Tourism is more than travelling and consuming and it has a great potential for sustainable development when it focuses on culture, nature, knowledge, and experiences. Creative Cultural Tourism can be used as a driver for innovation and cooperation and, to counteract its negative impacts, SECreTour will primarily focus on the local communities’ needs, perceptions and expectations. Tourism will be conceived as a tool to complement and diversify the income of the territories and communities, but also as a way of giving visibility and recognition to rural areas and their inhabitants, also promoting the installation and generation of services other than cultural. By developing a Fair, Creative and Sustainable Tourism (FaCS-Tourism) approach together with Heritage Communities (HC), the SECreTour consortium will assess the sensitivities and affordances of different local realities, needs and types of cultural heritage, visualizing and avoiding touristification and promoting alternative business models. FaCS-Tourism and HC will therefore enable governance and citizen engagement not only for touristic-economic planning, but also for community building and cultural heritage management and protection. Through a series of pilot cases, the project will demonstrate how cultural heritage can be used as a real driver for sustainable and fair development, promoting at the same time its conservation. Pilots have been carefully chosen to represent a full range of European territories, communities and heritage, including not only rural and agrarian landscapes, but also memory places of local identities, minorities, conflictive dark heritage. Pilots will be a focus for every part of the research as they will enable to test general ideas and observations in local detail and in specific governance contexts, and to facilitate effective communication, cooperation and problem-solving through an interdisciplinary and trans-sectoral approach.

Building on breakthrough research in the AI analysis of fluorescence and perfusion in cancer tissues, this project clinically validates the use of AI-driven imaging and decision support in real-time cancer surgery. Cancer and healthy tissue have radically different local blood perfusion patterns. This perfusion can be captured using near-infrared video after systemic fluorophore (indocyanine green) injection. Analysis of the video can digitally identify regions of cancer by tracking the perfusion over the initial seconds after dye administration by comparing the fluorescence signal in these areas with those in adjacent normal tissue within the same endolaparoscopic field of view. Application of AI methods (including computer vision and machine learning techniques) has enabled this differential classification to occur in real time so that better, individualised surgical decisions can be taken during an operation. In this project, we build up our existing AI solution research prototype into an operating room-standard surgical tool and validate its performance, reliability, usability and acceptance in five leading cancer surgery centres across Europe (500 patients). The validation studies address (a) generalisability across clinics; (b) biopsy and tumour identification; and (c) optimised resection of large (>3cm) rectal polyps, a key area of current surgical practice where the biggest clinical challenge ensuring accurate patient selection for curative therapy. Training and education, communication and dissemination will be delivered by IRCAD, Europe's leading surgical education organisation. Legal, regulatory and liability research (co-led by UCPH CeBIL Centre and PSU) and usability and acceptance research (led by surgical professional organisation EAES) will identify and address all obstacles to widespread use of this technology in particular, and of real-time AI in the operating-room in general. Draft clinical guidelines will be created for future EAES adoption.

General aim of the AgriNext project is to create learning environment that responds to the skill demand on the job market in the field of Multifunctional Agriculture. In order to achieve this aim, the specific project objectives include: 1.Flexibilization of learning environments and curriculums in I-VET and C-VET, on EQF levels 3-6, in order to facilitate fast responses to job market demands 2.Teacher empowerment (continuous professional and pedagogical) for a fast response to the job market demands, 3.Established system of continuous exchange between employers, teacher/trainers/guidance service providers, in order to respond to the skills needed 4.To develop students/learners who are highly skilled, motivated, entrepreneurial and aware of the importance of C-VET and lifelong learning 5.Creating physical and virtual environment that enables: -Interaction between teachers, trainers, mentors from companies, students, and researchers; -Individualisation of the learning process; -Demonstration & try-outs of new technologies -Development of entrepreneurial activities 6.Promoting rural development & vitality by demonstrating and highlighting opportunities of Multifunctional Agriculture.7.Increasing digital competencies among students and teachersThe main expected results are: -Online training for guidance service providers for the use of new guidance service model-Online training for VET teachers for flexible learning processes-Proposals of flexibilization of VET -Green job = dream job video trailers-Established Incubators (business – education partnership) -AgriNext IT Platform for Rural Excellence Activities has been divided in to 5 implementation Work Packages:WP1–Guidance services to foster lifelong learning and development of VET skills in multifunctional agriculturalWP2–Flexibilization of school systemsWP3–Green job=dream jobWP4–Business incubator for rural excellenceWP5- AgriNext IT platform