The HABITABLE project aims to respond to the challenges and needs of the Habitat sector in terms of skills shortage and mismatches derived from the digital and green transition, improving the responsiveness of the VET systems to these changes while promoting inclusion and equity in education. To this aim the project will co-create a Platform of Centres of Vocational Excellence for Sustainable Habitat, building a 'skills ecosystem' together with a wide range of other local and regional partners, working also with centres of professional excellence in other countries through networks of international collaboration. GENERAL OBJECTIVES:1.Lead the green and digital transition of the Habitat sector by developing a transnational cooperation platform of CoVEs and a Skills Strategy, aligned with the SDGs.2. Implement Skills Intelligence for the Habitat sector3. Boost quality, digital, green and inclusive Dual VET, WBL and apprenticeship4. Support the creation of business-education cooperation partnerships5. Provide labour market relevant skills including those necessary for the green and digital transitions6. Design innovative learner-centred teaching methods supported by digital tools and XR technologies7. Provide access to innovative curricula that focus both on technical skills and key competences8. Support upskill and reskill of adult learners and SME employees for the green and digital transition 9. Implement a system for certification of Micro-credentials 10. Support career guidance and promote social inclusion, equity, and equity in education11. Foster transnational mobility for VET educators and learners.12. Create new spaces for international cooperation and innovation13. Provide policy recommendations to implement regional and local strategies to raise upward convergence of CoVEs.14. Maximise the impact of the project, further use of its products and mainstreaming of its results.

European rural areas embody outstanding examples of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CNH) that need not only to be safeguarded, but also promoted as a driver for competitiveness, sustainable and inclusive growth and development. RURITAGE establishes a new heritage-led rural regeneration paradigm able to turn rural areas in sustainable development demonstration laboratories, through the enhancement of their unique CNH potential. RURITAGE has identified 6 Systemic Innovation Areas (pilgrimages; sustainable local food production; migration; art and festivals; resilience; and integrated landscape management) which, integrated with cross-cutting themes, showcase heritage potential as a powerful engine for economic, social and environmental development of rural areas. The knowledge built in 14 Role Models (RMs) and digested within the project, will be transferred to 6 Replicators (Rs) across Europe. Through a multilevel and multidirectional process of knowledge transfer, RMs will mentor and support the Replicators in the development and implementation of their strategies and, at the same time, will further increase their knowledge and capacities. A robust monitoring system will assist this process. Local Rural Heritage Hubs, gathering stakeholders and civil society, will be settled in Rs to work as living labs where heritage-led rural regeneration strategies will be co-created and implemented, while in RMs they will reinforce the ownership of CNH. Both RMs and Rs will also benefit of the RURITAGE Resources Ecosystem, a set of tools including, among others, a rural landscape mapping tool (RURITAGE Atlas) and a Replication Toolbox within an online and interoperable platform. These tools will foster knowledge building, providing evidence and supporting replication and up-scaling activities of the implemented heritage-led regeneration strategies and plans, contributing to mainstream heritage in Regional, National, European and global policies.

In extension of the work of the Sustainable Energy Investment Forums, AÚNA proposes to create in Spain a permanent, multilevel, multilateral discussion FORUM, fully focused on sustainable building financing, for the effective and wide implementation of the Smart Finance for Smart Buildings initiative, with the following differential characteristics: • From the building renovation sector, with a systemic approach led by Green Building Council España (GBCe) • Based on GBCe’s knowledge in the field, from the GTR Reports to the national and international coordination of stakeholders’ collaborative processes of H2020 BUILD UPON projects, and the launching in Spain of the green mortgages initiative EeMap, which put GBCe in a unique position • Able to bridge the gap between renovation and financing, by the incorporation at a leading discussion level of the most advanced players on all the interrelated aspects of financing, facilitated by the present openness of the financial world • Oriented to a shared understanding, to draw significant advances in terms of ideas, to be incorporated by the stakeholders to their practices and policies • Integrally based on the financial and stakeholders platforms aspects of the Commission Recommendation on Building Renovation • Totally aligned with the Spanish Long Term Renovation Strategy, of which it becomes a key stream in continuation of the work already started, with full support from the Interministerial LTRS group of Spain (ERESEE) • Four rounds of growing practical definition and outreach, with clearly defined progress indicators: a) preparatory; discussion FORUM definition and planning, b) extension to the wide renovation sector, c) citizenship outreach and d) shared contribution to the Spanish NECP and the ERESEE 2023 • Liaising with the SEIF organization and other relevant European Commission’s initiatives (e.g. Energy Efficiency Financial Institutions Group (EEFIG), Project Development Assistance (PDA) facilities, the Covenant of Mayors/SECAP initiatives”), international dimension through the European Network of GBCs, the Smart Cities and Communities (Lighthouse) network, and other consortium member networks

A suite of innovative tools, solutions and techniques to build bridges through "bottom-up" construction and demolition waste (CDW) prevention and handling to reach "top-down" European waste reduction goals is proposed. The project's agenda reflects the HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-11 call objectives, with a focus on integrated decision making that would allow considering all aspects of CDW generation and involving all stakeholders within the construction industry. Current practices in CDW management, from prevention and minimization of waste to its reuse, will be evaluated and markets to support the supply chains and circular economies will be identified. Consequently, a digital information management system for stakeholders' collaboration and waste traceability will be developed, tested and demonstrated. It is envisaged that the CDW minimization will be achieved by empowering BIM and integrating waste management relevant data into the information models. Processes of converting different formats of construction information to the digital twins will be automated, as well as the decision-making system for repurposing, deconstruction and demolition. Automation will be employed for AI-assisted CDW classification and robotic segregation off-site. The methodology for CDW logistics in regard to the automatic and more efficient CDW sorting and distribution will be proposed, along with methodologies to provide new added-value uses to CDW. The consortium involves 7 research institutions, 10 small to medium enterprises, 5 large companies and 1 association, representing 5 EU countries, UK and China. The feasibility and efficiency of the developed solutions will be evaluated using 6 demonstrators. This consortium composition will enable us to tackle the whole life-cycle CDW management, propose beyond-state-of-the-art technologies, and contribute to reaching the zero-waste construction industry in Europe in the near future.