The European Prisoner Entrepreneurship Program project aimed at answering a global challenge: the reintegration of prisoners. This project consisted in the design, development, and implementation of a high-quality training courses on entrepreneurship accessible on an IT platform. Its content has been adapted to the needs and level of the targets: prisoners and ex-offenders. It has been also created training materials for the NGO and organisations working with prisoners and ex-offenders. They benefitted from a specific section on the platform and a user guide to help them to train, to support and to teach the end users the correct behavior to have and how to interact with people outside of prison. The project had 2 main target groups: - Prisoners/ex-offenders - Trainers working with prisoners The project answered to 3 main needs on both national and European level: - The need to train and provide high quality training for the prisoners in accordance with the need to facilitate their reintegration in the society through labour market integration, and through the development of their self-esteem, - The need to train the people who work with prisoners on entrepreneurship as it is enhancing their chances of reintegration through the acquirement of these competencies, - The need to allow every European prisoner to have access to a suitable training. The EPEP intended to have several outcomes and impacts on European countries, the most relevant are: - The definition of the specific needs of the prison population in term of methodology and content regarding a entrepreneurship training course; - The launch of the European Prisoners Entrepreneurship Program after its test and optimisation; - The creation of a specific toolkit for trainers on how to support prisoners in their entrepreneurial project and how to interact with them, including specific sections on the platform (logbook, legal advices) and a user guide; - The training of 24 prisoners and 6 trainers in France, Belgium and Italy; - The social and professional reintegration of prisoners with new skills and competences and thus the decrease of recidivism. To ensure the dissemination of the projects outcomes and results, 3 Multiplier events has been organised and all partners used their communication material to talk about the EPEP. This platform and toolkit became a reference in all European country. The digital material helped to the easy share of the content and the sustainability of the outputs. The good management tools, and the regular meetings (transnational meetings and web conferences), ensured the good course of the project as well as the involvement and motivation of all the partners.

IMPRESSIVE’s main objective is to develop transparent photovoltaic (PV) cells converting selectively UV and NIR part of the light while excluding the visible range to reach colourless and fully transparent devices. To reach this ground-breaking objective, the approach is based on hybrid tandem UV-perovskite solar cell and NIR-dye-sensitized solar cell. This innovative technology, based on a under-filing patent and recent breakthrough in perovskite absorbers, is expected to meet the objectives of full transparency and 14% Power Conversion Efficiency with a lifetime over 25 years. The ability to achieve these objectives is ensured by the world leading expertise of the project partners: CNRS and UNITO developed materials for the first transparent DSSC, EPFL is leading the perovskite solar cell revolution, UTV realised the first PSC module and developed a pilot line production for Building Integrated DSSC, HG is the first company selling DSSC modules for BIPV, SMART has a deep experience in Life Cycle Assessment for photovoltaics, and EQY has huge experience in dissemination and exploitation of EU projects’ results for strong market uptake. During the 3 years of the project, the consortium will develop the UV-PSC (WP2) and NIR-DSSC (WP3) before integrating them into a transparent tandem cell (WP4). The stability will be checked (WP5) before the upscaling of all components (WP6), leading to the creation of a 200 x 300 mm transparent PV module. The LCA of the products will be done along with a cost study and a roadmap for years following the project (WP7). To ensure a strong market uptake and disseminate the outstanding expected results, specific efforts will be made on communication and dissemination (WP8). During the whole project, IPR will be carefully managed and the business strategy will be elaborated, in relation with InnoEnergy (WP1) and efficient management of the project will be implemented by the coordinator CNRS (WP9).

The decarbonation of several sectors (energy, transport, carbon intensive industries like steel or ammonia) is depending on the availability of low carbon hydrogen. However, current hydrogen production processes are mostly carbonated, and existing decarbonated processes suffer from several disadvantages (high costs, issues for coupling with intermittent electricity, etc.). The MOF2H2 project positions itself as a game changer to produce hydrogen from water through a more sustainable process: photocatalytic overall water splitting using non-noble materials. Built upon a breakthrough discovery made by ESPCI and UPV recently patented, MOF2H2 aims to develop a world-record efficiency for sun-driven clean hydrogen production reaching 5% solar-to-hydrogen efficiency, using metal organic framework (MOF) as photocatalysts. To this end, MOF2H2 will gather 10 partners (and affiliated entities) for 36 months, including some of the best researchers in the world in their fields, for demonstrating three lab-scale photocatalysis prototypes with fine-tuned materials dedicated to hydrogen production, hence reaching TRL4. After having a clear vision of overall specifications through WP1, a first-generation MOF will be synthetised and optimised through metal nanoparticles co-deposition in WP2, also guided by modelling and advanced characterisation from WP3. To reach even higher efficiencies, a refined MOF will be produced in WP4 following metal/ligand substitution. The MOF synthesis will be optimised and upscaled under sustainable and economically viable conditions in WP5, and followed by MOFs integration in a lab-scale demonstrator, for showing the reliability of their operation at lab-scale and their long-term performance. A complete sustainability and an economic potential assessment will be conducted in WP6. Through a tailored dissemination and communication strategy elaborated in WP7, the project is expected to have a high impact on both the academic and industrial sectors.

"European countries are facing a new challenge, the aging of the population, with 40% of the population over 50 in 2017. Added to the increase of the competitivity on the labour market, discriminations are appearing (including discrimination because of age). The overall objective of the IVI project is to develop and demonstrate an innovative e-learning platform. The Intergenerational Virtual Incubator will provide access to a matching platform to create youth/senior tandem of entrepreneurs. It will also deliver a high-quality training on intergenerational working and co creation of enterprise along with entrepreneurship skills for youth and seniors. A trainer toolkit will be available for trainers to support the tandems in the creation process. The project focuses on three specific target groups: every youth and seniors willing to create a business, trainers working with seniors and youth on entrepreneurship. The project will answer at least 4 serious needs in the EU community: - The need to tackle the challenge of the aging of the population in Europe, by allowing the elderly to stay socially and economically active through entrepreneurship. - The need to allow youth to believe in their ideas, and to give them tools and skills to make their innovative ideas pop up and increase their competitiveness on the labour market on a long-term basis. - The need to elaborate an open guide to help NGOs professionals working with seniors and/or youth on entrepreneurship. - The constant evolution in the society and thus the need of innovation as much socially as economically. An important number of results and impacts will be generated by the implementation of the IVI project. The most significant are: - The launch of the Intergenerational Virtual Incubator, with high-quality courses about the overall aspects of entrepreneurship (leadership, marketing, economy, strategy, investment, etc.) and an innovative pedagogical strategy adapted to the different targets. - The creation of an innovative matching tool to gather ideas, competences and personalities between youth and seniors, - Advices for intergenerational work and exchanges, - The development of a special toolkit for NGOs, on intergenerational co creation of business and education of people including guideline and training session, - Reduction of the gap between generations and discrimination in the society, - Rise of the skills and competences of the population and an added value in European economy and business with the creation of several companies, - 18 tandem of youth and seniors in three European country which will have followed the training programme, - 75 new NGOs and 1800 youth and seniors who will know about the platform and will be able to use it, - An international visibility with a website and more than 1000 visitors intended. The project’s implementation is built around 7 ""Work Package"" (WP): WP1 Educational methodology, WP2 development of innovative modules for trainees, WP3 development of an innovative toolkit for the trainers, WP4 development of the IT tools, WP5 experimentation and launch of the Intergenerational Virtual Incubator, WP6 dissemination and exploitation, WP7 project management and quality control. 4 Intellectual outputs will be produced as a result of these activities. 4 Multiplier events and 7 transnational management meetings will be organised to ensure dissemination of the project and the good proceeding. The background, network and involvement of all the partners in the project will also ensure the smooth course of the project planning along with its large spreading and sustainability. The structure of the WPs and the dedicated project management tools will allow to avoid any delays, conflict or misunderstanding."