Conference Industrial Technologies and Materials for Sustainable Europe is planned in Krakow on June 2-4, 2025 as part of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. It will be organized by the Mineral and Energy Economy Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences (IGSMiE PAN), the Division of Strategic Research, and Malopolska Voivodship (MV). Major topics and themes will be consulted with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, which will also participate in event funding. The scope will cover aspects of sustainable industrial technologies and materials. It will be organized as a cyclical flagship event of the European Union - EUIndTech2025. Under the program of Horizon Europe‘s cluster 4: “Digital, Industry and Space”, the conference will mobilize key players worldwide around the theme of the industrial technologies of tomorrow, gathering stakeholders from scientific and research units, industrial companies, start-ups, European partnerships, administrative bodies and NGOs. EUIndTech2025 will focus on increasing the competitiveness and resilience of the EU industry and its transformation, having regard to the most important strategic developments in the area of manufacturing, net-zero industry, critical raw materials and advanced materials.

"CONTEXT: The project EUBILD-UNAKLIM has been launched in the context of European requirements and guidelines for the implementation of environmental and climate objectives, including the Europe 2020 Strategy, Mobility Strategy 2020 for the European Higher Education Area and the European Education and Training Strategy 2020.By developing a European educational concept for adults in the field of environmental, nature and climate protection, the participating partners contribute and support the climate and energy goals of the Europe 2020 Strategy.By focusing the project on the target group of the unemployed, it aims to put the European target of 75% of the population, aged 20-64, into jobs and reduce poverty. Adult education as lifelong learning plays an increasing role. Environmental and climate protection is a complex issue that only works across borders.OBJECTIVES: The aim of the project was to develop a cross-border training concept for unemployed with basic skills to successfully acquire further knowledge in this field. The European approach enables to participate more flexibly in the international labor market and integrate environmental aspects more strongly.PROJECT PARTNERS: 5 partners from 4 countries: Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania formed the consortium, including 2 NGOs, 2 universities and a research institute.MAIN ACTIVITIES:- Preparation of country-specific research and documentation of education and job offers in the four countries.- Providing questionnaires for companies and training centers and a survey of at least 400 participants per country- Comprehensive statistical evaluations of the surveys and comparison with previously developed hypotheses- A curriculum on the basis of the researches and polls- Sample teaching letters on selected topics concerning renewable energies, Photovoltaic and geothermal energy on the basis of the curriculum- Examples and computations for a model experiment Practical work on a photovoltaic plant of the Romanian partner- Online tools for the development of an e-learning platform, using the the developed materials- Implementation of a summer school on the topics mentioned- A test-run-concept- 3 multiplier events with thematic excursions- 5 project partner meetings- A project website- Distribution of 3 project newsletters- Participation at conferences, events and fairs to present our project- Publication of project results in the trade pressACHIEVED RESULTS AND IMPACTRESULTS:OUTPUT 1: STUDIES:Country-specific studies concerning adult education in this field and on the ""green jobs market"", prepared by the partners and translated as a joint study into the 4 national languages and published on the project homepage. In two further studies, the surveys were statistically evaluated and compared separately for companies (economic interests), for educational institutions/funding agencies (educational interests), measured against our hypotheses and compared with other countries.OUTPUT 2: CURRICULUM:A jointly developed curriculum for an advanced training course, developed on the basis of modules including key qualifications, taking into account the results of the studies, implying a European internship promoting the exchange of experiences.OUTPUT 3: MODEL LETTERS ON SELECTED SUBJECTS OF REGENERATIVE ENERGIES, PHOTOVOLTAIC AND GEOTHERMIES:The teaching letters are based on the curriculum and published in the 4 languages on our homepage as a basis for the e-learning platform.OUTPUT 4: E-LEARNING PLATFORMThe developed teaching letters, curriculum and solar compendium for practical test facilities are freely accessible on the online platform.OUTPUT 5: PRACTICAL COMPENDIUM for fieldwork with a photovoltaic system as practical reference to applied learning.IMPACT- Enhanced knowledge for the partners, stakeholders and through the public provision of the Results in 5 languages for a broad stakeholder group benefiting Europe-wide.- Determination of the situation and the need for further training in that field as an argumentation aid for more support and development of further education offers in this field in Europe for strengthening competences- Knowledge transfer between European countries- Strengthening the integration of environmental issues in education, business and politics- Extension of the European networks of partners, stakeholders and interested parties- Achieving more employment in that field- The curricula and learning materials can be used Europe-wide as a basis for the development of adult education,- Greater awareness on the part of companies, society, the public at large for environmental and climate issues and changing patterns of behavior, to achieve the European climate change targets- Through our online e-learning program in further adult education even more people can take part."

MOOC-2-PRAC-4-UNAKLIM: „From Massive Open Online Course to Practice for Environmental-, Nature- and Climate Protection with 4 Consortium Countries: Creation Courses in Environmental Topics using Blended Learning”OBJECTIVEMOCC-2-PRAC-4-UNAKLIM, the cross border massive open online course targets adult learning. Its topics are “green”, e.g. environmental topics, renewable energies and others. Cross cutting modules are environmental project management, international communication, biological-natural modelling, simulation or basic STEM courses. We act in the context of Furthering Education Adult Training, Digital Learning, environmental topics. Unemployed adults shall improve their reintegration chances into the labor market. Principle is Open Access Digital Learning. A variety of courses is offered and can be combined in modules to gain certificates. Several certificates can be combined into a degree. Participants learn independent of geographical location, time of the day and at their own speed. An innovative training concept (Handbook and Tool Kit) to upskill MOOC trainers will make the course interactive, lively to prevent premature dropout. Potential trainers can download it for free. In a Train-The-Trainer-workshop we test it before Handbook and Tool Kit go public.We add a Blended Learning Tool Kit, face-to-face exercises, in seminar rooms (communication, leadership, Project Management), laboratories (chemical, biological analyses), assembly halls (i.e. building solar panels), in the field (i.e. water and soil sampling). The Tool Kit enables trainers to select experiments based on individual needs.5 PARTICIPANTS of 4 countries Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania cooperate, among them 2 NGOs, 2 Universities and 1 Research Institution. Hochschule Anhalt: coordinator, focus biomedical engineering, renewable energies, digital applications. ubb eV.: focus on social and environmental projects. Polip: NGO, focus on young people education, entrepreneurial topics: Oradea University, focus on geography and Digital Learning, MEERI PAS: the Polish Academy of Science, focus on geothermal and renewable energies.ACTIVITIES•MOOC design with structures, functions•Input of “green” topics•Innovative training methods Concept for MOOC Digital Learning•Train-The-Trainer concept, Handbook,Tool Kit, Test in a TTT course•Blended Learning Concept, Handbook, Tool Kit.2 Multiplier Events and 4 Transnational Meetings are planned. A Marketing concept and Sustainability & Exploitation Plan will determine the MOOC’s future after funding. FURTHER ACTIVITIES ARE a project website, partner meetings, newsletters, excursions, disseminations.METHODIC MANAGEMENT COMPONENTS•Project Management Office (PMO), steering group•Meetings, minutes, quality circle, project review •General Assembly•Stakeholder Advisory BoardTOOLS TO ENSURE PROJECT PROGRESS: Null-Hundred-Method, Task & Allocation Table, Gantt-Chart, Critical Path Analysis, Milestone Trend Analysis, Report templates, communication strategy, Responsibility Matrix.PROJECT RESULTS are DISSEMINATED by email, blogs, websites, Twitter, Facebook, networks, conferences, publications, fairs, on local, regional, national and international level – by digital, paper, shared on EPALE and Erasmus Results Platform.EXPECTED RESULTS•MOOC server with courses, modules, test and module recommendation, participant network platform•Innovative Training Handbook•TTT Handbook•Blended Learning Handbook•Newsletter IMPACT ON TARGET GROUPS ON LOCAL, REGIONAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVEL Enhanced expertise, mutual learning, knowledge transfer in an international environment. Multiplier events and dissemination activities create attention of local, regional and national public, create synergies and strengthen the participating organizations and the local regions.•Consortium: sharpened profile, improved self-esteem, scientific upskill•Participants, end users: knowledge upskill, better qualification, work mobility, better jobs, less poverty•Trainers: upskill to digital and blended courses•Institutions: knowledge upskill, visibility, networks•Politicians: decisions support by sharing new knowledgeLONG TERM BENEFIT AND IMPACT IN EUROPE AND BEYONDMore green networks in remote regions, better international cooperation and adult learning quality, increased cross-border knowledge and people mobility, reduced European expert shortage, stronger European competitiveness, new job opportunities in Europe and worldwide, less poverty, better inclusion of the unemployed into society, more green jobs, contribution to European Climate Protection Targets.We comply with UN Sustainability Goals and support the Mobility Strategy 2020 for European Higher Education Area, European inventory on validation of non-formal / informal learning 2014, EPALE strategies, European Education&Training Strategy 2020. Europe 2020 Strategy Climate&Energy Targets, National Digital Agendas.

Numerous attempts of implementing transition pathways across Europe illustrate the difficulty of designing policies that combine efficient climate action and justice considerations. One reason is that the socially diverse, and thus also geographically dispersed demands and vulnerabilities of potentially affected groups do not appear as a well-structured input at any stage of the policy-making process. Therefore, TANDEM will test an innovative transdisciplinary approach in five different case studies in Spain, Belgium, Finland, Poland and Austria that address controversial transition policies in energy and mobility affecting urban and rural populations. The TANDEM project aims to design a methodology allowing policy makers to create and implement inclusive and just transition pathways by involving potentially affected citizens, public authorities, the private sector and other relevant stakeholders. It relies on combination of accessible and complementary methods: deliberative visioning build on art-based approaches, system mapping, assessment and appraisal methods. These methods constitute the backbone of a series of three deliberation panels with citizens. In these panels TANDEM invites participants to create their visions, perspectives and narratives on just transition policies and to define their own criteria and interventions. This deliberation process will guide a systemic impact assessment that will inform individual appraisals of the interventions. Public authorities will be involved at the beginning and end of each panel to provide insights on political, social and economic factors that should be taken into consideration. Furthermore, private companies will be invited to participate through interviews and surveys. TANDEM will thus develop a transdisciplinary approach to identify and analyse emerging inequalities of low-carbon transition policies, as well as to co-design socially fair and effective alternative transition pathways with stakeholders.

"<< Objectives >>The project has 8 partners from Germany, Greece, France, Turkey, Poland, Italy, Bulgaria and Romania This project will take place between October 15-26, 2019, in Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania, organized and hosted by IRCEM There will be 40 participants with those from Romania, taking into account the equality between sexes. Each partner will send 4 participants and 1 group leader.Starting from the problem of lack of culture geared towards sustainable consumption and production among young people, identified at the level of our community and partners,we propose to develop the ACT4SCP project on circular economy that aims to empower young people to be aware of sustainable consumption and production, to experience and apply sustainable consumption and production behavior, and to understand what it means. This project is aimed at young people who want to develop their ecological design abilities, paying special attention to the principles and practices of developing the life cycle of products and ecological design to meet sustainable development goals.The objectives of the project are:OS1. Information on the importance of sustainable production and consumption for decision-makers and the interested public.OS2. Educating 40 young people in the field of sustainable consumption in the circular economy, introducing new methods for developing sustainable consumption for 10 days.OS3. Developing entrepreneurship for 40 young people for 10 days in circular economy.Through this project, 40 young people from 8 countries will participate in youth exchange as a result of using the environment as a means of learning, by using participants' approach, involvement and youth dynamics in the process.Among the topics addressed are: - the exchange of good practices in the field of consumption and sustainable production; - finding solutions to environmental issues by using eco-design as the main tools in eco-innovative business; - analyzing how globalization affects sustainable consumption and production on the basis of intercultural learning and social inclusion policies for young people.The ACT4SCP project team is made up of professional leaders with experience in youth training and develops eco-innovative entrepreneurship based on the needs of young people to identify with the environment.With the daily activity plan, we will try to achieve our goals and achieve everything we have set out (study visits to see good practice models, outdoor activities, peer education, workshops etc.) in order to create awareness, improve international collaboration, and inform as many people as possible to have a multiplier effect that contributes to the learning and learning process using different methods.<< Activities >>Project activities are carried out through four study visits to analyze good practices on sustainable behavior through six workshops that include case studies and practical applications of specific concepts and the development of an eco-innovative and sustainable business plan, discussions , debates and brainstorming on project themes to identify the problems identified in each community and to find solutions together. Emphasis will be placed on sustainable consumption and production behavior, re-design, eco-innovative entrepreneurship and circular economy practices.In order to achieve a more productive work environment, we will have knowledge exercises, we will set together the rules of the group, team-building exercises, organizing intercultural evenings to deepen the traditions and culture of each participating country.In the Zero Waste Living Practice Workshop, the methodology underpinning the principles of the six ""R"" (Responsibility, Reuse, Recycling, Reduction, Refusal and Rot) in reducing food waste and the effect these actions have on the population, reaping the shelf life of the food. This workshop aims at empowering the consumer behavior. We plan to identify good and bad practices when working with disadvantaged communities related to waste management as they reflect the consumption behavior of a community.The visit from the Food Bank of Cluj-Napoca will emphasize the impact that they have in the local community, the way they involve local people in their actions and the level of interest of this community in getting involved in social actions.By visiting Pata Rat, which represents the non-compliant landfill on the outskirts of Cluj-Napoca, we want to emphasize the existence of bad practice models.The responsible consumer practices workshop will present the best and most practical application of a sustainable consumption and the ways in which communities can apply these behaviors. Discussions focus on the possible difficulties that can be encountered in the process of educating a community, because in many countries awareness of the population begins with information campaigns to change national culture. Case studies will be presented with success stories of communities that are an example of sustainable consumption and production.For the recyclable woodworking workshop, an expert in this field who has a woodworking company will come to share his experience in working with wood, creating new things and working with this material in a way more accessible to the international group of young people. The workshop will start with a short presentation, and then the participants will try to do something lonely with the wood samples or other materials they will have.For the textile recycling workshop, a qualified person will show participants how to work with textiles. By working on textile items will encourage confidence in their work and the opportunity to create something custom, valuing their ideas and translate them into handicrafts. Furthermore, the workshop called Art, encourage the creation of recyclable materials collected from the local community with the freedom to improvise and use their imagination by using all what they think would help from the waste collected.Plastics recycling workshop and 3D printing plastic dedicated to learning working methods with recyclable plastic, using the right tools to fully explore the whole material to create something new and useful. A qualified person will come to talk with the participants about the implications of working with plastics.In order to create a business plan, methods and tools will be used to develop a business idea through 6Rs with sustainable production, ways of promoting a business idea and selling online products through recycling, reuse and reduction ( innovation through the use of other secondary materials) and with reference to eco-entrepreneurship. It will take into account the criteria of circularity business, eco-entrepreneurship, sustainable production, including re-design and business impact on sustainable consumption to determine the most sustainable business of the set.<< Impact >>The project aims to contribute to the empowerment of young people by developing the responsible consumption behavior and entrepreneurial skills of young participants by involving them in workshops and crafts and participating in sessions devoted to developing a business in the field of sustainable production and creative recycling. The impact the project will have much to do with the emphasis on the practical side of learning activities by making products from recycled materials through workshops. We encourage active involvement of all young people in all proposed activities, stimulating their initiative and creativity. We propose that this project will have an impact on 3000 people from Romania, urban and rural areas, and we will also focus on the university environment.Indicators of project results:- Educating young people in the sense of circular economy, responsible and accountable them, and at the same time cultivating their eco-entrepreneurial spirit and the behavior of sustainable consumption.- The 40 target group of the participants (people who are aged between 18-30 years, without racial or gender discrimination) have learned to rebuild useful items to protect the environment from various materials that are considered as waste according to the production system.- 6 workshops where plastic, wood, textiles, Zero Waste Living practices on reducing food waste, sustainable consumption and production practices and re-design.- 1 exhibition with objects made in workshops of recycled, reused and refurbished materials.- 4 work visits for observing good practices and bad practices, showing young people the ways of managing waste, selective waste collection, and practices to reduce food waste, sustainable consumption and production practices and re-design. These visits will take place at the Food Bank of Cluj-Napoca, WeRecycle, Scientifica, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca 3D Printing Laboratory.- 2 appearances in the media, in Romania, to present the project and its results."