Unwanted loneliness has increased all across Europe. Loneliness represents a decrease in the quality of life of many people in our society, especially in the elderly, hindering their health and well-being. Through different co-creation initiatives and considering their needs, our project addresses elderly loneliness. This project will provide elderly and other actors with tools to tackle with their loneliness feeling, increase self-esteem, and understand that living alone does not mean living in loneliness.HEALTHY LONELINESS will co-create, develop and validate high quality adapted learning program tailored to the needs of low-skilled or low-qualified seniors living in a situation of loneliness with the aim of acquiring skills and competences to minimize the negative effects in both mental and physical health.The project aims to involve more than 200 end-users (seniors in loneliness, people from the community and health/social-care professionals) in many stages of the project to co-create, develop and validate an innovative training framework for promoting the skills and competences of citizens to minimize the negative effects of lonelinessHEALTHY LONELINESS will be focused on the use of ICT Tools (Apps and Assistive Technologies), developing adapted learning materials and activities to promote several dimensions of the personal development and social inclusiveness. All the materials will be available through an electronic platform based on a learning management system in English and the languages of the participant countries (Spanish, Portuguese, Polish and French)HEALTHY LONELINESS promotes the development of knowledge and skills to improve the inclusion of persons living in unwanted loneliness through an innovative integrated approach based in promoting health and well-being habits in domestic and in community environments. The program will have a two-fold approach: 1) Theoretical materials to introduce and give ground basis to several aspects of daily life, health and technology and, besides, 2) a practical training program to develop the skills and competences learnt in the theoretical part.The project will also promote non-discrimination in education through the direct participation seniors who are out of the scope of standard training offer. HEALTHY LONELINESS will aim to foster the development of social, civic, and media literacy also combating discrimination of persons in unwanted loneliness.Short term impacts of the project will be to maintain and reduce the self-esteem shrinkage of seniors living in loneliness and to raise awareness and promote knowledge and capacities among senior citizens, their entourage and health/social care professionals about the challenges related to unwanted loneliness, its effects on health and how to remediate them.In the long term we envision to deliver a flexible program, fully ready for replication in more districts, cities and countries to motivate the permanent change in individuals’ lives towards healthy and active ageing, to inspire initiatives and public policies addressing the social problem of unwanted loneliness and putting into place innovative methods and materials to educate and empower citizens concern their health and social life.

<< Background >>In Europe, informal caregiving contributes to more than three quarters of all long-term care provided, around 80%, (Petrini et al., 2019) and according to Eurocarers (2017) statistics, informal carers number more than 100 million. The Covid-19 pandemic situation has shown how essential their contribution is for the sustainability and resilience of European long-term care systems and at the same time has exacerbated existing inequalities between women and men in almost all areas of life, rolling back on the hard-won achievements of past years (European Commission, 2021). Indeed, an open issue to be highlighted concerns the specific gender difference in caregiving. Worldwide there are many more women than men providing informal care. In OECD countries, including France, Greece, Italy, Spain and Slovenia, 61% of informal carers providing daily care are women. About two-thirds of these care for a parent or spouse, but caregiving patterns vary across age groups (OECD, 2019). A large body of evidence indicates that women suffer more than men from the negative consequences of providing care (Petrini et al., 2019). Informal caregiving is argued to have all the characteristics of a chronic stress experience; it creates physical and psychological strain over extended periods of time, is accompanied by high levels of unpredictability and uncontrollability, has the capacity to create secondary stress across multiple life domains such as work and family relationships, and often requires high levels of vigilance (Vitaliano et al., 2003).All these data highlight how necessary it is to prevent and work on the psycho-physical health of informal carers, not only through adequate and certified laws or regulations, but also through a multicentre action that supports them and enables them to acquire new skills and competences.<< Objectives >>Considering the data described in the previous section and the needs planned to address, the RESIL4CARE (RESILience FOR informal CAREgivers) project aims at improving the coping skills of informal carers and empowering them in their role through the use of social media platforms capable of creating specific online support groups. Throughout the project, social media platforms will facilitate the creation of new links and friendships, promote the sharing of experiences and knowledge, resulting in more resilient and responsible informal carers across Europe. In fact, Facebook, with 2 billion monthly active users, has the potential to partly address this societal priority and to deliver impactful and cost-effective online family carer support (O’Sullivan, 2021).Furthermore, in order to ensure the quality and sustainable management of these platforms, a training manual for a group of facilitators will be prepared, together with other innovative materials and tools for different groups of informal carers (young carers, elderly carers, working carers, male and female carers, carers of people with dementia and other chronic diseases, etc.). In conclusion, special attention will be given to tutorials to bridge the digital divide, especially for older carers and those reluctant to use social media platforms. All related ethical issues, GDPR and European and national regulations and guidelines that will allow for full respect for the privacy and preferences of end users will be respected.<< Implementation >>The RESIL4CARE partnership includes 6 participants from 5 European countries: France, Greece, Italy, Spain and Slovenia.Istituto per Servizi di Ricovero e Assistenza agli Anziani (ISRAA), Corporation for Succor and Care of Elderly and Disabled (FRODIZO), Institut Antona Trstenjaka (IAT) and Institut Valencià d'Atenció Social-Sanitari (IVASS) are care provider partners and have significant expertise and experience with the informal carers in their organizations. In Valencia (Spain), IVASS will strongly collaborate with FUNDACION DE LA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA PARA LA PROMOCIÓN ESTRATEGICA EL DESARROLLO Y LA INNOVACIÓN URBANA (LAS NAVES), a very active organization who has a vast knowledge in social inclusion and participation, well-being and health of citizens. Interactive 4D (ID4) has been chosen due to its technological background and capacity in developing multimedia content.The activities planned include:A report that will deliver the determinants that partners will define as the most relevant for the promotion of positive attitudes and overall resilience of informal carers. A training course manual on how to set up and run social media support groups and online materials for informal carers that will be used on social media platforms.A ICT training toolkit that includes video tutorials and Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to facilitate the creation and usage of online support groups in the social media platforms.A document that contains the RESIL4CARE evaluation method and toolkit used for the ongoing assessment of the quality of the product and for evaluation of the competences acquired by core group facilitators and informal carers.Sustainability and promotion actions that include guidelines on describing the strategies and the procedures on how to utilize RESIL4CARE final outcomes and the consultation with local stakeholders related to carers.<< Results >>The final expected project results and outcomes are:To produce new data, to review and extend previous knowledge about the resilience of the topic of informal carers, with a particular focus on the use of social media platforms as a psychosocial support channel.To support, reach, connect, and empower the resilience of a few hundred informal carers thanks to online support groups set up by local core groups of facilitators.To overcome the digital gap and promote e-literacy among all ages of informal carers, enabling them to participate in online support groups and other social media platforms, with the help of video tutorials and MOOC.To improve the overall situation of informal carers in Europe thanks to the sustainability actions.Furthermore, the impact of the project on the informal carers is expected to produce: Creation of useful learning contents that will improve the quality and range of services and interventions provided;Increased skills, competences and knowledge that could potentially improve their quality of life by strengthening their social inclusion;Development of crucial networks with other informal carers (nationally and across Europe) to share knowledge and experiences;Creation of opportunities for EU collaborations and for the co-creation, adjustment and accessibility of innovative material inspired by the experiences;Innovative methods for the implementation of RESIL4CARE best practices in other countries and organizations (other than those that were initially conceived and implemented) via shared knowledge and expertise between all partners and stakeholders involved;

CEPPI aims to build capacity in cities on how to achieve more sustainable energy solutions through a pro-innovation procurement approach (PPI) & to demonstrate this by selectively intervening in scheduled public tenders. The interventions will involve 5 cities with different economic & political situations & provide the case-based evidence for replication by others. The scale of energy demand in European cities is huge & as an ever greater percentage of citizens are living in urban areas. Some of the biggest city authorities consume over 1000GWh of energy every year to run their operations & it is estimated that the energy consumption of the whole city (the wider sphere of influence) could be at least 50 times that of the city authorities alone. Much of the investment in energy efficiency & renewable energy production has been based on project funding & there is an underexploited opportunity to achieve more systematic and progressive improvements through embedding PPI methodologies within the ongoing processes for the procurement of energy-intensive goods & services. CEPPI will demonstrate, through an action learning process, how forthcoming public tenders can be influenced to achieve a more sustainable energy outcome & build capacity amongst management & procurement professionals. The project will build on established relationships that have been developed between the five participating cities (Birmingham, Budapest, Castellon, Valencia, Wroclaw) through the Climate KIC. They will be mentored (by leading PPI and sustainable energy experts) through an action learning process that will build the short term knowledge and PPI capacity to reduce annual energy consumption by at least 33GWh. Energy & procurement foresight activities will provide the strategic direction to become both procurement & technological leaders for sustainable, energy-efficient cities. At least 80 individuals across the 5 cities will be introduced to innovation procurement methods.

Currently freight transport represents 40% of the total transport emission and 32% in urban area. Many initiatives are under development to reduce costs and negative impact of freight and service trip in urban area. Some of them concern supply chain improvements and more specifically consolidation centre projects. Few study cases are dedicated to construction industry. However, urban population tends to grow, increasing the need to develop and reconstruct urban centres. Construction material logistic impact in urban area will intensify in terms of costs and negative impacts in urban area. Yet, only few experiences of Construction Consolidation Centres can be found. Among these initiatives, four are construction site specific (Stockholm, Utrecht, Berlin, London Heathrow) and only one is dedicated to several construction projects (London CC). Theses pilots studies have demonstrated reduced transportation impacts, positive effects on transportation efficiency and construction site productivity. Several limitations to the transferability of this concept are identified: one on hand the demonstrators were implemented in specific contexts (regulatory incentives, cities investment contribution, and specifics transport and logistics infrastructure issues) which are not the same in France, Spain, Italy and Luxembourg. On the other hand, economic viability has not been demonstrated. The project addresses the different requirements for transferability of supply chain optimization concepts as well as CCCs and new ways of working between supply chain stakeholders. The approach is to identify an integrated collaborative approach and business model among construction supply chain actors. Three main steps will be performed: analyse the current issues along the construction supply chain, propose several optimization scenarios regarding these issues, simulate and analyse costs optimization and environmental impacts to propose new partnership opportunities based on savings distribution

Regional and local public authorities have a strong role to play in fighting energy poverty. That is why the overall objective of POWER UP! is for cities to go beyond their planning role and sustain the creation of local energy market players with a social agenda. This will be realised by the following 3 specific objectives: - Implement pilot schemes for households in energy poverty, so that they benefit from renewable energy production and energy efficiency measures, without having to bear the financial risks; - Develop and reinforce local energy market players with a social agenda, based on a long-term perspective to acquire local knowledge and strengthen the local economy; - Disseminate the experience of the consortium members to facilitate the replication in European countries. Four pilot schemes will be developed in five locations across Europe: Eeklo (Belgium), in the Campania area (Italy), in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm (Czech Republic), and Valencia (Spain). These schemes will be co-created with energy-poor households and local stakeholders (cities, social organisations, energy utilities, citizen energy communities etc.), leading to at least 2,5 Million EUR investment in sustainable energy before the project ends and involving 58 333 energy poor consumers. Supported by a European city network, a leading UK university, a Belgium cooperative and finance experts, the consortium will build the capacity of more than 185 people in local organisations. This will allow these players to either provide cheap energy to fuel poor households, or reinvesting benefits to carry out energy poverty mitigation measures.