The project focuses on developing innovative, participatory pathways for the social inclusion of Unaccompanied Minors (UAMs) in Europe. By employing a co-creation model and participatory methods such as Photovoice and Living Labs, the project aims to address the unique challenges faced by UAMs. It emphasizes creating an inclusive policy framework that actively involves UAMs as well as other actors in charge of their integration in designing solutions that impact their inclusion and well-being. The core objectives include: 1) analyzing the current state of UAM integration and identifying gaps and best practices through comprehensive research, 2) developing and testing a participatory model that enhances UAMs’ roles in shaping their social inclusion policies, 3) providing practical recommendations and tools for stakeholders, including policymakers and practitioners, to improve UAMs integration processes. The innovative aspect of the project lies in its integrative approach, combining academic research with real-world applications. This model not only involves UAMs but also engages a diverse range of stakeholders, ensuring that the developed solutions are grounded in actual needs and experiences. The project will employ cutting-edge methods and frameworks, such as the EU’s Green Charter, the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), ensuring ethical and effective practices in all stages. Key outcomes include improved social inclusion strategies for UAMs, practical tools for implementation, and a robust participatory policy framework that could serve as a standard for Europe. PATH2EU has the potential to offer valuable insights and solutions for similar challenges faced by other regions worldwide. The project will contribute significantly to both academic research and practical policy-making, aiming to make a meaningful impact on the lives of UAMs and the broader migration community in Europe.

In the recent years, proof assistants have shown their astounding ability to tackle the complete formalisation of large pieces of mathematics, with the celebrated certifications of the Feit-Thompson theorem, of the Kepler conjecture, and more recently, the resolution of Scholze liquid tensor challenge. We believe that the time is ripe to demonstrate that they can tackle mathematics in the flexible and semi-formal way it is created and exchanged by the mathematicians. To that purpose, we aim to develop proof assistant technologies of an entirely new nature, including a formal language and a foundational approach to mathematical meaning, with the versatility necessary to represent the dynamic linguistic structures to be found in the daily practice of mathematics. The result will be a linguistic front-end that will allow mathematicians, and scientists in general, to express in proof assistants their proofs and computations the semi-formal way they think of them. Three research tracks stand out: the mathematical and linguistic foundations; formalisation of real-world vernacular mathematics into a high-level language of representation (Godement challenge); new techniques and software tools, based on natural language processing, to automate the formalisation process. The translation in the machine of semi-formal mathematics needs to go beyond the traditional view that reduces reasoning to logic, and requires to understand the dynamics of the discursive linguistic process which underlines mathematics. Building on advances of linguistics, mathematical logic, programming language semantics and machine learning, we will contribute significantly to the rise of a new generation of proof assistants, integrating at their heart a linguistic layer and automated guidance tools for mathematical proofs, theorems and definitions. The resulting high-level manipulation of concepts will lead to novel research outcomes supporting the daily activity of mathematical scientists.

The research program seeks to provide a conceptualization of peace´s vision which provides new understandings for the conceptualization for peace beyond the absence of violence. These visions of peace are produced by people on the move. We did not found research available about this topic. We will fill a gap in the current research both peace-conflict studies and migrations studies about the role of people on move in construction of peace. Moreover, we want to track and analyze violence suffered by people on the move both on the way to their destiny and in societies which are not normally categorized as violent or conflictive. This is to des-sedentarize peace and violence studies in order to understand the way in which peace and violence are also mobilized.

<< Background >>The Coronavirus-19 outbreak has raised huge societal challenges worldwide and Europe is no exception. But the true impact of this pandemic is yet to be discovered. So far, more than 3 million deaths have been directly reported to COVID-19, so it is estimated that 9 million people have been bereaved by a COVID-19 loss (Verdery, 2021) and thousands of them may suffer from complicated grief reactions (Lee & Neimeyer, 2020). Yet, other authors like Morgan, et al. (2020) argue that, to calculate the real death toll of this pandemic, we have to look not only to COVID-19 direct deaths, but also to excess mortality (or indirect deaths) due to the COVID-19 impact in the global health system.The public health measures surrounding COVID-19 to mitigate and contain the outbreak, and practices around death and dying during this pandemic, introduced nuances in the bereavement process that must be recognized and addressed (Lowe et al., 2020; Sroebe & Shut, 2020). With significant restrictions to the social and cultural practices that normal bereavement usually relies upon, and the limitations on social support in grief and end-of-life situations, it is expected that the impact on the mental health of bereaved individuals will be significant (Stroebe & Schut, 2020). Although research is not yet able to report on the psychological impact in bereaved people during the COVID-19 pandemic (Burrell & Selman, 2020; Singer & Spiegel, 2020), it can be extrapolated that many may experience prominent levels of anxiety and/or depression during this period, predicting an increase in the number of prolonged grief disorders, depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress. The distinct COVID-19 situations in European countries in terms of direct deaths, justify accurate intervention and motivated the development of this strategic Partnership for Cooperation between 4 countries. While Portugal, Spain and Italy have had more than 165 deaths per 100.000 people, Denmark has experienced less than 45 deaths per 100.000 people. This situation in particularly problematic in countries like Portugal, Spain and Italy, where there is no national, public health strategy to address grief and bereavement issues and an absence of an educational culture about death and dying that prevents these issues from being adequately addressed, even in the training of health professionals (and other professionals indirectly involved) (Aoun et al., 2019).This consortium is composed by five partners from Portugal, Spain, Italy and Denmark. A combination between public and private organizations involved in the training of professionals to deal with bereaved people will allow learning from the different cultural contexts and different levels of expertise in grief and bereavement support. Three university partners: ISMAI/Maiêutica (P1 – Portugal) Universidad de Comillas (P3 – Spain) and Università del Salento (P4 – Italy) joined efforts with the Psychology Service from a University Hospital (P2 - Hospital S. João) in Portugal and the Danish National Center for Grief (P5 – DNCG), a national reference center for grief intervention from Denmark. These partners constitute the AURORA@COVID19-EU consortium, as a Partnership for Cooperation to create opportunities to train direct agents (different health professionals) and indirect agents (key stakeholders and different community members) in issues of bereavement and death and update clinical practice interventions to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. This strategy will reach a higher number of bereaved people under a public health model and, ultimately, promote more capacitated, resilient compassionate communities.<< Objectives >>This proposal aims to facilitate a unified, articulated response for grief and bereavement support in the aftermath of COVID-19. Following a collaborative, joint effort between these partners to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the bereavement process (that is already ongoing in the several countries), this project and this partnership aims to develop training resources and facilitate the good practices and education of formal and informal agents related to death and dying in times of COVID-19 pandemic. This partnership will involve researchers and health professionals who directly intervene with the bereaved people in times of COVID-19 pandemic, from different European countries, already integrated in support networks on their respective health systems. Benefiting from distinct levels of expertise related to death and dying during the COVID-19 pandemic, we will also adopt a community strategy to reach bereaved population, with vulnerability for the development of complicated grief reactions, by disseminating relevant information related to grief and resources available within the community to increase access to adequate intervention responses and reduce suffering. In parallel, a dissemination campaign will raise public awareness and enhance the resources of bereaved people. According to a three-tier grief intervention model, this partnership will develop training manuals for different professionals to respond to each level of needs in terms of bereavement support during the COVID-19 pandemic, considering the risk of complicated grief reactions. A pilot phase will also be carried out within this partnership to apply the main project results in local training activities for different professionals (direct and indirect agents for bereavement support), and also implement an undated clinical intervention with bereaved people with complicated grief reactions. This will indirectly impact our bereaved target group by enhancing and promoting more compassionate communities, better prepared to provide the support that bereaved people need.<< Implementation >>This consortium will create innovative project outputs and develop training opportunities to reinforce a local network to improve bereavement support in the communities surrounding the partners. This will contribute to diminish the burden of the already fragile mental health system in these southern European countries as well as reduce the risks of unmet support needs from the bereaved people. Our proposal will follow a systematic approach centered on a public health model of bereavement intervention, with the following main activities: a) Project dissemination initiatives: Creation of a website with a compilation of resources on bereavement in several languages (English, Portuguese, Castellan/Spanish, Italian and Danish) for a diversity of users, and with resources adjusted to different target groups, like direct agents (health professionals) and indirect agents (other professionals or educators) and the general population. An informative flyer will be distributed in the community, especially targeting vulnerable people, from underprivileged groups, with less access to the available health resources. A network of institutions involved as Associate Partners will be established to increase dissemination and achieve the required target groups, especially in less privileged neighborhoods from these communities; b) Pilot phase of professional training and intervention: After the development of the three training manuals for direct and indirect agents, these professionals will be trained (through in-presence and online training events) and involved to address the support needs of bereaved people and contribute to a culture of compassion around death and dying, and increase the acceptance and normalization of bereavement experiences; Finally, a group of trained clinical psychologists will lead and implement a clinical study (involving different partners) to study the outcome of bereavement interventions, adjusted to COVID-19 issues, to prevent and alleviate complicated grief reactions. This clinical study will assess the effectiveness of these intervention formats in terms of professional competence (target group of health professionals) and in the well-being of bereaved clients.These activities will strengthen the capacity to disseminate and implement good practices to support the bereaved population most affected by this pandemic situation.<< Results >>Our project results align with the purpose of stimulating a more compassionate community to enhances a wider, more accepting grief and bereavement culture, while at the same time respecting the idiosyncrasy of the COVID-19 pandemic situation. Project Results are sustained in three main axes: 1) the development of training manuals (that will be the project outputs) that will then be used in 2) local training activities for the different professionals, direct and indirect agents that intervene with bereaved people, and 3) to disseminate Good Practice guidelines for intervening with bereaved people. All these materials will be available in 5 languages (English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Danish).Particularly, our main project results will be: i) a training manual for psychologists (R1) in order to develop the competences and skills to perform adequate interventions in this context, particularly and targeting the bereaved population with complicated grief reactions; ii) a training manual for direct agents (R2), i.e., health professionals working with bereaved people (such as doctors, nurses, social assistances, and other welfare professionals) to facilitate an adequate intervention and to prevent and assess people with complicated grief reactions, who might need to be referred to specialized intervention; iii) a training manual for indirect agents (R3), namely social gate keepers and key community members (such as pharmacists, informal caregivers, priests and religious people, social educators implicated in the support system of bereaved people in the general population). Together, these training resources will be applied in the most affected countries by the pandemic (Spain, Portugal and Italy) and train the different target groups (i.e., mental-health professionals, and other health professionals or educators).A piloting stage will also be carried out within this partnership to apply the main project results developed, including through: a. Clinical Study intervention for bereaved people to assess the effectiveness of these interventions to prevent and alleviate complicated grief reactions during the COVID-19 pandemic; b. Local Training events with psychologists with 2-days, in-presence training (as a result of R1); c. Local training with direct agents (as a result of the R2) with 2-days, online training; c. Local Training events with indirect agents (as a result of the R3) with one-day, online training; d. Finally, with the knowledge and input from the training events and the overall development of this project and community strategy dissemination, we will develop a Good Practice Guidelines Manual for Bereaved people (R4). As the DNCG states, “grief does not have to destroy lives”. The AURORA@COVID19-EU proposal aims to contribute for this endeavor by increasing and facilitating a unified, articulated response to grief and bereavement support in the aftermath of COVID-19, strengthened by the interchanging of experiences and expertise to will reinforce good practices in all partners.

Recently, European governments have been aware of the global burden of disease related to mental health (Wahlbeck, 2010; Wykes, et al., 2015). Emotional disorders (like depression, anxiety, grief and trauma/stress related disorders) actually represent significant challenges to national health systems and professionals, due to their high prevalence, comorbidity and tendency to develop into chronic conditions. Yet, there are major disparities in their treatment between European countries. Southern Europe shows higher burden of disease for depression (Horackova et al., 2019); higher prevalence of anxiety disorders (Alonso, 2017); higher rates of comorbidity and disability (Antunes, et al., 2019). This European unbalance especially affects those who suffered most in the 2009 economic recession (Navarro-Mateu et al., 2015; Eslami et al., 2017) and in the COVID-19 recession (Fernandes, 2020), affecting deeply countries like Portugal and Spain. Thus, better mental health care for emotional disorders is necessary, particularly in these countries, to address the major social costs related to the prevalence, comorbidity and chronicity of emotional disorders. Among psychological treatments, transdiagnostic treatments in particular, are a promising and innovative approach to treat these emotional disorders, based on the fact that many share common psychopathological features, etiology and maintenance mechanisms (Cross & Hickie, 2017). This proposal will support the training and supervision in Emotion-Focused Therapy – EFT, a humanistic and experiential evidence-based psychotherapy, recently studied as transdiagnostic approach (Timulak & Keogh, 2020). EFT is not only a highly research-based, innovative and effective treatment for emotional disorders (Elliott et al., 2002, 2013), but it focuses on changing deep, maladaptive emotional processes in parallel with symptom change, gathering strong evidence from biological and psychological frameworks (Kramer & Pascual-Leone, 2016; Peluso & Freund, 2018).This consortium involves 6 European partners, i.e. 4 universities: ISMAI, (Portugal – Project Coordinator), University of Strathclyde (Scotland – UK), Trinity College (Ireland) and Comillas University (Spain) and 2 professional EFT institutes: SPTFE (Sociedade Portuguesa de Terapia Focada nas Emoções, Portugal) and IEFT (Institut für Emotionsfokussierte Therapie, Germany). This partnership will create innovative Intellectual Outputs (IO) and develop opportunities to reinforce a network of local EFT trainers and supervisors to disseminate and reinforce good practices in the countries involved, throughout Europe, and especially in Portugal and Spain.Intellectual Output 1 (IO1) is an advanced Training Course for EFT Trainers, with a Training Manual, combining the expertise of partners from Ireland and the UK. IO2 is an advanced Training Course for EFT Supervisors and a Training Manual, with the collaboration of partners from Germany and the UK. These outputs will be implemented as short-term, international training events to train at least 12 new EFT trainers and 12 new EFT supervisors from Portugal and Spain, who show prior certification in EFT practice. Returning to their countries, these new EFT trainers will deliver EFT Master Classes and impact 180 other clinical psychologists/psychotherapists, training them in their native languages. The new EFT supervisors will support the practice of at least 24 to 36 novice EFT therapists in their own countries, providing a network to support high-quality treatment practices, which will ultimately benefit many clients suffering from emotional disorders. Afterwards, partners will collaborate in measuring the impact of these results and create Good Practices Guides for EFT Training (IO4) and for EFT Supervision (IO5). Intellectual Output 3 will be an e-platform of resources to encourage and support EFT practice, supervision and training in the multiple languages of the partners (English, German, Portuguese and Castellan/Spanish), where outputs will be accessible. The e-platform will gather a wide virtual community for the dissemination of EFT practice, supervision and training and allow collecting transnational data to monitor EFT practice/supervision. This represents a significant contribution for future, international joint-research projects on these topics. This proposal will surpass the following obstacles to EFT dissemination: 1) the language barrier that impedes access to high-quality international training (through developing resources/opportunities in several EU languages); 2) the short amount of local supervisors and trainers to support and widen European EFT practice. This strategic partnership will be a platform for coordinated efforts to monitor EFT practice, supervision and training in Europe, fostering European alliances and joint research on the EFT treatment of emotional disorders.