The European Union (EU) has set itself ambitious climate change targets. The scale of investment needed to meet the energy savings targets alone is estimated at €180 billion p.a., three quarters of which is accounted for by energy efficiency in buildings. In light of the link between buildings and mortgages, the EU-funded Energy Efficient Mortgages Initiative (EEMI)[1] sought to bridge some of this gap by way of the energy efficient mortgage (EEM) product and framework. However, experience gained indicates the development of the EEM market goes far beyond designing the product and requires the integration of a complex web of stakeholders. The Energy Efficient Mortgage Market Implementation Plan (EeMMIP) will build on efforts to develop EEM by delivering an integrated market and a blueprint for established and emerging markets around the globe. The Project will conduct an analysis of the current market systems relevant to the development of an EEM market and establish demonstrators to support the demonstration of the end-to-end customer journey and EEM life-cycle. It will establish market-based governance and an EEM Label to support recognition of and confidence in EEM and facilitate access to quality information for market participants. It will deliver guidance for the inclusion of energy efficiency in credit risk assessments for lending institutions and supervisors and policy recommendations for the prudential framework in line with the principle of risk sensitivity and promote a well-functioning banking market. Finally, it will support global take-up of EEM through the Label and institutional cooperation. EeMMIP responds to the objectives of the EU in the areas of sustainable finance and climate change, all against the background of Capital Markets Union, and aims to influence the entire value chain, from consumer to bond investor, stimulating mentality change and securing energy efficiency in market attitudes and best practices both in Europe and globally.

Innovative nanostructured Aluminium composite. A constant goal in almost all areas of electronics is miniaturization. Miniaturization leads to a reduction in strip thicknesses and places ever higher demands on materials in terms of strength, conductivity, and formability. The trend towards transmitting higher currents goes hand in hand with higher demands on the base material. A key requirement for materials is thermal relaxation resistance, which enables it to maintain spring forces and transmit currents. Soluterials goal is to develop, produce and to offer nano-structured lightweight materials. Based on Ms. Kasakewitsch's scientific work and doctoral thesis, we developed a nanostructured aluminium material InC and transferred the production process from laboratory to pilot industrial scale. InC is the material that meets contemporary requirements and sets the course for the future. It’s a key enabling technology that will lead to far-reaching developments in downstream industries. The material properties are needed in all future industries, such as e-mobility, 5G, and electronics. For example, electrical conductors such as high-voltage cables could be constructed as self-supporting materials in future; in e-mobility, e-motors could be radically miniaturised. InC opens up completely new possibilities for the miniaturisation of electrical components. In addition, like aluminium, InC can be produced cost-effectively on established production lines in one process step. Soluterials is a "game-changer" in a multipurpose metal design (our customers can streamline their production by using only one instead of several metals/alloys for their different products/applications). Soluterials is a knowledge provider, as we help our customers to develop new benefits and products with InC.

PHOENIX aims to offer a cyber-shield armour to European EPES infrastructure enabling cooperative detection of large scale, cyber-human security and privacy incidents and attacks, guarantee the continuity of operations and minimize cascading effects in the infrastructure itself, the environment, the citizens and the end-users at reasonable cost. PHOENIX will realise 3 strategic goals: (1) Strengthen EPES cybersecurity preparedness by employing security a) “by design” via novel protective concepts for resilience, survivability, self-healing and accountability, and b) “by innovation” via adapting, upgrading and integrating a number of TRL5 developments to TRL7-8 and validating them in real-live large scale pilots; (2) Coordinate European EPES cyber incident discovery, response and recovery, contributing to the implementation of the NIS Directive by developing and validating at national Member States and pan-European level, a novel fully decentralized inter-DLTs/blockchain based near real-time synchronized cybersecurity information awareness platform, among authorized EPES stakeholders, utilities, CSIRTs, ISACs, CERTs, NRAs and the strategic NIS cooperation group; (3) Accelerate research and innovation in EPES cybersecurity by a novel deploy, monitor, detect and mitigate DevSecOps mechanism, a secure gateway, privacy preserving federated Machine Learning algorithms and establishment of certification methodologies and procedures through a Netherlands-based Cybersecurity Certification Centre. PHOENIX consist of a prestigious consortium of 25 partners (+1 third party), supported by the CERT-RO, covering all required expertise including energy (RES) generation/VPP, TSO, DSOs, aggregators, retailers, prosumers, end-users, technology providers, SMEs. PHOENIX validation will take place in 5 large scale pilots covering the complete value chain from generation to consumption, including cross-border experiments and cascading effects to other critical infrastructures.

MASTERS stands for “M.obile A.pplication for S.kills T.raining in E.ntR.epreneurShip”.Entrepreneurial skills are of great importance for a country’s economic stability and therefore entrepreneurial education and training has been identified as one of the highest priorities by the European Commission in its Europe 2020 strategy. These skills are even more important in the field of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) as it adds an essential qualification to young people’s careers.As a consequence of this entrepreneurial demand the Austrian Chamber of Commerce developed a specific program– the Entrepreneurs Skills Certificate (ESC). This program was successfully implemented in Austria and transferred to the Czech Republic, Germany and other European countries. Transferring unique know-how from one to another European country is the major reason for a transnational project.In the Czech Republic the transfer project was called TESC (Transfer of ESC). It has been successfully implemented between 2010 and 2012 and it has been awarded to be the best Leonardo da Vinci project in the Czech Republic that time. Now we are planning to upgrade this successful project with a mobile application with according didactical and methodical implementation concepts fostering entrepreneurship in the TVET to connect the outside with the inside of schools in the Czech Republic, Austria and Germany as pilots.Specific GOALS are:• To develop mobile learning content and material for the school context to influence pupils, teachers and other stakeholders to entrepreneurial thinking and know-how.• To develop teaching methods and material based on insights to mobile learning in combination with experience in entrepreneurial education • To uptake ICT in education through a MASTERS App as incentive that goes hand in hand with a sustainable school strategy for entrepreneurial education• To train trainers as multipliers and promote high quality in teacher professional development who pass labour market relevant competences on to pupils and other teachers• To build lasting partnerships among partner institutions and promote mutual learning, joint school policy development and implementationThe six partners of our consortium have been chosen carefully P1, Nominated as the lead partner for this project. bit cz is a professional education and training provider with a strong network which was already the previous coordinator and responsible partner for the localization of TESC to the Czech Republic. P2, Leading technology company & ICT expert for creating interactive teaching tools (MASTERS App) and mobile solutions in the field of education. They have lots of expertise in didactics of mobile device learning. P3, Main partner of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce for the development and implementation of the ESC program in the Austrian market. Adds enormous content and technical value to the project through the extensive experience, the existing network as well as through the know-how in the field of mobile solutions. P4, UNESCO Chair in Entrepreneurship Education with the overall aim to build human and social capital, in order to strengthen the entrepreneurial capacity of individuals and institutions for innovativeness, change, competition and cooperation, aiming to also close development gaps. Add value through their scientific and applied expertise in this field.P5, Largest VET secondary school in the Vysočina region with a variety of 21 specialized fields of study.P6, LBS Murau is a VET school where annually approximately 900 apprentices are educated in 4 courses in line with theoretical and practical requirements for their occupation.P7, The Kaufmännische Schule Göppingen offers a wide variety of educational opportunities to 2000 students taught by our 115 teachers educating towards independent learning where enterpreneurial skills are of great importance in all levels of vocational education. CORE OUTCOMES of MASTERS:• MASTERS Teaching methods and materials for entrepreneurial education in the mobile context in the field of VET• MASTERS Learning content and material for pupils for entrepreneurial education in the mobile context in the field of VET• MASTERS Mobile learning application for entrepreneurial education in the mobile context in the field of VET• MASTERS will develop, test and implement innovative practices relating to teaching and learning materials and tools for appr 100 learners and 15 teachers. Materials will meet European standards and correspond to specific needs of target groups. In accordance with the Erasmus+ programme, MASTERS will contribute to:• Supporting ICT-based teaching and better exploitation of the ICT potential• Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education• Access to open educational resources (OER)• Development and delivery of new teaching/training materials and methods