ICT4CART, totally aligned with the work programme, is providing an ICT infrastructure to enable the transition towards road transport automation. To meet this high level objective ICT4CART is bringing together, adapting and improving technological advances from different industries, mainly telecom, automotive and IT. It adopts a hybrid communication approach where all the major wireless technologies, i.e. cellular, ITS G5 and LTE-V, are integrated under a flexible “sliced” network architecture. This architecture will ensure performance and resilience for different groups of applications according to the needs of higher levels of automation (L3 & L4). On top of that, a distributed IT environment for data aggregation and analytics will be implemented. This offers seamless integration and exchange of data and services between all the different actors, allowing 3rd parties to develop, deliver and provide innovative services, thus creating new business opportunities. Cyber-security and data privacy aspects will be duly considered throughout the whole ICT infrastructure. In addition, novel accurate localisation services, exploiting the cellular network and information from other sources, such as on-board sensors, especially in complex areas (e.g. urban), will be addressed. Standardisation and interoperability are of high interest within ICT4CART in order to ensure the impact of the project towards enabling the transition to higher levels of automation. In this context issues related to the frequency spectrum will be investigated, while through the organisation of relevant workshops the engagement of policy makers and public authorities is ensured. To achieve its objectives ICT4CART, instead of working in generic solutions with questionable impact, it builds on four specific high-value use cases (urban and highway) which will be demonstrated and validated under real-life conditions at the test sites in Austria, Germany, Italy and across the Italian-Austrian border.

"The recommendation Rec (2006) 19 of the European Council on policy to support positive parenting was adopted in 2006. It recommends that the Member States organize their policies and programs to target the awareness of the value and interest of positive parenting. We aimed with this project PAGE - Parental Guidance and Education - at sharing our work, ideas, methods and practices in the field of parenting support. Our main objective was to contribute to it with our activities and valorisation actions, and even to go beyond that, by focusing on the practices and skills of the professionals, in order to materialize this approach to positive parenting. More precisely, we deplore the fact that today the international conferences or symposia on this topic mainly involve university professors or researchers. Professionals are largely absent from these events, especially social workers, despite the fact that they are the ones that should precisely be informed and trained in these areas. This observation is the basic idea of our project: sharing our practices and building contents DEDICATED to the professionals. Then all along this project, from September 2016 to October 2018, we have* Discussed the issues and challenges we are facing, exchange our good practices, our methods and researches linked to positive parenting,* in order to identify the practices, methods, interesting contents to enrich our viewpoints and our work,* and then develop media and contents for workshops, interventions, case studies,* that we presented during the second year of the project to professionals during 'European Days on supporting positive parenting' organized in four of our countries, France, Italy, Romania and Spain.The partnership brought together:The French association Caminante that gathers in the south west of France several social and medico-social centers of prevention, assistance, support, accommodation, care, sheltered work for persons with physical, mental, psychosocial difficulties of for disabled persons. Caminante was the coordinator of the project and had an academic partner: Anne-Marie Doucet-Dahlgren, a researcher at the Research Centre for Education and Training at the University of Paris Nanterre.2 Romanian partners: AIC University of Iasi and especially the Department of Sociology and Social Work; and Holtis, an association that develops parenting programs int eh North Esat region of Romania, and progressively throuhout Romania.2 Spanish partners: the research group GRISIJ from the University of Barcelona is involved in the areas of vulnerability, social maladjustment and child protection. The Antaviana service of Eduvic association welcomes and supports minor women, pregnant or with newborn children who are away / rejected by their families. 3 Italian partners: the Department of Philosophy, Education and Psychology of the University of Verona; Casa di Ramia, an intercultural center of the Town of Verona and LABRIEF, laboratory of research and intervention on family education of the University of Padua. 1 English partner: the African Family Service ""Tower Hamlet"" in London that works on preventing and assessing the vulnerability of migrant families and communities, coming from Africa in particular.Finally our European days gathered 102 participants in Verona, 134 in Barcelona, 139 in Iasi and 271 in Anglet ; mainly professionals in activity, but also students that are future social workers.A specificity of our project was to bring together 'practitioners' (field organisations) and academics. The interest is that the practices of the first ones can feed the work and research of the latter, who also benefit from the experience of the first. It is through interdisciplinary exchange that we developed the skills of professionals who accompany, support, work with children and parents, families in difficulty. All this is about promoting ""harmonious development and child welfare in respect of their fundamental rights and dignity"".Through these European days, we proposed workshops, interventions, case studies etc. which can both guide and train professionals in the field of the support and implementation of parental guidance and positive parenting and provide them with tools to achieve it. The design of a ""handbook of good practices"" on parental guidance at the end of this 2-year project, enables to continue to broadcast in our 5 respective countries the tools and methods of intervention and accompaniment presented during the European Days."

"The GIFT project - Growing In Family Today - is a 3-year strategic partnership project that focuses on professional family support practices. Indeed, in the countries involved - Spain, France, Italy and Romania - it is the same observation: the diversity of the new forms of families and of the educational and cultural models, forces the social workers to adapt their vision and their practices to rethink the modalities of support and help to parents and families, not to mention the child. What ""makes family"" has evolved a lot in recent years but the family remains the first place of socialization and of the building of landmarks. She is irreplaceable. But professional representations and the accompaniment methods are no longer in line with these developments. However, experience shows us that the place of parents, of the family depends very much on the posture of the professionals, of their skills and the means they are given to work on these issues. Considering parents and families as partners in an alliance work is recent and still poorly implemented. In addition, the governance of public policies dedicated to children and family is still all too often marked by a globally flawed cooperation and a compartmentalization of the different professional sectors (child welfare, health, medico-social, justice , national education, etc.). The purpose of our project is to promote the development of positive relationships between parents and children within the family, in its emotional, relational and educational dimensions. Because, if parenting support actions are intended to support parents in the exercise of their responsibility, they must also allow boys and girls to grow up in a supportive environment. Our target audience is therefore primarily composed of any social or medico-social worket who works with parents, children and their families. By working to identify and characterize good practices, we will be at the heart of the professional competencies specific to supporting quality parenting. By extension, the final recipients of our work are the persons accompanied, so that their needs are better identified and that the care provided to them is more appropriate. The GEFA partnership is composed of 4 field partners and 6 universities from 4 countries (Spain, France, Italy, Romania). We anticipate significant involvement of field partners in our various activities to keep the project focused on professional practices. The operational objectives of GEFA are to: - improve the professional practices and skills of social workers who work with families, parents and children; - rethink support and intervention arrangements with parents and families; - enable professionals to update their knowledge and support tools; - stimulate the studies and research approaches of academics by our work on ""informed practices""and by changing their perspective in contact with our experiences and practices in the field; - Influence parenting education programs and public governance schemes in our countries through spreading good practices and comparing different approaches. Our project is based on a methodology of identification, characterization and dissemination of professional practices that we will identify as ""good practices"". The identification of practices will be done during the first two years of the project essentially, thanks to exchanges of practice (4 meetings of learning activities) and surveys carried out with a panel of professionals of family support in each of the 4 countries of the partnership. The transnational dimension of this work gives it all its meaning and will allow us to characterize, through a solid methodology, consensual professional practices, transferable in different fields of work or different organizations. We will focus on the third and final year of the project to disseminate the results of our work, thanks to European Days, during which participants will be trained both in identifying what makes today's family and both tools and devices that enable professionals to best support family members in their responsibility. The deliverable documents of our intellectual productions offer an interesting support to the partners to continue later and locally this work of sensitization / training to the good practices of support to parenting."

"THE PROJECT: Caring for vulnerable women in perinatal period is currently at the heart of Public Health's concerns. Society has a duty of assistance and intervention to better protect them. According to a Médecins du monde survey (2014 report) on access to healthcare in Europe, 2/3 of pregnant women do not have access to perinatal care. While pregnant women, mothers and their young children should be given specific protection because of their vulnerability, this report shows that access to care for the most precarious is not sufficiently taken into account. Risk factors aggravate vulnerability.In the context of the CapeVfair European project, participants from the four partner countries (France, Italy, Romania, Spain) note that professionals are still powerless regarding this type of public as well as its problems. There is no specific training for observation and support of the mother-child relationship with a population in difficulty in the 4 partner countries; neither in the basic training of social and medico-social workers, nor in university courses.STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP: This project was initiated by France within the « Centre de Soin, d’Accompagnement et de Prévention en Addictologie » (Center of Care, Accompaniment and Prevention in Addiction) ""Broquedis"" of the Caminante association. The idea was to cross CSAPA's professional practices with those of other offshore social or medico-social institutions, welcoming women and vulnerable children in the perinatal period.Thanks to our French academic partner, A.M. Doucet Dahlgren, professor-researcher in Sciences of education at Paris X Nanterre University (FR), we made contact with professors-researchers from the universities of Barcelona (ES), Iasi (RO) and Verona (IT). These academics helped us build the institutional partnership. The CapeVfair project involves 8 partners for 4 countries: a university and a social or medico-social structure per country, namely HoltIS (RO), Eduvic (RO), Comune di Verona - Casa di Ramia (IT) and Caminante (FR ).OBJECTIVES: Our project aims at raising awareness and training professionals to specifically support pregnant women / or with very young children, in vulnerable situations.RESULTS: The 2 years of collaborative work of the 8 partners involved in CapeVfair have resulted in rich and fruitful exchanges of professional practices and a real work stimulation on the issue of vulnerability in the perinatal period.This perspective of technical knowledge, theoretical and complementary field experiences allowed the specialists of the 4 countries involved in the project to highlight skills and tools specific to quality professional support .Partners in the CapeVfair project are now able to offer training and / or educational modules of specific support for mothers and vulnerable children during the perinatal period. We have co-built operational technical documents, support to this training:• A definition of mothers and children vulnerability during the perinatal period• A document describing and explaining the tools for identifying vulnerability factors used by field professionals working in different countries, contexts and cultures• A document describing and explaining the tools used to observe / analyze vulnerability factors used by field professionals working in different countries, contexts and cultures• A document describing and explaining support tools for mothers and children in vulnerable situations, allowing to support the mother-child bond, to enhance maternal skills. IMPACTS:Thanks to the 3 key moments of valorization of our work, many sector professionals , in each of the countries that are concerned, were sensitized to the care specificity of the target public: tracking and identification of vulnerability factors, accompaniment of the vulnerable public, importance of multidisciplinary approach and networking.The work results (6 intellectual outputs) are all available in the 4 partner country languages as well as in English. They will serve as a support for the training offered in each of the countries, integrated into initial and / or continuous training.A final conference was organized in France on June 14th, 2017, gathering more than 150 participants. The partners were able to present some of the results of their work. The various video presentations are available on the internet (Youtube) and on the capevfair.eu website. The idea is to disseminate as widely as possible the results of our work and the reflections they can generate."