A strong, peaceful and resilient Europe depends on shared common values and on strong communities. In a globalized, interconnected and ever-changing world, those communities emerge across national boundaries and are heterogenous in their composition. As an interlinked system, they are constantly facing economic, health-related, environmental and social challenges that require multiprofessional and solid responses. This application for TransCoDe aims to design a Joint Master Programme “Transnational Community Development” that follows an interdisciplinary approach and enables its graduates to recognize the distinctiveness and the specific needs of transnational communities. Graduates will acquire competencies to address community building challenges in transnational settings, to act responsibly, to design interventions in creating social responses to such systemic challenges, and to find effective and problem-solving approaches for strong and sustainable transnational communities.In developing the Joint Master Programme with TransCoDe, the consortium of five HEI (FHWS - Germany, Diak - Finland, VID - Norway, UniTBv - Romania and GJU - Jordan) will pursue the following objectives:•Objective 1: Creation of a Competence Profile of the future graduates which includes adequate methods for the assessment of the competencies•Objective 2: Development of the Didactical Outline•Objective 3: Development of the Administrative Framework•Objective 4: Creation of an Evaluation and Quality Monitoring Process incl. Accreditation•Objective 5: Creation of a Promotion StrategyThe design process will comprise two phases and will be implemented according to the agreed division of roles, re-sponsibilities and competence areas of the partner HEI: migration, intercultural relations, sustainable development, marginalized groups. TransCoDe will contribute to the attractiveness of the EHEA and is a chance to strengthen un-derrepresented disciplines and institutions.

Developing digital and practical skills in fields, which combat climate change and adopt clean energy is essential for Europe's sustainable growth. Global warming has awakened many vehicle brands to decide quitting manufacture of traditional fuel driven vehicles by 2030. New innovations and fuel technologies require a new kind of expertise in automotive industry. This also requires a reform of vocational training. Due to this, car mechanic, vehicle business and vehicle engineer educations need to be developed to educate skilled mechanics, vehicle salespersons, engineers, and vehicle sector teachers with modern technology know-how. There are very little content of servicing modern technology vehicles in VET in Europe. Additionally, the radical changes in European safety situation have made all alternative energy sources even more crucial for all project countries, especially those with dependence on the traditional fuel from other countries.The Auto-Cove project partners will create 17 study modules or training courses of modern vehicle technology and vehicle sales and pilot them among VET-teachers, vehicle company service and sales personnel and vehicle students on secondary and tertiary levels. The development work will be done by listening to needs from labor market and vocational teachers in vehicle field. Industry representatives and VET-teachers in vehicle sector in seven European countries will be interviewed about real needs in vehicle sector education. Auto-Cove partners' collaborative development work will be based on the skills-gap analysis and partners specific expertise in the vehicle and sales sectors. Finnish research center and German and Estonian universities of applied sciences contribute development work with updated research data of the field.The project outputs will be disseminated by Dutch Electude International- company to 3400 active VET-providers worldwide in 8 language versions and in English via OER-platform in English in Europe.

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.

GaN4AP project has the ambitious target of making the GaN-based electronics to become the main power active device present in all power converter systems, with the possibility of developing a close-to-zero energy loss power electronic systems. GaN4AP project will… 1. Develop innovative Power Electronic Systems for power conversion and management with advanced architecture and circuit topology based on state of the art GaN-based High Electron Mobility Transistors (HEMTs) available in a new concept high-frequency packages that can achieve the requested 99% power conversion efficiency. 2. Develop an innovative material (Aluminium Scandium Nitride, AlScN) that combined with advanced growth and process solutions can provide outstanding physical properties for highly efficient power transistors. Therefore, a new HEMT device architecture will be fabricated with much higher current (2x) and power density (2x) than existing transistors. 3. Develop a new generation of vertical power GaN-based devices on MOSFET architecture with vertical p-GaN inversion channel for safe power switching up to 1200 V. We will cover all the production chain from the device design, processing and characterization up to tests in low inductance half bridge power modules and their implementation in high speed power switching systems. 4. Develop a new intelligent and integrated GaN solutions (STi2GaN) both in System in Package (SiP) and Monolithic variances, that will allow the generation of E-Mobility power converters. The projects will focus on scalable concept for 48V-12V bidirectional Buck Boost converters for conventional and ADAS applications combining, in a novel wire-bond free package, a state of the art BCD driver & controller along with a common substrate Monolithic 100V e-GaN Half Bridge. The development of new device technologies and innovative power circuits, employing the GaN-based devices is a crucial factor for the world-wide competitiveness of EU industries.