The “Glocal Ecosystems and Expanded Knowledge for skills and capabilities in the food sector” (GEEK4Food) proposal will develop a working, cross-sectorial framework to support the food system transition towards sustainable and green solutions by the development of disruptive tools able boost a fluid upskilling and reskilling of the current workforce of the next generation of future professionals. This will be achieved by:(1) Design and setting of an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based tool able to determine and forecast current and future green skills and capability needs for the food sector to timely support the development of both higher education (HE) and training design and better match the job market needs (GEEK4Food tool). (2) Design and exploit forward-looking planning in training design and implementation of HE and cross-sectoral trainings for graduates and food professionals to enhance green skills. (3) Mainstreaming innovative teaching practices and providing paths to entrepreneurial education oriented on green skills and associated technological scale-up of existing solutions via the integration of the knowledge triangle.(4) Setting an interactive learner-centric virtual platform for green skill mapping to merge learners' needs with training offers and agri-food job opportunities (3P-GEEK4Food Hub).(5) Boosting consolidating evidence- and impact-based solutions of the GEEK4Food project to embed multi-level and multi-actor policy actions that can support skill-fluidity for the green transition of the food sector.The innovation potential of GEEK4Food is based on the switch to AI-supported and impact-driven patterns to favour innovative green training and educational models at the academia, corporate and people-to-people levels. GEEK4Food will also provide tools for policy makers to promote adherence to green transition and the whole institution approaches to sustainably twin change after the EU Green Deal.

The widening partner's involvement enhances the project's capacity for more future-oriented and more resilient policy analysis and co-creation. In a nutshell, the 4CF will provide a process for testing READJUST solutions (such as the PAET roadmap or policy measures targeting Mobility and Agrifood) in diverse possible futures of post-Twin Transition (scenarios set in 2050). Future-proofing activities will involve READJUST stakeholders allowing them to get fresh perspectives and insights on Twin Transition trajectories in the period of 2025-2050, as well as on potential inequalities, gains, enablers and blockers thereof. READJUST Observatory will benefit from future-proofing methodologies (e.g. scenario analysis, Futures Wheel, Wind Tunneling) and READJUST stakeholders will get access to inspirational and reliable tools for future-oriented policy analysis, assessment, and co-creation. In addition, the visibility and representation of WideThe widening partner's involvement enhances the project's capacity for more future-oriented and thus more resilient policy analysis and co-creation. In a nutshell, the new partner will provide a process for testing READJUST solutions (such as the PAET roadmap or policy measures targeting Mobility and Agrifood) in diverse possible futures (scenarios) of post-Twin Transition. Future-proofing activities will involve READJUST stakeholders allowing them to get fresh perspectives and insights on Twin Transition trajectories, as well as on potential inequalities, gains, enablers and blockers thereof. READJUST Observatory will benefit from future-proofing methodologies (e.g. scenario analysis, Futures Wheel, Wind Tunneling) and READJUST stakeholders will get access to inspirational and reliable tools for future-oriented policy analysis, assessment, and co-creation. The hoped for outputs are: more resilient policy recommendations and replicable practices that can be readily adopted by stakeholders from policy-making and corporate environments.

The BOOST4BIOEAST project aims to set in motion the levers for bioeconomy deployment in the Central Eastern European and Baltic countries. The consortium will focus on building upon BIOEASTsUP outcomes and the Vision Paper of the BIOEAST Initiative by boosting the participation of national stakeholder networks in the development of national bioeconomy action plans and to build long-lasting structures for national and macro-regional cooperation. The BIOEAST HUBs will be the national platforms directly linked to public administrations under which capacities are built and the different stakeholders of the bioeconomy are mobilised to more effectively contribute to and take part in decision-making processes using participatory approaches. BIOEAST-wide mapping of bioeconomy competencies and biomass will be undertaken to advance the knowledge on bioeconomy in the macro-region as well as BIOEAST Knowledge Platform will be created to act as repository of knowledge materials and relevant information on bioeconomy that will allow BIOEAST´s stakeholders to access, share and store bioeconomy-related materials towards developing national BIOEAST HUBs into active contributors to bioeconomy in each member state. In order to boost bioeconomy innovation and education in the BIOEAST countries, the project will bring together public and private funders with relevant business stakeholders and expand the BIOEAST UNI NET network. Activities such as training, reskilling, awareness spreading and communication channels creation will set the basis of the bioeconomic transition, creating spaces of dialogue and involvement among all agents of the industry (academia, private and public), which will boost the stakeholders engagement for the integration of programmes and policies in turn of bioeconomy. The hereby proposed consortium is composed of stakeholders of all BIOEAST member states along with partners distributed throughout Western Europe (BE, FI, GER, IE, IT& ES).

The overall objective of "3 InDustrial Ecosystems tAckLing supply chain dISrupTions and driving the adoption of advanced technologies" (IDEALIST) is to support SMEs in industrial ecosystems 1/ Energy-intensive industries, 2/ Aerospace and Defence, 3/ Mobility, Transport & Automotive in their ability to understand and adapt to changes brought about by rapid and unexpected developments in the world such as the COVID-19 crisis or the Russia-led war in Ukraine. These 3 sectors are of capital importance for the European economy and despite their specificity, have common challenges that the project will help to address: transition to more sustainable practices, competitiveness issues in a context of scarcer raw materials and more expensive energy, change in consumption habits. Being more resilient means giving SMEs the opportunity to be a player in these changes and no longer just a spectator or follower. To do this, the project will evolve around three pillars 1/ Strategic Foresight to establish relevant tools and behaviors to anticipate and better prepare for change in an orderly and systematic way, 2/ Technology Uptake to overcome obstacles related to the implementation work of Advanced Technologies and lay the foundations of alliances between tech-savvy and traditional SMEs and 3/ Supply chains to identify critical dependencies and weaknesses in order to limit the impacts of disruptions on value chains. This work will lead to the realization of Pilot Projects promoting the meeting between ecosystems, facilitated by the use of the Hack&Match method. The mobilization of the AGORA platform led by EIT Manufacturing will support this objective of matchmaking and community building. The project is carried by a relevant consortium of 14 partners from 6 European countries and Ukraine representing several thousand manufacturing companies. The project will take place over 3 years (36 months).

The MASTT2040 project aims to (1) Use strategic foresight methods in an inclusive and participatory manner to build a shared understanding of which changes, opportunities or disruptions are present and emerging both inside and outside of the Manufacturing-as-a-Service domain to guide decision making, strategies and actions for the EU manufacturing sector in the context of twin transition up to 2040. (2) Actively engage key stakeholders within the MaaS and CE communities, manufacturing industry as well as standards developing organisations to jointly elaborate a strategic roadmap and action plan addressing short-term (5 years), medium-term (10 years) and long-term (15 years) timescales to identify and track desired developments in order to advance digitalisation, circularity, decarbonisation and sustainability of industrial production. We strive to guide European industry community to assure that: - MaaS can become a key enabler for speeding-up and scaling-up circularity and the provision of R-cycle services. - Sustainability becomes an integral part of MaaS approaches, leading to optimal sustainable industrial production and supply for all new products (in linear and circular economy). - MaaS increases resilience of supply by strengthening local European production networks of SMEs. - Europe scales up MaaS to create a critical mass of expertise and the right supporting policy measures to accelerate the uptake of MaaS in strategic areas of importance for the TWIN transition in Europe and to ensure strategic autonomy in MaaS and CE strengthened by leading the development of key digital, enabling and emerging technologies. MASTT2040 combines the expertise of industrial umbrella organizations specialized in manufacturing strategy development and foresight: SIRRIS (Belgium), Cluster COMET (Italy), Future Industry Platform (Poland), Steinbeis (Germany), Thhink (Netherlands) and 4CF The Futures Literacy Company (Poland).