CONSIDER aims to develop sustainable management model (SMM) for industrial heritage sites (IHS) for the benefits of the local communities as a resource for strengthening collective identities, improving the urban landscape, promoting eco-friendly solutions, and contributing to the urban economy and a sustainablefuture of the city. It will investigate SMM for industrial heritage while exploring participatory governance models as a tool to better integrate IHS with European society. Deindustrialisation processes all around Europe give rise to social, economic and environmental problems that are resulting from structural change. Thus, there is an urgent need to find SMM to overcome these challenges. 3 research objectives are; i) To expand on what is considered as industrial heritage, how to safeguard them ii) To investigate the history of sites to identify most influential factors used to maximise the benefit iii) To explore inclusive governance and participatory models as a tool to better integrate industrial heritage with society. The innovative side of this model is its inclusive approach to the problem (regionally, sectorial, taking into consideration gender aspects, and its highlight on the exchange of knowledge, technology and labour). This novelcollaboration will be improved by through synergies, networking activities, organisation of workshop, summer school, webinars, and final conference to facilitate sharing of knowledge. The circular knowledge exchange is based on systematic and triple-helix approach between academia (universities), policymakers (municipalities), and practitioners (SME/NGO) that will contribute both in identifying problems and developing guidelines for their improvement. This research brings novelty in respect of geographic regions that previously were not sufficiently investigated and inventoried thus providing the basis for further comparative research undertakings and sustainability of the project outcomes in creation of new knowledge.

Dramatic rise in cyber-attacks has made cybersecurity a major concern for the world. It is estimated that cybercrime cost world economy about a $1 trillion in 2020. In February 2021, a cyber-attack targeted a water treatment facility in Florida to change chemical levels in water supply. In May 2021, ransomware attack targeted the largest fuel pipeline in the USA. Cyber-attacks come in all shapes including worldwide data breaches, affecting both companies and people. For instance, a social media app cyber-attack resulted with 1.3 million users’ information leakage. Changing landscape of cybersecurity threats requires urgent need for comprehensive, dynamic, and applied cybersecurity education to qualify cybersecurity professionals for prevention, mitigation, and management of threats. CyberMACS proposes a full time 2-year joint European MSc programme (120 ECTS) focusing on “Applied Cybersecurity” to provide solid background within cybersecurity with focus on educating future cybersecurity experts to detect, prevent, mitigate, and manage cyber-attacks. Students will be trained on basics of cybersecurity in first year, then opportunities will be provided for specialization in the second year with compulsory following the winter/summer schools as well as compulsory internship. Besides specialization tracks, students will receive training in soft skills such as entrepreneurship and complete their degrees with master theses. To guarantee CyberMACS’s vision of high-quality education, three European higher educational institutions combine their complementary competencies: Kadir Has University (KHAS), SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences (SRH-Berlin), and Ss. Cyril and Methodius University-Skopje, Macedonia (UKIM/FCSE). CyberMACS is a strong institutional cooperation for European excellence in higher education with a high level integrated & transnational study programme on applied cybersecurity targeting best students worldwide.

As the signals of an ecological and climate crisis are intensifying. The surface temperature of our planet is already around 1.2°C above pre industrial levels and is warming at an alarming rate. Against this, researchers at the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), share with us their assessments that meeting the 1.5°C target is possible, and yet it will require "deep emissions reductions” and "rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society." The International Energy Agency calls to double the pace of energy efficiency progress towards green transition and notes that “large scale financing mechanisms ought to be enacted”. Often alluded as a “Tragedy of Horizon”, climate change related risks had been regarded as the problems of long durée, to be tackled by future generations, leaving little motivation for the current cohorts. But this is no longer the case. As the urgency of the anthropogenic climate crisis becomes more explicit, greening of the global financial system steps ahead in our agenda, central banks being no exception. In fact, pathways to a net zero emissions global economy are relatively well-studied and understood. Yet, many of these studies focused mostly on green transition of the power sector and decarbonization of the industry, while financing of this transition and, particularly the potential role of the central banks, is a relatively neglected area in the design of the green policy infrastructure. Thus, there is clearly an unavoidable need to deepen our knowledge on the design of a “green central bank”, that is, in the words of Dikau & Volz, 2018, a central bank that takes environmental risks including climate change into consideration in its actions. It is the purpose of this research consortium to study the potential of greening of the monetary policy instruments, and set the stage for a new policy environment conducive to the struggle against climate change.