"""Apply green pedagogy: SDGs implementation by floristry"" Erasmus+ VET strategic partnership project will support Erasmus+ Programme horizontal priority ""Environmental and climate goals"" and implementation of United Nation Program of Sustainable Development Goals initiated by United Nations in 2015. Project partners will exchange experiences in the field of floristry, horticulture, landscape design, green pedagogy and SDGs in VET.The objectives of the project are:1) to increase professional level of VET teachers, trainers and mentors;2) to exchange good practices between different institutions working in VET with green pedagogy, SDGs and floristry;3) to offer teaching materials for everyday work in floristry; 4) to support synergy and cross-sectoral cooperation in VET;5) to develop international cooperation and dialogue.The project will maximize participants vocational competencies and partners collaboration with a view to strengthen the dialogue between different types of organisations in order to improve the respective working skills and quality of training. It will make provision for the use of different learning instruments to engage professionals in the new aspects of Erasmus+ Programme. There are three VET schools (from Slovakia, Czech Republic and Portugal), two grass-roots NGOs working in VET (from Estonia and France), network of VET schools EUROPEA Polska and SME (from UK) involved in this partnership. Partners have different experience in floristry sector and VET and will share them with other partners. The added value in term of European impact is the synergy between formal and non-formal education related to vocational education and training. The main target group is this project consist of VET teachers, trainers and mentors (more than 20 participants). Also VET students and learners will participate in local and dissemination activities (more than 300). Associated partners and other stakeholders will be involved in dissemination activities with during face-to-face events and use of media and social media (more than 1000). Participants with fewer opportunities will be involved in this project.This project will reinforce links between different stakeholders, promote innovative practices by supporting personalized learning approaches, collaborative learning and critical thinking, strategic use of Information and communication technologies (IT) and innovative learning methods. Participants will increase vocational competencies in floristry, reinforce creativity and innovation, cooperation with labour market and response to demands in floristry fields.Partners will organise four transnational and two short-term joint staff training events, local and dissemination activities with aim to exchange good practices, the best of them will be collected in the project E-Handbook. Different formal and non-formal methods will be used by participants (lectures, presentations, workshops, study visits, discussions, reflections, testing of materials, video making, etc.).The framework of this project is focused on intangible results of vocational education and training for florists staff and educators who will be multipliers of gained competences for students/learners. By the end of the project, staff members, educators, students and learners of partners' organisations will become highly qualified professionals with international competencies - knowledge and skills in traditional and innovative floristry education. Participants will learn how floristry support implementation of SDGs. As the main product and tangible result, project partners will create an E-Handbook ""Flower compositions for different occasions"" with good practices of flowers' decorations in own countries, flowers compositions for different occasions: Christmas, Easter, birthdays, funerals, weddings, interior design, memorial days, national holidays and special occasions. Focus will be on local and European flowers. Among results generated by partners there will be study materials in vocational education and training. All these will be the main result of this project.Project partners will raise awareness about Europe 2020 strategy, Erasmus+ Programme, SDGs and green pedagogy. The desired impact will go beyond the project lifetime and beyond this project partners organisations towards wider general audience. It will have an impact on integration of good practices on local, regional, national an international levels."

RIFE addresses the major societal challenge of providing affordable Internet access to those who cannot afford it by solving the technological challenge to increase the efficiency of the underlying transport networks and the involved architectures and protocols. The RIFE solution will harness unused transmission capacity, combined with placing content caches and service functionality closer to the user and will use heterogeneous transmission opportunities that range from localized mesh and home networks over well-connected ISP backhauls to scarce satellite resources. RIFE will build upon recent advances on information-centric and delay-tolerant networking by developing optimized dissemination strategies for the involved transport networks, unified within a novel communication architecture that will provide clear abstractions to application developers. We will develop, deploy and showcase our solution in a real-life setting within a large-scale community network in Spain, demonstrating the technology and economic opportunities that the RIFE platform provides. We will complement our real-life testbeds with emulation scenarios to enable the evaluation of our novel resource management schemes at scale, while integrating with our prototype platform. On the economic side, we will develop business opportunities for local authorities as well as backhaul network providers to create a sustainable value chain by introducing virtual network operators that utilize the under-used capacity in a new business relationship with local customers, enabling novel and often socially-driven business models. The involvement of a technology, equipment, as well as satellite and community network provider will allow for maximizing the commercial exploitation of RIFE within real deployments and towards standard communities within the IETF/IRTF and beyond, placing RIFE in the centre of a growing community of practitioners that all share the same goal: making the Internet affordable to everybody!

EPIC aims to develop a new generation of Forward-Error-Correction (FEC) codes to enable practical wireless Tb/s link technology—corresponding to a 10x–100x throughput improvement over the SoA. The EPIC concept and methodology is shaped by the key finding that routine progress in silicon technology in the next decade will not be sufficient to allow FEC implementations to break the Tb/s barrier; Tb/s FEC will require not only help from silicon technology but also major innovations in FEC algorithm design and implementation domains. A key EPIC objective is therefore to develop and utilize a disruptive FEC design framework that considers the FEC algorithm design and corresponding silicon implementation architectures in a unified fashion. Through such an integrated approach, EPIC aims to advance state-of-the-art FEC schemes (mainly Turbo, LDPC and Polar codes) to obtain the principal channel codes for beyond-5G (B5G) use-cases. Top-performing solutions developed under EPIC will be validated by virtual silicon tape-out implementations, thus providing first-in-class FEC blocks of wireless Tb/s technology. EPIC aims at utmost scientific excellence and leadership position in the FEC domain, contributing to European research and development, ensured by measurable and impactful scientific publications in leading journals/magazines in the FEC research area. EPIC will also contribute to the future of European research strength by organizing lectures and tutorials on FEC technology, targeting graduate students and post-graduate researchers. The EPIC concept comprises a technology roadmap, focusing on its SME partners, with the aim of converting fundamental research outcomes into market opportunities via technology IP generation and standardization contributions, ensured by IPR protection. The EPIC consortium, which includes the lead inventors and institutes in the FEC domain, dynamic SMEs, and impactful industry partners, is dedicated to successfully reaching these objectives.

EMPOWER ambitions to accelerate the joint development between the EU and the US on advanced wireless platforms targeting the new connectivity frontiers beyond 5G. EMPOWER targets the creation of a joint EU-US advanced wireless ecosystem for (i) bridging the relevant EU-US Wireless communities and stakeholders, such as scientific researchers, platform engineers, standardization experts, regulators, and product incubators; and (ii) developing a strategic EU-US collaboration agenda and supporting its execution ahead of worldwide competition for beyond 5G connectivity standards. EMPOWER foresees twinning with the best researchers and practitioners involved in projects funded by USA, especially with entities participating in the PAWR programme (https://www.advancedwireless.org/). EMPOWER will provide instruments for inducing collaboration between ongoing and forthcoming 5G and beyond initiatives targeting at wireless networks experimentation on both ends of the Atlantic. Through the EMPOWER instruments we aim to create an efficient means for stimulating the circulation of ideas and people between European and similar American experimental wireless platform initiatives. We also aim at encouraging stronger collaboration between fundamental and experimental wireless researchers by making access to platform tools and data exchange simpler. EMPOWER instruments will also provide a wealth of information for global and regional standards and regulatory organizations (e.g. ITU-R, ETSI) and industry fora (e.g. NGMN). An important additional output of EMPOWER will be in the form of recommendations on technologies and experimentation methodologies for future wireless experimentation objectives. This will assist in providing coordination between EU (Horizon Europe) and US NSF programmes for future individual and joint calls.

The goal of POINT is to develop technology, innovations, and business value chains for commercially viable IP-over-ICN deployment, based on the hypothesis that many current IP-based applications can run ‘better’ on an ICN-based network than on current IP networks. To achieve this, we will first define a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to specify what exactly 'better' means. Then, we will specify a communication platform based on the ICN prototype developed in FP7 PURSUIT and develop a set of abstractions to enable current IP, TCP, HTTP and CoAP based applications to run on our platform, complemented by new resource coordination mechanisms to improve the performance of the network. We will implement our platform as an operational prototype and validate it against the KPIs in a testbed as well as run a real-world field trial in an operator's production network with real customers. We will openly publish our design and all relevant data needed to deploy and improve our prototype, which in turn will be released as open source code. We will also undertake a wide range of dissemination activities to establish POINT as a key driver in the ICN community. The POINT platform will provide new business opportunities for systems vendors, operators and service providers, including SMEs and we will evaluate the commercial viability of our solution and develop migration scenarios for operators wishing to deploy ICN in production networks. The consortium has all the experience and competencies needed to cover the entire chain from an idea and research prototype to a working platform ready for production use. In addition to academic partners, POINT includes a technology company, a telecom vendor, an ISP, a content provider, and a cooperative which will enable POINT to have an impact on the industry.