Digital labour platforms use data and algorithms to match clients with workers, construed as independent contractors, for one-off ‘gigs’ without any long-term commitment. Building on scattered, but growing evidence that gender, race and other gaps persist in these settings, the proposed project addresses unresolved questions both in the digital inequalities literature and in the digital labour literature. To do so, VOLI innovatively combines hypotheses and methods from sociology and large-scale corpus linguistics, and relies on speech technology and artificial intelligence to tackle the emergent economic and societal risks that coalesce around the nexus between online platform labour and social inequalities. At the same time, the methods that will be developed within this highly interdisciplinary project advance the linguistic study of the factors driving speech variation, augmenting language corpora with rich sets of metadata from sociological surveys, while also building and testing new and improved tools for automated transcription.

"Eurhythmics in Education & Artistic Practice (EEAP)Music is a worldwide phenomenon and understood by all people, regardless of ethnic, religious or linguistic background. The occupational market in music is also becoming more and more international. Therefore, it is important to equip students for an increasingly global professional life. All future musicians and music teachers need to be trained for working in a global multi-cultural society. Eurhythmics is a pedagogy that combines music, natural body movements, imagination, improvisation and reflection. Eurhythmics is taught as a subject in higher music education and other performing arts education. Eurhythmics is also used as a method in pre-school, primary schools, and in music and dance education for all ages, as well as in work with senior citizens and people with special needs. Eurhythmics Teacher Education is to be found at 18 Higher Education Institutions in Europe. International contacts through conferences have been traditional in Eurhythmics, since its beginning in the early 20th century, but the network-building has been very loosely organized. Building a network, aimed at supporting and connecting Eurhythmics teachers, students and alumni in Europe, would promote development of a subject that, within its methodology promotes democracy, inclusion, creativity and cooperation. This international project, with participants from four European countries and one associate, has as its main goal to strengthen the quality of education and to promote internationalization. The aim is to build a sustainable network for Higher Education Institutions offering Eurhythmics education throughout Europe. To achieve the aim, the EEAP project intends to create a structure, with common activities, available resources, a digital platform for communication, and a Joint Master's Program.All of the partners are Higher Education Institutions (HEI), with a focus in the arts:Kungl. Musikhögskolan i Stockholm (project leader) Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, Austria,Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany,The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, Katowice, Poland,Haute école de musique de Genève, Switzerland, associated project partnerAll partners offer Eurhythmics Teacher Education. In the project, a number of activities will take place, and common modules will be produced:• Workshops, • Translations; articles, teaching materials, national and local documents, • Planning and applying for a Joint Master's program in Eurhythmics,• Building and launching of a digital platform for communication, sharing knowledge and developing teaching materials. In the ""Learning Teaching Training"" workshops, (hosted by the different participating HEI, each visited by another of the HEI), students and teachers will meet for trying new common modules, new material and new methods. The workshops will include both teaching and creative work, as well as visits in schools and community groups. After the workshops, the teaching material will be edited, and the experiences will be summarized. All material will later be shared and available on the digital platform.The project should be carried out trans-nationally, as its main purpose is sharing and developing knowledge in an international context. The artistic and pedagogical characteristics of the partner universities of this project, have developed and diversified through the very different professional specialties of each country. Bringing together this diversity among the teachers and making it accessible and networkable, is particularly important for the further development of the subject of Eurhythmics. It enables for strengthening the quality of education, enriching the didactic method and artistic means, as well as broadening the areas of influence and application of the Eurhythmics method. It is innovative because it also allows for the development of a new quality of modern work methods, considering sustainability, democratic values and a multi-cultural approach to teaching and learning.Through dissemination of the project results and the continuance of cooperation, the aims of the project are to:•Promote artistic and didactic development of Eurhythmics teachers in higher education, with emphasis on the connectedness of movement and music as an art practice,•Integrate artistic and scientific research,•Point out the relatedness/correlation in Eurhythmics of arts and pedagogy, as well as the practice/content and its didactics,•Work out a joint Master's Programme with emphasis on Eurhythmics in higher education,•Explore and create Eurhythmics materials in multi-cultural and inclusive contexts,•Promote internationalization,•Expand mobility,•Develop common international practice.The project spans over three years and concludes with an international dissemination event in Stockholm 2023, followed by national dissemination conferences both inside and outside of the project."

Do-It-Yourself networking refers to a conceptual approach to the use of low-cost hardware and wireless technology in deploying local communication networks that can operate independently from the Internet, owned and controlled by local actors. MAZI means “together” in Greek and MAZI [http://mazizone.eu] invests in this paradigm of technology-supported networking, as a means to bring closer together those living in physical proximity. Through an experienced interdisciplinary consortium, MAZI delivers a DIY networking toolkit that offers tools and guidelines for the easy deployment and customization of local networks and services. MAZI toolkit is designed to take advantage of particular characteristics of DIY networking: the de facto physical proximity between those connected; the increased privacy and autonomy; and the inclusive access. Such characteristics are used to promote information exchanges that can develop the location-based collective awareness, as a basis for fostering social cohesion, conviviality, knowledge sharing, and sustainable living. To achieve this objective, MAZI brings together partners from different disciplines: computer networks, urban planning and interdisciplinary studies, human-computer interaction, community informatics, and design research. These academic partners will collaborate closely with four community partners to ensure that MAZI toolkit benefits from the grounded experience of citizen engagement. MAZI draws from the diverse mix of competencies of its consortium to develop a transdisciplinary research framework, which will guide a series of long-term pilot studies in a range of environments, and enhanced by cross-fertilization events. The main goal of this process, and measure of success, is establishing DIY networking as a mainstream technology for enabling the development of collective awareness between those in physical proximity, and the development of surrounding research and theorizing of this approach.

The challenge of inclusion of displaced persons in European cities touches several domains, not least education and training. In several cases third-country nationals, asylum seekers and refugees have difficulties in knowledge recognition and have to divide their energies across several “integration domains”.More generally, European cities today are struggling to produce inclusive urban spaces that can support inhabitation by the largest possible range of social groups. In this context, planning cities and designing urban spaces and services in an inclusive and appropriate way is a key issue.The “DESINC LIVE - Designing and Learning in the Context of Migration” project acknowledges the significant role that novel forms of teaching and learning can play in the context of producing inclusive urban spaces. Its proponents are a strategic partnership composed of four Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and three Civil Society Organisations (CSOs): the Politecnico di Milano as leading partner (IT), the UdK Berlin (DE), the KU Leuven (BG), the University of Sheffield (UK), as well as Refugees Welcome Italia (IT), Refugee Academy (DE) and Architecture Sans Frontieres – UK (UK). Four Italian and German CSOs are also engaged as associated partners. The main objectives of the project are: (1) To design, test and formalise an innovative educational offer primarily targeted at students in the fields of architecture, urban design and urban planning, as well as other learners interested in these issues. The educational offer is meant to promote renewed perspectives on city-making by encouraging social awareness, responsibility and criticality into the mainstream teaching of such subjects. (2) To promote the participation of displaced persons and CSOs involved in supporting their inclusion process in the formulation of new pedagogies. Civic partners will allow for incorporating grounded narratives about the social production of urban space, and will enhance their capacity to envision longer-term scenarios for urban transformation, beyond their most immediate needs.(3) To enable a further skills development of HE teachers and trainers themselves, so to help this process and allow a renewal in representation, tools and methods, important for tackling complex societal changes in the urban context, as well as for reinforcing the capacity to contribute to transdisciplinary thinking in this field. These objectives will be addressed transversally and transnationally, by promoting context-specific, action-oriented approaches within an international action framework. The possibilities offered by digital learning tools will provide further opportunity to promote transnationality, knowledge sharing and the development of new competences.HEI and non-HEI partners will cooperate and exchange expertise and experiences in order to design, test and manage the educational offer in a joint form. For this reason, they will all contribute in the development of the project tasks and activities, in order to produce three Intellectual Outputs:- IO1 corresponds to the design process leading to an educational offer proposal, through the refinement of teaching methods and a better understanding of learning needs of non-HEIs, as well as contextual specificities in Italy and Germany. The process will include two thematically oriented short-term joint staff events in Milan and Berlin, with responsibilities divided across partners.- IO2 concentrates on testing and monitoring the joint educational offer. The experimentation will occur in the framework of a blended mobility of students and trainees – more precisely a pilot group of 18 students and VET learners – including two workshops in Milan and Berlin and the implementation of learning approaches focused on real context experience and action. The activities will be held jointly by HE and non-HE educators, trainees and local associated partners, and will lead to the setup of an online Digital Learning & Teaching Toolbox as integral part of the offer. - IO3 is meant to ensure recognition and replicability of the joint educational offer and the learners’ acquired competences, after an in-depth evaluation process. Effective quality assurance will be based on learning outcomes related to European qualification frameworks, such as the release of a Diploma Supplement scheme. Four international multiplier events will promote the dissemination of results and allow multi-source feedback on the toolbox, which will support spreading open education practices even more widely. An open accessibility of project results will be ensured even after the end of the project, in order to maximise its impact on the longer term, in the sense of fostering novel education practices that raise the awareness of both civil society and HEI actors in regards to the challenges of inclusion and possible practices in the fields of architecture, urban design and urban planning.

Wearable technologies aimed at private consumers constitute a nascent market, expected to grow very fast. Their disruptive power is exemplified by the competition between established technology giants and start-ups. In particular, the development of the wearable market relies on its capacity to break down barriers between creative industries and digital technology companies. At the core of this market is the amount of data that wearable technologies allow to capture, in particular over their users’ personal data. This raises ethical issues regarding the ownership of this data, and what wearable providers do with that data, among other ethical issues, such as labour issues manufacturing, and mineral sourcing in the supply chain. There is a need to raise awareness around such issues, while ensuring the continued development of the wearable technology and smart textiles industries. WEAR proposes to bring wearable technology stakeholders to work more closely with designers and artists across Europe to shift the development of the EU wearable industry, drawing on the rich European landscape of wearable technology and smart textile stakeholders, toward addressing the core issues head on within the research & development stages. To do so, WEAR will: Develop a sustainable European network of stakeholders and hubs, to connect and push the boundaries in the design and development of wearables; Encourage cross-border and cross-sector collaboration between creative people and technology developers to design and develop wearables ; Develop a framework within which future prototypes can be made that will become the next generation of what ethical and aesthetic wearables could/should be; Lead the emergence of innovative approaches to design, production, manufacturing and business models for wearable technologies; Make citizens, entrepreneurs and other stakeholders more aware of the ethical and aesthetic issues in making and use of wearable technologies