“Landscape means an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors” (Art.1 of European Landscape Convention (ELC)). Landscape is both a physical reality and the representation that we make of it. It is the face of a land with all its natural and anthropological elements and, at the same time, the feelings and emotions that it arouses in us when we see it. The ELC (aka the Florence Convention, 20/10/2000 came into force on 1/3/2004, Council of Europe Treaty Series no. 176) indicates that assessment of different dimensions that exist in landscapes should be taken into account. ELC aims to encourage public authorities to adopt policies and measures at local, regional, national and international level for protecting, managing and planning landscapes throughout Europe. The Covid-19 crisis seems to have hit a pause to these policies and activities, but it is not the time to ignore such issues nor forget about the training of trainers, students and citizens required to achieve these objectives. With this situation in mind, GEOLAND focuses on NATURA 2000 sites. ParticularlyGEOLAND will:1. explore and develop educational procedures for the effective participation of Higher Education (HE) students in decision-making for landscape management, planning and protection of NATURA 2000 sites. 2. enable the uptake of novel ways to engage and empower HE students in environmental science and stimulate participatory decision-making. In particular, it will provide the opportunity to students, citizens & stakeholders being interested in the definition and implementation of landscape policies to play an active part in setting sustainability indicators of desirable landscape quality objectives (Landscape Quality Objectives/LQO). 3. attempt to identify and summarize the environmental/cultural stratification in the examined landscapes through a sophisticated Landscape Character Assessment (LCA). On the basis of this Assessment, the capabilities of geospatial technologies (Earth Observation and Geographic Information Systems) and web-based GIS applications will be exploited. 4. encourage/introduce innovative pedagogies (citizen science), technologies and state of the art approaches (LCA) to higher education studies in Europe, while addressing issues of teaching and learning about Landscape as a multidisciplinary subject area in universities. PARTICIPANTSPartnership of 7 partners from 5 countries: 1 Research center, 2 Higher Education Institutes, 3 Non -Governmental Organizations, 1 ICT small-medium Enterprise and 1 chamber of commerce.RESULTS- Promotion of latest digital innovative technologies for Landscape monitoring in Higher Education.- Support of ELC comprehension from students regarding the knowledge of the landscapes (identification, analysis, assessment) and the definition of Landscape Quality Objectives in higher education.- Progress towards a coordinated and targeted approach to the best use of geospatial technologies and relevant data and their fusion on a multidisciplinary level in educational landscape ecological services.- Support the participation of students in environmental monitoring and landscape management.- Synthesize and integrate readily communicable, to a wide audience, findings suitable for awareness raising and policy negotiations among students in Europe.- Highlight the role of training students in real-life interaction between them and available geoinformatic technologies to set up a successful format.The aforementioned results will be materialised through the generation of:1. Educational Handbook for monitoring European Landscape2. Training Course - Web based GIS platform3. Policy outreach activities4. Online gallery of student’s work5. Digital educational readiness assessment tool.LONG TERM BENEFITSBenefits expected from above results will be felt in many ways, especially in the pedagogical, environmental and digital skills fields. In particular, they can be defined as follows:- Min. 30% increase (in participating organizations) in the number of students who will be aware of the most important pieces of ΕLC.- Min. 30% (in participating organizations) increase in students' awareness of Natura 2000 sites and network, as well as their environmental and socio-economic value.- Min. 500 students handling the most updated geoinformatic technological applications, products and services derived from the project.- Min. 40% (in the participating organizations) increase in the amount of students participating in proposed processes for the monitoring, management and protection of NATURA 2000 landscapes.- Identification and recommendation of policies and measures from HE students and professors aiming at landscape management and protection of landscape.

"FEUZ manages European projects of various types since 1991 (COMETT, LEONARDO DA VINCI, ..) having managed approximately 2000 mobilities. Winner of the 2008 Quality Award for the management of the Leonardo da Vinci project for the mobility of university students in 2006 and finalist in 2006 for the 2004 project. Since 2007, FEUZ has also coordinated the mobilities of student internships at the University of Zaragoza.The main OBJECTIVE of the project is to integrate the graduates of the University of Zaragoza and other graduates in the labor world through the host organizations involved, as well as to support initial professional training by improving cooperation between the university and the company.Participants have been able to put into practice all their theoretical knowledge while learning new aspects with great usefulness for their professional future and increasing their employability. The internships have helped the graduates to get in touch with the labor market, adapting the ""know-how"" acquired during the studies to the new technologies and methodologies applied in the companies and host organizations: Hospitals, Research Centers, Chambers of Trade or Professional or Cultural Associations.All the parties involved in the project have achieved great benefits: the participant as a main part of the project, and the host organization as recipient of the ""know-how"" of the host and their culture.The European atmosphere and the personal and professional experience that surrounds this internship program in companies is the most valuable of the whole process.PARTICIPANTSThere have been 16 mobilities, all of graduates (for that reason there is no option of recognition of the mobility in the academic record / supplement to the degree, although there are other recognitions). 2 are graduates of the Master's cycle, 2 come from Superior Studies in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Goods, 3 are graduates in Architecture and the remaining 9 are graduates or other fields. This project does not include participants from Higher Degree Cycles, who were included in the 2017 project, who was alive in the same period, since after the intermediate report of the 2016 project, the number of mobilities initially awarded was reduced to 16.As for the sectors: 4 participants come from veterinary studies, 3 from architecture, 1 from tourism, 2 from conservation and restoration of cultural goods, 2 from science, 1 from economics, 1 from nutrition and 2 from teaching.Each of the participating training centers selected the candidates before finishing their studies. The offers had their origin both in the institutions that FEUZ has in its list of companies and in the continuous search we carry out in collaboration with training centers and according to the profiles of the beneficiaries and their temporary availability, which is the most complicated issue to adjust.ACTIVITIESContact with the possible host company and reception of their offer in practices, communication to the interested parties of the offers, reception and review of profiles, sending them to the company, documentation and insurance management, support prior to mobility, request for an intermediate report and follow-up, email, final reminder of internships, economic and financial management.In addition we carry out transversal activities, mainly diffusion (informative talks in centers)We have also start to introduce the participants in the host institution searching process . We organize periodic meetings with guidelines for each participant to carry out a self-analysis in relation to their preferences (countries, activity sectors, company size ...), their needs (strengths and weaknesses), email drafting tips highlighting the advantages for the entity to host an Erasmus + participant, etc. As all the participants carry out their internships as recent graduates, these workshops are focused on promoting their employability and providing them with resources that will be valuable when facing the search for employment. In fact, we have had several resignations because they got a job before starting the mobilty, as a direct consequence of the techniques treated in these workshops.RESULTSThe internship suppose for the participant an international experience at a personal and professional level, a change in their mentality and in their point of view of what the business reality is, making them more competitive. For the host institution implies an improvement of its transnational capacity.The indicators of success are reflected in the number of companies that re-apply for participants, in the ease of incorporation into the world of work by graduates, and in the degree of satisfaction with the practice reflected in the surveys."

STORMING will develop breakthrough and innovative structured reactors heated using renewable electricity, to convert fossil and renewable CH4 into CO2-free H2 and highly valuable carbon nanomaterials for battery applications. More specifically, innovative Fe-based catalysts, highly active and easily regenerable by waste-free processes, will be developed through a smart rational catalyst design protocol, which combines theoretical (Density Functional Theory and Molecular Dynamics Calculations) and experimental (cluster) studies, all of them assisted by in situ & operando characterisation and Machine Learning tools. The electrification (microwave or joule-heated) of structured reactors, designed by Computational Fluid Dynamics and prepared by 3D printing, will enable an accurate thermal control resulting in high energy efficiency. The project will validate, at TRL 5, the most promising catalytic technology (chosen considering technological, economic, and environmental assessments) to produce H2 with energy efficiency (> 60%), net-zero emissions, and decreasing (ca. 10 %) the costs in comparison with the conventional process. The dissemination and communication of the results will boost the social acceptance of the H2-related technologies and the stakeholder engagement targeting short-term process exploitation and deployment. The key to reach the challenging objectives of STORMING is the highly complementary and interdisciplinary consortium, where basic and applied science merge with engineering, computer and social sciences.

The nature of the Dark Matter (DM) is one of major open questions in modern physics with two interesting candidates: axions and Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). Axions arise from extensions of the Standard Model (SM) implementing the Peccei-Quinn mechanism. On the other hand, WIMPs appear in well-motivated extensions of the SM, like supersymmetry. Axions and WIMPs could have been produced in an early stage of the Universe and have been extensively searched during last decades. The use of Micromegas (MICROMesh GAs Structure) readouts has been recently introduced for axion and WIMPs searches and proposed for different experiments: TREX-DM and IAXO. TREX-DM is located in the Canfranc Underground Laboratory and is looking for low-mass WIMPs, in a mass range that is attracting the interest of the experiments. On the other hand, IAXO is a proposed new generation solar axion helioscope with enhanced sensitivity. The low counting rates expected in these experiments require to bring down the experimental background to the lowest levels possible. Another important aspect to enhance the physics potential is to reduce the low energy threshold, that would increase TREX-DM sensitivity to even lower WIMP masses. Moreover, it would make IAXO sensitive to axion-electron coupling values. The goal of this proposal is to reduce the background levels in order to reach sensitivity scenarios with discovery potential for axions and low-mass WIMPs and secondarily to reduce the low energy threshold. These objectives can be achieved by the use of some innovative aspects like the introduction of new Micromegas architectures and the use of new radiopure electronics. If the objectives are fulfilled, the advancements in the field would be tremendous, it will set the baseline for the design and construction of ultra-low background detectors for many different applications. Moreover, these new developments could be extrapolated to different kind of particle detectors.

This proposal describes the third core project of the Graphene Flagship. It forms the fourth phase of the FET flagship and is characterized by a continued transition towards higher technology readiness levels, without jeopardizing our strong commitment to fundamental research. Compared to the second core project, this phase includes a substantial increase in the market-motivated technological spearhead projects, which account for about 30% of the overall budget. The broader fundamental and applied research themes are pursued by 15 work packages and supported by four work packages on innovation, industrialization, dissemination and management. The consortium that is involved in this project includes over 150 academic and industrial partners in over 20 European countries.