Charting a course for a more resilient and patient-centric healthcare future depends on continuous development and delivery of innovation to the market. EVOLVE2CARE focuses on HealthTech experimentation practice frameworks, standardizing and enhancing the symbiotic relationship between living labs and innovators in the context of the Transitional Care sector. Challenges ranging from an aging population to complexity of medical conditions and regulatory frameworks, bring a growing recognition of the importance of experimentation practices. By subjecting innovations to real-world scenarios, experimentation uncovers complexities, ethical considerations, interoperability challenges, and unforeseen barriers that controlled environments may not reveal. By harnessing the power of Living Labs – real-world environments involving users and stakeholders – EVOLVE2CARE will provide innovators with access to services for testing/validating research and products. EVOLVE2CARE focuses on three Use Cases (Hospital Discharge Management, Homecare Monitoring Solutions, Aging Population & Care Transitions), engaging stakeholders from across the value chain to examine complexities, barriers and enablers that regulatory frameworks pose to the development and commercialization of healthcare innovations. Recognizing the cross-disciplinary nature of healthcare, we will engage with EIT KICs and their beneficiaries. We will provide a scalable, collaborative experimentation space (the AccelUP marketplace), to aggregate Living Labs, innovators, researchers, regulators, investors, and other pertinent stakeholders. Trainings workshops, and reports will increase knowledge and disseminate findings to our stakeholders. The project partners encompass vast expertise and networks covering the development/commercialization of innovation in transitional care. The project advisory board consists of C-Level Experts in Healthcare/Pharma, Living Labs, Startups, EIT programs and Regulatory issues.

The ambition of the Global Knowledge Exchange Centre (GKEC) for Urban Climate Neutrality is to mainstream actions towards climate neutral and net-zero urban developments on a global level. In this sense, the GKEC will provide support in terms of global outreach for the European Cities Mission as well as contribute to the Urban Transition Mission of Mission Innovation. It will provide effective support and knowledge for local governments and international stakeholders and through this, support European policy such as the European Green Deal and work towards the international commitments of the Paris Agreement. The GKEC will make available evidence and good practice for urban climate neutral and net-zero transitions globally and facilitate capacity building, knowledge exchange and moderated learning for municipalities and key stakeholders. In operational terms, the GKEC will set up actions according to the three impact pathways: 1.Mainstream knowledge and good practice to accelerate urban transitions: The mission platform will be extended towards global use, making available international solutions and good practices and promote financing and funding opportunities to implement integrated urban climate action and net-zero pathways. 2.Offer advanced frameworks and moderated learning across all governance levels to raise awareness of and capacities for CN and NZ policies: Policy advocacy for climate neutral and net-zero approaches will allow aligning of global policies. Capacity building measures for local and regional actors will provide guidelines and support mutual learning to drive systemic change. 3.Establish the GKEC as a forum for international exchange and cooperation on climate neutral and net-zero transitions: Global and regional events accompanied by comprehensive dissemination measures will raise visibility of EU and international good practice and strengthen international cooperation on climate neutrality and net-zero pathways.

End-user and societal acceptance is critical to the success of the IoT large scale pilots. U4IoT combines complementary RRI-SSH expertise encompassing social and economic sciences, communication, crowdsourcing, living labs, co-creative workshops, meetups, and personal data protection to actively engage end-users and citizens in the large scale pilots. It will: • Develop toolkit for LSPs end-user engagement and adoption, including online resources, privacy-compliant crowdsourcing tools, guidelines and an innovative privacy game for personal data protection risk assessment and awareness, online training modules. • Direct Support to mobilize end-user engagement with co-creative workshops and meetups, trainings, Living Labs support, and an online pool of experts to address LSPs specific questions. • Analyse societal, ethical and ecological issues and adoption barriers related to the pilots with end-users and make recommendations for tackling IoT adoption barriers, including educational needs and sustainability models for LSPs and future IoT pilots’ deployment in Europe. • Support communication, knowledge sharing and dissemination with an online portal and interactive knowledge base gathering the lessons learned, FAQ, tools, solutions and end-user feedbacks. The U4IoT platform will support IoT take-up in Europe by better aligning it with end-user and societal expectations, mutualizing information and learning experiences, and improving communication with the public,- enabling Europe to take the lead in IoT user (and market) adoption. U4IoT will work in close cooperation with the other CSA, AIOTI and the IoT Forum who will maintain the platform after the end of the project to continue serving the European IoT community.