The iFLEX project aims at empowering the consumers by making it as easy as possible for them to participate in demand response. A core concept of the project is the iFLEX Assistant, a novel software agent that acts between consumer(s), and their energy systems, various stakeholders and The iFLEX project aims at empowering the consumers by making it as easy as possible for them to participate in demand response. A core concept of the project is the iFLEX Assistant, a novel software agent that acts between consumer(s), and their energy systems, various stakeholders and external systems helping them to achieve mutual benefits through local energy management and DR. The iFLEX Assistants are designed to provide a common approach to enhance user experience, level of automation and personalization in a wide variety of DR and energy services. Because of different requirements of these services, the project provides a common software framework (i.e., iFLEX Framework) for developing application-specific iFLEX Assistants that are customized for the needs of particular service(s). The focus is especially on households and DR for supporting high penetration of renewables. In addition, there is a need for effective incentives and market structures that encourage consumers to invest in these innovative DR solutions. To this end, the iFLEX Assistants are customizable for different incentive and market mechanisms to allow exploitation of the solution in different countries and climatic regions, as well as, to enable A/B testing of different incentive and user engagement mechanisms with real-users. Although the focus is on electricity, the iFLEX project targets to overcome the current silo-approaches and provide holistic energy management that optimizes across various energy vectors. Co-creation with end-users is inherent in different project phases and coordinated by consumer organisation in the consortium. iFlex validation is carried out with field pilots in three climatic regions.

WATSON provides a methodological framework combined with a set of tools and systems that can detect and prevent fraudulent activities throughout the whole food chain thus accelerating the deployment of transparency solutions in the EU food systems. The proposed framework will improve sustainability of food chains by increasing food safety and reducing food fraud through systemic innovations that a) increase transparency in food supply chains through improved track-and-trace mechanisms containing accurate, time-relevant and untampered information for the food product throughout its whole journey, b) equip authorities and policy makers with data, knowledge and insights in order to have the complete situational awareness of the food chain and c) raise the consumer awareness on food safety and value, leading to the adoption of healthier lifestyles and the development of sustainable food ecosystems. WATSON implements an intelligence-based risk calculation approach to address the phenomenon of food fraud in a holistic way. The project includes three distinct pillars, namely, a) the identification of data gaps in the food chain, b) the provision of methods, processes and tools to detect and counter food fraud and c) the effective cross border collaboration of public authorities through accurate and trustworthy information sharing. WATSON will rely upon emerging technologies (AI, IoT, DLT, etc.) enabling transparency within supply chains through the development of a rigorous, traceability regime, and novel tools for rapid, non-invasive, on-the-spot analysis of food products. The results will be demonstrated in 6 use cases: a) prevention of counterfeit alcoholic beverages, b) preservation of the authenticity of PGI honey, c) on-site authenticity check and traceability of olive oil, d) the identification of possible manipulations at all stages of the meat chain, e) the improved traceability of high-value products in cereal and dairy chain, f) combat of salmon counterfeiting.

BEATLES aspires to change the way agri-food systems currently operate and accelerate the systemic and systematic behavioural shift to climate-smart agriculture and smart farming technologies fully aligned with the ambitions of the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies, and the new CAP at regional and EU levels. By adopting a food systems approach, the agri-food value chain is viewed as a system of interlinked components where interactions lead to systemic innovations. Through targeted selection of agri-food value chains across the EU and by engaging multiple stakeholders in the co-creation of systemic innovations, in the context of appropriate behavioural and experimental settings, the project will provide an integrative inventory of behavioural insights about the full range of “lock-ins” and levers that hinder or motivate behavioural change, including individual, systemic and policy factors. Five different food systems representing the major crop and livestock farming systems in Europe (cereals, dairy, stone fruits, livestock, vegetables) in various EU regions (Western, Eastern, Southern and Northern Europe), will be studied to account for the diversity in agri-food systems and conditions in the EU. The behavioural insights are used to develop transformative pathways, via business strategies and policy recommendations, to encourage transition to fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food systems. BEATLES will provide a set of business strategies establishing roadmaps for a fair shift towards climate-smart agriculture, based on environmental, social and economic sustainability assessments. Moreover, a series of policy recommendations and tools will be developed to foster behaviourally informed policy design and implementation. The active participation of multiple value chain actors, at various levels of society (public, political, professional), in the co-creation activities all along the project’s lifespan will establish a mutual understanding of the value

Although we witness a proliferation of collaborative consumption platforms, especially in times of Covid19 pandemic restriction, when so many services moved to online, Elder persons (> 60 years old) have some specific challenges in front of these opportunities: lack of knowledge and Digital Skills for using of CC Platforms, lack o awareness of these opportunities and the risks (online security) which prevent them to use CC Platforms; This where our project steps in, by providing an innovative training program with the main objective of increasing the competences (attitudes, skills, knowledge) of Elder Persons(>60 years old) about how to exploit Collaborative Consumption (CC) Through the execution of this Project, 7 partners from 5 countries have: • developed Co-Created Methodological Guide, with the direct participation of End Users, determining the key contents, methodologies and tools needed for creating and improving the critical competences of Elder Persons (> 60 years old) for improving their access and exploitation of Collaborative Consumption • developed Training Materials addressed to Elder Persons for increase their access and exploitation of Collaborative Consumption. The structure of the Training materials is organized as follows: 1. Introduction to Collaborative Consumption (CC) 2. Impact of CC in Sustainability. 3. Evaluating my competences and expectations in CC. Self-assessment. 4. CC in the field of Wellbeing. 5. CC in the field of Energy and Water Consumption. 6. CC to reduce Wastes (inc. Food) and promote Recycling/Reusing. 7. CC in the field of Mobility. 8. CC for Sharing essential goods. 9: COL-SUMERS LAB. • developed Experiential Training Activities : based in practical and experiential training involving Elder Persons, focused in the optimal and oriented exploitation of aforementioned Training Materials within real environments. • developed an e-Training Platform (I.O.4), for supporting the implementation of the Training Methodology, including Training Materials(I.O.2), Designed Experiential Training Activities(I.O.3), Workspace and link to applicable ICT Tools and Collaborative Consumption Platforms. The platform is available at: https://platform.col-sumers.eu • developed 4 COL-SUMERS UNITS in the Consumers Associations belonging to the Consortium in order to ensure the sustainable exploitation of the project after the project lifetime. (Romania, Spain, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Greece) • dissemination Actions addressed to the European collective related to Consumption. The e-Training Platform (I.O.4), Training Materials(I.O.2), Designed Experiential Training Activities(I.O.3) have been produced in English, translated and available also in Spanish, Romanian, Greek, Slovenian and Bulgarian. From the COL-SUMERS project benefited a number of persons during the project lifetime:- 126 persons involved in the Co-Created Methodological Guide • 178 Elder Consumers have been trained through their participation in the validation actions of full training methodology which included: Training Materials (IO2), Designed Experiential Training Activities (IO2) and e-Training Platform (IO4). • more than 7.000 Persons, including Elder Consumers and other stakeholders (Romania, Spain, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Greece) have been made aware of project results, through multiplier events (175 persons) and dissemination actions to be carried on through the project website (>3000 page visits), newsletters (>3.500), leaflets (>3.500) .

CLEAR-X - Consumers Leading the EU’s Energy Ambition Response, Expansion - is an ambitious extension of a tried-and-tested methodology, designed and developed to address consumers’ needs. The overall objective is to enable consumers to lead the energy transition by investing in renewable energy and sustainable energy (RES) and energy efficient (EE) technologies. It aims to facilitate consumers’ access to household renewables at an affordable price, through the provision of trusted information, collective purchase schemes and an improved regulatory framework. By the conclusion of CLEAR-X, consumers will have improved the energy performance and comfort of their homes and reduced their energy bills in the long term. The CLEAR-X project will engage 38,000 consumers in collective purchase campaigns in 6 target countries and will trigger over 27M EUR in installations of RES technologies. The project is expected to result in an additional 40 GWh of renewable energy production and trigger 2.15 GWh of primary energy savings within the project duration. Furthermore, the project will help inform a significant number of consumers in the target countries about potential benefits of EE and RES technologies and influence an additional 17,000 consumers to act and save energy. Building on CLEAR (Intelligent Energy Europe) and CLEAR 2.0 (Horizon 2020), CLEAR-X will expand the proven collective purchase model, by engaging and supporting consumer organisations in Eastern and Southern Europe to launch schemes for their national consumers. Consumer organisations participating in CLEAR 2.0 developed considerable expertise in setting up and running collective purchase schemes and CLEAR-X will draw on this experience, both human and technological, to equip consumer organisations in the target countries with the necessary skills to run collective purchases.