CONCERT has a clear focus on developing robotics technologies aiming at a novel concept of configurable robot platforms, which can be explored in application domains with unstructured, variable and evolving workspace settings and tasks. It targets to make a step transition from the current general-purpose lower power collaborative robots to a new generation of collaborative platforms that can safely collaborate in tasks with demanding human-scale forces while ensuring safety on the fly, implement efficient collaboration principles and demonstrate quick adaptability to address less standardized and more unstructured environment and task settings. It proposes the development of a new paradigm of high power/strength, adaptable, collaborative robots, which leverages on modular and configurable robot hardware with adaptive physical capabilities. automatic deployment of control and online safety verification methods. Multi-modal and multi-state perception and supervision tools provides enhanced human, robot and task execution awareness enabling the implementation of adaptive shared autonomy and role allocation planning in human robot collaboration. The development of the CONCERT technologies is steered by use-case scenarios from the construction industry, a sector with significantly high socio-economic impact, offering at the same time an extremely challenging, yet highly motivating and pertinent domain for demonstrating and validating the quick deployment and interoperability features of the CONCERT configurable collaborative robotic solutions. The project technologies will be therefore validated in relevant construction task activities exhibiting high payloads and diverse workspace size and settings, thus requiring different robot arrangements to perform them. The assessment methodology considers several indicators covering the technical, functional, occupational, labor effort, and societal aspects and impacts of the CONCERT technologies.

"The ""AREYOUFINE?"" Project offers an innovative course on biomechanical analysis techniques aimed at bodily harm assessment, taking into account the different laws and conditions established in various European countries.Bodily injury is defined as the result of aggression, exogenous or endogenous, in any area of the body. There are different manifestations of bodily harm, but one of the most important are musculoskeletal disorders, which represent the most frequent complaints reported in health surveys in Europe. These disorders present a great variety of names, which reflect the diversity of opinions and the lack of consensus regarding their origin and treatments. Musculoskeletal injuries are very common in industrialized countries and have very important consequences for the individual and society. In fact, 50% of the European population has reported musculoskeletal pain in one or more points of the body during the last year.Many of these lesions have a non-specific origin or it is not possible to find an organic alteration that justifies them. Very often conventional diagnostic techniques do not show apparent lesions at the organic level. This situation forces doctors to work in uncertain situations. The absence of objective tools to help clinicians in the determination of real body damage of patients, produces, in some cases, incorrect evaluations and inappropriate treatments, with a negative impact on public health systems and patients.Biomechanics offers a new approach to obtain objective, quantitative and homogeneous data to improve personal injury assessment procedures. Biomechanics is based on the knowledge of mechanics, engineering, anatomy and physiology to study the behavior of the human body, analyzing the movements of the segments of the body, the restrictions of the joints and muscle strength. Biomechanics allows a better understanding of the relationship between the medical results and the actual functional state of the patient's body in order to corroborate their clinical hypothesis. However, despite the fact that biomechanics has proven its usefulness; it has not grown at the same speed in all European countries. This fact is due to the fact that biomechanics must be applied taking into account the legal framework and the regulatory system of each country, because it has legal consequences.In the course ""AREYOUFINE?"", The requirements of the target group of professionals to whom it is addressed have been taken into account, new contents of legislative harmonization have been proposed and adapted to the realities of the EU countries. The course is aimed at lawyers, doctors of different specialties (forensics, rehabilitators, traumatologists, etc.), physiotherapists, nurses, specialists in sports sciences, etc. The main results obtained are publicly offered in four languages: Spanish, Italian, Polish and English; for this, a web platform has been enabled in which they are openly available.The ""AREYOUFINE?"" Project offers a high quality content and adjusted to the needs of the target group thanks to the complementary competences of the consortium participating in the project. On the one hand, the Institute of Biomechanics of Valencia (IBV) is a center of recognized prestige in the field of biomechanics and has been responsible for the coordination of the project and has contributed to the development of content on biomechanical techniques. The University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), expert center in forensic sciences, in legal medicine and pedagogical methodologies. CIOP-PIB (Central Institute for Labor Protection), specialist center in occupational health. SSSUP (Scuola Universitaria Superiore Pisa) is a European reference university in applied law in Legal Medicine. On the other hand, CEREDOC (European Confederation of Specialized in the Assessment and Compensation of Physical Injury) has provided the consortium with a direct connection with European professionals of evaluation of physical and personal damage. For its part, IALM (International Association of Legal Medicine) has guaranteed contact and dissemination of the results of the project to the European area of experts in legal medicine."

The WAge project will develop and validate the first comprehensive framework for assessing and understanding the roles and interactions between physical and psychosocial risk factors across age groups through robust modelling and policy-relevant evidence gathering. Through the proposed framework, the project will pave the way for designing, implementing and validating effective multi-level intervention strategies and policy changes for workers of all ages at the individual and organizational level. The project focuses on a question that has high societal relevance and is timely because the proportion of employees under adverse physical and psychosocial work environments is likely to increase as organisations, businesses, and workers have to adapt to post-pandemic working environments in an ageing Europe. WAge is proposing a concept that is addressing the factors related to the health and overall wellbeing of workers across age groups. One of the main aims of the proposed action is the generation of integral, policy-relevant evidence that are vital for the improvement and update of occupational health but also for this HORIZON Europe call. In WAge, the gathering and utilization of evidence within decision-making spaces will be based on representation and accountability of policymaking, bringing multiple perspectives and knowledge through democratic participation into decision-making processes across the project, from data collection, and management, to analysis, and implementation.

In a large majority of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including the immune-mediated diseases (IMDs), complex gene-environmental interactions contribute to the onset and development of disease through the modulation of biological pathways. IMDs are characterized by abnormal immune responses, have limited therapeutic options and require lifelong treatment if not detected during the preclinical stage. EXPOSIM will provide a strong evidence base to better understand the impact of combined environmental stressors on immune health, with a focus on air pollution, noise and hazardous waste in urban areas. More specifically, we will investigate the impact of environmental stressors – the external exposome – on IMDs and immune health at different stages in life (pregnancy, childhood and adulthood). We will identify biological pathways and molecular mechanisms mediating the effect of combined exposures on IMDs. Through case studies and topical reviews, we will demonstrate the effectiveness of exposure-reducing and health-promoting interventions, with a focus on vulnerable and highly exposed individuals. This knowledge will be translated into policy recommendations and informed decision-support tools. Moreover, the project emphasises on scientific collaborations and stakeholder engagement, involving co-creation of health-promoting actions, education, training and communication. EXPOSIM will build a user-friendly toolbox for regional, national and EU policymakers, health professionals, researchers and citizens. To reach its ambitious objectives, EXPOSIM brings together a geographically balanced, experienced interdisciplinary consortium (active in PARC, EXIMIOUS, EHEN, METEOR) of ten European partners with complementary expertise in exposome research, epidemiology, immunology, omics, novel data analytics, health economics and social sciences and humanities. Ultimately, EXPOSIM will contribute to a healthy environment and healthy lives for all EU citizens.