1. ContextThe beneficiary institution has been lacking of international dimension. The school community’s interest in joining European programs has increased over the last few years, though only implemented in carrying out internships and practices abroad as CIFP Los Gladiolos cooperation activities have grown for students and staff within the Erasmus+ actions. The staff is interested in improving students’ quality training and new learning methods observing the real needs of the labour market and job providers in the environmental sector, specifically control of invasive alien species. And also in contrasting validation and qualification of professional competences a5. Results, impact and benefitEl principal resultado fue la elaboración de un curso on-line con material de autoaprendizaje en inglés y español sobre especies invasoras, de libre acceso para estudiantes, profesorado, técnicos medioambientales y público en general. Se encuentra alojado en la web del CIFP Los Gladiolos, con garantía de estabilidad de 4 años y mantenimiento/actualización por parte de la institución coordinadora. Ha habido una transferencia de resultados puesto que los socios se encuentran incorporando dichos materiales a sus webs corporativas, y las instituciones socias con competencias en educación ambiental (Cabildo de Tenerife y Gobierno de Canarias) se han mostrado dispuestas a acoger las propuestas recogidas en dicho curso (bloque 4) e incorporar algunas de ellas a la gestión y, en su caso, normativa referente a especies invasoras a nivel regional. También se halla en proceso de creación la asociación profesional de educación ambiental Maresía, compuesta en parte por algunos de los alumnos participantes en el proyecto, que ha ayudado a poner las bases de dicha asociación. Finalmente, el CIFP Los Gladiolos ha sido galardonado por el Gobierno de Canarias como centro embajador ECIE por su trayectoria internacional en los últimos años, a la que esta asociación estratégica ha contribuido decisivamente.cquired through non formal education. Finally, the project is aimed at improving linguistic competence in English between professionals and users.The school community perceives the need for internationalization by enhancing experience in formative traineeships and mobility in Europe. And in the long run, to provide training offer in English in some studies (environmental) making use of the school’s autonomy as an integrated institution (CIFP) operated by law.The Project would contribute to develop international dimension through mobility and exchange actions by students in higher education institutions like the University of the Azores. Quality learning, employability and interaction between labour and learning would be available by means of validation of professional abilities acquired through informal, digital and open learning.2. Goals- To promote quality and excellence in innovation and internationalization fostering transnational cooperation- To improve students’ competence and employability establishing links between labour and training- To foster language learning, linguistic diversity and cultural awareness 3. Participants’ profilea) Students: 14 people of both genders from environmental education (TECA) aged between 18 and 40, level of Baccalaureat or even college studies.b). Staff: teachers from the TECA department of the beneficiary institution.4. Description of activities Two activities were implemented in Azores and Belgium: a transnational meeting and a learning activity (combined mobility)The transnational meetings were aimed at preparing the field program of the students’ mobility to be carried out later. In the second the participants were able to learn on site the invasive species issue. In Azores, through an expert panel, the students presented their experience on the issue in the Canary Islands as well as the methods learned at the activity. The Portuguese partner made available their expertise on invasive species through a smartphone application and the students will make proposals to improve control methods. The main outcome was the elaboration of an on-line course with a self-learning material in English and Spanish about Invasive Alien Species. The course is free and open licensed for students, teachers and environmental staff, and also for the general public. Allocated at the CIFP Los Gladiolos webpage with a 4 year-sustainability by the hosting institution. The results were transferred since the partners are incorporating the materials to their corporate webpages, and the institutions with environmental competences (Tenerife Island Council and the regional government) has shown interest in exploring changes in management or even regulations by studying the project proposals on invasive alien species. On the other side, a professional association for environmental education (Maresía) is being created partly by project students. Finally, the beneficiary institution has been awarded as an ECIE

Many of the nearly 400,000 species of plants provide food, feed, medicines, and construction materials. Besides these positive impacts, plants also affect us negatively through pollen allergies, poisonous species, as invasive species, and as adulterants in herbal medicines. Nevertheless, plants are the most promising biological resource for our future. Current extinction risks of global flora and vast decline in taxonomic expertise demand accurate and rapid identification approaches to understand and valorise botanical biodiversity. Advances in genomic data and DNA sequencing are revolutionizing plant systematics, and modern molecular identification methods make it possible to accurately determine plants in ways that were technically impossible only a decade ago. Recently, it has become possible to detect substitution in herbal pharmaceuticals, monitor invasive alien species, trace fragments such as pollen and spores, uncover illegal trade in endangered species, make rapid and accurate molecular biodiversity assessments, and study historical plant diversity through DNA in museum specimens. However, to efficiently harvest the potential of the opportunities provided by the new genomic techniques, society today is in urgent need of trained biosystematists experienced in both taxonomy and in handling enormous amounts of genomic data. Plant.ID will innovatively address these challenges by bringing together academic and non-academic partners including regulatory agencies, industry, SMEs and NGO stakeholders, with the aim of developing molecular identification of plants through tailored approaches to species delimitation, metabarcoding, gene capture, and genomic barcoding, in order to empower stakeholders with simplified molecular identification of plants. By bridging classical taxonomic expertise with cutting-edge genomic approaches, Plant.ID will train a new generation of ESRs who will have immediate relevance to harnessing the central role of plants in the modern world.

SciCoMove promotes international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral collaborations between historians of science, scientists and museum professionals from 9 countries in Latin America and Europe with a view to trace the history of scientific collections in paleontology, anthropology, botany and related applied sciences. Its ambition is to reassess their significance and to develop new historical knowledge applicable to their curatorship, utilization by researchers and communication to the public. Drawing on the most recent historiography of science and scientific collections, SciCoMove focuses on the past, but it addresses current issues faced by science museums regarding repatriation demands and the dialogue with “source communities”. Its originality is based: 1 – on the shift of focus from major to smaller museums in the “provinces” or “peripheries” in order to outline a more complex, less centralized and less hierarchical vision of scientific exchanges; 2 – on a conception of collections as nodes in networks of circulation and as structures producing knowledge, rather than as heritage and conservation institutions. Accordingly, SciCoMove focuses on objects “on the move” and on the scholarly practices and sociability of the agents who made these moves possible. In line with its objective to better account for the multiple dimensions of science collections and for multilateral interchange between Europe and Latin America, SciCoMove promotes collaborations on equal terms between Latin American and European teams, in a multilateral and multilingual context of mutual training and sharing. The team has a majority of women. The research combining the material study of objects and investigations in archives will be carried out through case studies and workshops on crosscutting themes. It will feed into training seminars. A digital exhibition will communicate research results, in line with EU policy promoting the public understanding of science and citizen science.

Modern science requires digital access to data. European collections account for 55% of the natural sciences collections globally, holding more than 1 billion objects, which represent 80% of the world’s bio- and geo-diversity. Only around 10% of these have been digitally catalogued and 1-2% imaged, rendering their information underused. The sheer scale and complexity of digitising and providing access to this information requires technological, socio-cultural, and organisational capacity enhancements across the continent. This challenge is being tackled by the new ESFRI initiative Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo). DiSSCo will unify access to collection data in a harmonised and integrated manner across Europe. It will enable critical new insights from integrated digital data to address some of the world's greatest challenges, such as biodiversity loss and impacts of climate change. However, new research and technological innovation will be required to solve the challenges of efficiently digitising and seamlessly accessing the collections. Building on previous project outputs, community and industrial expertise, the ICEDIG project will design all the technical, financial, policy and governance aspects for developing and operating DiSSCo. A consolidation stream will develop a shared governance model to support all aspects of service unification such as implementation of the open access principles, incentive schemes, planning and prioritisation, capacity development, etc. A technology stream will focus on the innovations that will be required to digitise a significant part of major collections in a foreseeable time, at acceptable cost, and to manage petabyte-size data. The work will be carried out in wide consultation with the larger community. The outputs will be prototypes, blueprints, novel workflows, new industry partnerships, and citizen involvement models, paving the way for the successful construction of the DiSSCo research infrastructure.

The world is changing rapidly; climate change, land use change, pollution and natural resource exploitation are creating a global crisis for biodiversity whose magnitude and dynamics are hard to quantify. Decision makers at all levels need uptodate information from which to evaluate policy options. For this reason rapid, reliable, repeatable monitoring of biodiversity data is needed at all scales from local to global. Only by leveraging large volumes of data, advanced modelling techniques and powerful computing tools can we hope to synthesize these data within timescales that are relevant to policy. Data on biodiversity come from a diverse range of sources, citizen scientists, museums, herbaria and researchers are all major contributors, but increasingly new technologies are being deployed, such as automatic sensors, camera traps, eDNA and satellite tracking. Integrating these data is a major challenge, but is necessary if we are to create dependable information on biodiversity change. B3 will use the concept of data cubes to simplify and standardize access to biodiversity data using the Essential Biodiversity Variables framework. These cubes will be used, in conjunction with other environmental data and scenarios, as the basis for models and indicators of past, current and future biodiversity. The overarching goal of the project is to provide easy access to tools in a cloud computing environment, in real-time and on-demand, with state of the art prediction models of biodiversity, that will output models and indicators of biodiversity status and change. The project envisages a future where primary biodiversity data are seamlessly integrated into monitoring and forecasting such that policy and management can proactively respond to problems while at the same time reduce the costs of monitoring and management, and the negative impacts of biodiversity change.