Climate change and environmental degradation are an existential threat to Europe and the world. The European Green Deal is a response to these challenges and it aims to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. The European Green Deal covers all sectors of the economy so WE ALL HAVE AN IMPORTANT PART TO PLAY, INCLUDING FIREFIGHTERS. Firefighters are omnipresent in every community across the EU. Between school visits to fire stations, talks given by the fire service to community groups and the lifesaving work, firefighters are very much in the public eye. At a time when there is such scrutiny on all aspects of climate change, firefighters can act as important public advocates in terms of environmental actions. This covers fire stations, which have an environmental impact all day, every day, the transportation involved and the fire fighting work which can be extremely polluting and damaging. Improving the green skills of firefighters will have a positive influence on the day to day environmental impacts that the fire service has in terms of pollution, waste, water and energy consumption. In this context, the objective of the project is to respond to the identified training needs of firefighters by developing the first open and multilingual e-learning platform for firefighters on green skills. The e-learning platform will be accessible from computers, tablets and smartphones. The platform will be available in 5 languages (English, Danish, Lithuanian, Greek and Spanish) and it will contain six e-learning modules:MODULE 1: OPERATIONS. How firefighters can carry out their daily operations out of the fire station (e.g. fire fighting, activities related to SEVESO/COMAH installations and dangerous substances, etc.) in a greener way.MODULE 2: ENERGY. How to reduce electricity consumption in the fire station.MODULE 3: WATER. How to reduce water consumption in the fire station.MODULE 4: WASTE. How to increase the percentage of the station waste that is recycled.MODULE 5: TRANSPORT. How to reduce CO2 emissions. MODULE 6: SOCIETY. How to promote sustainable behaviours in the local community. Each e-learning module will include: an online course on the topic; an online tool to assess the learning outcomes from the online course and to produce a certificate; an online toolkit (set of tools, procedures, and supporting materials) to facilitate to firefighters the effective implementation of the sustainability measures described in the online course. In order to assess how effective the e-learning platform is in improving firefighters’ competences, the e-learning platform will be tested with firefighters from five EU countries. The firefighters will first complete the e-learning and afterwards, they will put in practice what they have learnt by implementing some measures of environmental sustainability in their fire stations. Using the feedback from the testers, the project partners will define the necessary improvements to ensure that the e-learning platform responds to the needs of firefighters.The project will be implemented by a transnational and transectoral partnership involving universities, research centres, experts on e-learning and quality management, and fire and rescue services from five EU countries. Beyond the partners, the e-learning platform has the potential to be exploited by a wide range of organisations and individuals. Thanks to its publication as an OER under the Creative Commons license 'Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)', anyone will be allowed to freely use all the content as well as to modify it and build upon. Therefore, the e-learning platform will serve as the impulsion for future innovations and developments in the European education sector.

"In the framework of the project ""Police officers training"" were carried out two mobilities: with the Cypriot partner, on Cyprus, in the field of Juvenile delinquency and with the Czech partner, in the Czech Republic, in the field of Road traffic.Getting the expertise and the exchange of experiences with the Cypriot and Czech partner, by police teachers (police officers) of the Police Training Centre in Legionowo, (6 persons-mobility on Cyprus and 6 persons-mobility in the Czech Republic) were an aim of the project. Mobilities were according to Work Programme for Vet Staff Mobility .The mobility in the field of juvenile delinquency included mainly practical tasks, conducted by Cypriot police officers and patrol joint actions, concerning:- applying of coercive measures towards the juveniles perpetrators (e.g. handcuffs, straitjacket), including restrictions and prohibitions on the use, - conducting the juvenile stopping (including tactical and procedural aspects), - leading the juvenile interrogation, - conducting preventive operations, including organization of meetings with all sorts of groups of recipients (taking their needs into account), e.g. with children, parents or the teaching staff, - planning both conducting operational activities and getting and the processing of information from personal sources of information (including tactical and procedural aspects) and situation analyses (cases) limiting or making it impossibleto apply choosen forms of the operational work.The mobility in the field of road traffic also mainly included the practica tasks, conducted by Czech police officers, and patrol joint actions, in the context:- undertaking test action towards the persons in breach provisions of the law, - carrying out checks in the road transport, - improving the technology of driving a car and riding a motorbike, - undertaking the activity on the spot events, - managing the road traffic, - work with test-measuring devices.Police teachers who took part in the project widened and increased their knowledge according to the topics of the mobilities, got latest experiences and abilities, raised the quality of the teaching workshop. Moreover they widened and enriched language skills in the professional vocabulary, abilities in the cooperation in the international environment and winded their knowledge about the partner country in the cultural aspect. The participation in the project raised the value of the international potential of Police Training Centre what will allow for carrying out next, international projects. Publications, placed in ""Kwartalnik policyjny"" (raising its essential value and are extending its international reach), as well as information about the project, on individual stages of his realization, materials about teaching character (CSP website /www.csp.edu.pl/ - the bookmark dedicated to the project and the Intranet CSP side) will enrich the knowledge in the area of the project of all interested in, as well as will enhance the image of our unit.Competences acquired by participants in the project will raise also a quality of the police training in our unit what is being transferred into the quality of the performance of tasks undertaking by officers of Polish Police. Our unit, but also partner institutions, through design joint actions, will become more recognizable on the international arena of the police cooperation, will get greater abilities of cooperation in the field of EU programs, as well as cooperation in other forms of nonoperating police tasks and challenges, which, at present, are being put before the police."

With the evolving threat of climate change and the consequences of industrial accidents to becoming more severe, there is an increasing need for First Responders to access reliable and agile information management systems that offer as higher Situational Awareness and better Common Operational Picture. To match with current trends, the RESPOND-A project aims at developing holistic and easy-to-use solutions for First Responders by bringing together the complementary strengths of its Investigators in 5G wireless communications, Augmented and Virtual Reality, autonomous robot and unmanned aerial vehicle coordination, intelligent wearable sensors and smart monitoring, geovisual analytics and immersive geospatial data analysis, passive and active localisation and tracking, and interactive multi-view 360o video streaming. The synergy of such cutting-edge technological advancements is likely to provide high-end and continuous flows of data, voice and video information to First Responders and their Command & Control Centres for predicting and assessing the various incidents readily and reliably, and saving lives more efficiently and effectively, while maximising the safeguarding of themselves, before, during and after disasters. To this end, RESPOND-A envisions at exercising First Responders for getting familiar with the project technological outcomes, and demonstrating their real-world performance and effectiveness in the classified training facilities of our Responder Partners under hydrometeorological, geophysical and technological disaster scenarios.

Though difficult to quantify, the variety of possible ID document frauds at borders is a reality that threatens politicians holding responsibility for borders as well as EU citizens. Based on the needs expressed by practitioners, the iMARS consortium has shaped a project that will: 1/ improve the operational capacity of passport application and border control operators by providing both - short-term adhoc solutions ensuring reliable passport application procedures - and mid-term solutions with no-reference and differential analysis solutions that can in particular detect manipulated and morphed passport images as well as document fraud. iMARS will provide: • Image morphing and manipulation attack detection solutions to assess ID documents validity against document fraud, during enrolment and renewal steps, as well as at the border crossing stations • Document verification and fraud detection solutions to support border guards in the verification process by providing mobile tools that can check document’