The ROBOtics KNOwledge Transfer Lab (ROBO-KNOT) is a cross-sectoral and cross-border mobility initiative designed to accelerate knowledge transfer in the Robotics field. By facilitating secondments of Research and Innovation (R&I) talent between academic and non-academic sectors, this project aims to promote more attractive and sustainable research careers in Widening Countries, in alignment with the European Commission’s ERA Policy Agenda (Action 4). The project will directly involve 24 researchers and 12 R&I support staff from academic institutions in Widening Countries (Greece, Portugal, Slovenia), who will be seconded to organisations in either Widening (Estonia, Greece, Portugal) or non-Widening (Spain) countries. ROBO-KNOT's structured methodology, comprising Pre-secondment, Secondment, and Post-secondment phases, ensures impactful skills development and knowledge exchange. Firstly, talent is carefully selected and matched with opportunities that align with both individual goals and hosting organisations’ strategic needs. Through a modular secondment approach, participants are then immersed in diverse work settings, enhancing their practical knowledge of Robotics technologies’ commercial development. Finally, the Post-secondment phase includes targeted training activities and ongoing support to ensure long-term impact of the action, particularly with regards to the innovation-to-commercialisation pipeline. ROBO-KNOT has developed a tailored Skills Development Framework, in line with the European Commission’s ResearchComp, as well as a Career Advancement Plan, which ensures high impact of the project on secondees’ employability, future career prospects and knowledge sharing capabilities. ROBO-KNOT not only benefits seconded talent individually, but also increases consortium organisations’ R&I support capacity and ability to establish effective cross-sectoral and cross-border collaborations, contributing to a more integrated European innovation ecosystem.

AI, Data and Robotics (ADR) is omnipresent in our daily lives and key to addressing some of the most pressing challenges facing our society. Europe has excellent research centres, innovative start-ups, a world-leading position in robotics and competitive manufacturing and services sectors, from automotive to healthcare, energy, financial services and agriculture. While the essentials are present, European ADR is waiting for exploitation to achieve its full potential. The ADR ecosystem is inherently complex because many stakeholders at many different levels require a holistic strategy towards collaboration to be effective and efficient. The Adra Association, representing the private side of the ADR Partnership, leverages this diversity through its founding organisations (BDVA, euRobotics, CLAIRE, ELLIS, EurAI) and channels it to the benefit of the European ecosystem. The Adra-e CSA proposal is set up in close liaison with Adra Association and includes it as a partner, committed to sustain its outcomes. Adra-e should be seen as the operational arm of the partnership to foster collaboration, convergence and interoperability between communities and disciplines to advance European ADR while safeguarding the interest of European citizens. This is achieved by supporting the ADR Partnership in the update and implementation of the SRIDA, creating the conditions for an inclusive, sustainable, effective, multi-layered, and coherent European ADR ecosystem, leading to increased trust and adoption of ADR, a more competitive supply and demand sides in the EU and raising private investments at the same time.The consortium is composed of leading industry and research organisations with significant expertise in all three disciplines. All are involved in Adra and the associations and partnerships shaping European research. Many of them are supporting the Digitising European Industry initiative from the EC participating in the constitution of Digital Innovation Hubs Network and Digital platforms.

AIOLIA gives a robust 3-tier response to the complex challenges posed by the need to operationally interpret the EU AI Act and global AI regulation. (1) Recognizing the gap between ethical values and their practical application in engineering, AIOLIA pioneers a bottom-up approach to operationalize AI ethics with regard to human condition and behaviour. Following a selection of real-world use cases, AIOLIA translates high-level principles into actionable and contextual guidelines co-created by leading academic, policy, and ethics-aware industrial partners who represent diverse professional and geographic European and international contexts. (2) AIOLIA's commitment to context-sensitivity is deepened by crafting modular, inclusive training materials following the ADDIE methodology designed to cater to diverse learning needs. Hosted on the Embassy of Good Science, AIOLIA materials will range from lectures, videos, and mock reviews to such innovative formats as podcasts, Tiktoks, and a chatbot teaching AI ethics. (3) AIOLIA's outreach is amplified by encompassing 7 research ethics and integrity networks and 3 prominent computer science networks. This strategic alignment enables us to effectively recruit training participants and disseminate human-centric ethics guidelines to a wide spectrum of stakeholders, from ethics experts to early-stage researchers and policymakers worldwide. Resolutely European, AIOLIA's vision propagates beyond EU, embracing global cooperation with leading universities and think tanks in China, South Korea, Japan, and Canada. Utilizing UNESCO platform with its reach to Africa and South Asia, AIOLIA’s guidelines evolve into an analytic toolbox for key international AI dialogues and processes. This global perspective ensures that AIOLIA's impact is not only significant but also sustainable, contributing to fair scientific cooperation and providing concrete and culturally informed ethics instruments to shape the next generation of AI systems.