"The project "" Scuola Lavoro Europa "" has been promoted by a varied and complementary consortium: 5 institutes ( IFOM , Istituto Cattaneo - Deledda , Institute Elsa Morante , ITCS Rosa Luxemburg , Meucci IISS ) the Emilia-Romagna region through the information desk Europe Direct and CNA Bologna, the association representing the SMEs of Bologna. The consortium has been assembled considering the need to ensure an educational success of the economic - administrative students, reducing dropouts, improving skills and concrete employment opportunities for learners. The consortium has identified on one hand a discrepancy between the number of students enrolled in vocational schools and, on the other, between graduated students competencies and the ones demanded by labor market. Consortium’s schools are facing two major risks of the labor market: - The skill-mismatch between specific and transversal competencies of the students that are finishing their education and the skills requested by the labor market; - The mismatch between the demand and offer of occupation in the administrative and commercial sector. The project ""Scuola Lavoro Europa"" aimed to overcome these problems. The project lasted 17 months (from 01/09/2017 to the 31/01/2019) and included two activities: 1) Mobility of 80 students and 22 teachers for internships abroad , divided into five flows of 1 month each. 2) Mobility of 20 newly graduates for internship abroad divided into four flows of three months each.Among the students will be included at least 24 (30%) students with fewer opportunities and 10 students with special needs (DSA and BES).The mobilities have been organized in 3 phases (May 2018, June/July 2018 and September/November 2018) The objectives achieved by the consortium with these activities are: - Strengthening student’s motivation and orientation into labor market, through internships abroad; - Develop the recognition and validation of learners' Learning Outcomes with ECVET; - Extend to the abroad, the territorial limits of carrying out the training programs, in order to improve school-work combination’s capacity and skills; - Promote students’ personal growth through discussion and widening of cultural horizons, social and human rights; - Strengthen linguistic and multicultural skills of learners; - Provide a European awareness and education to internationalization to students and school staff; - Expanding students labor market’s knowledge, through a varied awareness, diverse and transnational; - Enhancing training quality, by identifying an inner linguistic competencies development plan, to include in training programs; - Develop, considering large number of consortium’s members, a collective consciousness on practical work placements abroad, involving local and international companies, civil society, policy makers and public bodies; - Improve the ability to ensure internships abroad in a cohesive and efficient manner, sharing good practices, creating a complementary skills and contacts system, centralizing services related to the organization and management of mobility; - Strengthen transnational relations numbers and quality of this consortium, developing new contacts and new opportunities for cooperation. The outcomes of the mobilities had a relevant impact on a wide number of actors:- Students, that improved their transversal and professional competencies and will be more competitive on labor’s market;- Schools, which started a process of modernization and internationalization of their educational offer, increasing their appeal and - Companies, which will satisfy their demand in terms of number and competencies.- Indirect beneficiaries, with dissemination activity, which will benefit by peers experience- Other stakeholders, that will benefit of new consortium competencies in terms of new relations and future projects."

CONTEXTIn order to stay competitive and generate sustainable growth, European manufacturing SMEs need to keep up with Industry 4.0, which contributes to the merge of the physical and digital systems. The heavy reliance on computer systems, however, poses numerous challenges for the companies and Industry 4.0 in general.In recent years, one of the most pressing problems of the digital world is cybersecurity and data privacy protection. SMEs’ defence capacity is typically weaker compared to large enterprises and figures suggest that only 14% of the affected SMEs can recover on their own. What is more, „60% of SMEs which undergo a cyber-attack lose their business within 6 months” (National Cyber Security Alliance) and “Manufacturers are much more prone to threats to their security because of connectivity in IT and OT systems through Industry 4.0 digitalization,” (2017 Verizon data breach report). At the same time, SMEs manufacturing executives lack cybersecurity managing tools to assess their cyber risks and make sound decisions during a security incident. In addition, most manufacturing companies across Europe do not have a cyber team due to lack of talent. Responding to these challenges, ENISA stated that “to address the lack of IoT and Industry 4.0 security talent, it is essential to cultivate such knowledge both within and across organisational boundaries. Persons in charge of security within Industry 4.0 organizations should invest in state-of-the-art dedicated cybersecurity trainings that cover all necessary aspects specific to IT/OT convergence and Smart manufacturing. Lastly, trainings and courses at schools and universities (considering localisation to reach a wider audience) will further promote a better understanding of Industry 4.0 security among younger generations and thus in the long-term will contribute to raising awareness.” OBJECTIVES The Encrypt 4.0 main aim is to strengthen the capacity of manufacturing SMEs to ensure security of their data in the Industry 4.0 context and to contribute to tackling the cyber security workforce shortage via creating a comprehensive training package.The specific objectives of the project are:+ Enabling manufacturing SMEs management to adopt a proactive approach towards cybersecurity by supporting them in the process of analysing, identifying and tackling the cyber risks and threats applicable to their organisations+ Promoting interactive project-based learning with regards to boosting cyber-security skills and competences of SMEs’ employees or/and cybersecurity professionals;+ Strengthening peer-to-peer dialogue in the field of cyber security and give free access to critical analyses of lessons learned and cyber defence roadmaps TARGET GROUPS •Executives and head of departments in manufacturing SMEs;•Employees and/or cybersecurity professionals from manufacturing SMEs transitioning to Industry 4.0;•Vocational students with technical profiles;•VET trainers/consultants in the field of cybersecurity.INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS01: Encrypt 4.0 Cyber Risk Audit Matrix (CRAM) – a comprehensive tool aimed at supporting managers of manufacturing SMEs to perform a comprehensive analysis of their processes taking into account the use of innovative Industry 4.0-based technological solutions and identify cyber risks and support them into designing and setting effective controls at place. O2: Encrypt 4.0 Cyber security training lab - a flexible online training tool that will follow a project-based training approach and where SMEs employees and other interested parties will be able to work collaboratively on different projects and case studies and thus boost their cyber-security skills.O3: Encrypt 4.0 Documental battery on cyber attacks – a tool which will give access to critical analysis of real cyber-attacks and lessons learned as well as roadmaps on how to prevent, identify, tackle and recover from them. The documental battery will be available online and interested parties will be able to share their experience with cyber-attacks and thus ensure constant upgrade and sustainability of the project output. IMPACTThe overall long-term impact sought by the project is to contribute to diminishing the skills & knowledge gaps between cybersecurity skills provided by VET and the ones sought by employers in the manufacturing sector, through the creation of sustainable VET-business cooperation.TRANSNATIONAL DIMENSIONSince Encrypt 4.0 aims to provide manufacturing SMEs across Europe with a package of tools to combat cyber treats, a pan-European effort is needed, ensured by the extensive expertise of all partner organisations. What is more, the transnational nature of cyber-attacks prompts that cyber crime goes beyond national boarders and only through shared knowledge and practices it can be adequately addressed.

DIH-World aims to accelerate the uptake of advanced digital technologies by European manufacturing SMEs in all sectors and support them in building sustainable competitive advantages and reaching global markets strengthening the capacities of regional DIHs, particularly in underrepresented regions across Europe. As intermediaries of successful local SME digital transformation, DIH World, aims at providing DIHs, access to harmonised tools, well proven technologies, effective methodologies, sound knowledge, smart investment sources, rich training assets and overall a vibrant innovation environment. The final aim is to accelerate the matureness of DIHs and the development of their collaboration capabilities, and avoid a DIH divide due to lack of access to technologies, skills, networks, investment and infrastructures with special emphasis in underrepresented regions; so they can capitalise and leverage on the European DIHs Networks their resources and facilities for the benefit of their local SMEs. This will be achieved thanks to the: DIH-World platform, that will provide a full coverage of the services needed by the DIHs and the SMEs willing to identify the right DIH for them, the DIH-Academy that will provide the tools to train DIHs and bring them to the next level, Open calls for experiments, that will provide sufficient technological support to SMEs and midcaps. As well as with a broad geographical coverage, with more than 26 countries to be covered in Europe including specific activities to involve regional and national actors in the DIH network.