URBREATH vision is to develop, implement, demonstrate, validate and replicate a comprehensive, community participation and NBS-driven urban revitalisation, resilience and climate neutrality paradigm that will ultimately radically enhance the social interactions, inclusion, equitability and liveability in cities. Specifically, the aim of the URBREATH project is to implement hybrid/Natural Base Solutions putting at the heart of the decision-making process the communities within a city. Advanced techniques, particularly Local Digital Twins and AI, and social innovation will facilitate the achievement of its vision. The project will have four phases: 1. Inception, 2. Development, 3. Piloting, 4. Transition. The preliminary results of a single Phase are evaluated within the following Phase so to allow for feedback before releasing the final version. The Inception phase will define the methodology to be followed for the project development and will deliver the project functional and technical requirements. The second phase will release the URBREATH technical framework, consisting of tools to manage the whole data value chain and to support end-users to collaborate on the design and creation of NBS to be used in the city/district. It will be used to monitor and take decisions on the NBS to be implemented/deployed in the Piloting phase (evidence-based decision making), that involves 4 Front Runner Cities in 4 different climatic zones: Cluj-Napoca (RO - Continental), Leuven (BE Atlantic), Madrid (ES Mediterranean), and Tallin (EE Boreal). During the Transition phase, all the information, results and lessons learnt from the previous steps will be collected and analysed to provide recommendations and foster replication activities and the uptake of project outputs at the end of its lifespan. To this aim, 5 Follower Cities are involved: Aarhus (DK), Athens (EL), Kajaani (FI), Parma (IT), Pilsen (CZ), linked to the Front Runners for climatic zone and/or dimension.

The Youth4food project departed from a need Gaziantep, Dénia, Parma, Östersund and Bergen had to inform youth about the career opportunities in the food sector. The main objective of the project has been to identify ways to increase the number of young people who make Vocational Educational Training (VET) in the food value chain their first choice of education. The project had 18 partners and more than 102 people have travelled between the cities. 5 university trainees have been involved. There have been 5 transnational meetings on VET food related topics. The project has completed the planned activities, but the beauty of the projects lies in all the collaboration and plans that have been initiated during this project and that will carry on now the project is completed. In an exchange project you don’t know what kind of new skills, knowledge and contacts that will lead to something else. You can plan activities, but you can never plan the outcome and the positive things that is happens when people meet. Dissemination of results: booklet, report, videos, presentationsSeveral films have been produced, including a series called ‘You+ng heroes’. A booklet about young food creatives in the participating cities has been completed. The report “The future of Europe’s kitchens-recruitment and skills matching” is made. The project has a logo, webpage, Facebook page, YouTube channel, and is found on Instagram and Twitter. A part about Swedish Cuisine is included in the book “Cuisine Cultures in The World” by the Turkish lecturer and author Ceyhun UÇUK. Steps are taken to make the book a national textbook in curriculum for Gastronomy Education. The project has been communicated on several platforms, UNESCO Creative City Network, European, regional and local settings. The project was selected as a best practice for the 2030.LAB call promoted by UNESCO and was presented during the UCCN Annual Conference held in Krakow and Katowice in 2018. A publication regarding the 2030.LAB is distributed to the 180 Creative Cities. In October, 2019 the project was presented in UNESCO headquarter, Paris, on World cities day.Impact: Stronger bonds and collaboration beyond the formal project The project has contributed to stronger bonds locally within and between the participating cities. Participating schools have gained new contacts for international cooperation. They wish to continue their cooperation through exchange, work training and other Erasmus+ programs. Businesses are more aware of and ask for international opportunities. The participating universities have taken the first steps towards a joint master program within gastronomy. Impact: communication of results and influence on policy The challenge of recruiting young people to the food value chain is complex and is not solved in two years, however the project has made a significant contribution and paved the way for more cooperation. The recruitment issues are addressed at the national level in Norway. Results from the project have been communicated to the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and food, as input for an event addressing recruitment for food related VET the Ministry will have during the green week in Berlin in January 2020. Best practices on how to work with recruitment have been registered in the project. Some suggestions for recruitment strategies are: 1) communicate future possibilities after attending VET; 2) improve the information given in schools; 3) use the internet as a tool to inform and create excitement around cooking; 4) get chefs and VET students and teachers to visit lower secondary schools and5) communicate more of the positive sides of the profession, such as the social aspects.VET students and teachersThrough exchange visits students have learned the elements of a restaurant and different cooking techniques. They have learned that food is so much more than the kitchen. Food is culture, traditions, regional gastronomies, local territory and products. The students that visited Gaziantep learned that stereotypes of cities and people are not true. Students cooperated and communicated across cultures. Interaction and culture exchange can inspire to entrepreneurship and innovation. Students can bring with them this knowledge to their future professions. The exchanges have increased the students’ knowledge of the agriculture sector in the different countries. They have seen the importance of local production and local farmers, and increased their understanding of the connection between local production and local gastronomy. The students are familiarized sustainable goals, UNESCO, Erasmus and the different cities in the project. Through their travels and the experience of training in a different country the young people have had the joy of mastering a new situation, to understand their own potential and hence their self-confidence has grown. The young people felt like ambassadors for their UNESCO city. They felt part of something bigger.

BLOSSOM introduces a systemic approach that links public authorities (cities-regions) with private partners (e.g., banks, insurance companies and venture capitals) to cope with the disconnections and gaps related to the adoption of bankable transformative adaptation and mitigation measures. Starting from the Communities of Practice, we will set up Living Labs, i.e. collaborative environments in which citizens, experts and other stakeholders will have the possibility to test and hone the methodology and the technologies. Innovative financing and investing schemes will be tested and assessed for the adoption of the most promising bankable solutions. BLOSSOM will follow already proven co-creation/design processes (including local communities), as well as the adoption and further adjustment of technologies that use data and collective intelligence to perform ex-ante simulation on-going and ex-post assessment in collaborative environments (digital twins and dashboards). By using AI-based tools a draft business model including a visual chart with elements describing the value proposition, infrastructure, customers, and financial elements of each investing scheme will be generated, also identifying the best exploitation form based on the nature of the results and ownership structure (e.g., creation of spin-offs, products producing and selling, licensing of products/services, patenting, etc.). Once the best business model has been selected, a preliminary Business Plan will be developed with the industrial partners being the main contributors. The bankable solutions will be demonstrated in our Front Runner Cities (Birmingham, Lisbon and Kielce), which will test the methodology and make it available for replication up to the planning stage in the Replicating case studies (Regions of West-Vlaanderen and Alentejo, and cities of Parma and Aarhus.

<< Objectives >>The general objective is to improve the inclusion of dual diagnosed adult in society and the labour market. This is followed by the first specific objective to improve the induvidual skills of the target group of dual diagnosed adults and the second specific objective to strengthen the organisational capacity and the competences of the induvidual professional working with reintegration of dual diagnosed adults.<< Implementation >>The activities that the project will implement in order to fulfill the results and futhermore the project objectives are to (A1) have a first seminar with experts in Italy to identify good practices, (A2) s second seminar with experts in Sweden to identify good practices, (A3) testing phase of the practices identified in A1 and A2, (A4) coordination meeting in Sweden, (A5) final meeting in Italy.<< Results >>The results that the project expect to have are linked to the first specific objective are (1.1) Improvment of the knowledge of the labour market of dual diagnosed adults, (1.2) Strengthening soft skills of dual diagnosed adults and (1.3) Improvement in the individual motivation of dual diagnosed adults. The results that the project expect to have linked to the second specific objective is to (2.1) increase the motivation of the staff working with dual diagnosed adults.

Eurostat data reveals that the 11% of the total population of the European Union is unable to keep their home adequately warm. Caused by low household income, high energy bills, and low dwelling energy efficiency, energy poverty has traditionally been associated with the inability of households to meet their heating needs during winter. However, up to the 19% of households declared not being comfortably cool in summer. Nine of the 10 warmest years have occurred since 2005, with the last five years comprising the five hottest. Not to mention this 2019 June has been the hottest on record. Climate change is increasing both the severity and frequency of extreme hot weather and heat waves and in dense urban areas, these heatwave episodes will be combined with the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, worsening city centres temperatures which will negatively impact human health and wellbeing. Thus, cooling needs and overheating risk need to be incorporated into the energy poverty equation. The project COOLtoRISE aims to reduce summer energy poverty incidence among European households improving their indoor thermal habitability conditions and reducing their energy needs during the hot season, which will decrease their exposure to heat and heat-related health risks. Not all households have an air conditioning system and it is known that energy poor households make a restrictive use of heating and cooling as they cannot afford associated energy bills. However, raising awareness on summer energy poverty and implementing actions to mitigate it will have a double benefit on European households. First, heat exposure of energy poor households will be reduced by increasing indoor thermal conditions, which will decrease in their risk to suffer heat related diseases. Second, raising summer energy culture and preventing air conditioning devices to be installed can have serious benefits on climate change preventing future emissions.