Europe has an opportunity to have a leading position on Data Economy, particularly in B2B scenarios. Special focus must be placed on accessing, sharing and reuse of data in an environment of security and Trust, which are fundamental preconditions for the Data Economy. The support of pilot projects and innovation spaces for experimenting with cross-sector multi-stakeholder data innovation is therefore urgent. Efforts need to concentrate on the provision of trusted and secure privacy-aware analytics solutions allowing for the secure sharing of proprietary industrial data along with personal data. REACH aims to launch a sustainable European-wide second-generation incubator for data-fuelled start-ups & SMEs aiming to develop innovative experiments within data value chains. REACH will launch 3 Open Calls expecting to attract +500 data driven concept-applications and select 100 business ideas to undertake a 4-phases funnel Tech-Biz acceleration programme (EXPLORE - EXPERIMENT - EVOLVE - EXPOSE). REACH aims to support the generation of new data-fuelled products & services, drive the development of solid businesses, trigger revenue growth and foster the access to new funding rounds, by offering a full service pack consisted of: tech-training and experts, datasets, technological bricks for secure and trusted data value chains, computing infrastructures, business development training & coaches and up to €120k equity-free funding. REACH will demonstrate that Data Silos can be broken by enabling a multi-stakeholder cross-sectorial incubator to boost data-fuelled sustainable solutions, leveraged by the capacities of the best data-driven DIHs in Europe. Besides a solid consortium to access world class startups/ SMEs and deliver high valuable technological & business services, REACH integrates 3 DIHs and 9 public/ private data-providers and 2 private investor brokers. We aim to generate 10M€ volume investment for SMES creating 15 data value-chains delivering fit-to-market products

SEED is designed to ensure the successful launching of a highly visible and sustainable European-level award scheme rewarding innovative solutions that demonstrate a significant impact on the quality of life of the ageing population. The new award scheme will rely upon a carefully prepared conceptual and operational approach. A positive narrative will be developed suitable to effectively mobilise a wide range of stake holders across Europe. An appropriate organisational and technical infrastructure will be developed and set up, right from the beginning with a view to enabling a smooth hand-over by the SEED consortium to the party supposed to sustain the award scheme after the ending of the EU-funded project duration. It is envisaged that the award scheme will be maintained under the auspice of the recently launched European Covenant on Demographic Change. Sustainability and long-term visibility will also be ensured by the development of a viable sponsoring concept and business model. With the EU Covenant as a host and through the involvement of a great diversity of key networks and fora, this action will thrive towards a sustainable and multi-stakeholder driven movement at a European scale. The operational outreach into such a wide geographic area will not only be guaranteed by a carefully tailored communication and innovation strategy, but also by the active involvement of key players such as AGE, CORAL, AAL JP, all EIP AHA Action Groups, ECHAlliance, ASHOKA, ERRIN, DigitalEurope, EuroCarers, the Assembly of European Regions and highly committed regional/local governments. Through this unique partnership, the proposed action will have direct outreach to thousands of multiplier entities which together again reach out to millions of individuals across the EU. Towards the end of SEED, a high level award ceremony will be organised awarding winners of the 1st edition of the new award scheme.

The project NANO-CATHEDRAL aims at developing, with a nano-metric scale approach, new materials, technologies and procedures for the conservation of deteriorated stones in monumental buildings and cathedrals and high value contemporary architecture, with a particular emphasis on the preservation of the originality and specificity of materials. The objective is providing “key tools” for restoration and conservation: •On representative lithotypes •On European representative climatic areas •With a time-scale/environmental approach •With technology validated in relevant environment (industrial plant and monuments) •Exploiting results also on modern stone made buildings A general protocol will be defined for the identification of the petrographic and mineralogical features of the stone materials, the identification of the degradation patterns, the evaluation of the causes and mechanisms of alteration and degradation, including the correlations between the relevant state of decay and the actual microclimatic and air pollution conditions. Moreover, innovative nano-materials will be developed suitable for: •Surface consolidation: in this case water-based formulations based on nano-inorganic or nano-hybrid dispersions such as nano-silica, nano-titania, nano-hydroxyapatite, nano-calcite and nano-magnesia as well as their synergic combinations with organic and inorganic compounds will be considered. •Surface protection: in this case, innovative composites will be developed consisting of polymers and nano-fillers. The use of hydrophobins, nano-assembled hydrofobic proteins extracted from fungi, and photocatalytic nano-particles (for favoring the decomposition of volatile organic molecules carried by polluted atmosphere and to prevent biofilm growth) will be considered. The project will contribute to the development of transnational cultural tourism and to the development of common European shared values and heritage, thus stimulating a greater sense of European identity.

BFireSafe@school is an important and innovative Strategic Partnership project whose aim is to develop a new fire safety education programme for teachers and pupils in second level schools in Europe. There is no standardised approach to fire safety training in second level schools in Europe at present. This project aims to address that deficiency. No previous Erasmus+ schools project has provided such training and so this is a unique opportunity. BackgroundThis project builds upon fire safety teaching already successfully implemented in many EU countries at primary school level. At present there is no universal fire safety module or online training tool available for teachers to train second level school students in fire safety. Our needs analysis research found that fire safety awareness programmes across Europe are focused mainly on younger age groups aged 8-9 and there are no programmes in place for the older age groups. A review of fire statistics in schools in a number of our partner countries reveals that the incidence of fires in schools varies significantly. Project DurationThe project (if successful) will be a 30 month project with a start date of October 2018.Project consortiumThe project consortium consists of a wide range of partners from different cultures and experiences, from a range of service backgrounds and scale that will represent the various stakeholders involved and that will bring expertise in different fields directly connected with the objectives of the project. The partners are located in a number of different countries with a good geographical spread all over Europe, a well balanced group of fire and rescue services, local, regional and national government organisations, third level research institutions, learning developers and national and EU teacher organisations. A number of Associated Partners primarily made up of second level schools and other interested stakeholders in each partner country will participate in the BFireSafe@School project. Collectively this partnership will research, design, develop and deliver a sustainable educational framework on fire safety for second level school teachers and students.The project partners are:• Leitrim Fire Service Ireland (Project Coordinator)• National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management - Ireland• Bizkaia Fire service - Spain• Dortmund Fire service - Germany• FRS Centrum, Gent - Belgium• Frederiksborg Brand & Redning, Denmark • Finnish National Rescue Association - Finland• Learnkey, Lithuania• Trinity College, DublinMost of the partners involved have experience of successfully delivering European funded projects previously. Project ObjectivesThe Strategic Partnership project will address the horizontal priority of “Development of relevant and high quality skills and competences” and ...as part of the call.The objectives of the project are to 1) Increase fire safety knowledge and awareness for teachers and pupils in second level schools using innovative digital learning methods2) Improve the health and well being of teachers and pupils 3) Use technology to implement and monitor new approaches to teacher training and pupil learning using peer networks.4) Demonstrate how the new digital tools can be effective in improving the motivation of both teachers and pupils to learn about fire safety.Project OutputsA number of engaging and interconnected outputs will be developed such as a new classroom training course in fire safety, a new Online e-learning tool, a new Learning Management System and online app and a new training video to demonstrate safe evacuation procedures for schools. All the content will be developed in English and translated into 7 more languages (Spanish, Basque, French, German, Lithuanian, Danish).The training programme will include various training tools that will reach every student from the target group in a variety of learning styles to suit their learning needs. Training materials will be prepared and be available for teachers. Dissemination activityIt is expected that at least 5000 pupils and 500 teachers in our partner schools will directly benefit from this educational programme with the potential to reach out to many more using the online learning tools and the eTwinning platform. We also plan to disseminate the outputs of the project through a series of Multiplier events and to a range of sectoral publications. Delivering a strong fire safety programme to this group of pupils will form part of critical life skills that the target group can take into adulthood with the potential of realising increasingly resilient individuals, communities and societies.Project SustainabilityEfforts will be made to sustain this fire safety programme into the future by attempting to incorporate it into the school curriculum throughout countries in Europe. Contact will be made with key educational stakeholders at local, national and European level in order to achieve this.

Degradation of a cultural artefact depends on the environmental stress over time, especially during fluctuating environmental conditions, and the reactive behaviours of the materials of its composition. For an effective preventive conservation (PC) it is key to consider the historic environmental stress and degradation kinetics of the different materials (and their synergies) and monitor the artefact at all times. However, due to the heterogeneity of the material nature of the artefacts, this requires expensive monitoring as well as specialized personnel, out of reach for most, small to medium sized museums. CollectionCare will develop an innovative PC decision support system targeting the needs of small-medium sized museums. It will integrate IoT monitoring of the microclimatology of each artefact at any place, either at display, storage, handling or transport, integrated with multi-scale modelling for the different artefact materials while complying with current PC norms and recommendations. We will integrate latest advances in sensoring electronics, LPWAN wireless communication, multi-scale and multi-material degradation knowledge, big data and cloud computing into a single affordable system, adapted to the specific needs and resources of small museums and collections. The solution will built on the knowledge of different renown research groups and companies in the fields of PC (KADK, TU/e, LSIWC, UW, URO1, JHI and UPV), cloud computing and big data (ATOS), IoT connectivity (SGF), wireless sensoring (UPV, URO1), artefact transport (CBC, HvK), collection management (PS) as well as a large number of museums to guarantee future market acceptance (DFA-Spain, KMKG-Belgium, IVC-Spain, OAML-Latvia, IEEE-Greece, RDC-Denmark). The project will also count on a strong International Cooperation by an external Advisory Board of experts with prominent professional background from prestigious institutions and enterprises like: GCI, CCI, ICCROM, ICOMOS, Hispania Nostra and AXA ART.