<< Objectives >>General Obj.: Increase resilience of inclusive HE systems to address ongoing needs of refugees through social participation and recognition of skills in their learning pathways.Sp. Obj. (1): Foster and assess the integration of refugees in professional and study life as well as in society through 3-level interventions.Sp. Obj. (2): Use digital innovation, social participation and impact assessment to build strong academia-society cooperations for resilience and sustainability.<< Implementation >>43 activities are grouped in 5 WPs.WP1: Project management (& quality assurance, communication, sustainability): 11 activitiesWP2: Landscape analysis of Higher Education crisis support mechanisms for refugee students: 7 activitiesWP3: Implementation of interventions at European universities offering refugee programmes: 10 activitiesWP4: Academia- society resilience in refugee crises: 6 activitiesWP5: Impact and sustainability: 9 activities.<< Results >>WP1: 10 project mng reports.WP2: design principles (D1), publication on findings (D2), synthesis translated in seven languages (D3).WP3: report (D4), design plans (D5), report (D6), report (D7), analysis (D8), summer school in Bordeaux and virtual ME#1.WP4: 3 publications (D9, D10, D11), 3 reports (D12, D13, D14).WP5: videos (D15), report (D16), guidelines (D17), sustainability plan (D18), policy brief translated in FR, EL, DE, SI, PL, UA, LT (D19), virtual ME#2, virtual Symposium-ME#3.

Central Bohemian Region (Czech Republic) and Lithuania represent European regions, where researchers in the photonics, resp. laser technologies sectors are internationally recognised, and the business has a high added value. The interaction between science and business is intense and promotes development, so there is great potential to create new companies. There are opportunities to create a new generation of industry based on laser technologies, and there is an increasing potential to create more integrated solutions. The inclusion of laser technologies in the priorities of smart specialization of both regions shows that this sector has a huge potential for further development and improvement. On the other hand, the main challenge in this area is the creation of the photonics and laser technology sector, where operating companies would produce products with higher added value and exceptional functionality. Thus, the Excellence Hubs initiative represents a unique opportunity for a teaming up of two laser-based innovation ecosystems creating a real-place-based innovation culture in the Czech Republic and Lithuania. Through activities such as the creation of a joint R&I strategy, the realization of joint research projects, setting up action and investment plans as well as mutual learning and skills development, the linkages between academia, business, government, and society will be strengthened, and sustainable R&I ecosystem in the cutting-edge domain of lasers and their applications will be created. Excellence Hub LASER-PRO is centered around key academic institutions HiLASE Laser Centre in the Central Bohemian Region and the Centre for Physical Sciences and Technology in Lithuania. Complementary stakeholders include innovation centers, research clusters, and industry associations. Ukrainian partners are also involved through a mentoring scheme to enhance collaboration and innovation opportunities.

"<< Objectives >>1. successful, formative humanitarian aid: the life of the children and adolescents of the Rehabilitation Center Braslaw should be brightened up and given better opportunities for development.2. recognition:- inclusion of the project in the state festival - program ""Dozhinki"" and thus mediation of recognition, on which the project participants can be proud,- We want to provide evidence that creative tasks as a project of informal / intercultural aesthetic learning and participatory methods lead to their own, very different - colorful, diverse, surprising - solutions that can not be achieved comparatively in the formal educational framework of the participating universities ,The aim is,- to open a European Project Space to bring European values ​​such as ""Freedom of Expression"" into local discussions and decision-making on long-term, sustainable urban / regional development, in a undemocratic ruled European country.- To provide participants with a different, alternative strategy to achieve learning outcomes in specific informal learning sectors and to provide tools to use them in the future, with a view to profession orientation.<< Activities >>For the period 15.07.2019 - 01.08.2019, the German-Belorussian organization KAJA (Children's Architecture + Youth Architecture) has invited 30 students in wood sculpturing / design as well as students of design, architecture, interior architecture and object design from the neighboring countries Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus and the program countries Poland, Latvia and Germany to a humanitarian and social project ""on the move III"" in Minsk and Braslaw / Belarus. The results of preliminary meetings on site, in Braslaw and in Berlin (on the move I / II) in 2018 and the APV in June 2019 will be linked to this. Once again, the KAJA camp in the extensive BRASLAW LAKES NATURE PARK is intended to set an example of the participation of young Europeans in the development of a rural area on the edge of Europe with an ""meeting by making"", with a wide range of fields of informal aesthetic learning. The young designers are invited with ideas, concepts and models - up to experimental buildings of the original size - for the redesign of areas of the rehabilitation center Braslaws for children and adolescents with special educational needs, u.a. to develop interior design, game- and learning design as well as playground design. In the design of large murals, the children and young people of the institution should contribute their motives and be involved in the painting.In educational workshops directly related to the various creative workshops, the participants clarify each other about the living conditions of children and adolescents with need for support in their countries and, with the involvement of young special educators, obtain the basic knowledge to succeed in the field of “inclusive design”, also with a view to a future career orientation to take action. The program is rounded off by national / regional evenings in which the groups present the diversity of art / youth culture in their home regions in an intercultural comparison with various media incl. theater / dance / performance.In the follow-up phase, a project exhibition will be developed decentralized by all groups, which will be shown in their home universities via digital media and in the rehabilitation center in Braslaw via printed project posters. The latter in the context of a follow-up meeting at the end of 2019, whereby a public participation procedure and thus the strengthening of the civil sector are also set in motion for the purpose of evaluation and selection of feasible project proposals. As a follow-up project in the period from 2020 to 2021, a cooperation project of inter-company training workshops from the participating countries is planned for the structural realization of the outdoor playground of the reha centre Braslaw.<< Impact >>meeting: Results of conceptual and craft-artistic work: Visible products, which also show the agreed-upon design goals in which creative-participatory quality was implemented, in the participation poster ""participation circles"", two large-format murals, sketches / models and designs for play objects and playground design and a completed participatory model of the outdoor playground- Handmade, analog camp diary ""day by day"" with text and image impressionsFollow-up phase: Results in the area of evaluation and project documentation: 30 project posters, from the draft by hand to the development by digital image processing / CAD programs at the level of higher education,- Own reports / evaluations of the teams in the follow-up phase as the basis of the proof- Report by two special teachers on the evaluation of the inclusion of children and adolescents of the rehabilitation center from a specialist point of view- Preparation of the results for addressing of inter-company training centers and / or companies of play-design for the purpose of participation in the follow-up project for the 1:1 construction of the playground design.Impact on the personal development of the participants:-emotional level: the good feeling of having helped disadvantaged and children and adolescents with special needs in a personal way and to have found other solidarity co-workers from other European countries.- greater motivation to participate in future offers for formal / non-formal education and to anchor informal self-education processes in the personal life-long education - Active willingness to continue to participate in social problem solving-Better foreign language skills- more pronounced intercultural and European consciousnessImpact National: Public Broadcasting. As the project is supposed to set up a first and only pilot project for Belarus, we expect the Belorussian TV to accept the invitation to the final presentation. It should be communicated to the citizens of the country and made effective for follow-up projects, so that participation of young citizens in the design of public / semi-public spaces is also possible in Belarus. This is also where the EU's promotion of the action should have an effect and help to ensure that, despite the political distance between the EU and Belarus, the European value-added horizon becomes visible and cross-border joint activities of citizens succeed.Impact on regional and event planning in the Braslav Oblast: Qualification for participation in the ""Dozhinki"" action, a regional promotion measure taking place in the summer of 2019, including the redesign of squares and buildings in Braslaw.International level: impact on the cooperating universities in the participating countries. Through the presentation of the project exhibition a broad impact is to be achieved within the student body and the professors, with the aim that the processes and results of informal learning are perceived and recognized during the meeting and then also provide impulses for the formal curricula."

There is a need to develop a special methodology for teaching European studies for technical specialties, which can be achieved through the introduction of Jean Monnet Chair of European Studies for Technical Specialties. It will help young people to understand what the European Union is, what is the history of its creation, through which institutions and principles it operates, why cooperation with the EU is important for Ukraine, how European integration affects the professional activities of future graduates. University, what are the EU programs to support such changes as to take advantage of them.The introduction of the Chair of European Studies for Technical Specialties will be the first such practice in Ukraine, so it is important knowledge of the EU should be disseminated not only to members of the internal academic community, but also to teachers of other free economic zones, employers, NGOs, the media and representatives of government institutions that directly implement European standards in various fields. Prerequisites for the introduction of the Chair is the request of Ukrainian society to continue and intensify the European integration process, and at the university level:1) successful implementation of individual modules on the Jean Monnet program for students ; 2) a multidisciplinary team of highly qualified teachers of the department; 3) students have professional theoretical knowledge, which is a good basis for the implementation of knowledge about European studies; 4) the existing demand from employers for graduates who have knowledge of the implementation of European standards in the field of their professional activity, including the use of project support opportunities for change provided by the EU; 5) experience of interactive and distance learning methods, which will make the teaching of disciplines and events by members of the Chair available to the general public and interesting to learn, as well as practically oriented.

Artifacts are constantly threatened by anthropogenic actions. Looting, smuggling, and illicit trade of cultural goods pose major risks to our cultural goods and our cultural identity. One of the major consequences of these illegal activities is the dissociation, meaning the loss of information associated with an object, such as provenance, identification, or location information, without which the object loses significance or is lost. Thus, art property marking and tracking are crucial to ensure the object identification, collection management and protection, while maintaining their state of conservation. Several actions have been adopted during the years to strengthen the protection of cultural property and cultural heritage, but they often lack effectiveness. The AURORA project wants to fill this gap by demonstrating how chemical marking, miniaturized device, art deep-scan technique, cloud and blockchain based platforms can be combined to create a cost-effective, non-destructive, and non-invasive countermeasure against illegal activities while preserving artifacts. The technologies researched and implemented in AURORA will converge in a digital tool allowing relevant stakeholders, art dealers, curators, auction houses, logistic services, and enforcement agents, to easily verify artwork authenticity and provenance, enabling art piece movement tracking. In close collaboration with relevant cultural institutions partners, AURORA will showcase real setting applications to validate the non-invasiveness, low cost, long-term stability, confidentiality, and data security features of the proposed solutions. In parallel, AURORA will foster technological democratization among cultural institutions, by creating a knowledge bridge between technical competencies and cultural heritage professionals. Specific awareness-raising activities will demonstrate how the AURORA solutions can be a means to preserve cultural identities mixtures through cultural heritage preservation.