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Implications of digital transformation for migrant labour

Accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, rapid digitalisation has fundamentally transformed European working conditions. While its positive consequences are well recognised, digital transformation also puts a sorely needed part of the European workforce at risk of unemployment, poverty and social exclusion. IDILAB (Implications of digital transformation for migrant labour) investigates the impacts that technological progress and subsequent structural changes have on the labour market integration of migrant workers. By developing a new methodological approach, IDILAB shall provide novel evidence on migrants’ exposure to the process of digitalisation, and formulate evidence-based and innovative policy options for the EU and national governments to improve on the scope and adequacy of national and European policy directed at encouraging a fair digital transition for all, including migrants. The proposed project will contribute with new knowledge on migrants’ own perspectives on barriers and enablers for a sustainable integration in a fast-changing labour market. I, the experienced researcher (Dr Olga Gheorghiev, the Czech Republic), will work with a European centre of excellence (the Research Centre for Digitalisation of Public Services and Citizenship (CEDIC, OsloMet, Norway), and the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI, Belgium) for intersectoral knowledge transfer, career development, and European added value.

CULTUral heritage in RurAL remote areas for creative tourism and sustainabilITY

The main objective of the project is to contribute to the promotion of cultural and creative tourism activities, considering the different capacities, resources, and specificities (material, creative, human...) of the territories, as a mean to help with the sustainable development of peripheral rural areas, favoring job creation and population settlement. For this, the potential of its cultural heritage will be researched, taking into account both the artisan material culture (techniques, materials, patterns and decorative elements), as well as the intangible culture (music, oral knowledge and culinary traditions) as a resource.
 
To promote non-seasonal tourism as a form of sustainable development with a stable population settlement we are going to research the crafts linked to the territory and their implications, but we will also carry out a documentation of the productive processes. First and foremost, we are going to cater to the necessities of the local communities and pay attention to aspects related to societal groups at risk of exclusion, such as women, the elderly and the youth.

All this will be developed from a multidisciplinary perspective, for which we will count on the various teams —most of them linked to different countries— that will be part of the consortium. Each of these partners will contribute to the development, as well as to the final result of the project through input directly related to their area of ??expertise: for example, among the collaborators we have intellectual teams specialized in the digitalization of heritage, research, or communication and dissemination, as well as as various institutions that will act as a testing ground for the more practical parts of the proposal. However, if something will characterize our work, it will be the constant collaboration between all parties, as well as the exchange of advice and experiences that will help to enrich collective knowledge and guarantee optimal results.

POWERING ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP TO DRIVE THE CLIMATE TRANSITION

PACESETTERS responds to the abstract challenge of the climate transitions by shifting from a model of entrepreneurship based on individual, short-term incentives to one that is driven by co-agency and new capacities to act together in sustainable ways. It does so by examining the concrete circumstances, investigating possible support mechanisms and stress-testing instruments that enable art and culture, creativity and heritage to drive the climate transition.
Therefore, PACESETTERS will set out to:
-Create knowledge from collaborative research to keep pace with the transition
-Propose and test creative business models to set the pace of the transition
-Assess strategies of valorisation to push the pace of the transition
 
This approach will identify and analyse advanced practices that run transversally across the cultural and creative sectors; contextualise the outcomes of co-research in real-world laboratories for social imagination; further develop and promote the preliminary results of experiments in iterative support and evaluation frames. The PACESETTERS approach centres on inclusion, participation and iteration in order ensure that gender equity and diversity inform it at every step and on every level.

The result will be a critical evaluation and all-encompassing demonstration of the actual potentials of the CCIs to drive the climate transition while systematically analysing their impact on micro-, meso- and macro-level:
-Understanding the climate transition as a triple transition: green, digital and inclusive
-Innovating aPACESETTERS responds to the abstract challenge of the climate transitions by shifting from a model of entrepreneurship based on individual, short-term incentives to one that is driven by co-agency and new capacities to act together. It does so by examining the concrete circumstances, investigating possible support mechanisms and stress-testing instruments that enable art and culture, creativity and heritage to drive the climate transition.

Strengthening resilience and mental wellbeing through the Support4Resilience toolbox for leaders in elderly care

European elderly care experiences labor shortages, lack of qualified workers and a mismatch between capacity and demands, causing stress, burnout, and reduced mental wellbeing among healthcare workers and informal caregivers. Leaders are crucial in promoting supportive working conditions but lack research-based measures to act upon these challenges.

Support4Resilience (S4R) will develop, implement, and evaluate a research-based Toolbox to support healthcare leaders in improving healthcare workers’ and informal caregivers’ resilience and mental wellbeing in elderly care. S4R will identify resilience and mental wellbeing factors among healthcare workers and informal caregivers; explore their perspectives and needs; develop new theory on the relationship between individual and organizational resilience, and mental wellbeing; and develop recommendations and cost-effective interventions. The Toolbox with tailormade resources for policy and practical use will be available through an open access S4R Resource Bank.

The S4R Toolbox includes three main tools: 1) Mapping and identification, 2) Reflection and education, and 3) Reorganization. Measures are initiated at the organizational level and effects on mental wellbeing and resilience transpire at the frontline of elderly care. The Toolbox covers different situational contexts, types of healthcare providers and health system levels. Elderly care settings in six European countries will implement and evaluate the Toolbox through a process evaluation, effectiveness evaluation, and cost-effectiveness evaluation. 

S4R provides policymakers, decisions-makers and leaders with solutions for taking action to solve specific risks for healthcare workers’ and informal caregivers’ resilience and mental wellbeing. Thus, pertinent to the work programme, S4R will support the development of resilient health systems in European elderly care through improved leadership capabilities, governance structures, and adaptive capacities.

Providing research infrastructure services to support Next Generation EU

This four-year project will harness outputs from key social science RIs in Europe and other reliable sources to support the aims of the ‘Next Generation EU’ programme and to inform EU youth policy. Virtual access will be provided to the outputs through special installations (portals) developed during the project. The core of the proposal is a set of existing research ‘services’, which will be re-purposed and customised to focus directly on the five themes: Make it Green; Make it Digital; Make it Healthy; Make it Strong; and Make it Equal. 

For each area, the consortium will work collaboratively to produce seven sets of resources:

i)	A searchable inventory of relevant variables drawn from multiple cross-national datasets; 

ii)	Analytical summaries, suitable for policy makers and analysts new to the field, as well as interactive resources available through the project portal;

iii)	Harmonised and merged extracts from these datasets that reduce the burden on analysts and increase sample sizes;

iv)	New data collected through the ESS’s established CRONOS web panel infrastructure. Eleven countries will field five waves of the panel, each one dedicated to a NextGenEU theme. Free and rapid access to the data will be available through the CRONOS portal alongside analytical summaries;

v)	In-person and virtual deliberative forums with young people (aged 18-34) in four countries covering the five Next Generation EU’ themes;

vi)	An educational tool (E-NextGen) channelling our data for use in classrooms and by the general public;

vii)	Comprehensive training materials related to all project outputs.


Mapping of Longitudinal data of Inequalities in Education

The MapIE project aims to identify mechanisms causing educational inequalities and policies or interventions compensating for them. We do a systematic review of how these have been studied internationally using longitudinal designs. We map existing longitudinal data that we describe in a public metadata database, and we analyse them to describe the mechanisms of inequalities and to identify effective policies and interventions in different local contexts. We focus on the contextual differences between the Nordic and Central European countries that have structurally different education systems. Within national contexts and using comparative research designs, we look at system-, regional- and school-level policies and practices and individual-level factors (e.g. socioeconomic status, immigrant background, gender, special educational needs) that are associated with the development of educational inequalities and the successful prevention of achievement gaps. We publish and disseminate the empirical results of the project through multiple channels to scientific audiences, policy makers and the wider public. At the end, we create a public framework for studying educational inequalities longitudinally in future studies, acknowledging the role of local contexts but aiming for comparability at the European level. 

We implement the project in seven work packages. Our consortium consists of internationally acknowledged experts in large-scale educational assessment research from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Hungary and Luxembourg/Germany. The partners have a long-standing history of collaboration with each other, European researchers, and national and international education policy makers, and they bring extensive longitudinal datasets to the project. The project will considerably strengthen the knowledge base of what shapes educational outcomes over time, how to best support the learning of all students and how to reduce education inequalities in the short, medium and long term.

Contextualized pathways to reduce housing inequalities in the green and digital transition.

The project Reducing housing inequalities in the green and digital transition (ReHousIn) is committed to better understand the impacts of recent crises on housing inequalities across different European regions, especially with regard to the implementation of the green transition launched by the EU. The overall aim is to explore the mechanisms affecting the (re)production of housing inequalities under recent crisis conditions, and the impacts of the EU induced green transition in different national contexts and along different degrees of urbanisation. Based on a contextualized and comparative understanding of the mechanisms (re)producing housing inequalities, ReHousIn inquiries into multi-level pathways and inclusive local housing initiatives to spark innovative EU, national and local policy solutions towards inclusionary and quality housing, mitigating the possible negative impacts of the EU induced green transition. It conducts a comparative, multi-level analysis in 9 European countries – Austria, France, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom – focusing on attractive metropolitan regions, middle-sized cities and rural areas by means of a mixed-method project design. A quantitative data analysis on recent trends in housing inequalities and their relation to crises across different levels of urbanization will provide the framework for 27 local cases studies in which the impact of multi-level trajectories of housing-system, welfare regimes and environmental policy instrumentations on the (re)production of local housing inequalities and the emergence of inclusive housing initiatives are analyzed. Based on this, ReHousIn compares mechanisms of differentiation feeding into policy labs, aiming to formulate recommendations on how to tackle negative social externalities related the EU green transition at EU, national and local levels.

Strategies for achieving equity and inclusion in education, training and learning in democratic Europe

STRIDE will provide a new, comprehensive and comparative knowledge-base on effective education reforms, policy initiatives and interventions aimed at reducing inequalities in education, training and learning outcomes in Europe. STRIDE will do this through analyses of education reforms in national and regional systems, existing large-scale educational assessment data and existing longitudinal data on the causal link between educational and other social policies and inequalities in educational achievements. In examining the learning progress of students over time, STRIDE will closely examine to the range of intersectional variables such as socio-economic background, gender, (dis)abilities, migration status, home language, early childhood education and care (ECEC) attendance, which may affect learning outcomes in different ways in different contexts. The project will combine diverse methods, data and disciplines (comparative education, political science, education science, sociology) in innovative ways: mapping at national and regional levels on (1) education reforms in the past 25 years by policy analysis, (2) longitudinal trends of inequalities in educational achievement by quasi-experiment analysis of existing large-scale educational assessment data, and (3) effect of education reforms and interventions by analysis existing longitudinal data and registry data following student cohorts over time combined with a qualitative inquiry into policymakers' perspective. Through the involvement of national and European stakeholders, STRIDE will develop methodology and assessment tools for policy learning offering policymakers a toolbox of enhanced knowledge of what shapes educational outcomes over time and demonstrating the usefulness of longitudinal data in policy-making to reduce educational inequalities in the short, medium and long term.

dialoguing@rts – Advancing Cultural Literacy for Social Inclusion through Dialogical Arts Education

d@rts is a catalyst for increasing social cohesion and inclusion, using embodied performing arts activities to develop cognitive and affective cultural literacy. We recognise that the performing arts encompass mass-market consumer goods, as well as non-linguistic, embodied and social activities, providing massive opportunities for inclusive participation.
Our target groups comprise actors of all ages and social positions, especially in the school system and in community arts initiatives. We will empower these groups to be artistically active, dialogically related and culturally literate, giving them tools and motivation to improve their own situations and those of others within the overall frame of a cohesive European society, informed by global perspectives.
Using the post-colonial insight that culture is necessarily heterogeneous, d@rts has four related objectives:
1. Understand how performing arts activities relate to cultural literacy in official discourse and documents across partner countries
2. Use this understanding to build dialogues and co-create physical and digital actions with heterogeneous groups within our target audience
3. Develop assessment tools for these actions, enabling measurable growth in cultural literacy
4. Use our findings in recommendations for cultural and educational policies that build long-term social cohesion and inclusion
Based on these objectives, the overall outputs comprise:
1. Documentary, survey and participatory research findings
2. Performative DIALOGART actions for cultural literacy
3. Policy and practice recommendations to increase social cohesion via cultural literacy actions inspired by the performing arts
d@rts imagines new futures and creates hope and social cohesion through performing arts education. By creating participatory spaces and facilitating dialogues, we empower voices seldom heard. d@rts thus advances cultural literacy, and enhances social cohesion and resilience, to build an inclusive future for Europe.

REGULAR AND UNPLANNED CARE ADAPTIVE DASHBOARD FOR CROSS–BORDER EMERGENCIES

During cross-border health emergencies, health and care services may be overwhelmed by high numbers of patients requiring unplanned care. Delays and backlogs in regular care, as a result of the stretched health care system, leave millions of patients with regular care needs unattended, resulting in disastrous healthcare outcomes. If poor healthcare outcomes across the population are to be avoided, healthcare systems must become more resilient and flexible and allow for rapid changes in the care delivery services. RAPIDE’s aim is to develop, validate and demonstrate a portfolio of powerful tools that enable healthcare systems to build in robustness of decisions, resilience of the health care professionals and patients and flexibility in the modalities of care delivery, thereby maintaining access to regular care during health emergencies. 

RAPIDE emphasises opportunities for optimising in-hospital care, but also for relocating care from hospitals to community and home environments without loss of care quality. Thus, the project focuses on two closely-linked challenges – 1: Identifying and predicting how much care, and which care, needs to be moved along the care chain; 2: Identifying and verifying effective, feasible and acceptable ways to make this reconfiguration of care a reality. This will be achieved by (a) resource modelling, which builds comprehensive foresight and forecasting solutions and links them to patient flows optimization, along the whole chain of care, (b) selecting and implementing the best available tools to deliver regular care in new ways. To ensure usability, acceptability and equitable real-world value, RAPIDE will be co-designed and co-validated with stakeholders, from patients, GPs, clinicians and hospital managers to health ministries, pandemic-management and public health agencies. A Table Top Exercise and extensive communication and dissemination will raise awareness of the project’s successes.

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Time-dependent bioavailability and toxicity of pesticides to soil living organisms

This PES project will support the writing of an application for the Women TechEU call. The writing includes structuring a work package with activities (deliverables, milestones), preparing the proposal and a 5 page business plan. The work includes budgeting of the proposed work package to cover necessary tasks aligned with the call.

The aim of the project is to secure mentoring and coaching support from the EC to map the company’s pathway to gaining competitive advantage in digital society.

Women Tech - Entering European systems to help people with migraine

Migrene er en nettverkssykdom i hjernen som rammer 14% av befolkningen. Personer med migrene har ofte redusert livskvalitet og et manglende behandlingstilbud. Medisiner er ofte forbundet med bivirkninger, og det er et økende behov for ikke-medikamentell behandling med dokumentert klinisk effekt. Ved Norges teknisk- naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU) har forskere siden 2015 jobbet med en forebyggende biofeedback-behandling for hodepine og migrene. Behandlingen, CEREBRI, består av to trådløse sensorer og et behandlingsprogram i en mobilapplikasjon. CEREBRI har potensial til å halvere antall dager med migrene, og er en behandling som skal være enkel i bruk, tilgjengelig og rimelig. 

Utvikling av CEREBRI-teknologien og gjennomføring av en klinisk studie gjøres i et Eurostars-prosjekt gjennom Eureka, i samarbeid med to norske partnere (NTNU og Nordic Brain Tech AS), og to internasjonale fra Sverige (i3tex AB) og Estland (Thorgate Digital OÜ). CEREBRI utvikles som et medisinsk-teknisk utstyr med strenge regulatoriske krav til dokumentasjon og risikohåndtering. Prosjektet startet i august 2021 med varighet på to år. Målet med prosjektet er å validere CEREBRI som en kostnadseffektiv behandling for migrene.

14.7% of the population is affected by migraine headaches: the most common neurological disorder costing EU €50 billion annually. There is a pressing need for treatments without side-effects, that are cheaper and more accessible. By introducing a novel digital health treatment, CEREBRI will fill this demand and improve people's quality of life. 

CEREBRI aims to further develop and validate a cost-effective biofeedback treatment for patients suffering from migraines. It’s a remote medical device that enables virtual care and home-treatment, using a smartphone and biosensors, that can prevent migraine attacks by 50%, and help patients manage their condition with self-assessments. We will complete software and hardware optimisation, prototype assembly for a clinical validation study and perform the clinical validation study.

E115549 (CEREBRI) Developing cost-effective biofeedback treatment for patients suffering from migraines

14% av verdens befolkning rammes av migrene, den vanligste nevrologiske lidelsen i verden. I Norge går det tapt 2 millioner arbeidsdager årlig på grunn av migrene. Migrene gir redusert livskvalitet og begrenser deltakelse i arbeid og sosialt liv. Det er et stort behov for behandlinger uten bivirkninger, som er rimelige og mer tilgjengelige enn dagens alternativer, som hovedsakelig består av medisiner assosiert med begrenset effekt og bivirkninger.

CEREBRI er en forebyggende behandling for migrene, hjemmebasert og selv-assistert av pasienten selv. CEREBRI bygger på biofeedback. Ved bruk av to trådløse sensorer og et behandlingsprogram på en smarttelefon kan pasienter utføre regelmessig biofeedback-trening. Dette har potensial til å redusere migrene med opp til 50%. Hjemmebasert behandling har potensielle kostnadsbesparelser på ~ 60% sammenlignet med tradisjonell biofeedback som bruker stasjonært utstyr og en terapeut som gir instruksjoner. 

I Verifiseringsprosjektet har teknologien til CEREBRI blitt videreutviklet til en ny versjon som skal brukes i klinisk studie på pasienter. De trådløse sensorene måler hjertevariabilitet, overflatetemperatur og muskelspenning i nakken. Sensorene kommuniserer trådløst med en mobilapplikasjon som gir instrukser i biofeedback-trening. CEREBRI har blitt utviklet i henhold til regelverk for medisinsk utstyr som krever dokumentasjon og risikoanalyser. Prosjektet har også omfattet implementasjon av informasjonssikkerhet, deriblant GDPR, og forberedelser til gjennomføring av klinisk studie.

CEREBRI - Digital migraine treatment

Nordic Brain Tech AS (NBT) is a spin-off company (SME) from The Norwegian University of Science and Technology and St.Olavs Hospital. The company was founded in 2019 to commercialize a research-based intervention for treating migraines using remote biofeedback. Our goal is to improve brain health, and our ambitions include treating migraines and other neurological diseases by the use of technology. CEREBRI is our revolutionizing solution for prophylactic migraine treatment that takes advantage of mHealth developments to bring easier and cost-effective biofeedback therapies to patients.

The breakthrough innovation of CEREBRI will disrupt in the migraine treatment market by offering the following benefits to target users: 1) Patients will increase their control over their illness by reducing migraine episodes (30-50% less) as well as decreasing the need of medical treatment and associated side-effects, 2) Physicians will gain better knowledge of their patients and enable them to make accurate treatments and medication usage, and 3) Healthcare systems are offered a telemedicine tool for remote treatment and follow-up, leading to significant economic savings in physical consultations up and unnecessary treatments (potential annual costs savings of €11.3billion annually).

PES Eurostars: Development of a Digital Migraine Treatment

Nordic Brain Tech AS (NBT) is a spin-off company (SME) from The Norwegian University of Science and Technology and St.Olavs Hospital. The company was founded in 2019 to commercialize a research-based intervention for treating migraines using remote biofeedback. Our goal is to improve brain health, and our ambitions include treating migraines and other neurological diseases by the use of technology. CEREBRI is our revolutionizing solution for prophylactic migraine treatment that takes advantage of mHealth developments to bring easier and cost-effective biofeedback therapies to patients.

The breakthrough innovation of CEREBRI will disrupt in the migraine treatment market by offering the following benefits to target users: 1) Patients will increase their control over their illness by reducing migraine episodes (30-50% less) as well as decreasing the need of medical treatment and associated side-effects, 2) Physicians will gain better knowledge of their patients and enable them to make accurate treatments and medication usage, and 3) Healthcare systems are offered a telemedicine tool for remote treatment and follow-up, leading to significant economic savings in physical consultations up and unnecessary treatments (potential annual costs savings of €11.3billion annually).

We estimate a total budget to execute the project that will reach €1.8M to cover the optimization of the device, the establishment of the manufacturing set-up, the realization of the clinical trials and CE-mark certification. At the end of the project CEREBRI will be ready for market entry.

CEREBRI: Intelligent Migraine Treatment for an Improved Brain Health

Nordic Brain Tech develops a home-based biofeedback treatment for migraine headaches. By the use of two wireless sensors and personalized software (app on a smartphone), patients can perform biofeedback training by themselves at home. The self-assisted treatment consists of a digital therapist that omits the need for a trained therapist and stationary equipment at a hospital. The developed solution is research-based from The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) since 2015 and has undergone several clinical investigations by leading migraine specialists in Norway.

Overall, this project is the final step on the results of a previous R&D project to bring our solution into market. The steps needed include: 1) Optimization and maturation of both the software (e.g. app and cloud infrastructure, and storage), and hardware (design including two wireless sensors)  2) Create a software-hardware interface and an accompanying user interface, with respect to the required system usability and user-friendliness; 3) Optimization of the overall process, through internal testing of functional prototypes (integrated software and hardware), 4) Demonstrate the full system functionality, performance, safety and applicability through clinical investigation with hospitals and/or university clinics (our partners) and validate/addressing the end-user benefits; 5) Perform all the requirements needed for Regulatory Compliance, ultimately providing the CE-marking while complying with MDR 2017/745 in the EU. 6) Prepare for market-roll, a successful business strategy and upscaling. 

The FTI program provides an unique opportunity for NBT to showcase the potential of its technology and gain market intelligence that will ultimately lead to acceptance by end-users. The completion of the project objectives is important for ensuring a successful entrance to the market and commercialization of the innovative mHealth solution.

Intelligent biofeedback treatment for migraine headaches

1 av 7 personer i verden lider av migrene og det er den mest invalidiserende sykdommen hos personer under 50 år. Forskere ved NTNU og St.Olavs Hospital har siden 2015 utviklet en ny metode for å redusere migrene uten medisiner. Ved hjelp av trådløse sensorer og en digital terapaut kan pasienter gjennomføre en effektiv behandling hjemme i stedet for å dra på sykehuset. 

Behandlingen bygger på prinsippet biofeedback som er en godt etablert behandling og har dokumentert effekt for blant annet hodepine og migrene. Dessverre har det vært lite tilgjengelig i Norge og krever som regel stort stasjonært utstyr. Vi har nå utviklet og laget biofeedback i et enkelt og rimelig format.

Den utviklede behandlingen er forskningsbasert og flere kliniske studier har blitt gjennomført på voksne og barn for å undersøke brukervennlighet og effekt. Resultatene har vært positive, og produktet er derfor under videre forskning og utvikling. Målet er å tilby en effektiv behandling med god dokumentert effekt og sikkerhet, som er enkel i bruk og billigere enn dagens alternativer. Det er viktig at pasientgruppen får bedre tilgang til ikke-medikamentelle løsninger fordi mange personer blant annet lider av bivirkninger, har begrenset tilgang til behandling, og opplever liten effekt av dagens tilbud.

Kommersialiseringsprosjektet skal undersøke internasjonale markedsmuligheter for produktet. Dette er viktig for å forstå hvilke barrierer som finnes i markedene, og hvilke krav kunden og andre myndigheter har. Prosjektet skal også styrke de intellektuelle rettighetene til produktet og sørge for øky konkurransefortrinn i internasjonal sammenheng.

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Time-dependent bioavailability and toxicity of pesticides to soil living organisms

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