for the countries selected (Egypt and Tunisia).At the conclusion of the project on-line training materials would be produced in the two languages used for Engineering education in South-Mediterranean countries (English and French), that would be openly distributed and promoted to be used as part of existing Masters in Engineering subjects. In addition 10 academics of Egyptian and Tunisian Engineering Schools would be trained in Europe on real-life Wind Engineering aspects and the use of those on-line training materials for Master courses. Moreover, thanks to links with WE companies, 10 Master students from those countries would be offered the opportunity to carry out internships in EU WE companies.

Heliopolis was arguably the first truly modern suburb in Africa, yet is not a threatened heritage asset. Its old cosmopolitan communities are gradually breaking up, its buildings decay and fall and even its historic electric tramway is about to disappear. Its contribution to the making of modern Egypt is little understood outside a few university specialists and old residents. As traditional populations move away from the suburb, the oral histories and stories of Heliopolis are lost forever. This project, therefore, seeks to capture the rich, storied history of Heliopolis through the memories of the many families and communities who have called it their home. The project seems to raise awareness of what is threatened and what we have already lost. It seeks to develop a collaboration between academics, residents and community activists to preserve the tangible and intangible heritage of the area in a sustainable form. It also seeks to raise awareness of the wider threats to Egypt's modern heritage, a heritage that is often hidden and neglected in a country with such a long and rich history. This, it is hoped, will be a model for other community heritage project across Egypt and one which will help ordinary people appreciate the buildings and storied landscape that surrounds them. The project will address the life of the great buildings of Heliopolis - the Empain palace, the Basilica and the Heliopolis Palace Hotel - but it will also examine the buildings and places that gave Heliopolis its everyday human stories. This history will be a history of tram stations, cafes, crumbling hotels, fish markets, dive bars and cinemas. It will the story of the doorman, shoe-shine boys, the flower sellers, the donkey cabbies, the rubbish collectors, the car-repair men, the juice sellers, the shop keepers, the waiters, the rent collectors all those who gave life to the buildings of the suburb. It will reveal a positive and cosmopolitan vision of Egypt, one in which those of different nationalities and religions of a suburb live together in peace and mutual respect. It will reveal a history that future citizens can be proud of and one which they might cherish.