The EU roadmap towards a climate-neutral economy by 2050 sets ambitious decarbonisation targets that shall be achieved by a massive deployment of renewable energy sources. Energy storage improves grid flexibility and allows higher penetration levels of renewable energy sources to create a decarbonised and more electrified society by means of leveraging second-life batteries. Battery management plays an essential role by ensuring an efficient and safe battery operation. However, current battery management systems (BMS) typically rely on semi-empirical battery models (such as equivalent-circuit models) and on a limited amount of measured data. Therefore, ENERGETIC project aims to develop the next generation BMS for optimizing batteries’ systems utilisation in the first (transport) and the second life (stationary) in a path towards more reliable, powerful and safer operations. ENERGETIC project contributes to the field of translational enhanced sensing technologies, exploiting multiple Artificial Intelligence models, supported by Edge and Cloud computing. ENERGETIC’s vision not only encompasses monitoring and prognosis the remaining useful life of a Li-ion battery with a digital twin, but also encompasses diagnosis by scrutinising the reasons for degradation through investigating the explainable AI models. This involves development of new technologies of sensing, combination and validation of multiphysics and data driven models, information fusion through Artificial Intelligence, Real time testing and smart Digital Twin development. Based on a solid and interdisciplinary consortium of partners, the ENERGETIC R&D project develops innovative physics and data-based approaches both at the software and hardware levels to ensure an optimised and safe utilisation of the battery system during all modes of operation.

Architectural education has paid very little attention to the vulnerability of the built heritage to climate change and has overlooked the contribution of heritage to the development of climate-adaptive strategies for a resilient society. Heritage contributes to social cohesion, sustainable development and psychological well-being. Thus, protecting heritage means promoting resilience. In the architecture curriculum, the little importance of heritage has pointed out two important needs: the introduction of innovative learning methods to ease the understanding of heritage; 2. the adoption of an interdisciplinary educational approach as the most appropriate framework for studying the complexity of climate change and to overcome the current divide between research and education. To achieve these goals, education should adopt methods that create a high level of interactivity and adjustability to changing environment and an education directed towards critical thinking. In short, an education able to build a new set of skills, enhanced with ICT-based technologies, that allows a comprehensive climate-sensitive and environmentally friendly professional action.To enhance the relevance, qualities and impact of heritage in architectural design education/research, e-CREHA (education for Climate Resilient European Architectural Heritage) aims to provide an innovative e-learning course and methodology based upon blending learning that focuses on developing climate-resilience for built heritage across Europe. e_CREHA overcomes time-related, geographical and economical limitations. It provides innovative input of new approaches and renewed interpretations of content and methods regarding resilient architectural heritage and climate change in education; it expands students’ intellectual resources and build a new climate-sensitive set of skills. Finally, it enhances students’ qualifications in the face of competitiveness in the economy and job creation through societal challenge-based learning.Bringing together the multiple disciplines of architecture and built environment, heritage studies, engineering, design, climate science, and software technologies and informatics, e-CREHA aims to innovate education and to develop a multi-disciplinary knowledge for building a culture of prevention and mitigation (culture of preparedness) to address climate change.e-CREHA project activities create a joint platform of collaboration, co-learning and cooperation among six partners universities, departments and research institutions extending across Europe. They pursue the following four strategic actions: i. Promote an international accredited course on climate resilient architectural heritage as incubator of innovation and backbone for experimentation of new curriculum courses; ii. Provide pedagogical training for new tutors through peer teaching method; iii. Nurture a collaborative and interactive flexible learning environment for tutors and learners, and strengthen interactive dialogue between partner universities and the wider community; iv. Structure an interactive knowledge, research and experience exchange through e-CREHA e-learning course that will draw a wider readership on climate resilient European heritage as a core subject of a discursive collaboration. These objectives are incorporated into the project activities that include: i.Cross-cultural pedagogies that maps and analyses existing courses and best practices; ii. Learning modules (8 modules) that addresses one of the key aspects of climate resilience as a theme each semester; ii.Training through tutors’ workshops (2) for pedagogical exchange and knowledge sharing through peer teaching method; iv. Research labs that test the learning modules through 3 Intensive Programs (ISPs) in different higher education institutions (partners) and based on “research by design” methodology.The e-CREHA consortium consists of:- Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), NL (coordinator)- University of Economics and Technology (TOBB ETU), TR - Università degli Studi del Molise (UNIMOL), I- Institut National des Sciences Appliqués Strasbourg (INSA), F- Sofiiski Universitet Sveti Kliment Ohridski (SU), BG- Norsk Institutt for Kulturminneforskning (NIKU), NThe expected outcome for the participating partners is to develop the e-CREHA learning course to raise students’ awareness on heritage contribution to climate change and to acquire new knowledge and a new set of skills that will foster students’ scope and responsibility towards the development of a climate-resilient European heritage. Finally, this course binds innovative approaches developed in educational settings with professional practice.

Mauritania has expressed needs in the field of higher education and research in order to initiate a transition towards a model of sustainable growth, which will reconcile the imperative of development, social progress and environmental protection. The existence of a prior partnership between the institutions participating in the project, in particular the INSA group and the École Supérieure Polytechnique (ESP), enabled the identification of cooperation needs in the field of higher education. Investing in human capital, particularly in industrial engineering training, seems essential to guarantee sustainable economic development and the creation of processing industries that generate jobs and added value in the fields of fishing, livestock farming and agriculture. They would also enable the country to respond to the mismatch between human resources and labor market needs, the dependence on raw materials, the vulnerability to external shocks and climate hazards and the informal sector issue thanks to the creation of SMEs and VSEs. Polytechnic Group (GP) trains middle managers and executives in the fields of engineering: Mining, Oil Gas, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Hydraulic Environment, Computer Networks and Telecommunications, Mechanical Engineering and Statistics and Data Engineering. GP wishes to create a “Higher Institute for the Professions of Quality, Logistics and Production (ISM-QLP)” and a new department of IE. INSA Group, IUT de Roanne and GP have decided to gather their skills to : • Create an IE training course covering Bachelor, Master and Phd • Strengthen national scientific research • Intensify economic partnerships through the creation of a valuation subsidiary, a foundation and a junior company at ESP • Launch an experiment of financial resources self-management with GP, before extending it to all higher education institutions in the country • Meet GP's educational equipment needs byconsidering gender equality, but also social equality in the recruitment and geographic location of training. For instance, the project will give birth to the construction of a boarding school for girls. French institutions will support GP in : • The accreditation procedures for IE training with the objective to create a double degree « ESP-INSA » in IE; • The creation of distance learning courses • Training professionalization and the creation of continuing vocational training (with or without a diploma); • The creation of a transversal research center that works on industrial engineering themes in connection with sustainable development and Industry 4.0; • The establishment and operational development of a R&D subsidiary and a foundation, for sales and sponsorship operations. The project will have a catalytic impact on the economy and will allow the transition from a system that is primarily based on the exploitation of raw materials to the creation of higher value-added processing industries. Based on the cooperation and the transfer of expertise, this project aims at promoting careers in industrial engineering, encouraging connections between companies producing goods and services and training a quality workforce. which meets the challenges of sustainable development, the digitization of the workforce and the labor market expectations. Finally, it aims at strengthening the already existing ties between INSA Group and Polytechnic Group (GP) by reinforcing the Mauritanian higher education system and by setting up international scientific and industrial partnerships.

Resilience is the capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from unexpected difficulties. When applied to mobile robotics, it can be defined as the ability of robots to absorb shocks when flying or rolling, to collide with obstacles without irreversible structural damage or to be impacted by flying objects without crashing. Physical survival is today fundamental for robots whenever they operate into an unstructured environment, but still a challenge. The heart of the ResiRob project is to create new deformable robots that will not only absorb shocks but also sense collisions via their proprioception to generate appropriate trajectories. The ResiRob’s proprioception will allow the robot to perceive and locate lateral collisions as well as ventral or dorsal shocks due to collisions with moving objects for example. As multimodal locomotion can be a key for efficient exploration, a combination of ground and aerial locomotion will be implemented to improve endurance and allow passive locomotion in situations like falling or descending steep stairs. The ResiBot project aims at introducing new ways to solve navigation in unstructured environments: a generation of robots will be designed by a close work between control and design, relying on distinct innovative features: propeller protection using flexible and dissipative ducts, soft envelope for robot protection and perception, actuated inner architecture for multimodal locomotion, including perching capability. The development of resilient multimodal robots is still a challenge. To success, the ResiRob project gathers people with complementary expertise (mechanics, embedded control, sensors...) and at the same time with a strong common background and endeavor in making innovative robots. We plan to introduce this new expertise on both resilient and multimodal design into France by developing aspects which have not been properly covered so far.