The discipline of anatomy is becoming increasingly complex due to the greater understanding and development of novel surgical approaches. Due to its very nature, this area does not lend itself to the traditional approaches of teaching and learning. With the emergence of cutting-edge digital media, such as Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality (AR/VR/MR), and the reduction in 3D printing costs, learners can see and touch detailed models and structures that are rare to patients in clinical practice, or impossible to discern on cadavers. Such resources, usually lack a concomitant development approach for educational efficacy together with immersive engagement. Existing disjointed approaches incur overheads in development, with numerous iterations required to ensure ‘fitness for practice’. By developing tools in this manner, resources are embedded with a techno-centric rather than an edu-centric approach to curricular design. Thus, teaching becomes cumbersome, with unforeseen nuances impacting efficacy. ENTICE aims to use co-creative methodologies in order to build a solid creation pipeline for medical experiential content bringing together a network of academics, medical educators and industrial content creators. These stakeholders will develop, evaluate and proliferate edu-centric immersive learning resources and tools aiming to support well-defined learning objectives using tangible and intangible resources (AR/VR/MR, 3D printing) that are highly sought after in the fields of anatomy and surgery. The ENTICE design, implementation and evaluation process will explore the effectiveness and efficiency of novel bespoke educational episodes that will be created within the project, utilizing various delivery approaches. This analysis will be distilled into best practices for academic and industry stakeholders, providing an evidence-based approach to the content creation industries for integration of experiential learning tools in medical education.

OpenBudgets.eu will provide an open-source software framework and accompanying Software-As-A-Service (SAAS) platform for supporting financial transparency, thus enhancing accountability within public sectors, and as a result preventing corruption. A key challenge addressed by OpenBudgets.eu is to provide a multi-stakeholder framework which is scalable, easy-to-use, flexible and attractive. The core objectives of OpenBudgets.eu project are: * A semantic data model, which will be used to integrate all relevant budget and transaction data, giving a pre-defined structure to the input data. This will enable the integration of data from different public sectors at different levels. This integration can then be exploited by comparing different datasets. * A library of visualisation tools with a user-friendly interface, which will enable stakeholders to visualise available data in different granularity and in different modalities (spatial, temporal, administrative). These tools will enable the scrutiny of data under different lenses, enabling stakeholders to explore any relevant budget allocation. * A library of data mining and comparative analysis tools. This library will enable the aggregation of existing data in order to obtain new outcomes and discover trends and patterns, and potentially forecasting budget measures. * A feedback and citizen engagement interface which enables users to discuss and give feed-back on the provided data, for example, suggesting different priorities for budgeting, or discussing a particular transaction. The OpenBudgets.eu open-source framework and portal will integrate these components into a comprehensive portal. The framework will be deployed as a software-as-a-service for thousands of public administrations and millions of citizens. We will apply the project concept to three large-scale pilot scenarios in the domains participatory budgeting, data journalism and corruption prevention.

UPCAST provides a set of universal, trustworthy, transparent and user-friendly data market plugins for the automation of data sharing and processing agreements between businesses, public administrations and citizens. Our plugins will enable actors in the common European data spaces to design and deploy data exchange and trading operations guaranteeing (i) automatic negotiation of agreement terms, (ii) dynamic fair pricing, (ii) improved data-asset discovery, (iii) privacy, commercial and administrative confidentiality requirements, (iv) low environmental footprint, as well as ensuring compliance with (v) relevant legislation and (vi) ethical and responsibility guidelines. UPCAST will support the deployment of Common European data spaces by consolidating mature research in the areas of data management, privacy, monetisation, exchange and automated negotiation, considering efficiency for the environment as well as compliance with EU and national initiatives, AI regulations and ethical procedures. Four real-world pilots across Europe will operationalise a set of working platform plugins for data sharing, monetisation and trading, deployable across a variety of different data marketplaces and platforms, ensuring digital autonomy of data providers, brokers, users and data subjects, and enabling interoperability within European data spaces. UPCAST aims at engaging SMEs, administrations and citizens by providing a transferability framework, best practices and training to endow users in order to deploy the new technologies and maximise impact of the project.