The objective of INSPEX is to make obstacle detection capabilities that are currently only feasible on autonomous vehicles available as a personal portable/wearable multi-sensor, miniaturised, low power spatial exploration system. The INSPEX System will be used for real-time 3D detection, location and warning of obstacles under all environmental conditions in indoor and outdoor environments with static and mobile obstacles. Applications include navigation for the visually/mobility impaired, safer human navigation in reduced visibility conditions and small robot/drone obstacle avoidance. The partners bring state-of-the-art range sensors (LiDAR, UWB radar and MEMS ultrasound) to the project. INSPEX will miniaturise and reduce the power consumption of these sensors to facilitate systems integration. These will then be integrated with an IMU, environmental sensing, signal and data processing, wireless communications, power efficient data fusion and user interface, all in a miniature, low power system designed to operate within wider smart/IoT environments. The main INSPEX Demonstrator will embed the INSPEX System in a white cane for the visually impaired and provide 3D spatial audio feedback on obstacle location. INSPEX directly addresses: - ICT-3 Challenge “to develop and manufacture smart objects and systems that closely integrate sensors, actuators, innovative MEMS, processing power, embedded memory and communication capabilities, all optimising the use of supply power” that can “easily be made interoperable within systems of systems” - RIA aims to "make technological breakthroughs and their validation in laboratory environments of the next generations of miniaturised smart integrated systems” and “industrial-relevant technological developments, modelling and validation that will enable solutions in particular for health and well-being … safety and security … manufacturing.” INSPEX is taking “reliability” and “ethical issues” strongly into consideration.

HESTIA aims to provide a cost-effective solution for the next-generation DR services which will leverage the consumer engagement, energy and non-energy services, while dealing with both energy supply and demand side in a holistic manner. HESTIA intends to engage with residential consumers representing a still largely untapped sector, while enabling them to play an active role in flexibility sharing and grid balancing. HESTIA will enable residential DR services through: (i) exploitation of energy demand flexibility by engaging the consumers in demand-side management activities, and (ii) valorisation of energy efficiency in multi-carrier energy dispatching and optimal operation of building systems. HESTIA will exploit the consumer engagement as part of cooperative DR strategy at the community level, i.e. clusters of individual consumers and prosumers. To motivate the consumers to actively participate, HESTIA will leverage the financial, environmental and social drivers, while cross-fertilizing them to maximize the impact. HESTIA will involve the residents in the designing of the solutions through participatory co-design processes. HESTIA will create community engagement methodology and organisational tools with a high acceptance, that can be replicated and provide the corresponding tailored toolsets for a broader rollout. HESTIA will exploit the aggregated energy resource flexibility at the demand-side, in terms of cumulative energy consumption, distributed energy generation and storage, to better manage the disparity between energy demand, RES availability and grid requirements. User-personalized services will be delivered via a fully service-oriented, flexible ICT platform, underpinned by agent-based concepts, consumer digital twin and non-intrusive data analytics. This way, HESTIA will set the foundation for an open marketplace and a new grid reality, while steering consumer engagement according to the grid requirements and promoting RES and sustainable behaviour.

Maritime traffic in the Arctic region is rapidly increasing. But there has been a huge increase in marine casualties in this region due to its extremely harsh environment and the severe safety challenges for ships’ navigation teams. SEDNA will develop an innovative and integrated risk-based approach to safe Arctic navigation, ship design and operation, to enable European maritime interests to confidently fully embrace the Arctic’s significant and growing shipping opportunities, while safeguarding its natural environment. More specifically SEDNA will create and demonstrate the improved safety outcomes of: 1. The Safe Arctic Bridge, a human-centered operational environment for the ice-going ship bridge using augmented reality technology to provide improved situational awareness and decision making whilst enabling integration with new key information layers developed by the project using innovative big data management techniques. 2. Integrated dynamic meteorological and oceanographic data with real time ship monitoring and ice movement predictions to provide reliable decision making for safe and efficient Arctic voyage optimisation. 3. Anti-icing engineering solutions, using nature inspired approaches, to prevent ice formation on vessels, eliminating ice as a ship stability and working-environment hazard. 4. Risk-based design framework to ensure that vessel design is connected to all key hazards of ship operation in the Arctic. The holistic treatment of the ship design, operating regime and environment will improve safety and minimise impact over the entire life cycle. 5. A CEN Workshop Agreement on a process to systematically address safety during bunkering of methanol as a marine fuel along with safety zone guidance for three bunkering concepts: Truck to Ship, Shore to Ship and Ship to Ship. To maximise impact, SEDNA will provide formal inputs to international regulatory regimes regarding regulation adaptation requirements for its safety solutions.

The project addressed the digital literacy needs of the students and teachers in the secondary school sector. As part of the EU ‘Digital Skills and Digital Literacy : European Union policy actions’ the New Skills Agenda calls on Member States to develop comprehensive digital skills strategies. The Digital Competence Conceptual (DigComp 2.0) Reference Model was developed with this strategy in mind (http://aims.fao.org/activity/blog/digital-skills-and-digital-literacy-european-union-policy-actions). Phase 2 of the update includes 8 levels of learning outcomes and examples of the knowledge, skills and attitudes related to each competence. This ERASMUS+ Application incorporated learning outcomes and examples of the knowledge, skills and attitudes related to each competence. This ERASMUS+ Application addressed learning outcomes and examples of the knowledge, skills and attitudes related to each competence: 1. Information and data literacy To articulate information needs, to locate and retrieve digital data, information and content. To judge the relevance of the source and its content. To store, manage, and organise digital data, information and content. 2. Communication and collaboration To interact, communicate and collaborate through digital technologies while being aware of cultural and generational diversity. To participate in society through public and private digital services and participatory citizenship. 3. Digital content creation To create and edit digital content - To improve and integrate information and content into an existing body of knowledge while understanding how copyright and licenses are to be applied. To know how to give understandable instructions for a computer system. 4. Problem solving To identify needs and problems, and to resolve conceptual problems and problem situations. To deliver on the objectives above the project developed two interactive and educational units for each project partner entitled: 1. Introduction to Tourism 2. Careers in Hospitality and Tourism 2. The provision of and open source resources available to target school/VET students to increase their digital literacy through encouraging active learning while promoting information on careers in a given sector. This Interactive Tourism Project (ITP) has identified a gap in that there is no specific open resource to target school/VET students within the regions. Our material was developed in English and in the target language of the partners region therefore each partner has 4 units at project completion stage. There is a total of 28 units; created by seven partners. The project is based on a prototype available at: www.tourisminsight.ie which provides valuable tourism insights to students and industry learners, informing them of career options within the tourism industry. Tourism is everybody’s business and every interaction with a tourist is an opportunity to make them feel welcome and we want everyone to understand the value of tourism and of every tourist. There is a strong need to present the industry as one which offers serious career options with good career prospects and transferable skills. Specifically after the challenges of COVID-19. Featuring interactive tutorials and interviews with young people working in tourism within the relevant project regions, the project will give a comprehensive introduction to the industry and its landscape. Students will learn all about this exciting business, what it means to the respective countries and region, what’s going on in the tourism industry in your region, and how tourism is promoted around the world as well was why tourists come to specific regions. The cohort of the project were secondary level students and VET students, who would like to be informed about their career choices. But it is also addressing school leavers who have not made up their mind about their future career and other stakeholders in the sector. Having international partners in this consortium added value to this project: students can get a feel for what the Hospitality sector is like in other countries; it will support mobilities of students by motivating them and working in an international team will have increased quality of the final results. Furthermore, as modules are also available in target languages of the partners, it enhances language learning of the students. Objectives: 1. Increasing students’ awareness of potential careers in the tourism, culinary and hospitality areas; 2. Addressing a shortage in human resources in these industries. Key features of this project were: • To promote Hospitality and Tourism as a career of choice to students at second level education. • To ensure the sustainability of skilled personnel within the market place in each partner's country. • The Hospitality and Tourism Industry in each partner's country will prosperous and grown. Please see https://t4c.erasmus.site/ for further details.