<< Objectives >>1ePoint is being implemented by three partners from Spain, Greece and Cyprus, an NGO, a research lad and an SME, aiming to upgrade the skills of SMEs owners and employees of the retail sector in the areas of business, financial management and digital marketing. 1ePoint seeks to address a long term need of SMEs of the retail arose due to the financial and the COVID health crises where SMEs were unable to manage their finances to or create their e-shop due to lack of know-how.<< Implementation >>The main activities are the adjustment of the trainings implemented by the university in business, finance, and digital marketing to the needs of the SMEs owners of the retail sector. In total 60 SMEs owners and employees will be involved at the trainings to upgrade their skills so as their business to thrive. Additionally, an Application will be developed to further support the knowledge acquisition of the learners. Also, project management and dissemination events will take place.<< Results >>1ePoint aims to deliver a tailor made training module and conduct training for SMEs owners and employees from the retail sector on business, financial management and digital marketing. The educational material will be available in an OER, to develop an Application as a gamification process to further support the knowledge acquisition and to organize 3 communication events in the partner countries. If skills and competences are improved and updated will allow for a more sustainable retail sector.

The healthcare industry is plagued by a myriad of cybersecurity-related issues posing new challenges in the Healthcare Sector. In an increasingly data-driven world, cyber security is no longer just a concern for experts. During the last 24 months, Europe came across an unprecedented number of cyber-attacks in terms of their global scale, impact on business sector and rate of spread.Characteristically, the May’s 2017 attack in England’s National Health Service (NHS) demonstrated in the most flashing way the vulnerabilities of information systems (IS) in any possible way. Healthcare organizations are some of the most-trusted entities holding the most sensitive information about patients: name, date and place of birth, medical records, social security details. Suffering from many flaws (low budget, lack of IT organization, excessive use of legacy systems), healthcare actors have become easy targets for hackers, facing more and more pressure and threats from them.The nature of the healthcare industry’s mission poses unique challenges since cyber-attacks can have ramifications beyond financial loss and breach of privacy.The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016/679 which will be directly applicable in all member states by 25 May 2018 requires for healthcare organizations to re-think about their data flows and how they handle and monitor patient data to make sure they are in compliance with the regulation.At the same time, the expected massive growth of data protection jobs redrives new skills, knowledge and competences from Healthcare employees. As a result, Healthcare Sector is facing the risk of rising skills mismatch between data protection officers/employees across European countries with different occupational profile on skills and competences and most importantly, different level of legislation/integration on data protection.Our proposed Project aims at empowering the major actors with employees that are going to fill the gap and the identified skills mismatch through:•Developing enhanced regional and cross-regional partnerships to ensure that a sufficient number of healthcare employees and learners receive the right training / education based on current needs•Connecting educational and vocational training with healthcare industry and organisations in a more systematic and coherent way•Developing an environment that is going to foster employability of employees in the healthcare sector, providing adequate tools that will better their working conditions and the quality of services provided•Improving comparability and transfer of skills and competences focusing on-line training of current healthcare employees based on a blended approach, while introducing innovative education/ training initiatives•Raising awareness and improving the knowledge on patients’ data privacy protection as well as providing concrete information on rising legal aspects Concise description of the results and/or products expected:-A renewed Occupational Profile for DPOs accompanied by a new Skills Chart-A DPO VET Curriculum accompanied by a Peer Mentoring Scheme-An Awareness raising Curriculum on Data Protection for current and future employees-Data Protection and GDPR Learning Resources for learners and wider audiences-On line Peer Mentoring Toolbox-Development of effective feedback loops to enhance peer mentoringOur partnership has formed a coherent strategy to reach:•Stakeholders: Health associations, health/pharmaceutical industry, VET providers, independent data protection authorities Chamber Unions•End users: DPOs, Information security experts, lawyers of Bars Associations, current and future employees in the Healthcare sector, learners & trainers making use of the learning and training resources developedThe impact envisaged:SecureHealth is going to achieve an important Social and Financial Impact, specifically:1.For Stakeholders:•Strengthened interoperability network across employers and employees•Employers and social partners will maintain an important role in shaping DPOs VET provision•Industry-ready workforce meeting labour market needs•Increased confidence and mutual trust for Data Protection•Increased visibility of outputs through open multifarious dissemination channels2.End users: current and future employees in Data Protection:•Better employability chances•Transparent joint qualifications and trasferrable skills through a viable Certification Scheme•Enhanced competitiveness for the data protection field•Exchange of good practices through trans-regional mobility and advanced peer mentoring schemes•Harmonised but not homogenised learning-outcome based and teaching approach across the five countriesFinally, it must be underlined that within the project, special focus will be given in the management and accessibility of personal data in the context of outbreaks (such as the current COVID19 pandemics), following the European Data Protection Board's statement in March 2020.

AVALANCHE Vision: While technological solutions for investigations and global cooperation do exist, they are mostly fragmented and myopic focusing on providing very narrow and isolated functions within their own boundaries without ensuring interoperability and international cooperation. To alleviate the limitations of existing solutions, AVALANCHE aims to make transformative steps towards the development of a highly innovative, holistic, multi-disciplinary, high-tech, and versatile solution for significantly increasing/broadening the operational capabilities of LEAs in their struggle to detect, analyse, track, investigate and prevent cross-border illicit activities of high-risk criminal networks, migrant smuggling, firearms, drugs, child exploitation, terrorism, cyber and intellectual property crime coordinated through the digital world. Building on Pillars I and II, the AVALANCHE platform will offer tools for semi-automatic collection of evidence to foster explainable investigations and reasoning through intelligence-led methods and contextual-aware gleaning of actions. Also, building on Pillar III, the AVALANCHE platform will provide interoperable systems and interconnection with national and international databases through common standards, data and schemas alignment, and mediation to foster information exchange and international cooperation. To guarantee the wide SMEs solutions adoption by the actual practitioners, AVALANCHE will produce training curricula, benchmark with Europol’s Innovation Lab, contribute to LEAs operational standards and establish a broad ecosystem of crime-relevant stakeholders, and complement its objectives by continuously receiving guidance from the EU Policy Instrument (EMPACT). Finally, AVALANCHE will validate the integrated platform through a demonstration in diverse business scenarios of HP that cover key operational domains (from cross-border illicit activities to antisemitism, and more) with notable societal and market impact.

<< Objectives >>The main aim is to empower current and aspiring artists (with a focus on women and on those from vulnerable groups such as migrants/refugees, long term unemployed, LGBTQI, people with disabilities, etc), through the development of their digital skills and competences, towards facilitating their access to the labour market and fostering their resilience in a digitally transformed post-COVID-19 cultural ecosystem<< Implementation >>Mapping activities and direct consultations with the target groups for further specifying learning needsDevelopment of a Capacity Building methodologyDevelopment of an online course targeted at artists on digital skillsA Train the Trainers activity for adult educatorsMentoring scheme: including guidelines and reports on the progress of the beneficiariesSix national workshopsOne virtual ExhibitionOnline awareness raising campaign Five national Info daysOne international Conference<< Results >>a)A transferable Capacity Building methodology including blended and collaborative learning approachesb)The Artists Go Digital: Aspire to Inspire Handbook with best practices and case studiesc)A tailored, open access online course with multimedia material on developing the digital skills of current and aspiring artistsd)Six national workshops to 120 artists in totale)A mentoring scheme for vulnerable artistsf)A virtual exhibition with at least 30 represented artists from six countries

The overall aim of CE-IoT is to develop an innovative framework of interplay between Circular Economy and IoT, to explore novel ways in which this interaction can drastically change the nature of products, services, business models and ecosystems. The CE-IoT framework will be bi-dimensional and bi-directional in terms of circularity, aiming to develop (i) novel circular economy business models and service supply chains to unlock CE-IoT synergies in order to generate direct value for customers/end-users and augmenting resource productivity across economies by forming new ecosystems that eliminate both negative externalities and the need for considerable resources altogether, and (ii) open, circular-by-design IoT architecture, where “smart” IoT objects (e.g., sensors, devices, systems and components) are integrated in the IoT ecosystem through patterns with proven key circularity-enabling properties (scalable connectivity, end-to-end security/privacy, dependability and interoperability) to maximize IoT resource and data harvesting in a new breed of circular-by-design IoT ecosystems. To achieve its overall aim, CE-IoT will undertake research and innovation activities to (i) establish a comprehensive framework with IoT as a key enabling and facilitating technology of the circular economy from a business perspective based on circular economy design patterns, (ii) to develop an open modular, circular-by-design IoT architecture based on IoT architectural design patterns and (iii) to integrate an overarching pattern-driven CE-IoT framework covering both business and technical aspects. CE-IoT will carry out comprehensive evaluation of the CE-IoT framework covering business, technical and legal aspects through two demonstrators in the domains of telecommunication and cloud services and will create conditions for effectuating circular economy principles through seamless integration with IoT technology and to broaden the use of the CE-IoT framework.