As risks are not “objective” but socially and culturally constructed, disaster management which is aware, respects, and makes use of local cultural aspects will be not only more effective but, at the same time, also improve the community’s disaster coping capacities. CARISMAND is setting out to identify these factors, to explore existing gaps and opportunities for improvement of disaster policies and procedures, and to develop a comprehensive toolkit which will allow professional as well as voluntary disaster managers to adopt culturally-aware everyday practices. This goal will be achieved by approaching the links, and gaps, between disaster management, culture and risk perception from the broadest possible multi-disciplinary perspective and, simultaneously, developing a feedback-loop between disaster management stakeholders and citizens to establish, test, and refine proposed solutions for culturally-informed best practices in disaster management. Whilst experts from a variety of fields (in particular legal, IT, cognitive science, anthropology, psychology, sociology) will undertake a comprehensive collation of existing knowledge and structures, a number of Citizen Summits and Stakeholder Assemblies will be organised. Systematically, CARISMAND will use an approach that examines natural, man-made and technical disasters, placing at the centre of attention specific aspects that affect culturally informed risk perceptions, eg whether disasters are caused intentionally or not, the different “visibility” of hazards, and various time scales of disasters such as slow/fast onset and short- and long-term effects. By organising six Citizen Summits (two per disaster category per year in two separate locations) where such disaster risks are prevalent , and three Stakeholder Assemblies (one per year) where the results are discussed through a wide cross-sectional knowledge transfer between disaster managers from different locations as well as from different cultural backgrounds.

GOLIA will work on an integrated, interdisciplinary and Adaptive Mobility Smart Governance Model, relying on data-based, social optimum-driven approach and inclusive policy making processes to ensure an adaptive, accessible and just mobility system. By relying on the integration of STEM and SSH expertise and approaches, GOLIA will revolutionize spatial and mobility planning by co-developing and testing (with three European communities) the vision-led Social Optimum Mobility Index, based not only on economic variables but also on indicators such as social support, healthy life quality, freedom to make life choices. The index will be location and time-dependent to enable dynamic management of transport offer and spaces. GOLIA also aims at understanding: - to which extent and under which conditions, data generated by Smart Cities supported by AI-based tools and - novel communication and consultation channels and methodologies to engage citizens and stakeholders beyond mobility practitioners might foster the establishment of a new inclusive and adaptive mobility governance, able to deliver policies resilient to political instability, pandemics or any other more or less disruptive event, as they are co-developed, co-designed, and co-monitored by and for citizens and firms. Finally, GOLIA will support European mobility communities in ensuring a Sustainable digital and green transition, by providing policy makers with tools, methodologies and evidence-based recommendations to align local, regional and national transport and mobility plans to the European Green Deal and Sustainable Development Goals, enabling the gradual phase-out from car-dependency.

In most European countries inside the partnership, since a long time, the caregiver is the one who is placed under the full responsibility to care for, supervise, guide and monitor the elderly person who needs care. Very often caregivers lack specific training and the support they offer is based on empirical and tacit knowledge. This background supports the urgent need to map and understand the situation of the caregivers, as well as give them the necessary skills in order to support their work with the elderly at their charge. From the perspective of health and social services in it is crucially important to both identify the hazards of caregiving as well as to develop potential improvements and solutions allowing caregivers to continue caring for as long as they wish to and are able to do so, without jeopardising their own health and wellbeing, financial security, or reducing their expectation of a reasonable quality of life. The project aims to support the development and implementation of higher standard services for the elderly through specialized training and innovative empowerment of ageing specialists and caregivers in order to assist recognition and validation of informal and non-formal competences and skills and provide increased employment opportunities along with acquisition of key competences of the latter.Participants: 6 physicians or nurses; 6 psychologists or social workers; 14 NGO staff; 6 public administration staff; 60 caregivers of elderly; 4 actors; 1 theatre director; 1 theatre producer; 1 theatre technician.Activities: elaboration of framework for the assessment, validation and recognition of informal and non-formal competences of elderly caregivers; elaboration of a unified curriculum on elderly caregiving fundamentals; organization of focus groups with caregivers to identify their emotional needs; elaboration of a workbook for caregivers of seniors; production of 2 videos for the empowerment of the caregivers; virtual and physical training of ageing specialists and caregivers; interactive forum theatre demonstrations; elaboration of a model of intervention to support elderly caregivers in order to reduce public costs; organization of career guidance for caregivers.Methodology: i). common research of partners to elaborate: the framework for the assessment, validation and recognition of informal and non-formal competences of elderly caregivers; the unified curriculum on elderly caregiving fundamentals; the workbook for caregivers of seniors; model of intervention to support elderly caregivers in order to reduce public costs; ii). Focus groups to identify the emotional needs of caregivers and produce the pedagogical videos by TPT; iii).Cultural Pedagogical Tools’ demonstrations to handle stress and carry out the role of caregiver.Results: 1 common framework for the assessment, validation and recognition of competences and skills of elderly caregivers; 1 unified curriculum on elderly caregiving fundamentals; 1 workbook for caregivers of seniors; 2 pedagogical videos using CPT for caregivers to fight caregiver’s syndrome; 1 training of ageing specialists – medical training; 1 training of ageing specialists–relational training; 1 model of intervention to support the eldery caregivers in order to reduce public costs; 6 training of informal caregivers at local level; 8 focus groups to identify the caregivers’ needs; 6 career guidance, counselling and support services for caregivers.The materials resulted from IESEC project will support further development of validation of non-formal and informal learning of caregivers at European, national and local levels. These materials should be seen as a contribution to a set of European guidelines for validation, further development and strengthening will be needed and should be pursued by bringing forward the process of cooperation of interested entities in this field. The framework for the assessment, validation and recognition of informal and non-formal competences and skills concerning elderly caregiving address the wide range of policy-makers and practitioners involved in developing and implementing validation arrangements at different levels.