The Internet provides an exponentially growing number of freely accessible vocational training material in different topics and fields of practice. But the material is widely spread, typically only perceived by insiders on a local level and there is no structure that adequately supports international collaboration among the stakeholders. To turn information into knowledge and knowledge into action, the main challenge was to validate the data we were receiving over the internet, to contextualise and communicate it. The VIVET is by now the first cross-sectoral repository collecting and delivering vocational videos and other electronic training resources in many languages, from all countries in Europe and beyond. The repository has collected videos and training material from different sources across the internet, and is processing this information by combining elements of human expertise with the most relevant, cutting-edge technologies. Users can search/filter the database according to various criteria: Theme, trade, country, language etc. Additionally, they can explore trade sections in order to find the most relevant videos and electronic training material related to specific themes.Based on the repository, the project provides a collaborative learning platform allowing users to work directly online. Community-oriented technical features enable and encourage them to discuss the material and get in contact with each other. While the repository is open for all trades and for everyone interested, the consortium has begun by focusing its activities on a defined target group and four pilot trades: 1.) Health Care and Geriatric Care, 2.) IT-Cyber Security, 3.) Organic Agriculture, 4.) Environment Protection. Our first users were to be teachers and students with a refugee status as they can especially benefit from the advantages of VIVET, helping them to gain skills and knowledge to access the European work market. Using the VIVET learning platform and its content, we have developed learning modules adapted to the specific needs of refugees and train them in blended courses in Italy, Bulgaria, Spain and Germany. Once implemented, the experiences with the pilot will were evaluated and further trade sections were introduced. The VIVET facilitates free access to training resources not only for students and teachers, but also for the general public. For individuals, it provides career orientation and skills in career self-management and delivers new methods and approaches in vocational training and lifelong learning for better employment opportunities. The platform fosters international collaboration, mutual exchange of ideas and knowledge, and thus helps best practices to circulate much faster. European enterprises and entrepreneurs will benefit greatly from an interactive platform furthering and promoting innovation in vocational education and training.The project was implemented by a transnational consortium of partners from Bulgaria, Italy, Spain and Germany, all of whom have extensive experiences in vocational training. In VIVET they see a great opportunity to internationalise their activities and to address the digital challenge about to change the VET-sector fundamentally, in the most effective and offensive way. Being the initiators of such an important project they will be playing a leading role in fostering innovative solutions for vocational education and training in Europe. Establishing VIVET is a collaborative venture. The consortium is explicitly inviting other initiatives, particularly other EU funded projects, organizations, institutions and companies to participate in extending the project by registering their vocational videos or other electronic training material in the database, and by creating exciting themed sites or connecting their own services with the project, and thus increasing their own impact on the world of international VET.Beyond the project phase the VIVET will extend its activities to all trades, countries and languages. Having started with refugees as the first main target group, the consortium will search for partners in developing countries in order to increase the educational level in areas that suffer insufficient educational infrastructure.

TRUESSEC.EU is a CSA on certification and labelling of trustworthiness properties from a multidisciplinary SSH-ICT perspective and with emphasis on human rights. The current complexity of ICT products and services makes it difficult to appraise their trustworthiness. Thus, certification becomes a must to restore transparency and trust. TRUESSEC.EU aims at exploring the situation, the barriers, and the benefits of security and privacy labels; engaging stakeholders in the discussions, and issuing recommendations that may foster the adoption and acceptance of labels. With that aim, TRUESSEC.EU works and results are sustained by three pillars: 1) A StakeHolders' Online Platform (SHOP), where associated cluster projects and stakeholders from industry, academia, governments and civil society will gather, participate in debates, get informed, and provide their opinions and feedback on the topics of the project. 2) A series of Support Analysis and Studies (SUPPA) from multidisciplinary perspectives on issues of trustworthiness certification and assurance, to study the situation of trust-enhancing labels, barriers/incentives to industry adoption and consumer acceptance. Information will be gathered from both public sources and the interactions with stakeholders through SHOP. Four different approaches will be applied: -Socio-cultural -Legal & ethical -Technological -Business 3) A set of Recommendations on European Trust-Enhancing Labels (ETEL) dealing with: methodological aspects of certification and assurance, a catalogue of criteria for labels and certifications, and regulatory aspects to foster their adoption, plus a strategic agenda. These recommendations reflect the conclusions obtained from the support analysis and from the stakeholders. The community of stakeholders will nourish, among others, from: (a) members of the consortium partners that are stakeholder networks themselves (DIGICAT, APWG, KTN, AUI), and (b) H2020 RIAs & IAs from the associated cluster.

LAZARUS is a three-year research and innovation project that aims to heal many of the security issues that befall modern software during its development lifecycle. The recently introduced area of DevSecOps - in medium to large companies - unfortunately lacks automated security tools, while most existing solutions are targeting only one narrow step of the SDLC process but miss a much needed holistic overview of the global security solution. LAZARUS innovates by intervening in multiple steps of the SDLC, performing targeted security checks and collecting valuable information and intelligence from each step, and exploiting advanced ML and AI methods to convert this intelligence into actionable insights and recommendations. The main innovations of LAZARUS are illustrated in the figure below. Moreover, we provide advanced features for developers, that employing our tools would be able to deploy more intelligent and distributed solutions through dedicated APIs. LAZARUS follows an open-source approach for the core functionality, which is supported by a realistic and viable business model for the sustainability and further exploitation of the project after it reaches the end of this financing phase. To validate the efficacy of the project outcomes we have secured two exciting real-world, diverse, pilots in two very different and demanding sectors.

Digital evidence is currently an integral part of criminal investigations, and not confined to pure cybercrime cases. Criminal behaviours like financial frauds, intellectual property theft, industrial espionage, and terrorist networks leverage the Internet and cyberspace. The very ubiquity of digital devices, e.g. smartphones, in modern society makes digital evidence extremely relevant for investigations about all kinds of criminal behaviour like murder, contraband activities, and people smuggling, to name a few. Due to its nature, the use of digital evidence in a court of law has always been challenging. It is critical that it should be accompanied by a proper chain of custody, guaranteeing its source and integrity. LOCARD aims to provide a holistic platform for chain of custody assurance along the forensic workflow, a trusted distributed platform allowing the storage of digital evidence metadata in a blockchain. Each node of LOCARD will be able to independently set its own permission policies and to selectively share access to digital evidence with other nodes when deemed necessary and upon proper authorization through fine-grained policies. LOCARD's modularity will also allow diverse actors to tailor the platform to their specific needs and role in the digital forensic workflow, from preparation and readiness, to collection, to analysis and reporting. LOCARD will have a crowdsource module to collect citizen reports of selected violations, a crawler to detect and correlate online deviant behaviour, and a toolkit for investigators that will assist them in collecting online and offline evidence. This will be powered by an immutable storage and an identity management system that will protect privacy and handle access to evidence data using a Trusted Execution Environment. Blockchain technology will not only guarantee that information about the evidence cannot be tampered with, but allow interoperability without the need for a trusted third party.