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Novel, sustainable and circular bio-based textiles

Deadline: 26 September 2023

The expected impacts to be addressed by successful proposals include:

Enhancing European industrial sustainability, competitiveness and resource independence;
Accelerating regional, rural, local, urban and consumer-based transitions towards a sustainable, regenerative, inclusive, just and clean circular economy and bioeconomy as well as;
The development of innovative and sustainable value-chains in the bio-based sectors, substituting the fossil- based ones.

Projects are expected to contribute to all the following outcomes:

Reduce negative environmental impact of textiles throughout their lifecycle;
Increase recyclability and circularity of textiles;
Increase the use of EU alternative, bio-based fibers;
Address social impacts, in addition to environmental effects; sustainable circular and socially just textile production and consumption at EU level;
Empower and increase SMEs participation and improve academia/industry/feedstock & fibers supplier’s interactions an collaborations.
Establish new and innovative circular bio-based value chains with a positive impact on EU competitiveness and job creations at regional, rural and local levels.

Scope:

The call addresses the design, demonstration and scale-up of production of sustainable and circular, bio-based textiles for one or more applications.

Supporting the creation of an accessible and inclusive built environment

Deadline: 05 September 2023

Expected outcome:

Improved accessibility of the built environment for persons with disabilities and older persons, following a ‘design for all’ approach.
Improved comfort for larger shares of the population.
Improved sense of inclusiveness[2] and social cohesion in larger shares of the population.
Availability of a common evaluation and certification framework for accessibility and inclusiveness of the built environment.
Reduced energy consumption and lifecycle GHG emissions of the facilities of the built environment.

Scope:

The focus will be on the different facilities of the built environment that are open to the public. Design concepts should make these facilities for persons with disabilities and fragile people, following and inclusive, ‘design for all’ approach.

Proposals are expected to address all the following:

Develop innovative methods to ensure and facilitate the implementation of accessibility at all stages of design and construction processes, as well as monitoring and testing of results.
Address the adaptability of the built environment over its lifecycle, to ensure flexibility for accessibility adaptations.
Ensure the involvement of persons with disabilities by means of a participatory approach.
Demonstrate the solutions in at least two demonstrators.
Where new digital tools are used in the built environment, ensure their accessibility for persons with disabilities and older persons.

Alliances for Education and Enterprises

Deadline: 03 May 2023

Objective:

Alliances for Innovation aim to strengthen Europe’s innovation capacity by boosting innovation through cooperation and flow of knowledge among higher education, vocational education and training, and the broader socio-economic environment, including research.

Objectives of the action:

These partnerships shall implement a coherent and comprehensive set of sectoral or cross-sectoral activities, which should be adaptable to future knowledge developments across the EU.

To boost innovation, the focus will be on talent and skills development.

They intend to achieve one or more of the following aims:

Fostering new, innovative and multidisciplinary approaches to teaching and learning;
Supporting skills development in the deep tech domains;
Fostering the setting up of incubators within education and training institutions across Europe;
Fostering corporate social responsibility;
Improving the quality and relevance of skills developed and certified through education and training systems;
Facilitating the flow and co-creation of knowledge between higher education and vocational education and training, research, the public sector and the business sector;
Building and supporting effective and efficient higher education and vocational education and training systems, which are connected and inclusive, and contribute to innovation.

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Arts and cultural awareness and expression in education and training

Deadline: 07 February 2024

Expected Outcome:

Projects should contribute to all the following outcomes:

Develop and apply methods to support the use of arts in education and interventions to foster cultural awareness and expression and to assess their impacts on the development of competences and inclusion of all children and young people.
Inform policies, programmes and actions using arts in education and contributing to foster cultural awareness and expression, identify existing gaps and effective actions to reach most children and young people and develop recommendations.

Scope:

Arts in education and developing cultural awareness and expression – one of the key competences for lifelong learning[1] have value in themselves. They are also used to develop creativity, innovation, critical and design thinking, communication, collaboration and intercultural skills and, more broadly, for inclusive education and training systems, democracy and civic engagement, but stronger evidence is needed to better understand and assess these impacts. Research evidence is also missing on whether, and how, education and training systems have capacity to support learners in developing cultural awareness and expression.

Proposals should support policymakers and professional development providers in identifying effective actions and gaps in their systems, and better understanding how their investments could be improved. Proposals should include a lifelong learning perspective (early childhood education and care, school, vocational education and training and higher education, non-formal learning), and assess national, regional and local support for partnerships, for example between education institutions and arts and cultural heritage organisations.

Energy Management Systems for flexibility services

Deadline: 16 January 2024

Expected Outcomes:

Contribute to the use of smart buildings and smart industrial sites for the integration of renewables in the energy system in an efficient way.
Demonstrate interoperability and data exchange technologies to aggregate data from different sources and in different formats through cooperation between aggregators and energy management system developers.
Piloting and demonstration of flexibility pool operations at the local and regional levels.
Demonstrate aggregation of multiple (building or industrial) energy management systems to provide flexibility services (wholesale market price signals, demand response, flexible production, smart charging, balancing & frequency services, congestion management) to the electricity network.

Scope:

Projects are expected to :

Develop solutions to aggregate flexibility from different energy consumers that use different energy management systems to develop interoperable solutions to optimise the energy management systems and valorise its flexibility in wholesale markets and for balancing and/or congestion management services.
Define and demonstrate the type of flexibility services that clusters of smart buildings and smart industrial sites can provide.
Include at least 3 different energy management systems in case of industry, or 5 in case of buildings, developed by different technology providers and that use different protocols/standards/proprietary solutions for the energy management system.
Involve at least 3 different energy system management service companies in case of industry, or 5 in case of buildings.

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