The DREAM Digital Resilience, Education, and Awareness for Minors aims to promote an inclusive rights-based digital environment by enhancing digital literacy, online safety, and responsible digital engagement among youth aged 11-14, while empowering caregivers, families, and future ICT professionals to… Read more support and uphold children's rights in the digital world. The project is implemented in four countries: Italy, Poland, Greece and Ukraine. The main project target are first children aged 11-14 years old, which are empowered through digital literacy capacity building. Child participation is mainstreamed through the action through the training of Youth Participant leaders; they carried on peer to peer actions, boost a European reflection on digital citizenship and organize a child led awareness campaign. A special focus is ensured to include migrant, reufueges and IDPs children and caregivers DREAM specific objectives are: 1) Enhance digital literacy and skills among Youth and equip them with essential digital competencies, including critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity, and collaboration 2) Strengthen the capacity of educators through the set-up and delivery of ToT program to guide and support young people in their digital experiences 3) Promote digital citizenship and foster awareness among both children and caregivers to mitigate online risks, including cyberbullying, hate speech, misinformation, and privacy violations, while encouraging the responsible and informed use of the internet 4) Gather essential insights on computing skills and educational practices among youth in order to inform the creation of inclusive, child-friendly programming guidelines tailored to both secondary and university learning contexts. 5) Facilitate the widespread adoption of project outcomes by supporting their replication and scalability, while actively advancing awareness and advocacy for children’s rights in the digital environment.

ExCISC – Exchange of Best Practices in Collaborative Intelligence for Safety-Critical Applications responds to the EU’s strategic agenda to strengthen Europe’s leadership in AI by promoting ethical, inclusive, and human-centric innovation. Aligned with the Industry 5.0 vision and the 2024… Read more Trustworthy AI policy framework, ExCISC addresses the urgent need for interdisciplinary collaboration to develop AI systems that enhance—not replace—human decision-making in safety-critical domains. Building on the successful CISC MSCA ITN, which trained 14 Collaborative Intelligence Scientists and produced over 100 publications, ExCISC will expand this foundation through structured international, intersectoral, and interdisciplinary staff exchanges. The project focuses on real-world deployment of collaborative intelligence in industrial environments, integrating AI, robotics, human factors, neuroergonomics, system safety, cybersecurity, and ethical/legal expertise. It will demonstrate how adaptive automation, explainable AI, and human-in-the-loop ecosystems can improve operational transparency, safety, and performance. Live Labs will serve as experimental platforms to test new paradigms of human-machine collaboration, ensuring situational awareness and resilience in high-risk settings. ExCISC tackles key challenges such as the opacity of AI systems, unrealistic expectations of human intervention in automation failures, and the need for interpretable and interoperable solutions. By fostering a network of researchers and practitioners, the project will advance trustworthy AI methodologies and contribute to Europe’s vision of responsible, human-centric technological leadership.

MIREYA is a pan-European, multi-omic, multi-exposures and multi-disciplinary project that advances research and delivers a yet unavailable understanding of the impact and causal pathway of multiple environmental exposures on the development and outcomes in rare children (0-14 years) and adolescent and young… Read more adults (15-39 years [AYA]) cancers (i.e. embryonal tumours, central nervous system and colorectal cancers). The project will leverage an unparalleled amount of epidemiology datasets from population-based cancer registries from 9 European Countries - collecting data for about 65,000 children and AYA with rare and less studied cancers and more than 500,000 controls – with large pan-European datasets on environmental exposures and socioeconomic position information. These datasets will be integrated with omic data, producing and making available a multisource pan European dataset aligned with the UNCAN and the EHDS platforms. This wealth of data will allow us to identify personalised biological fingerprints of the exposures and define their impact at biological level. Using multilayered research approaches based on reuse, integration and innovative AI-causal-driven analysis of multi-source and multi-disciplinary data (e.g., biological, environmental, social and economic) we will disentangle the combined role of host features and environmental exposures on development and outcomes of cancer in children and AYAs at different stages of life. We will further add to these advances by building the first base of evidence on the potential economic impact of prevention policies aimed at modifiable risks also through social protection measures on cancer inequalities among children and AYAs. This action is part of the Cancer Mission cluster of projects on ‘Understanding (environmental exposure in Children and Adolescent and young adults - CAYAs)

DataPACT develops novel tools and methodologies that enable efficient, compliant, ethical, and sustainable data/AI operations and pipelines. DataPACT delivers a transformative approach where compliance, ethics, and environmental sustainability are not afterthoughts but foundational elements of data/AI operations and pipelines. DataPACT… Read more contributes to the design, implementation, and management of data/AI operations and pipelines by embedding compliance, privacy, and environmental sustainability at their core design. It delivers compliance by design for data/AI operations and pipelines by developing innovative technical tools (DataPACT Compliance Toolbox) and tool-supported methodologies (DataPACT Compliance Framework) for compliance assessment and realization of data/AI pipelines designed, deployed and executed through a set of pipeline management tools and techniques (DataPACT Compliance-aware Data/AI Pipeline Toolbox). DataPACT validates its core results through a strong selection of seven complementary use cases offered by SMEs, large companies, and public sector organizations in relevant areas, including media and entertainment, healthcare, smart cities, law enforcement and security, customer relationship management, manufacturing, and public data. DataPACT helps them ensure straightforward and cost-effective compliance with existing and emerging regulations and guidelines, shorter time-to-market for compliant data solutions, fair and unbiased data-driven systems, respect for privacy and other fundamental rights, and lower and transparent environmental impact for intensive data/AI pipeline operations. DataPACT gathers a balanced consortium of 18 partners from 16 countries, consisting of two large companies, two public sector organizations, four SMEs, two research centers, and seven universities, covering relevant aspects related to legal, ethical, social, environmental, and technical compliance of data/AI operations and pipelines.

The ACANCOS project aims to lay the foundation for a solid, and internationally competitive research, which is deeply rooted in a context of numerous prior collaborations (but non structured in an unique network on a worldwide scale) on Automata Networks, Cellular Automata,… Read more and modelling of complex systems by these discrete models. ACANCOS connects the scientific expertise and excellence of research groups from five countries, two of them outside EU, including experts from two distinct communities (AN and CA), from two distinct orientations (theory-oriented and application-oriented), and from three distinct disciplines (computer science, mathematics, and biomedicine). The scientific objectives of the project are: a) Increasing the knowledge on the relations among the architecture/properties of the underlying graph of AN and the dynamical properties of DTDS defined by AN; b) Understanding the sensitivity/robustness of AN to (a)synchronism; c) Understanding AN through the concept of intrinsic simulation, i.e. the capacity of instances of the computational model to simulate the dynamical behaviour of other instances of the same model; d) Targeting and understanding wide classes of CA both exhibiting the complex behaviours of general CA and with decidable dynamical properties; e) Designing efficient decision algorithms for the dynamical properties describing the dynamical behaviour of DTDS defined by the above mentioned classes of CA; f) Understanding the complexity of the problems regarding the dynamics of DTDS defined by CA with both finite and infinite lattice. g) AN for new conceptualisation and modelling of GRN: theoretical validations and applicative validations on real GRN; h) New CA-based methods for data encryption; Sharing knowledge among different cultural and scientific environments will be crucial to achieve the scientific objectives of the project. The partnership will be strengthened through summer schools and workshops.

Genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics play an increasingly important role in the current societal challenges. These scientific fields bring tools and technologies that can significantly improve the health of citizens. In personalized medicine it contributes to the development of more targeted personalized drugs,… Read more therapies and interventions for serious diseases (cancer, rare diseases). Genomics has also a significant role in the data-driven COVID-19 pandemic response. Genomics and bioinformatics in Slovakia has rapidly developed also thanks to the Comenius University in Bratislava (CU). Nevertheless, the CU’s capacity and expertise still lags behind the leading research institutions. The main aim of the TWINNING project FORGENOM is to improve access to excellence at the Comenius University Science Park (CUSP) and raising the research profile of the institution and its staff in the field of biomedical genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics via targeted networking and mentoring and training activities with internationally leading research institutions in the area of genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics – European Molecular Biology Laboratory and Milano-Bicocca University. By networking activities with global leaders will be developed the potential of the Comenius University to become European-wide known centre with increasing R&I contributions and achievements. These will increase the participation of the teams from CU in European and international projects. FORGENOM project will help to increase the scientific level, research quality, international visibility, and competitiveness of the Comenius University through targeted twinning activities aimed at career development, transfer of knowledge, institutional development, exchange of best practices and networking. Enhancing the scientific excellence of CU and transfering of know-how from experienced countries will have a systemic impact on the entire Slovak R&I system.

With a vision “to drive responsible transformation for regions and communities, serve them with creative solutions by joint outcomes from incorporating research into education and turn contemporary challenges of our era into opportunities”, seven leading universities unite in their pledge to establish… Read more the INVEST - INnoVations of REgional Sustainability European university Alliance. We are committed into a deeper, sustainable and an effective transnational cooperation that promotes European Identity and European values leading to sustainable, short- and long-term impacts. With this premise, our aim is to advance knowledge, increase the quality and relevance of higher education and research, strengthen links between education, research, and innovation, improve employability and skills, make more effective use of digital technologies and open science, towards imparting inclusive education and training at all levels. We shall achieve this based on three strategic pillars: (a) Regional Transformation, Ecosystems & Entrepreneurship; (b) Flexible education & workbased pedagogy; (c) Developing a Centre of Excellence in RDI. Our main focus areas are Water, Energy, Food and Environment Nexus, Quality of Life and Entrepreneurship. We intensify the use of our Living Labs as innovative platforms for quadruple helix collaboration among research, education, innovation and service to society. The process is supported by innovative digital solutions such as the Virtual Campus and the EDUC8EU platforms. The INVEST Alliance endeavours to meet the needs and requirements of the new generation of Europeans who are able to cooperate and work within different European and global cultures, in different languages, across borders, sectors, academic disciplines, and respond to the current global challenges determined within the UN Sustainable Development Goals. INVEST will strive impact and create models for good practices for a more sustainable higher education and a more sustainable Europe.

In a global context characterised by geostrategic confrontation and competing narratives, information manipulation can be used to influence perceptions on the ground or fuel a conflict by creating confusion. The transition towards a multipolar world, accelerated by recent shocks such as… Read more the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2022 war Russia has been waging in Ukraine, has created an “informational battleground”, in which malign actors resort to hybrid tools, including Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI), to gain influence or undermine the capacities and credibility of other powers. Such a “global battle of narratives” was already described by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission (EU HR/VP) Josep Borrell in his 2020’s article3, highlighting the impact the framing of narratives has on citizens’ perceptions and behaviour, governments’ responses and health, economic, political, democratic and security consequences where time is a crucial factor. The 2022 March Strategic Compass (p. 14) warns that the EU now faces “a competition of governance systems accompanied by a real battle of narratives”. In addition, several other key EU communication and policy efforts have already recognised the threat of disinformation and foreign interference, such as the EU Action Plan on disinformation (5 December 2018), the European Democracy Action Plan (3 December 2020), the Digital Services Act (5 July 2022), the Code of Practice on Disinformation (also this year’s (2022) new updated and expanded version), Council Conclusion on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (18 July 2022), among others. Therefore, this Action also aims to further the implementation of existing frameworks and promote the related knowledge and tools externally. This action aims to enable the EU to address short and medium-term foreign policy needs and opportunities in and with non-EU territories by supporting innovative policies/initiatives and by deepening EU relations and dialogues, forging alliances and partnerships, in the fields of information manipulation and other types of foreign interference. It will contribute to enhancing the resilience and responses against FIMI, strengthening the EU’s role as a global security provider and defender of democratic values. It will lead to establishing a community of practice, bringing the EU, Member States and partners closer together on the understanding of FIMI-related challenges and how to address them. While the EU has developed over the past few years many new instruments and approaches, gaps in the EU’s ability to address these growing and evolving challenges remain. Therefore, promotion of widespread understanding and visibility of the Union’s work in this domain and its role on the world scene, by means of strategic communication, public diplomacy, people-to-people contacts, cultural diplomacy, cooperation in educational and academic matters, and outreach activities to promote the Union's values and interests will be further enhanced by this Action.