Unicorn aims to simplify the design, deployment and management of secure and elastic –by design- multi-cloud services. This will be achieved by a) development and design libraries that will provide security enforcement mechanisms, data privacy restrictions, monitoring metric collection and resource management; b) enabling continuous orchestration and automatic optimization of portable and dynamic cloud services running on virtual instances or micro-execution containers for increased security, data protection privacy and vast resource (de)-allocation. Towards this end, and building upon this umbrella concept, the Unicorn vision can be considered two-fold: to enable software developers to design and develop secure and elastic applications and to increase the awareness of all stakeholders, in particular SMEs and Startups. Unicorn will reduce software release time and provide a powerful tool for SMEs to improve software design and continuous productivity enhancement. The innovation activities in the Unicorn project will be based upon existing solutions and developments to the largest possible extent, and build upon the S&T results of European RIA projects including CELAR, PaaSport, PaaSword and ARCADIA.

The goal of BPR4GDPR is to provide a holistic framework able to support end-to-end GDPR-compliant intra- and inter-organisational ICT-enabled processes at various scales, while also being generic enough, fulfilling operational requirements covering diverse application domains. To this end, proposed solutions will have a strong semantic foundation and cover the full process lifecycle addressing major challenges and priorities posed by the regulation, including requirements interpretation, broad territorial scope, accountability, security means enforcement, data subject’s rights and consent, unified data view and processing actions inventory, privacy by design, etc. The starting point will be process models, either automatically discovered through organisation logs or manually specified, formally expressed through a Compliance Metamodel, a comprehensive process modelling technology able to capture advanced privacy provisions. Thereupon, a highly expressive policy framework will guide the automatic verification of these models regarding GDPR requirements, and their subsequent transformation, so that they are rendered inherently privacy-aware before being deployed for execution. Subsequently, the consistent execution of GDPR-compliant processes will be ensured by a comprehensive set of tools able to support all diverging requirements that may arise from GDPR, related to data handling, data subjects’ involvement, various PETs, etc., so that even organisations with currently no such infrastructure in place can readily have such mechanisms. Finally, process mining will be extensively used for the ex post analysis of processes, in order to ensure that specified policies are indeed enforced. However, apart from verifying compliance, such techniques will offer the added value of automatically improving process models over time towards optimised fulfillment of both legal and business requirements. Deployed on the Cloud, BPR4GDPR will provide for Compliance-as-a-Service (CaaS)

Despite the numerous initiatives in place at EU level to foster the practice of civil mediation for settling cross-border disputes, the effective uptake of mediation is still hindered by multiple obstacles. One of the main challenges in this field is the lacking uniformity in mediation training standards and selection procedures, due to heterogeneous national regulatory frameworks. Various studies in the field highlight that even expert mediators need specialized training to face the challenge of mediating international civil disputes, where conflict dynamics and intercultural issues are at stake. The development of EU standards related to mediation skills and training would contribute to steering the quality of the mediation services.Building on these critical issues, InMEDIATE intends to establish a European vocational profile of the International Mediator. This goal will be achieved by designing, implementing and delivering a learning outcomes oriented training curriculum for mediation practitioners, aimed at providing a comprehensive set of certified qualifications, enabling trainees to act as international mediators in cross-border civil disputes. The assessment and validation of the learning outcomes gained by the trainees on completion of the course will jointly be developed by the 3 universities involved in the project and specific arrangements will be undertaken to ensure and guarantee quality standards of the validation process.TARGET GROUPThe training curriculum is designed to meet the needs of 36 trained and experienced mediation practitioners from EU member States.MAIN RESULTS1) Enhanced acknowledgement and deeper understanding of the mediation training standards in the EU countries.2) Professional training curriculum designed to provide certified qualifications for international mediators.3) 36 mediation practitioners fully trained and equipped with a final certification validating their learning outcomes according to quality standards set by partner universities.4) Enhanced professional development of mediation trainers and educators through intensive and fruitful exchange of knowledge, methods and practices.5) Online collaborative platform designed and developed for mediation trainees, educators and stakeholders for networking and community building purposes.6) Collection of existing OERs and new OERs developed and freely accessible through the InMEDIATE e-Platform.The above-mentioned results will be achieved through the production of the following IOs:IO#1 – InMEDIATE Training Curriculum for International Civil Mediators;IO#2 – InMEDIATE e-Platform;IO#3 – Toolkit for replicability of InMEDIATE certification system.Main activities leading to the production of the IOs:A1/IO#1 – Benchmarking analysis of mediation training curricula in the EU Member StatesA2/IO#1 – Organization of a short-term joint staff training event.A3/IO#1 - Selection criteria and proceduresA4/IO#1 - Selection of traineesA5/IO#1 – Training format and SyllabusA6/IO#1 – Recording and editing of video lessonsA7/IO#1 – Training course pilot-testing and fine-tuningA8/IO#1 – Organization of a face-to-face preparatory courseA9/IO#1 – Online training courseA10/IO#1 – Organization of Mediation Lab and follow-upA11/IO#1 – Evaluation of trainingA1/IO#2 - E-Platform development and maintenanceA2/IO#2 - Identification and selection of existing OERsA3/IO#2 - Design and production of innovative OERsA4/IO#2 – Production of video tutorialsA5/IO#2 – Organization and delivery of 3 webinarsA1/IO#3: Production of guidelines&Toolkit ReplicabilityA2/IO#3 – Organization of the final conferenceIMPACTSWith regards to target group, the following main impacts will be envisaged:1. Mediation practitioners equipped with an additional set of interdisciplinary competences and intercultural skills, enabling them to effectively handle cross-border mediation cases.2. Mediation practitioners equipped with a final certification validating their learning outcomes according to uniform training standards and quality assessment criteria.3. Improved cooperation and synergies among learners interested in the cross-border civil mediation sector 4. Increased professional mobility of international mediators across EU countries.Expected impact on VET organizations and mediation providers:1. Enhanced professional development of mediation trainers through short term joint staff training event .2. Strengthened cooperation at national and EU level aimed at building a wide EU network of mediation providers and training centres.3. Enhanced capacity to transfer and replicate the InMEDIATE training model and certification system within different national contexts and at EU level.4. Higher efficiency and effectiveness of mediation services provided by qualified international mediators.5. Better access to high quality resources and OER in the mediation field freely available through the online Platform.