<< Objectives >>By implementing this project, we will be able to provide needs-based training to tertiary level teachers in to help them move forward from the ‘emergency remote teaching’ to the next stages on the road to the digital transformation of HEIs. To achieve this goal, our main objective will be to build tertiary level teachers’ capacity to ‘think like an expert instructional designer’ and progress towards optimal online teaching and learning.<< Implementation >>Implementing this project will provide a training course to equip teachers with the expertise they need to move forward towards optimal online teaching and learning. It will build tertiary level teachers’ capacity to ‘think like an expert instructional designer’ and progress towards optimal online teaching and learning. The training course ‘SOUL’ Kit (Scaffolding Online University Learning) will consist of five mutually reinforcing units that will build teachers’ capacity.<< Results >>We expect positive results such as: (1) ‘think like an expert instructional designer’, (2) make informed decisions regarding effective combinations delivery modes, (3) use UDL principles, (4) utilize inclusive ongoing assessment (5) gain and maintain high levels of student engagement, (6) reduce cognitive load, (7) provide non-cognitive scaffolding, (8) increase types of lecturer - student interactions.

StratiGraph (Knowledge Graphs for Stratigraphy) aims to transform archaeological and paleontological documentation by developing innovative open collaborative tools that integrate advanced knowledge graphs, artificial intelligence, and 3D field documentation techniques. The project's "Data-Ready" approach enables clean, structured data collection during fieldwork for seamless integration into knowledge graphs without additional curation burden. Key innovations include tools that function effectively in all conditions - a "works-everywhere" solution allowing technology use even where power and connectivity pose challenges. The project will validate these tools through diverse case studies including the Basilica Iulia in Rome, Sarmizegetusa Regia in Romania, St. John Lampadistis Monastery in Cyprus, the Colonia Iulia Ilici Augusta in Spain, the Kraków Spadzista Palaeolithic site, the Santa Olalla site in Spain, and the dataset from Cesarea in Israel. StratiGraph will deliver: -Knowledge graph infrastructure to organize stratigraphic and spatial data -AI-powered tools for creating and enriching annotated bibliographies -Advanced 3D documentation capabilities for recording stratigraphy -Variable connectivity protocols for real-time and seamless offline/online work -Comprehensive training modules and technical support resources The project emphasizes open science principles, with all tools being open-source and data FAIR-compliant. Through integration with the ECCCH, StratiGraph will establish new standards for digital documentation while fostering a skilled, collaborative research community across Europe. This will significantly reduce the time from discovery to publication while improving documentation accuracy and interpretation of our shared cultural heritage. By maintaining exclusive data control and ownership within EU-based institutions, the project supports Europe's strategic autonomy and long-term data governance objectives.

AD4GD’s overall objective is to co-create and shape the European Green Deal Data Space as an open hub for FAIR data and standards-based services that support the key priorities of biodiversity, climate change, and pollution. The focus will be on interoperability concepts that bridge the semantic and technology gaps which currently prevent stakeholders and application domains from multi-disciplinary and multi-scale access to data, and which impede the exploitation of processing services, and processing platforms at different levels including Cloud, HPC and edge computing. This project will enable the combination and integration of data from remote sensing, established Virtual Research Environments and Research Infrastructures, Internet of Things (IoT), socio-economic data, INSPIRE and Citizen Science (CitSci) in an interoperable, scalable and reliable manner. This will facilitate integration by including semantic mappings to different standards and dominant models bridging domain- and data source-specific semantic concepts such as the Essential Variables framework (e.g. the GCOS Essential Climate Variables, the GEOBON Essential Biodiversity Variables), as well as applying machine learning and geospatial user feedback to ensure quality, reliability and trustworthiness of data and transforming spatial scales. The project will make data and services accessible to the EC Knowledge Centres, GEOSS portal, EOSC and other science services as applicable, ensuring the sustainability of the results, and will actively promote data accessibility for community stakeholders and citizen scientists. AD4GD will demonstrate and validate the approach in three pilots whose stakeholders include international organizations, scientists and researchers, citizens, decision makers (e.g. public authorities), and Earth observation (EO) solution developers. The pilots address selected Green Deal priority areas, including cross-domain components: Zero pollution, Biodiversity, and Climate Change.