The INFINIFISH project will create innovations to monitor and mitigate the impacts of fishing on the climate and enable fisheries to adapt to the consequences of climate change. It will develop and validate technological solutions for the entire fisheries value chain, such as: • fishing gear that reduces fuel consumption and resuspension of carbon from the seabed • data collection technology to monitor fishing operations, catches, and the environment • decision support systems that optimise fishing operations with respect to energy efficiency • fish processing technologies that increase resource utilisation efficiency • novel products that enable the valorisation of currently discarded resources and new fish species The project will also investigate the impacts of climate change on ecosystems and fisheries through model studies, and identify effective climate change adaptations and mitigation strategies in fisheries management. INFINIFISH will carry out case studies in a wide variety of fisheries across Europe to explore and record how collaborative learning by different stakeholder groups can improve the use and uptake of these technical and operational solutions. The result will be a policy action plan that shows how technologies and innovations can be adapted to, and adopted by, particular local and social contexts. This will be key to maximising the impact of INFINIFISH, ensuring that the project will contribute to significant and lasting change in the fishing sector.

The lack of parents’ involvement in their children’s educations is a problem across Europe. Research shows that pupils whose parents take actively part in their educational life do better with regards to education, jobs, health, economy, and leading a life away from criminality (James Heckman & Marco Francesconi 2016, Trygfonden og Børns vilkår). Teachers and pedagogues are key persons, when it comes to engaging the parents in their children’s social and cultural education in school, but they lack useful methods to succeed. Therefore, this project: “Who Conducts the Orchestra? – A shared responsibility of parents and teachers for children’s social and cultural education” will create awareness of parents’ importance in children’s school life and develop concrete methods to improve the current collaboration between teachers, pedagogues and parents.The project targets 25 teachers and pedagogues, who teach pupils in the ages 6- 9 years old. The project particularly targets teachers and pedagogues of young pupils, as they are the first educators who meet the parents, and therefore, they have the possibility of introducing the parents to their responsibilities in regard of their children’s education and establishing a good collaboration from the beginning of the pupils’ school lives.The second target group is the parents of the pupils, whom the project seek to involve more actively in their children’s education. The project will involve 50 parents actively in the test-phase of the methodology. The final beneficiary are the pupils, whom the project endeavours to provide the best condition to enable children to thrive in their social and educational lives. In order to improve the current collaboration between teachers, pedagogues, and parents, the project will: -Conduct four focus-group interviews with the target groups, map the current practices of home-school collaboration, and on the basis of this, identify relevant content for the new methodology (IO1).-Develop the methodology consisting of: i.introduction to four fundamentals in children’s lives: morality, self-control, relations, and environment (Wikström 2016)ii.a communication methodology,iii.training events and multiplier events, iv.and developing a handbook in which participants can seek guidance on how to implement the methodology in practice (IO2).-Develop a platform on which the participating teachers and pedagogues can attune the methodology to their current needs and local contexts. This platform will also serve as the website of the project (IO3). -Conduct an evaluation of the project’s results, focusing on the impact of the project for the target groups, and the products’ quality and timely delivery (IO4). The teachers and pedagogues will be trained in the Methodology on a teacher training event, where after they will implement the methodology in practice during a test-phase. Each country will have a test-group consisting of five teachers and/or pedagogues and 10 parents. They will meet two times to train the methodology, and implement it in their home-school collaboration throughout six months. Furthermore, the project will host two multiplier events in each country, where experts will provide further knowledge about parents’ importance in their children’s school lives to a greater number of pedagogues, teachers, school staff, and parents. The project believes that the “Who Conduct the Orchestra” methodology - and handbook will equip teachers and pedagogues to engage parents in their children’s education in a constructive manner. Thereby, enhance the awareness of the great importance of parents’ attention and engagement in their childen’s education, and ensure a fruitful collaboration between teachers, pedagogues and parents. This will ultimately contribute to the children’s well-being and ability to strive in their social and educational lives. Furthermore, the project will promote cooperation between teachers and pedagogues across Europe, sowing seeds for greater collaboration among educators on this topic. Finally, the project will give educators across Europe free access to the innovative and relevant contents, thereby expanding the range of beneficiaries. Partners, representing a municipality, a university, family councils, and a local organization, who are working actively with children and education in many ways, will carry out the project. The partners are from Turkey, England, Spain, Italy, and Denmark, which cover the East, West, South, and North of Europe.

OptiFish will strive to provide technological solutions that will simultaneously improve the sustainability of fisher’s operations, enhance control processes and strengthen society’s trust in their products. OptiFish will develop, test and recommend a set of innovative technologies and tools supported by artificial intelligence (AI) to provide the management, the fishing sector and the scientist with data on catch volumes, catch compositions and the fishing environment. The goal is to unlock the full potential of technologies such as electronic and genetic monitoring for automated species recognition based on AI and computer vision to reduce discards, unreported landings and unreported fishing activities, ultimately establishing a fisheries control and enforcement system fit for the digital age. The technologies are not enough alone, it is also critical to consider the combination of technologies and the integration of computer vision models, the wide range of data sources and their subsequent formats, while also addressing stakeholders needs and acceptance. This goal cannot be achieved by a single project, which is why the aim of OptiFish is to lay a solid foundation for full technological development from which other projects and initiatives can be built. The project will place a strong focus on species recognition in different fisheries equipped with distinctly different catch handling facilities and in different European sea basins. To ensure that these innovations are relevant to fisheries management, OptiFish has participation from the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries, and has received written support from the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA), the Basque, Danish and Belgian Fisheries authorities.

Crop wild relatives (CWR) are wild plant species genetically related to cultivated crops. Their untapped diversity can enhance resilience to biotic and abiotic stress and the nutritional quality of modern crops. Wheat, sugar beet, and oilseed rape were selected by Pro-wild because of their importance to food security and EU farmers and because some of their wild relatives are endemic to Europe. Moreover, these CWRs constitute a rich and under-exploited resource needed to face challenges linked to climate change and the transition to low-input agriculture. The genetic diversity and vulnerability of these CWRs must be better characterized to optimize their conservation and utilization. The objectives of Pro-Wild are to identify priorities for in-situ conservation of the selected CWR gene pools, to survey and complement CWR genebanks collections, and to increase the use of CWRs in crop improvement. Pro-Wild associates 18 partners from 11 EU and associated countries with expertise in ecology, conservation, genomics, pathology, microbiology, plant breeding, agriculture, and sociology. Pro-Wild will compile and analyse CWR occurrence maps and perform new in-situ collections. It will predict the vulnerability of several CWR species and populations to ongoing climate changes. Ex-situ collections will be complemented with endangered CWRs accessions. Pro-Wild will investigate the resilience of CWR collections for relevant biotic and abiotic stresses. The identification of CWR-derived desired traits and their transfer into elite backgrounds will be done to promote CWR use. Overall, Pro-Wild specific goals will be coordinated with input from breeders, farmers, and consumers. Pro-Wild outcomes will contribute to European Green Deal initiatives through research, education, and training. It will serve the EU biodiversity and the Farm to Fork strategies by preserving, characterizing, and utilising wild species that have unique importance for the resilience of our food systems.