ClimaGen will demonstrate how Climate-resilient regeneration and renaturing for, by and with vulnerable neighbourhoods, can help cities and regions in their transitions towards net-zero. 5 Demonstration cities (Belgrade, Gdańsk, Tartu, Torino, and Trondheim), will implement 25% increased share of newly created and/or restored public green spaces in each city. 4 Replication Cities (Cluj-Napoca, Eindhoven, Gernika and Thessaloniki) will experiment with shorter-term co-creative measures with the same objectives and methods to plan for future implementation of the measures. All 9 cities will run their own Work Packages in ClimaGen, supported by 5 cross-cutting concepts and 4 transversal WPs: ClimaGreens will nurture integrated renaturing measures that create resilience at several scales, and avoid maladaptation in the journey to climate-neutrality. ClimaLabs will provide local and regional collaborative governance, with arts, culture and youth, entrepreneurship and financing, and organisational resilience in long-term planning strategies. ClimaImpact will generate evidence-based decision support and valuation of co-benefits, in easy-to-understand and, where possible, visualised formats. ClimaValue will offer outreach, capacity building and policy guidance, with strategic advocacy together with sister projects and close collaboration with Missions/NEB communities, while an evidence-based ClimaGen Guidance Package will disseminate results and knowledge to cities. City Dialogues and cross-cutting Sense-Making Sessions will support local implementation and common learning. Together these define impact pathways to knowledge sharing, scaling and replication. The ClimaGen Games will tie these activities together with a portfolio of participatory, gamified, citizen-science-based methods to engage all partners and stakeholders in an inclusive manner, and to use their diversity as a strength.

CONTEXT AND NEEDSThe 2014-2020 Erasmus+ programme is, based on a number of mid-term evaluations in all EU-countries considered as one of the EU's best-known successes not only impacting millions of individuals but educational systems at large. The forthcoming Erasmus+ programme period (2021-2027) will increase the focus on mobility, providing learning opportunities to 12 million people (three times as many mobilities as in the current programme), building a European Education Area and strengthening the European identity. This all means that more schools, in particular schools with disadvantaged students will need to build capacity for Erasmus+ participation in order to for the programme to reach its full impact. This also implies that widening participation in the programme is necessary in order for the Erasmus+ programme to be successful. The BE+ partnership, consisting of school, local school authorities, municipalities and transnational networks from Sweden, Italy, Norway and Germany have found that the participation of schools in the Erasmus+ programs is either not widely spread in their local communities or happening in a way it can fully lead to school development. OBJECTIVESThe objectives of BE+ is to increase the administrative and organizational capacity in K-12 school education so that teaching and management staff is better prepared to transnational collaboration within the Erasmus+ framework. More specifically this means to: -Support schools in identifying their needs in relation to capacity building -Develop innovative methodology and tools to meet the training needs of school staff-Improve the skills of school staff in understanding and implementing a project cycle management -Develop a toolbox that will prepare schools for the next generation of Erasmus+PARTICIPANTS AND ACTIVITIESMore than 500 school staff and policymakers will take part in activities that will be disseminated and have the potential to reach and benefit a minimum of 2000 K-12 schools.The line of events/activities have been organized into 4 core activities ( Project management, IO1 A Self-Assessment guide for need analysis in Schools, IO2 Training course on capacity building and IO3 Capacity Buildning Toolbox) that are key elements in reaching the overall project objectives.Activities related to IO1 provide the partners as well as the project with a more profound, up to dated understanding of the needs of schools in a more holistic manner and will result in a self assessment tool that sets the stage for the other intellectual outputs. Building on IO1, IO2 will start of with a content development phase for the training courses that will be tested and evaluated during 2 Learning Teaching and Training activities. Core activity 4- IO3 summarizes the entire project by collating all of the resources in one accessible and easy-to-use place. The toolbox makes it more likely that the outputs will be used by a larger cross-section of teachers, educators, policymakers and other stakeholders, going beyond the project partners network, beyond the partner countries and beyond the project timeline thus ensuring the sustainability of the project, upon its ending.RESULTS AND IMPACTThe project will result in many outputs related to capacity building, from identified needs of schools, the development and testing of innovative tools and methods, increased knowledge about the Project Management Cycle, increased confidence in engaging in application for Erasmus+ funding to the uptake in in new school contexts and the strengthening of the European dimension in K-12 Education. The long term impacts of BE+ are ultimately to increase the administrative and organizational capacity in the entire educational system so the Erasmus + program can be used as a vehicle of the modernization of European educational systems.

"The 3 preschools Domarringen, Kopparkypen and Vattentornet in Norrköping have identified a strong need to analyze and contextualize the concept of teaching on a deeper level by looking at how it willaffect the role of preschool teachers and preschool leaders/directors. This has to do with the the upcoming revised curriculum for Swedish preschools in 2018 where pedagogical leadership and teaching is strongly emphasized. The specific project goals are: - Increased awareness of the responsibilities of teaching among the various preschool professions - Increased understanding of how teaching can be implemented in the daily preschool activities - Increased knowledge of how teaching is linked to the curriculum goals - Strengthen the professional skills associated with the teaching assignment among the staff - Strengthen the European dimension of the partners These goals will be achieved through a combination of study visits in Sweden, job shadowing mobilities in Denmark, Norway and Iceland and through literature studies in organized learning networks. Preschool leaders, preschool teacher and child nurses will participate in a total of 27 mobilities. Mobility will take place on three occasions and will be evaluated continuously. The receiving preschools in Denmark, Norway and Iceland have been chosen with great care in order to make sure that the objectives of the project can be reached. A project group representing the key persons from the preschools will be responsible for planning, preparation, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and dissemination. The project is expected to strengthen the quality of teaching, which in turn will benefit the children. From a consortium perspective, the project will work as a pilot project, as the experiences of the participating preschools make can contribute to strengthen the teaching quality in all the municipal preschools of Norrköping (in all113). The project clearly contributes to the goals of improving the school results at both the municial and national level through improved quality of early childhood education and is rooted in EU2020's educational policy priorities of lifelong learning and mobility, improved quality in education and enhanced equivalence. Seen upon as a long-term project that can offer children a good foundation for their future learning as well as strengthening the skills and status of teaching staff in an international perspective, the project strongly targets the following goals for KA1 within Erasmus + regarding skills development and enhanced internationalization: - ""support the professional development of those who work in education, training and youth with a view to innovating and improving the quality of teaching, training and youth work across -""raise participants' awareness and understanding of other cultures and countries, offering them the opportunity to networks of international contacts, to actively participate in society and develop a sense of European citizenship and identity""."

Trondheim, Limerick, Alba Iulia, Pisek, Sestao, Smolyan and Voru and their industry and research partners are joining forces to co-create the future we want to live in. As aspiring Lighthouse and Follower Cities, respectively, they have detailed out their ambitions into the +CityxChange proposal, which describes a structured approach on how to develop and deploy Positive Energy Blocks and Districts and scale these out as part of the Clean Energy Transition. The approach combines: Prototyping the Future through Integrated Planning and Design; Enabling the Future through Creation of a Common Energy Market; and Accelerating the Future through CommunityxChange with all stakeholders of the city. New forms of integrated spatial, social, political, economic, regulatory, legal, and technological innovations will deliver citizen observatories, innovation playgrounds, regulatory sandboxes, and Bold City Visions to engage civil society, local authorities, industry, and RTOs to scale up from PEBs to PEBs to Positive Energy Cities, supported by a distributed and modular energy system architecture that goes beyond nZEB. On top of this, the consortium will create a new energy market design coupled to consumer-driven innovation, developed in close working cooperation with national regulators, DSOs/CSOs, property developers, and local energy communities. Flexibility will be put at the core of the distributed energy system by creating new micro-grid operation, prosumer-driven Community System Operators, and new markets for peak shaving/RES trading to reduce grid investment needs and curtailment. Their aim is to realize Europe-wide deployment of Positive Energy Districts by 2050 and prepare the way for fully Positive Energy Cities.

Parking management should be an important part of sustainable urban mobility planning (SUMP) but unfortunately, it is one the most underdeveloped segments. Most EU member states lack national level policy and guidance on parking. PARK4SUMP aims to change this, because good parking management has proved to be of utmost importance. It frees the public space, supports local businesses, reduces search travel, generates revenue, increases safety, supports urban planning and can make cities more attractive. The general concept is to take the very best parking management examples, contexts and expertise in Europe, learn and profit from these, and transfer them on a large scale and in the best way possible to new cities . This covers raising awareness and gaining acceptance among relevant stakeholders; building capacity, particularly among cities that have difficulty in picking up such policies; stimulating further innovation; and achieving wide roll-out and transferability. Park4SUMP will work on traffic and travel avoidance; it will support less car dependent lifestyles and put into practise innovations in planning and location policy. It will also optimise the use of existing infrastructure. Furthermore the modal shift towards more efficient modes like walking, cycling and public transport will be encouraged. Convincing arguments to incorporate parking management can be given : it has low costs, it pays for itself, it delivers money, it is easy to implement and to modify and it can be done in incremental steps. The main expected impact will be cities with strongly improved parking policies that are creatively used to improve the quality of life and business in cities and develop the cities in a more sustainable way. Park4SUMP aims to establish parking management as an essential part of SUMPS of its leading, follower and external follower cities. Park4SUMP will deliver behaviour change whilst generating revenue.