MOSAIC will look for the interaction with talented SMEs and start-ups working on critical technologies and deep tech, to help reaching Industry 5.0 while creating an innovation ecosystem. These companies will enrich the value chains in digital and deep-tech innovation, clean technologies, and net-zero technologies. Like this, MOSAIC will create an excellence hub established in different major pillars of deep-tech innovation, where the partners bring and exchange knowledge and technology transfer. Involving local, regional and national stakeholders MOSAIC will call for better coordination at all levels for better synergies between EU funds and programs that aim to stimulate resilient innovation and circularity. Collaborations between the public sector, universities, businesses and society will be acknowledged as critical to innovation and to increase the competitiveness of regions' different development levels to bring solutions tailored to regional and local needs. As a result, MOSAIC will provide a Design Options Paper showing the outcomes of the execution of the ecosystem actions providing guidance to future developments of the innovation ecosystems, including the compilation of conclusions from mapping & integration of MOSAIC stakeholders and regions for the generation of the hub-network, selection of 4 deep-tech and critical technology enterprises based on the potential for the ecosystem and the analysis of the agencies and agents that count on EIC Accelerator certification to apply to the Plug-in scheme.

The MariTech Talent will develop a twin transition INTRApreneurship skills development programme, bringing maritime industry professionals and innovative enterprises with concrete digital solutions together in a two-way learning experience. The programme will provide: - Necessary twin skills for the maritime workforce - Support to deep tech solutions providers developing key technologies for unlocking the twin transition in the maritime industry Thе MariTech Talent programme will apply a challenge-based INTRApreneurship model which will nurture learning by working on the most pressing needs identified by the ports and maritime companies themselves. Teams consisting of current workers and deep tech startups, scaleups and SMEs will work together to apply concrete solutions, undergoing the necessary training on the way. On the one hand the programme will secure the required skill set for the maritime workforce related to the green and digital transition. They will acquire operational knowledge in key digital domains enablers of the twin transition in the maritime industry such as machine learning and data analysis for predictive maintenance, energy management systems, system integration, automation, remote operation, cybersecurity and e-navigation through direct collaboration with deep tech solution providers. On the other, it will provide valuable insights and feedback on the relevance and effectiveness of the applied digital solutions. As a final result, maritime companies and ports will gain in-depth insights into the benefits digital solutions can bring to their operations, while at the same time their employees will become skilled and confident in their use.

Over the past decades, European standards have delivered great benefits for companies and consumers on the single market. In the light of the social and environmental ambitions of the new growth strategy – the EU Green Deal – and the twin transition, Europe’s competitiveness, technological sovereignty and ability to reduce dependencies will directly depend on how successful European actors are in standardisation at international level. The EU Standardization Strategy from 2022 calls for more flexible and focused approach to standardization processes which can respond to the fast pace of twin transition innovating. The Agile and Flexible Construction Materials Standardization for Boosting the Twin Transition (AFCOS) project aims to set up recommendations, for more agile standardization processes for construction materials based on pre-normative research performed horizontally in a collaborative fashion between key ecosystem players – research, standardization and industrial actors from four member states – Bulgaria, Romania, Italy and Belgium. AFCOS will focus on identified standardization urgencies within the industrial ecosystem of construction and more specifically on standards supporting low carbon cement. Building on a set of activities combining research work with stakeholder engagement, educational activities and ambitious exploitation initiatives, AFCOS will produce roadmaps for pre-standardization, educational and training courses, strategy for education and skills development in the field of standardization of new building materials and exploitation models for the benefit of the European Standardization Organizations (ESOs), national standardization bodies, educational institutions and industry. AFCOS brings together 7 full and 5 associated partners from 9 EU countries encompassing research capacity, standardization expertise and industry representation and ecosystem actors, ensuring EU coverage and exploitability of the project results to a high level.

SPREAD2INNO brings together different innovation stakeholders – incubators, accelerators, innovation businesses, research organizations, consultancies and networks – from crucial European innovation regions: Germany, Belgium, Austria, Bulgaria, Greece and Italy. The goal is implementing scalable, replicable and holistic 2 year program for the provision of high quality business services, and collaboration between different entities of well-connected and less connected regional innovation ecosystems, with immediate impacts on the local and EU level. In order to create a sustainable and replicable model easily adopted by the rest of EU, the consortium will implement a set of activities for enhancing capacity and competitiveness of both business acceleration entities and SMEs and start-ups, particularly: - 6 local events that will provide insight of networking and exploring opportunities across Europe that relate to scaling-up of businesses, along with training courses aimed at improving business and marketing case of businesses, including roundtables for acceleration entities for educational and practical exchange and cross-contamination; - An online platform as a single point of reference for information exchange between different innovation ecosystems about opportunities, events and funding accessible in these regions; - 2 intensive educational/training Academies as well as tailor-made feasibility studies for participants; - A one-week business case and investor training for finalists (at least 50% woman-led businesses) delivered through collaboration of developed and less developed innovation ecosystem entities. The SPREAD2INNO unique and interdisciplinary methodology will enhance business activities in less developed innovation regions, reinforce their acceleration capacity and enable entrepreneurs to scale their concept to a fully concrete solution with strong market potential, subsequently enhancing the development and competitiveness of these regions.

SHEERenov objective is to develop and test a model for the provision of integrated residential renovation services on the territory of Sofia in Bulgaria. The implementation of this project will support the Bulgarian Government's intended transition from the current multifamily buildings energy efficiency renovation model, financed fully from public resources and administered entirely by public institutions, to a market oriented model. Based on analysis of barriers and identified needs, enabling conditions will be created to attract and facilitate participation of relevant market stakeholders and players in the process of energy efficiency renovation in the residential sector: i.e.: homeowners, business, financial sector. The project will contribute to the achievement of multi-dimensional impacts in terms of creating a new system to provide integrated home renovation services with highly standardized and optimized procedures: (1) A “one stop shop” assistance to homeowners, allocated at the private business and their alliances sustainably ensured for the future through regulations and capacity building activities; (2) A three components sustainable financial mechanism to facilitate loans access, conditional subsidy receipt and targeted support to insolvents; (3) Municipal policies regarding newly assigned roles in the process of residential buildings renovation. The sustainability of SHEERenov results will be ensured through policy recommendations, communication, exploitation and dissemination activities and intended policy change regarding multifamily building renovation in Bulgaria.