European districts play a pivotal role in the achievement of a future low carbon economy. The envisaged actions of the ProLight project are representative for innovative refurbishment with large potential of immediate replication of other residential buildings from the municipalities & the social housing involved. ProLight assembles & closely integrates all needed actors & measures. The envisaged solutions will lead to better quality of life for all targeted end-users. This includes to find suitable social responses for awareness creation, up-take of knowledge, establishment of behavioral changes towards the energy efficient use & the integration of renewables within an appropriate local political frame. Analysed districts include: 1) Building and renovating in an energy and resource efficient way in AT, FI & GR, 2) Energy communities in ES, IT & PT combined in so-called Innovation clusters. A multi-actor approach uses a methodological concept that explicitly takes into account the energy transition as a societal lever for innovation in the involved demo districts. Applied research will be connected with theoretical analysis that involves identifying and compiling good practices, successful initiatives and exemplar real-world demo sites. These practices will be assessed and lead to a complete European competence framework, encapsulating the skills required to reach this change via recorded successful methods observed through ProLight. The project combines individual, gender & collective aspects of active and responsible citizenship in an integrated working concept, to conceptualize climate-aware citizens and communities. ProLight exploits the potential of this growing wave of civic engagement and citizen science, in order to facilitate the transition to green, sustainable societies & economies. ProLight achieves this by understanding, defining, measuring & assessing of 6 demo districts in different regions of Europe & disseminate effectively project results.

Five European Regional Skills ecosystems will collaboratively design, test, refine and exploit an integral curriculum in digital transformation competence for mid to high level EU technicians. The curriculum will be available in EN, BG, EL, ES, IT and NL and supported by an international IoT network Hub.The Digital Transformation in Advanced Manufacturing – DTAM project aims to create and provide innovative curricular training (reskilling and upskilling opportunities) in digital transformation competence for the advanced manufacturing sector (AM), for mid-high level IT and OT technicians at EQF Levels 4-5 +. Materials delivered will allow technicians to understand, install, configure, monitor, analyse, transfer data and maintain digital systems in advanced manufacturing environments. The complete DTAM curriculum will offer learners in IVET and CVET open access to all training modules as OERs via the project e-learning platform and to innovative supporting digital technology in the form of an international network of IoT labs. The partnership will encourage the growth of digital transformation, and talent and technology 4.0 profiles in H/VET centres by providing and launching a(n):• Model for the Creation and Exploitation of a Sustainable IoT lab: the model created will address the essential issue of financing and sustainability of IoT laboratories through collaboration with local / regional industry and SMEs• International Network of DTAM IoT labs which H/VET centres developing IoT labs can join, supporting a growing pool of labs which learners can access remotely via the project IoT HubThe DTAM curriculum aims to be a reference curriculum for Quality training and certification in digital transformation competence for Smart Industry. The partnership aims to have the DTAM Modules validated and included in regional and national VET training courses in the mid-term.

The project aims to address the skills gap of Smart Cities technicians and engineers, by designing and testing a vocational education and training program that is based on a novel and multi-disciplinary curriculum combining digital skills on Smart Cities enabling technologies, with soft, entrepreneurship and green skills.The expected project outputs are:• A Smart Cities competences map and ESCO-compliant Smart Cities job profiles.• A Smart Cities curriculum combining both technical and non-technical skills and competences and promoting personalized learning pathways.• Learning resources for Smart Cities enabling technologies and for building the soft, entrepreneurship and green skills of Smart Cities technicians and Engineers.• A diagnostic tool to identify personalized learning pathways.• A MOOC for Smart Cities enabling technologies.• Virtual Worlds for building the soft, green and entrepreneurship skills of Smart Cities technicians and engineers.The main project beneficiaries are Smart Cities technician and engineers either from the public sector (i.e. municipalities) or enterprises providing Smart Cities solutions, as well as HEI and VET students interested in Smart Cities. The curriculum will be tested through 4 national pilots in Greece, Bulgaria, Spain and Italy with at least 160 trainees. The certification of the skills and competences will follow a two-fold approach: (a) using micro-credentials to recognize the knowledge and skills gained through the successful completion of each online training module at the MOOC and Virtual Worlds and (b) designing the “Smart Cities Specialization Certification” that will be awarded to those passing online certifications exams with e-proctoring after the completion of the training modules.The project will create an ecosystem for the co-design and co-development of an innovative curriculum and technology-enhanced learning tools for the upskilling/reskilling of Smart Cities technicians and engineers.

<< Objectives >>The cooperation partnership for VET project “MegaStrat” co-designs a new curriculum and a corresponding online training course for long-term opportunity forecasting (LTOF). The main objective is to enable high-tech SMEs in the mobility and production industry to capitalise on individual opportunities megatrends offer by translating futurologic high-level trends into executable long-term strategies and actions for competitive advantages for a future more than 10-20 years ahead.<< Implementation >>MegaStrat consists of four work packages co-led by partners from industry and academia. It begins with a systematic inventory of existing knowledge and training offerings. Together with stakeholders (strategists, opinion leaders, think tanks), the curriculum is co-designed. The resulting components are thoroughly evaluated and published in the form of an online course. The project then develops a mainstreaming and outreach plan to ensure broad adoption of the curriculum.<< Results >>The main project result will be the MegaStrat Online Course, which will deliver the learning experience of the co-designed curriculum and make its training materials publicly available. The online course will also include guidelines for mainstreaming and outreaching its content. In this way, VETs and other facilitators will gain the ability to teach LTOF theory and methods to equip SMEs with personnel capable of using LTOF in strategic decision-making processes.