"In recent years, totally 4.000.000 people who is seeking asylum and refuge have come to our country from neighboring countries and 2,500,000 refugees of them currently live in Turkey. According to official data, 20.000 of them are living in Samsun. It seems difficult to going back to their own country in a short term for asylum seekers who have escaped from civil domestic war. A portion will be settled in Turkey and probably won't return to their country. It is obvious challenges of living in a foreign country and culture. For now, ""Turkish Literacy Classes for Adults People at A1 Level"" has been organized by our institution, for those people. Government of the Republic of Turkey has enacted a ""labor law"" for asylum seekers. After this law has been enacted, these people will need for vocational courses also, alongside Turkish and Literacy courses. Public Education and other adult education institutions is in a key position for the adaptation of refugees to Turkey and the new lifestyle. (Obvious) It's Very clear that vocational courses teachers soon will be added to the activity which we had done with Turkish, Foreign Language and Literacy teachers. Totally 11 courses had been done on adaptation for foreigners and 270 refugees has got certificate by attending to this courses. Eekhoutcentrum, gives training on ""classroom management and dealing with street work"" to the teacher, who teach in a class with refugee student. Onder Kultur and Soziale operates for years on immigrant rights and education. Weiterbildung is a government agency providing vocational training to immigrants with German Employment Agency.Eekhoutcentrum, gives training on ""classroom management and dealing with street work"" to the teacher, who teach in a class with refugee student.Eekhoutcent is the best institution providing in-service training for teachers and adult education in Europe. In our interview with them they stated that they could provide us the training program. Weiterbildung is a government agency providing vocational training to immigrants with German Employment Agency. In our interview with training institutions they stated that they would give us the training we want and they would share their experiences with us.Onder Kultur and Soziale operates for years on immigrant rights and education. The information sharing will be done with these institutions, about methods they used in studies conducted on immigrant integration and adult education. After the training practice possibility will be available in these institutions.Stad Genk of our Belgian partners is the second largest municipality in producing programs for immigrants over the years. Our second partner ""Turks Unia Union of Turkish Associations in Belgium "" works for the integration of the Turkish community by providing vocational and language trainings.The information sharing will be done with these institutions, about methods they used in studies conducted on immigrant integration and adult education. After the training practice possibility will be available in these institutions.With training we will get from our partners, we want to become more sensitive to the problems of adaptation and integration of refugees, we want to be ready and trained. As soon as possible by analyzing the needs of these people to open vocational courses and courses in different areas there is a need to make it attractive for the refugees. Refugees are our 5-year issue but 50-year to EU countries.Adult education institutions in Europe, municipalities refugees own associations are dealing of long years to settle the immigrants harmony problem. We also want to develop our teachers with training programs prepared by our partners. With ""Refugees, Asylum Seeker,Refugee, Immigration Compliance Training"" program, our teachers in Turkish for foreigners class, in vocational courses, in literacy and other socio-cultural course could be completed their personal development.Participate in training program prepared wit their many years of experience in Europe Adult Education Institutions , migrant associations and municipalities will provide a corporate improvement related to this issue. Institution staff will become competent in this regard. Staff will be able to produce realistic solutions. Discovering the productive side of asylum seekers and to prepare domestic public opinion on social cohesion in this adaptation, is the one of the main objectives of project. Our teachers will contribute to the process by sharing their knowledge and experience with colleagues. Although he came from a different culture, one that the people need most is confidence that things will ensure peace and harmony. We want to strengthen the trust of our guests from different cultures. The main objective of our to be most beneficial to them by the training they receive."

Urgent accelerated action is required to adapt to unavoidable and ongoing climate change. Climate-resilient investments must be substantially scaled up. Public budgets will not be able to address the adaptation financing challenge alone, financing from the private sector will also be necessary. CLIMATEFIT contributes to bridging the resilience financing gap by providing critical insight and building the capacities of Public Authorities (PAs) to attract and orchestrate various public and private funding & financing sources, and of Financing and Investment Entities (FIEs) to discover and access resilient investment opportunities. CLIMATEFIT will experiment on a mix of 20 territories in Southern, Eastern and Northwestern Europe in their transformational pathways towards climate resilience. The journey will start by taking stock of funding & financing barriers and enablers gathered in the Financing Landscape taxonomy. CLIMATEFIT will create an ingenious Manual for leveraging finance to, 1) co-design 20 innovative investment strategies allowing to identify sources of funding 2) develop 10 credible and scalable investment plans to help better negotiate and articulate financing streams and define investment concepts, and 3) pilot 4 bankable, tailored investment cases. CLIMATEFIT will build a Pathway for FIEs to accelerate finance, test refined methods to reward climate-resilient investment and apply smart adaptation funding and financing solutions. It will establish Local Resilience Taskforces (LRTs) composed of PAs and FIEs that propose a catalytic and systemic approach to resilience financing. Led by WCF, the high-level consortium will build capacity, co-create solutions with PAs and FIEs, and inform EU adaptation and sustainable finance policies. Finally, CLIMATEFIT aims to boost resilience financing in Europe by consolidating the dynamics in LRTs, and to promote and scale its research findings through the European Network of LRTs and its user-oriented One-Stop Shop.

The aim of the oPEN Lab is to identify replicable, commercially viable solution packages enabling the achievement of positive energy neighbourhoods within existing urban contexts that are seamlessly integrated into the local energy system as an active micro-energy hub, and to test these technologies and package as an integrated solution at neighbourhood scale. Three open innovation living labs in the cities of Genk (BE), Pamplona (ES) and Tartu (EE) will test combinations of different close-to-market ready technologies and services and study their performance as a unique operating system. Focus is on demonstrating innovations in an integrated approach combining sustainable design tailored to the local context, seamless industrial renovation workflows, renewable energy generation combined with energy storage systems, urban service facilities and smart operation, life cycle thinking and circularity, and this across the whole value chain, targeting the whole life cycle of the building and its neighbourhood, in view of scaling up and wide replication. A user driven and participatory approach with the neighbourhood?s community will be rolled out for a holistic and positive energy vision for the neighbourhood, going beyond citizen awareness raising activities. oPEN Lab is a unique collaboration aligned with the Open Innovation quadruple helix model where a) industry (SMEs, large companies, start-ups and scale-ups in both construction and energy value chains), b) government (local public administration), c) academia/RTOs and d) civil participants (end users, NGOs) work together to co-create and drive structural changes that will result in high TRL levels, with great focus on exploitation of results and wide replication.

The overarching objective of Connecting Nature is to position Europe as a global leader in the innovation and implementation of nature-based solutions. The project partners will form a community of cities fostering peer-to-peer, transdisciplinary capacity-building between front-runner, fast-follower and multiplier cities. Connecting Nature will co-develop the policy and practices necessary to scale up urban resilience, innovation and governance via nature-based solutions. An open innovation ecosystem approach bringing together city governments, SMEs, academia and civic society will be used to co-produce usable and actionable knowledge in all cities. Connecting Nature will provide the reference framework for a new generation of urban nature-based solution processes and empower transitioning ambassadors who will globalise this approach through a strategy targeting multiplier cities. This novel approach, coupled with the high capacity of the consortium, makes Connecting Nature an exciting prospect. In addition, linking all open-sourced data to the Oppla platform will ensure perpetuation beyond the end of the project.