ROCK aims to develop an innovative, collaborative and circular systemic approach for regeneration and adaptive reuse of historic city centres. Implementing a repertoire of successful heritage-led regeneration initiatives, it will test the replicability of the spatial approach and of successful models addressing the specific needs of historic city centres. ROCK will transfer the Role Models blueprint to the Replicators, adopting a cross-disciplinary mentoring process and defining common protocols and implementation guidelines. ROCK will deliver new ways to access and experience Cultural Heritage [CH] ensuring environmental sound solutions, city branding, bottom-up participation via living labs, while increasing liveability and safety in the involved areas. ICT sensors and tools will support the concrete application of the ROCK principles and the interoperable platform will enable new ways to collect and exchange data to facilitate networking and synergies. The added value is the combination of sustainable models, integrated management plans and associated funding mechanisms based on successful financial schemes and promoting the creation of industry-driven stakeholders’ ecosystems. A monitoring tool is set up from the beginning, running during two additional years after the project lifetime. Main expected impacts deal with the achievement of effective and shared policies able to: accelerate heritage led regeneration, improve accessibility and social cohesion, increase awareness and participation in local decision making process and wider civic engagement, foster businesses and new employment opportunities. Involving 10 cities, 7 Universities, 3 networks of enterprises, 2 networks of cities and several companies and development agencies, a foundation and a charity, ROCK is able to catalyse challenges and innovative pathways across EU and beyond, addressing CH as a production and competitiveness factor and a driver for sustainable growth.

CLEVERFOOD will facilitate a society-wide mobilisation of European citizens, including children and youth, farmers, entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, educators, knowledge brokers and policy makers to transform the European food system in alignment with the EU Food 2030 Policy Framework, Farm to Fork Strategy and Fit for 55 Package. By providing targeted support for ongoing and emerging projects, partnerships and networks, implementing a pan-European Food 2030 multi-actor and public engagement mechanism and operationalizing an interlinked multi-level structure of connected Policy Labs and Living Labs, CLEVERFOOD will pave the way for a more regenerative, resilient and plant-based food system. Models for transformative multi-level food system governance and strategies for advancing food policies and legislation will be developed in the Policy Labs by launching a peer-learning program, organising inclusive multi-stakeholder dialogues and bringing together policymakers from all governance levels. Social and technological innovations to support sustainable food system transition will be accelerated in the Living Labs by co-creating strategies for removing lock-ins and building sustainable food value chains, mobilizing impact investors, promoting uptake of new technologies and measuring food system transition progress. Food system science competences of children and youth will be boosted by supporting food system science education activities in the Policy Labs and Living Labs and establishing a network to collaborate on transforming higher education teaching. Public engagement, citizen empowerment and mass mobilization will be maximised by supporting multi-actor, public engagement and citizen science activities in the Policy Labs and Living Labs, unlocking the power of influencers, deploying an interactive food systems exhibition, and designating and supporting permanent competence centres across Europe to ensure society-wide commitment to transform the food system.

A swift transition to zero emissions and climate resilient transport systems requires that passenger and freight transport no longer are addressed separately and in isolation from one another. Passenger and freight transport must be addressed together so that policies, infrastructure (physical and digital), vehicles and energy sources serve both. These will be tackled in an integrated and coherent way in six urban nodes: from policy definition, to planning and implementation in the cities cooperating in MOVE21. The tested and integrated approach will then be disseminated across Europe. This integrated approach ensures that potential negative effects from applying zero emission solutions in one domain are not transferred to other domains, but are instead mitigated. It also ensures that European transport systems will become more resilient. Central to the integrated approach of MOVE21 are three Living Labs in Oslo, Gothenburg and Hamburg and three replicator cities: Munich, Bologna and Rome. In these, different types of mobility hubs and associated innovations are tested, and means to overcome barriers for clean and smart mobility are deployed. The Living Labs are based on an open innovation model with quadruple helix partners. The co-creation processes are supported by coherent policy measures and by increasing innovation capacity in city governments and local ecosystems. The proposed solutions will deliver new, close to market ready solutions that have been proven to work in different regulatory and governance settings. The Living Labs are designed to outlast MOVE21 by applying a self-sustaining partnership model that builds on already existing, strong partnerships for zero emission solutions. MOVE21 comprises 24 partners (six public authorities, two public transport companies owned by municipalities, six industry partners (two of which are SMEs), six research organisations and four network organisations) from seven different European countries.

Distress Flare (FDD) is a European cooperation project operating in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Turkey and France. Its aim is to unite, compare and contrast the various skills and experiences had by citizens, researchers, artists and local public decision-makers working to counter migrants’ social exclusion.Europe has recently experienced one of its sharpest ever rises of its history in migrant people numbers. The issue of welcoming these migrant people is gaining greater traction in both EU-wide and local debates going so far as to severely divide populations. Populist ideologies often capitalise on a fear of foreigners, and their rise runs counter to ambitions to consolidate Europe as a space for peace, while also driving a wedge between citizens and institutions.Given the urgent need to rebuild a culture of solidarity that can overcome nationalist narratives, eleven organisations from six countries are banding together their skills, their capacity for innovation and their networks to honour the contribution and role of migrants in Europe today. Our objectives:- To contribute to migrants’ social inclusion and help them actively participate in democratic life. We will do this by strengthening migrants’ ability to express themselves publically as they acquire new interpersonal and intercultural skills.- To empower migrants and non-migrants to work towards a more creative Europe with a greater sense of solidarity. - To support the design, implementation and dissemination of innovative teaching methods through a combination of the eleven partners’ pedagogical, social, artistic and academic skills.- To promote and apply the idea of cultural rights as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Fribourg Declaration.Over a three-year period, the project multidisciplinary consortium will work to create several multilingual resources, including handbooks for all participants, a reference material kit, a website, a scientific and educational publication, a manifesto and a documentary film series.To do this, in each countries of the project, from 2019 to 2021, we will organise six training sessions, each one due to run over seven consecutive days comprised of :- an educational artistic workshop in which adults and young migrants and non-migrants, ultimately will display their work in public;- a communications kit workshop, in which a group of students from a university or specialist college will roll out our communications in public spaces;- an action-research organised by humanities researchers, with a focus on the methodological innovations designed over the course of the project;- a plenary seminar for all stakeholders.The project’s third year will be spent finalising intellectual outputs and spreading the word about them locally and internationally. A training day for public decision-makers will bring the project to a close in June 2022 and lend it a global impact.We expect the project’s medium-term impacts to be the following:- A revitalised sense of citizenship from a local level upwards, as people are encouraged to take part in democratic life and engage with EU-wide social issues such as the challenges of immigration.- Greater legitimacy will be given to innovative learning promoting multidisciplinary skills.- Greater learning opportunities in Europe to support the education and training sector. These opportunities will emerge out of newly created and promoted multilingual open educational resources coproduced with project stakeholders. These attractive, high-quality OERs will be available online.- Sustainable transnational cooperative networks will be set up between universities and people from outside academia. - Partners will have more scope for working internationally and trialling new methodologies.- Participants, public decision-makers and partner organisations will become more conscious of their ties to our European community’s shared future.- New educational synergies will be developed between cities: training for public decision-makers is designed to be replicable, and its aim is to formulate public policy in which intercultural dialogue and citizen participation are encouraged.The FDD project’s primary audience is adults and young migrants and non-migrants who will take part in educational artistic workshops. FDD also aims to train professionals from all different backgrounds—including teachers, academics and public decision-makers—so that we can pass on the OERs to a wider student audience and facilitate better awareness and understanding of how migration has historically shaped modern-day Europe. The project has the capacity to get 3,600 people directly involved, and its outcomes will be communicated to more than 60,000 people.