TITLE: INnovating COworking Methods through Exchange
Acronym: INCOME

http://www.alda-europe.eu/newSite/project_dett.php?ID=111
Partnership
9 partners:
Stiftelsen Färgfabriken (Sweden) Lead Partner

ALDA – The European Association for Local Democracy (France)
Municipality of Larissa (Greece)
Megahub (Italy)
Clube Intercultural Europeu (Portugal)
Local Democracy Agency Mostar (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
Development Centre Novo Mesto (Slovenia)
ARCA (Italy)
Europimpulse Training SL (Spain)

Description
The project will discuss education, capacity building and exchange of experience and good practices for the management of co-working spaces (public and private) in partner cities and countries

Participation of the Municipality of Larissa:
Larissa has incorporated into the network the activities that take place in the Mill of Pappas as a co-working space, a hub of culture and creativity.

The project aims to:
• to promote the exchange of good practices between co-working spaces in small and medium-sized cities across Europe.
• to highlight added value and provide opportunities for local development from such structures.
• raise awareness of decision makers on the importance of co-working spaces and HUBs and their contribution to the promotion of entrepreneurship and employment opportunities for young people
• creating a broader strategy based on partnerships involving local authorities and local stakeholders, etc.

Duration: 24 months

Total budget: 128.400 €

Final Publication of the INCOME Project

TITLE: Sport for Values

https://sport4values.eu/en/

Partnership: 9 partners
Municipality of Kaunas (Poland) Lead Partner

Municipality of Larissa (Greece)
Municipality of Thermi (Greece)
Municipality of Portimao (Portugal)
Municipality of Umea (Sweden)
Municipality of Fazana (Croatia)
Municipality of Santanski (Bulgary)
Municipality of Liepoja (Latvia)
Union of Baltic Cities - UBC (Poland)

Description:
The project “Sport for Values” aims to promote the principles of respect, solidarity, cooperation, freedom of expression and tolerance through sport, and in particular the "urban sports" – BMX, skateboard, parkour, basketball 3X3 – that attract young people who are not interested in popular sports. The activities of the project include the networking between the cities involved in Sports 4 Values Network, the exchange of information and experience at European level on sports initiatives (surveys, work visits), raising public awareness of the common European principles promoted through sport (workshops, workshops, publicizing tools and training professionals involved in sport, youth and social development).

Duration: 24 months
Total Budget: 150.000€

https://digicultproject.eu/

TITLE: Digital presentation and preservation of intangible cultural heritage
ACRONYM: DigiCult
Partnership: 8 partners
Burgaski Svoboden Universitet (Bulgaria) Lead Partner

Regional Historical Museum Burgas (Bulgaria)
Dimitra Ekpaiditiki Simvilitiki AE (Greece)
Municipality of Larissa (Greece)
European Training and Research Association For A Cooperation Key to Business (Italy)
Lativijas Kulturas Akademijas Agentura Latvijas Kulturas Akademijas Latvijas Kulturas Koledza (Latvia)
Associazione Canto Di Eea (Italy)
Lativijas Etnografiskais Brivdabas Musejs (Latvia)

Description
The DigiCult project aims to elaborate and promote an innovative framework for digitization and efficient and cost-effective training on digital presentation, preservation and promotion of the intangible cultural heritage (ICH) of Europe from global and long-term perspective. The provision of relevant training in ICH digitization (standards and methods) will contribute to meet common challenges such as the digital shift and need of encouragement of innovation in the cultural sector as the ability for practical application of digital skills and competences is a valuable asset to any professional qualification in this domain.

Duration: 24 months

Total budget: 278.927 €

Title:

A Circle Of youth for tHe EuRope wE want

Acronym: COHERENT

www.coherent-project.eu

Partnership14 partners Youth Cultural Center Maribor (Slovenia) Lead PartnerInternational institute for implementing sustainable development (Slovenia)INNOVATION HIVE (Greece)PROJECTS FOR EUROPE PFE (Belgium)AREGAI cultural association (Italy)Municipality of Larissa (Greece)Association for Sustainable Future (Hungary)Local Government of Nagykanizsa (Hungary)Environmental and cultural Association “Permacultura Cantabria” (Spain)Focus Eco Center (Romania)Entrepreneurship Institute (Lithuania)Eurasia Youth Development Association (Turkey)Center for Sustainable Industrial Development (Lithuania)Olemisen Balanssia ry (Finland) Description: COHERENT aims to contribute to the strategy for young people through empowerment, involvement and networking. The aim is to increase the participation of young people in city life, in relation to the European Youth Objectives # 3 (Inclusive Societies), # 4 (Information & constructive dialogue), # 10 (Sustainable Green Europe), the promotion cross-border mobility and increase youth cooperation in projects, including capacity building. Within COHERENT the following will be implemented: knowledge node (3 electronic modules), e-books, mobility actions, public debates, policy-making toolkit, etc. COHERENT will have short-term and long-term effects on youth, Non Profits Organizations, other participants, as well as in socio-economic environments, eg, acquiring new skills, abilities and mentality related to a sustainable EU, democracy, participation, citizenship, increasing the target groups interested in participation, increased cooperation. Duration: 18 μήνεςTotal budget: 26.304,88 €

Title: “BETA - Bridges of Intergenerational Approach» (2022-1-EL01-KA220-ADU-000088752)
Acronym: BETA

Partners: 6
Lead Partner:
• OPEN UP, Greek Scientific Association of Innovation (Greece)
Partners:
• UC Limburg (Belgium)
• Synthesis Center for Research and Education Limited (Cyprus)
• Tiber Umbria Comett Education Programme (Italy)
• Municipality of Larissa (Greece)
• Munster Technological University (Ireland)

Project description

1. BETA project aims to address to multi-faceted challenges posed by the phenomenon of population ageing that affects almost every developed country; as seniors live longer nowadays while the proportion of young and older people in the population of Europe is continuously growing: 90.5 million older people living in the EU 28 at the start of 2019-one fifth (20.3%) of the total population which is projected to reach 29,4 % in 2050 ("Ageing Europe", EU 2020).
2. Although seniors are a big part of the total population, they are largely marginalised and suffer from social exclusion and isolation; nevertheless, they can be an active part in the society with a significant contribution as a whole under the right conditions. Considering that living longer does not necessarily mean living a healthier, more active and independent life, BETA recognises the importance influence of regular contacts with others, participation in educational programs and
volunteering on seniors overall life satisfaction (Lubben et al, 2015) aiming to create the framework for the elderly to stay active.
3. Considering intergenerational learning is an active ageing strategy largely applied, BETA is a pilot model in this field facilitating the bilateral exchange of experiences between older and young people supporting seniors social inclusion, making them feel useful in social level and active. On the other side of the generation gap, issues of social inclusion also impact children and their use of technology (Valentine et al, 2002).
4. We consider that in our digital era digital literacy & technological advancements present a response to seniors isolation and their social integration into society, mostly now in the circumstances of COVID 19- and that game based activities can be a bridge for the two generations to be met. Therefor, BETA creates and promotes digital learning opportunities for both generations encouraging the older people efforts to be active, free and resilient citizens.
5. BETA enriches and valorises an already tested and awarded example by "Larissa Learning City".
6. We develop, test and implement a training kit in a close collaboration between academics, training organizations, local authorities and seniors.
7. We promote digital learning activities as a green response to the environmental sustainability.
8. BETA project helps break down restrictive perceptions, social barriers by ageism and age-related stereotypes, taking into account that seniors are often stigmatised on the basis of their chronological age while negative stereotypes are attached to the physical, cognitive and emotional changes which occur with age.
9. Although there is a big interest in active ageing in EU policies (e.g. Active ageing — https://ec.europa.eu/social/ main.jsp?langId=en&catId=1062, etc) the whole number of proposals funded in this field is small.
10. We support the UN slogan"Toward A Society for Al Ages" (UNESCO, 2002)

Duration: 24 months
Total Budget: 400.000 €
Budget of Municipality of Larissa: 55.300 €

ACRONYM: CIA 7

http://urbact.eu/cia-7

Partnership
9 partners:

Metropole Europeenne de Lille, France (Lead Partner)

Municipality of Larissa (Greece)
Municipality of Bari (Italy)
Municipality of Pesaro (Italy)
Municipality of Seville (Spain)
Municipality of Dublin (Ireland)
Municipality of Duisburg (Germany)
Municipality of Lublin (Poland)
Municipality of Olomouc (Czech Republic)

Description

In the 2014-2020 programming period as set out in Article 7 (EU Regulation 1301/2013 on the European Regional Development Fund), sustainable urban development is being pursued with a more holistic and targeted approach of a long-term and strategic nature. This approach is expected to effectively solve the problems of urban areas and offers tools that the Member States are called upon to make use of.
In the governance and management of these projects the municipal authorities have a leading and decisive role, while the active involvement of other city stakeholders such as productive and social actors, representatives of civil society, etc., is being sought.

The aim of the project is to develop and share methods and good practices from planning, financing, evaluation and implementation of integrated Sustainable Urban Development Strategies (SUDS).
The cities participating in the scheme represent different planning, financing, implementation and management processes and policies for the use of Article 7 of the Regulation. By participating in the CIA7 network, cities are invited to exchange experiences on specific Implementation Challenges (ICs) related to the core subject of their integrated urban strategies / action plans and to the implementation of these strategies / action plans. Through this process, new ideas are expected to emerge to address challenges related to sustainable urban development.

Duration: 6 months

Total budget of 142.900 €

TITLE: Wood Footprint
ACRONYM: WoodFootprint

http://urbact.eu/wood-footprint

Partnership
9 Municipalities as partners:

Paços de Ferreira – Portugal (Lead Partner)

Municipality of Larissa, Greece
Municipality of Roesalare, Belgium
Municipality of Viborg, Denmark
Municipality of Tartu, Estonia
Municipality of Lecce και Sternatia, Italy
Municipality of Monaghan, Ireland
Municipality of Yecla, Spain
Municipality of Wycombe, Great Britain

Description

The aim of the network was to develop and share methods and practices for assessing and investigating solutions to the impact of the economic crisis on the industrial and ecological footprint of European cities with a particularly strong presence in the furniture and wood sector.

Duration: 36 months

Total budget of 700.000 €

TITLE: The Playful Paradigm Transfer Network

ACRONYM: Playful Paradigm

Partnership: 8 partners
Municipality of Udine (Italy) Coordinator

Phase 1 partners
City of Cork (Ireland)
City of Klaipeda (Lithuania)
Phase 2 partners
Municipality of Esplugues de Llobregat (Spain)
Municipality of Viana do Castelo (Portugal)
Municipality of Larissa (Greece)
City of Katowice (Poland)
City of Novigrad (Croatia)

Description:
The Playful Paradigm project is a Transfer Network, the members of which aim to adapt and transfer the URBACT Good Practice of the city of Udine, that uses “games” as a flexible and innovative way for healthy and sustainable place-making. Cities face challenges, such as urbanization, population ageing, climate change adaptation, that need an innovative and co-created tool to provide well-being and resilience for promoting sustainability. Udine is the Italian lead city of the Playful Cities Movement and promotes the use of “games” as innovative tools for citizens’ involvement at different ages, for health and sustainability promotion, social inclusion as well as tackling addictive behaviors. During the project, the member cities of the network are invited to analyze and assess the transferability potential, discuss the local conditions (within their Urbact Local Groups) and adapt the Good Practice for their city.

Duration: 24 months
Total Budget: 598.830€

TITLE: “Empowering Territorial Food Corridors within the European Union” (1st Phase)

ACRONYM: FOOD CORRIDORS (prev. Rurban Food)

https://urbact.eu/food-corridors

Parthnership: 8 partners

• Coimbra (Portugal) Coordinator,

• Tartumaa Arendusselts (Esthonia),
• Larissa (Greece),
• Córdoba (Spain),
• Szécsény (Hungary),
• Unione dei Comuni della BassaRomagna (Italy),
• Alba Iulia (Romania),
• BSC, POSLOVNO PODPORNI CENTERD.O.O. KRANJ (Slovenia).

Description:

Objective of the Project Rurban Food is the transition to local – regional food systems. The project aims to create a network of cities that will be the key to strengthening the interconnection between rural and urban areas. To achieve this goal, the promotion of fresh, local and healthy foods and the stimulation of small production and consumption businesses will be attempted. In this way, the creation of an environment of production and consumption based on economic, social and environmental sustainability is enhanced.

Duration: 6 months (1^st phase)

Total budget: 85.310 €

Budget for the Municipality of Larissa: 4.950 €

Title: A cybersecurity situational awareness and information sharing solution for local public administrations based on advanced big data analysis

Acronym: CS-AWARE

http://cs-aware.eu/

Partnership
13 partners

Oulu Yliopisto (UNIOULU), Finland (Lead Partner)

Universitat Wien (UNIVENNA), Austria
Universitat Passau (UNIPASSAU), Germany
Caris Research Ltd (CARIS), United Kingdom
3rdPLACE SRL (3rdPLACE), Italy
DashSoft ApS (DashSoft), Denmark
PERACTON Limited (PERACTON), Ireland
Innovative Secure Technologies P.C. (InnoSec), Greece
Andriessen Jeffrey Elbertus Bartholomeus – Wise & Munro (W&M), Netherlands
ANCITEL SPA (ANCITEL), Italy
Open Technology Services S.A. (OTS), Greece
Roma Capitale (CRC), Italy
Municipality of Larissa (ML), Greece

Description

The program's objective is to search for and implement new and innovative solutions to manage and address malicious attacks on digital systems used by local governments, in line with the European cybersecurity strategy and guidelines.

Goals

A system for cybersecurity situational awareness that will help combat and prevent cyber-attacks.
• Relevant information is required to be shared with the relevant bodies, eg:
o CERTs (National / European)
o Units / Departments for Combating Electronic Crime
• The Need for CS Aware - Why?
o The European Network and Information Security Directive (NIS) obliges member states to align themselves with European cyber security efforts.
o European cyber security strategy
o Decentralized prevention and response to cyber-security incidents and attacks.
• Who will help
o Cyber-defense requires resources (human and financial) that their large organizations have.
• Those who usually have a shortage are:
o Small and medium-sized SME
o Local Authorities (Local Authorities)

Duration: 36 months

Total budget: 4.648.362,50 €

TITLE: Activating Innovative IoT Smart living environments for ageing well
ACRONYM: ACTIVAGE

http://www.activageproject.eu/

Partnership

In the ACTIVAGE project of the European Commission, the Municipality of Larissa is participating through the inter-municipal development company "CitiesNet SA", along with the Municipalities of Veria, Volos, Grevena, Ioanniton, Karditsa, Katerini, Kozani, Lamieon and Trikkaion, BoD.

The overall coordination of the project is undertaken by Medtronic, while the remaining 49 partners come from: 10 from industry, 14 from leading research centers or universities, 11 from large companies and 15 from small and medium-sized but highly innovative companies.
The participating Greek partners are:
• the National Center for Research and Technological Development (CERTH)
• the Hellenic Institute of Transport (CERTH-HIT)
• the Research Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICIS)
• the Digital City of Central Greece (CitiesNET)
• Infotrip Intelligent Transport Systems
• GNOMON COMPUTER SA
• the Municipalities of Pylea, Chortiatis and Metamorphosis.

Description

With this project, the European Commission aims to integrate and strengthen the care of the elderly through new technologies. The ACTIVAGE project is an initiative aimed at tackling effectively the challenges of aging through solutions involving the use of new technologies, a concept based on the notion of -link, which in this case will attempt to make the lives of older people safer, contributing to the promotion of an independent and socially active everyday life while reducing the negative effects of chronic diseases.
ACTIVAGE is a large-scale pilot project to be carried out in the next three and a half years, involving nearly 10,000 senior citizens from seven different EU countries, implementing a range of services based on new technologies (IOT) to promote the provision of services that contribute to a qualitative, active and healthy aging.
The pilot will be implemented in Madrid, Galicia, Valencia, Emilia-Romagna (Italy), Greek regions (Attica, Central Greece, Macedonia), Grenoble, Woquaz, in Leeds (United Kingdom) and in regions of Finland (Espoo, Tampere and Turku).
This is an innovative project aimed at creating and evaluating through certain qualitative indicators the positive impact that new technologies will have on improving the quality of life, health, well-being and independence of older citizens as well as on the sustainability of health systems and social services in the countries of the European Union.
This initiative will have a direct positive impact on competitiveness and job creation, especially for European small and medium-sized European enterprises, as it will create a space for the development of new products and services, in a market of 90 million people.
Especially for the implementation of the project in Greece, the aim is to develop 150 "smart homes" in 2018 and 2019 of the beneficiaries of the "Home Help" of Municipalities participating in the inter-municipal development company OTA CitieNet SA (Veria, Volos, Grevena, Ioanniton, Karditsa, Katerini, Kozani, Lamia, Larissa and Trikala, which also holds the chair of the BoD) in cooperation with the e-trikala SA of the Municipality of Trikala, with supported living systems.
All this will be specified in 2017, to follow the period of procedural approvals in order to start implementing ACTIVAGE. The technology with which the program will be implemented is the next generation on the Internet, the Internet of Things. That is, to specify the uses of the Internet in objects, aiming at improving the everyday life of the citizens.

Duration: 3 years

Total budget: € 20 million

www.activageproject.eu

TITLE: Co-designing Locally tailored Ecological solutions for Value added, socially inclusivE Regeneration in Cities

ACRONYM: CLEVER Cities

http://clevercities.eu/

Partnership: 34 partners

Freie Und Hansestadt Hamburg (Germany) Lead partner

Greater London Authority (United Kingdom)

Comune di Milano (Italy)

Belgrade City Administration (Serbia)

Dimos Lariseon (Greece)

Ayuntamiento de Madrid (Spain)

Malmo Stad (Sweden)

Municipul Sfantu Gheorghe (Romania)

Secretaria de Ambiente (Ecuador)

Societa Cooperativa Sociale Eliante Onlus (Italy)

Fondazione Politecnico di Milano (Italy)

Groundwork London (United Kingdom)

STEG Stadterneuerungs und Stadtentwicklungsgesellschaft Hamburg mbH (Germany)

WWF Ricerche e Progetti SRL (Italy)

Centre for Experiments in Urban Studies - CEUS (Serbia)

Agentia Pentru Protectia Mediului Covasna (Romania)

Tthe Young Foundation LBG (United Kingdom)

Peabody Trust (United Kingdom)

Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (Italy)

Social Finance Limited (United Kingdom)

Yepezsalmon Yepez Salmon Asociados S.A. (Ecuador)

Greenc4ities GMBH (Austria)

Hafencity Univeritat Hamburg (Germany)

Hamburgisches Weltwirtschaftsinstitut Gemeinnutzige GMBH (Germany)

Technische Universitaet Hamburg-Harburg (Germany)

Ecologic Institut gemeinnützige GmbH (Germany)

Fundacion Tecnalia Research & Innovation (Spain)

Universitaetsklinikum Essen (Germany)

European Business and Innovation Centre Network (Belgium)

Unweltbundesamt Gesellschaft Mit Beschrankter Haftung UBA GMBH (Austria)

ICLEI European Secretariat GMBH (ICLEI Europasekretariat GMBH)* (Germany)

ICLEI - Local Goverments for Sustainability EV (Germany)

Ambiente Italia (Italia)

Xi’an Jiaοtong University (China)

Description:
The project will co-create, -implement, and -manage locally tailored NBS to deliver tangible social, environmental and economic improvements in urban regeneration. It is committed to make the interventions in Front-runner cities (FR cities – Hamburg, London, Milan) cases for successful NBS and to prepare robust replication roadmaps in Fellow cities (FE cities – Belgrade, Larissa, Madrid, Malmo, Sfantu George, Quito), that have both NBS experience and expertise to offer. CLEVER Cities applies a city centric approach, starting by key urban regeneration challenges and employing strong local partner clusters, to foster sustainable and socially inclusive urban regeneration locally, in Europe and globally.

Duration: 60 months
Total Budget: 12.500.000€

TITLE: Enabling immigrants to easily know and exercise their rights

ACRONYM: EASYRIGHTS

Partnership: 14 partners
Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Lead partner

Aalborg Universitet (Denmark)
Fondazione Links – Leading Innovation & Knowledge for Society (Italy)
Comune di Palermo (Italy)
Birmingham City Council (United Kingdom)
21C Consultancy Agency (United Kingdom)
Dimos Lariseon (Greece)
Panepistimio Thessalias (Greece)
Universitat fur Weiterbuildung Krems (Austria)
Norge Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet NTNU (Norway)
Institute of Entrepreneurship Development (Greece)
BIC Euronova S.A. (Spain)
Capeeidh AS (Norway)
Christar International (Spain)

Περιγραφή:
The overarching objective of EASYRIGHTS is to develop a co-creation eco-system in which different actors belonging to the local governance system can cooperate in increasing the quantity and quality of public (welfare) services available to immigrants. The specific aims are to improve the current personalization and contextualization levels, empower the prospective beneficiaries of existing services in getting better access and fruition opportunities, and to engage Quadruple Helix stakeholders in joint, purposeful co-creation efforts, facilitated by the use of hackathons. An easyRights platform – with the twin meaning of “aggregation of local stakeholders” and “collection of online and offline services” - will be developed and deployed in four pilot locations (Birmingham, Larissa, Palermo and Valencia). In doing so, easyRights can support immigrants in their search for responses to different needs, making them more autonomous - at least to some extent – from discretionary street level bureaucracies, saving time for both migrants and for social service staff and cutting costs for the public administration.

Duration: 30 months
Total budget: 3.249.918,75€

 Hackathon solution 1 - Residence certificate

Hackathon solution 2 - Birth declaration

“Dynamic cybersecurity management for organisations and local/regional networks based on awareness and collaboration” (CS-AWARE-NEXT) - HORIZON EUROPE.

Leader:
OULUN YLIOPISTO (Finland)
Partners:

• CS-Aware Corporation OÜ (Esthonia)
• UNIVERSITAT WIEN (Austria)
• CENTRO REGIONALE INFORMATION E COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY SCARL (Italy)
• POLITECNICO DI MILANO (Italy)
• Fujitsu Technology Solutions (Luxembourg) SA (Luxembourg)
• INNOVATIVE SECURE TECHNOLOGIES IKE (Greece)
• Wise & Munro (Holland)
• 3RDPLACE SRL (Italy)
• RHEASOFT APS (Denmark)
• CESVITER CONSULTING SRL (Italy)
• OPEN TECHNOLOGY SERVICES AE (Greece)
• FOCUS EUROPE - LABORATORIO PROGETTUALE PER L INTEGRAZIONE EUROPEA ASSOCIAZIONE (Italy)
• Δήμος Λαρισαίων (Greece)
• Consorzio per l'Area di Sviluppo Industriale ASI di Foggia (Italy)
• ΔΗΜΟΤΙΚΗ ΕΠΙΧΕΙΡΗΣΗ ΥΔΡΕΥΣΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΠΟΧΕΤΕΥΣΗΣ ΛΑΡΙΣΑΣ (Greece)
• 5 YGIONOMIKI PERIFERIA THESSALIAS & STEREAS ELLADAS (Greece)
• FINNISH TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION AGENCY (Finland)
• FIAT POWER TRAIN (FPT) INDUSTRIAL SPA (Italy)
• BARILLA G.E.R. FRATELLI SPA (Italy)
• LEONARDO – SOCIETA PER AZONI (Italy)

Description:

CS-AWARE-NEXT aims to provide improved cybersecurity management capabilities to organizations and local/regional supplynetworks. Such organisations and networks operate in a highly dynamic cybersecurity environment, and are required to comply with prevailing European legislation such as the network and information security (NIS) directive. The way such organizations approach cybersecurity increasingly needs to be more dynamic and more collaborative, building on a shared situational awareness of potential cybersecurity issues relevant to the organisations and networks in question.

To achieve this, CS-AWARE-NEXT has identified several focus areas to be addressed: (a) Improved organisational policy support to enable organizations to deal better with the dynamic nature of cybersecurity. (b) Greatly enhanced cooperation/collaboration within the organization and with external actors, such as those comprising the local/regional supply chain. (c) Better integration of threat intelligence in operational cybersecurity management using innovative AI approaches and techniques. (d) Much improved disaster recovery/business continuity, integrated in operational cybersecurity management. (e)Elevated evidence collection and information sharing with relevant actors on the multi-level European cybersecurity framework. (f) Improved capacity for enabling organizations to assess their security status in comparison with other relevant actors through benchmarking and profiling.

CS-AWARE-NEXT builds on the awareness, cybersecurity information sharing, and system self-healing capabilities of the CS-AWARE platform developed during the H2020 project of the same name. The integration of the advanced capabilities of CS-AWARE-NEXT will enable organizations and dependent supply networks to be much more effective and efficient in their use of cybersecurity platforms like CS-AWARE, supporting their day-to-day cybersecurity risk and incident management operations.

Duration: 36 months

Budget of Municipality of Larissa: 90.375 €

Total Budget: 4.993.275.00 €

TITLE: Heart of Europe – network of towns promoting heart culture, solidarity and integration

ACRONYM: HE-ART

http://heart-europe.com/about-project/

Partnership: 15 partners
Drustvo za Naravno Ucenje Z Dozivljanjem Umetnosti In Narave G (Slovenia) Lead Partner

Drustvo za razvoj in varovanje GEOSS-a (Slovenia)
Drustvo za podporo civilne druzbe (Slovenia)
Integration for Alla (Sweden)
Bashkia Lezhe (Albania)
Shoqata Shqiptare e Ambjentalisteve Industriale (Albania)
Dimos Lariseon (Greece)
The Municipality of Pegeia (Cyprus)
Ayuntamiento de Medina del Campo (Spain)
Obshtina Sandanski (Bulgaria)
Sdruzhenie Yuni Partners (Bulgaria)
Mata-malam (France)
Comitato 10 Febbraio (Italy)
Comune di Rieti (Italy)
Hjelmsjövik HVB Hem (Sweden)

Description:
The aim of the program is to create a network of cultural points ("Heart Points") which through art, artistic play, dialogue and volunteering will promote solidarity, peace and acceptance by enhancing active citizenship to overcome xenophobia and stigmatization. The actions to be implemented include events of dialogue, cultural actions, training of organizations to organize awareness raising programs to promote the principles of solidarity, understanding and active participation. In addition, a handbook will be published for civil society organizations on cultural tourism, the integration of art and related programs to tackle stigmatization, the enhancement of active citizenship and the promotion of peace.

Duration: 17 months
Total Budget: 150.000€

TITLE: The future perspective of the European Community

ACRONYM: CIT-EU

Partnership: 4 partners

Commune Di Pomarico (Italy)
Town Petrinja (Croatia)
Municipality of Larissa (Greece)
Agjencia për Zhvillimin Rajonal 1 (Albania)

Description:
In the present situation of international crisis, social insecurity and fear of terrorism, there is a lot of debate on whether the policies of the European Union address the real needs and problems of the citizens of Europe. Euroscepticism has been gaining ground in the member states – especially in Pomarico that has large immigrant communities, those movements had also had political successes. One of the main reasons for that is the lack of knowledge about procedures in European policies.
The cities of Pomarico (Italy), Petrinja (Croatia), Larissa (Greece) and Shkoder (Albania) understand the need to further examine euroscepticism, the promotion of democratic discussion and explaining the real role of the EU. To bridge this gap, it’s essential for European citizens to feel involved. The program aims in encouraging civic participation in the political level, advancing the understanding of the decision making procedures and promoting opportunities on social and intercultural participation and volunteering.
In the meeting in Pomarico, participants will exchange experiences and ideas about issues at the center of Eurosceptic debate, focusing particularly on 3 topics:
- Perception of EU as a cartel pursued by elites far from real needs of Citizens.
- EU/Extra-EU immigration policies, free movement of people with in the Union and request for internal security.
- EU economic interests and attitude toward globalization, social security and solidarity from the citizen’s point of view.
Also, this project offers the opportunity to strengthen existing synergies between public administrations, entrepreneurs, associations, citizens and young people (action target groups) and to discuss about the European Union, as well as the challenges and opportunities for active European citizens.

Duration: 18-21/05/2018
Total Budget: 7.500,00€

TITLE: Participation of Underrepresented Citizens for the valorization of the Cultural Heritage

ACRONYM: P.Un.C.H.

http://www.punchtwinning.eu/

Partnership: 16 partners
Dabrowa Municipality (Poland) Lead Partner

National Association of Municipalities in the Republic of Bulgaria (NAMRB) (Bulgaria)
M2C Institut für angewandter Medienforschung an der Hochschule Bremen (Germany)
Municipality of Larissa (Greece)
D'Antilles & D'Ailleurs (France)
E-Juniors (France)
Sveti Nikole Municipality (FYROM)
Vila Nova De Cerveira Municipality (Portugal)
Nameless Art (Romania)
Raska Municipality (Serbia)
Razvojna Agencija Sotla (Slovenia)
Regionalna Rasvojna Agencija Zasavje (Slovenia)
Mancomunitat de la Ribera Alta (Spain)
Fattoria Pugliese Diffusa (Italy)
Novi Sad 2021 Foundation (Serbia)
Kaunas Biennial (Lithuania)

Description: The project’s main aim is to give disadvantaged young citizens and underrepresented groups the opportunity to intervene in the debate of the future of Europe in general and the EU policies about the valorization of the Cultural Heritage in particular. The activities include exchange of best practices among the partners on how a proper valorization of the cultural heritage could be helpful in fighting against social exclusion, training youth workers/policy makers and local administrators and the organization of 5 local activities in each country, about participation in the EU decision making process, in order to have a say in EU.

Duration: 24 months
Total Budget: 150.000€

ΤITLE: “European Towns – Enhancing Common Values of Solidarity and Intercultural Dialogue”
Acronym: VALID

Partnership: 11 partners
Municipality of Peja (Kosovo) Coordinator

ALDA (France)
Municipality of Zavidovici (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Municipality of Niksic (Montenegro)
Municipality of Knjazevac (Serbia)
Municipality of Patos (Albania)
Municipality of Kumanovo (North Macedonia)
City of Ravena (Italy)
City of Larissa (Greece)
Volunteer Center Novo Mesto (Slovenia)
LDA Kosovo (Kosovo)
LDA Subotica (Serbia)

Description:

The project aims to foster shared values, solidarity and intercultural dialogue within the framework of the Europe for Citizens program. Project actions include transnational meetings, exchange of views and best practices on social inclusion, intercultural dialogue, sustainability, mutual understanding and solidarity with local communities.
Expected results of the project are improved communication and cooperation between partners to promote and empower the network of cities, prepare printed materials and videos for disseminating these findings, information and practices.

Duration: 24 months
Budget for the Municipality of Larissa: 21.250,00 €

Agenda for the Kick-off meeting Valid-European Towns-Enacting Common Values of Solidarity and Intercultural Dialogue

Final Report

Title:
SOLIDART: Network for the youth debate about the solidarity in crisis times, through creativity and art

Acronym: SOLIDART

Partnership
8 partners

Municipality of Grosuplje (Slovenia) Lead Partner
Fajub - Federasia das Associações Juvenis do Distrito de Braga (Portugal)
WIPSEE (France)
Municipality of Dolores (Spain)
FUNDACJA AUTOKREACJA (Poland)
Bulgarian Youth Association (Bulgaria)
Preili County Council (Latvia)
Municipality of Larissa (Greece)

Description:

The SOLIDART program represents a social initiative based on the interest of enhancing understanding among Europe's young people about solidarity in times of crisis. Its aim is to involve young people from the 8 countries of the corporate structure, who live the crisis in different ways, using familiar ways of communication and expression such as ICT and artistic expression, to develop a multicultural discussion of current challenges in EU.
The project is based on 8 international events (one for each project partner) and intends to involve more than 450 participants. At each international event, relevant issues related to solidarity in times of crisis in Europe (Coronavirus crisis, climate change, migrant integration, economic crisis, refugee crisis, urban problems, demographic challenge, etc.) will be addressed. In this process, young people will play a key role, as the most important beneficiaries of the project. They will immediately create the results of the project that will represent creative ways of approaching European solidarity.
Expected results of the project are the improvement of communication and cooperation between the partners to promote and strengthen the participation of young people, the development of new political skills that will allow young people to participate in their local community as "EU citizens", the creation digital material and guide for disseminating these findings, information and practices.

Duration: 24 μήνες
Total budget: 10.200 €

TITLE: LocalEUCharter: EU Charter on Fundamental Rights closer to citizens

ACRONYM: LocalEUCharter

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Partnership: 8 partners

Ayuntamiento De Valencia (Spain) - Lead Partner

Asociatia Se Poate (Romania)

Município de Amarante (Portugal)

Klub Sportowy "BUDOWLANI" - Lodz (Poland)

Comune di Cervia (Italy)

Dimos Lariseon (Greece)

Athienou Dimos (Cyprus)

 Hellenic Institute of Cultural Diplomacy (Netherlands) 

Description:

The objective of the project is to improve the local governance of the participating European municipalities, as well as to enhance the role of local public administrations in the integration of modern Europe and in their role of being close to their citizens.

The project will be divided into 8 international events (one for each project partner) and aims to directly involve more than 400 participants, and indirectly more than 25,000 reached people. Each project partner will organize a project international event involving local and regional participants, taking in advance collaboration with other local and regional related organizations or other local events in order to achieve a bigger project impact. Regarding the activities, the places will vary depending on each city.

The main target group of LocalEUCharter are the officials of the participating municipalities, political representatives of these municipalities in charge of managing the support measures linked to democratic life.

Duration: 24 months
Total Budget: 148.000€

TITLE: “Roma Women’s Empowerment and Fighting Discrimination in ACcess to Health”

http://romahealth.eu/

Acronym: REACH

Partnership: 5 partners
CMT Perspective Consulting Managment Training (Greece) Coordinator

University of Western Attica (Greece)
Association of Greek Mediators and their Associates (Greece)
Municipality of Chalandri (Greece)
Municipality of Larissa (Greece)

Description:

The overall objective of the REACH project is to combat racism and various forms of discrimination against Roma with a focus on access to health. It involves empowering Roma women and developing their capacity locally. It will also help to break down stereotypes and promote social support for Roma inclusion, by raising awareness and utilizing the capabilities of health professionals and staff working in the Roma Community Centers of Greek Municipalities.
Expected results of the project are:
• Implementation of the EU framework and Greek legislation on national Roma integration strategies.
• Empowering Roma women, youth and children to integrate into society.
• Awareness, training and provision of specialist knowledge to health professionals and support staff for Roma.
Project actions include meetings, consultations, bibliographic and field research to identify health perceptions and stereotypes. In addition, through interviews with mediators, Roma will identify their needs and access to the system and health professionals.

Duration: 24 months
Total budget: 220.471,36 €
Budget for the Municipality of Larissa: 15.921,60 €

Title: “FutureUp: Young players building the future of Europe”
ACRONYM: FreeEurope

Partnership : 8
Lead Parthenr:
• Associacio Plataforma Mozaika Per La Promocio De La Cultura Jueva De Catalunya (Spain)
Partners:
• Drustvo Za Razvijanje Prostovoljnega Dela Novo Mesto (Slovenia)
• Fajub - Federação Das Associações Juvenis Do Distrito De Braga (Portugal)
• Genista Research Foundation (Malta)
• Asociatia Se Poate (Romania)
• Municipality of Larissa (Greece)
• Gemeente Rhenen (Netherlatnds)
• A2030 (Italy)

FutureUp is organized around 8 major events that will take place in the different towns participating in the project (in Spain, Slovenia, Portugal, Romania, Malta, Italy, Netherlands and Greece), aims to directly mobilize more than 400 participants (number of people expected to attend each event), and indirectly to reach and benefit more than 25,000 people (number of people expected to follow the results through dissemination and impact activities) and will have a total duration of 24 months. Each project partner will organize a project international event involving local and regional participants, taking in advance collaboration with other local and regional related organizations or other local events in order to achieve a bigger project impact.
The different activities are organized in four phases, that summarize the general idea and the desired outcomes for raising awareness and involving the youth in the knowledge of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the need for intercultural dialogue and promotion and protection of freedoms, equality and diversity. Thus, these events will follow the next path: Exploration, Awareness, Exchange, Fellowship.

Duration: 24 months
Total Budget: 148.000 €
Budget for Municipality of Larissa: 18.500 €

Title: JuniorXpress: A youth-led civic coaching driver for enhanced child-owned local governance.

ACRONYM : JuniorXpress

Partnership: 10 partners

Lead Partner:
• HELLENIC AGENCY FOR LOCAL DEVELOPMENT AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (Greece)
Partners:
• ACTIONAID HELLAS ASTIKI MI KERDOSKOPIKI ETAIRIA (Greece)
• UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA (Greece)
• TO HAMOGELO TOU PAIDIOU (Greece)
• MUNICIPALITY OF LARISSA (Greece)
• Municipality of Paggaio (Greece)
• Municipality of Kavala (Greece)
• Municipality of Thermi (Greece)
• COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE OF THESSALONIKI (Greece)
• Municipality of Volvi (Greece)

The JuniorXpress project rests on the assumption that, in order to ensure substantive child participation in political and democraticlife, child-owned governance should be in place, while institutional processes and discourses should be regenerated, voicing and valuing children as adults’ equal partners in decision-making processes. On that basis, targeting youth as a catalyst of meaningful child participation in a shared democracy at a city level, the project seeks to engage 15 Greek Municipalities in an effort to promote child-owned local governance, as follows:
- Develop a grounded roadmap for the operation of a youth-led civic engagement mechanism for enhanced child participation in local decision-making;
- Build youth civic coaches, capitalizing on the potential of the Municipal Youth Councils that operate across the country, following public-action-learning principles (use society as a classroom);
- Pilot test a youth-led civic coaching ecosystem, creating safe space for inspired and empowered student and vulnerable girls and boys to perform, explore and foster their civic identity as local government’s shareholders, through regular consultation, p2p mentoring, role modeling and child-driven civic projects;
- Challenge Greek municipalities from a child-rights and inclusive perspective promoting youth-led structured dialogue with local authorities on child-friendly local government through inter-municipal exploitation workshops;
- Assess impact with a focus on the acquired competences and skills provided to built youth civic coaches and minor coachees, as means for promoting child-friendly local government and prerequisites of a model for child-owned local governance;
- Engage youth on online discussions as enablers of child civic engagement;
- Enhance awareness on child substantive participation in local civic and political life for democratic and sustainable local societies.

Duration: 24 months
Total Budget: 415.554,83 €
Budget of Municipality of Larissa: 15.204,70 €

Title: “PROGRESS_EU: Raising awareness of European rights for a progressive and transformative Europe”
Acronym: PROGRESS_EU

Partners: 8
Lead Partner:
• Sushal Hub Sdruzhenie (Bulgaria)
Partners:
• Local Government of Ercsi City (Hungary)
• Stichting Hellenic Institute Of Cultural Diplomacy Netherlands (Netherlands)
• Comune DI Russi (Italy)
• Drustvo Za Razvijanje Prostovoljnega Dela Novo Mesto (Slovenia)
• ASEID Asociación para el Empleo, la Inclusión yel Desarrollo (Spain)
• Δήμος Λαρισαίων (Greece)
• Educpro Portugal (Portugal)

PROGRESS_EU proposal aims to give focus to the debate for the future of Europe, where young people are the main actors of change. The following initiative aims to investigate the functioning of the European Union, through the promotion of rights and values with the objective that citizenship and youth as the main target group have all the necessary elements to be active agents in their respective societies.
The project will be divided into 8 trasnational events (one for each project partner) and aims to involve directly more than 400 participants and indirectly more than 25.000 citizens.
Each partner will work locally in their territory to create a working group of youth workers and young volunteers to compile summaries before each meeting and provide feedback and results after each event. In order to guarantee an adequate and efficient implementation of activities, different experts will be invited to support particular activities in each target territory, inviting also representatives of Universities and public authorities at local, regional and European level.

Duration: 24 months
Total Budget: 148.000 €
Budget of Municipality of Larissa: 18.500 €

Title: Cities4Her: “An inter-municipal youth-led forum for substantive gender equality in local decision-making” και χρηματοδότηση από το ευρωπαϊκό πρόγραμμα «Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV)»

ACRONYM: Cities4Her

Partners: 8
Lead Partner:
• Ελληνικος Φορεας Τοπικης Αναπτυξης & Τοπικη Κυβερνηση (Greece)
Partners:
• Actionaid Ελλάς Αστική Μη Κερδοσκοπική Εταιρία (Greece)
• Εθνικό Και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (Greece)
• Municipality of Larissa (Greece)
• Municipality of Paggaio (Greece)
• Municipality of Kavala (Greece)
• Municipality of Thermi (Greece)

The Cities4Her project rests on the assumption that ensured substantive women’s representation in decision-making processes presupposes a community-wide commitment to gender equality frameworks and gender mainstreaming policies. On that basis, building upon the European Charter for Equality of Women and Men in Local Life, signed by Greek Municipalities to a large extend (64%), the project aims to support local authorities to practically apply their commitment to the Charter, capitalizing on youth as enablers of social change. To that end, the project seeks to engage the 13 Greek Regions, 94 Greek municipalities and 2 isolated areas facing poor access to services in an effort to promote women owned local governance, as follows:
- Develop a roadmap for an inter-municipal coalition led by youth for gender mainstreaming in local decision making through desk and primary research;
- Empower members (women and men) of active Municipal Youth Councils in 4 Greek municipalities as youth leaders for gender balanced local policy making, through transformative capacity building;
- Create a critical mass of built youth leaders and institutional allies, and pilot test the operation of an inter-municipal youth-led forum related to the existing municipal Gender Equality Committees across the country through regular consultation, to peers at a local level through p2p mentoring as well as to isolated Greek islands through exploitation workshops promoting gender responsive
public services;
- Assess impact with a focus on the acquired competences and skills provided to the forum’s critical mass as means-for and prerequisite-of a model for women owned local government;
- Enhance awareness on gender mainstreaming in local decision making, promoting transferability of the developed methodology at a national and a transnational level;
- Engage youth in online discussions on women’s empowerment and gender balanced local policy making conducive to inclusive and sustainable local societies.

Duration: 24 months
Total Budget: 351.317,38€
Budget of Municipality of Larissa: 13.428,50 €

TITLE: InCommon Toolbox. Cultural and Educational Interventions for the exercise of the Active Citizenship of Migrant Women

ACRONYM: InCommon

http://www.documenta.es/web/incommon/

Partnership: 8 partners
Asociacion Instituto Europeo de Estudios para la Formacion y el Desarrollo (Spain) Coordinator

EDITC LTD (Cyprus)
SKE Kato Polemidion (Cyprus)
Dimitra Ekpaiditiki Simvilitiki AE (Greece)
Dimos Lariseon (Greece)
KIST Consult - MMag. Ingrid Trenner (Austria)
GS gain&sustain OG (Austria)
Asociacion Red Cantabra Contra la Pobreza y la Exclusion Social (Spain)

Description:
The aim of the program is the creation and implementation of tools for the integration of 400 migrant women in the local communities through culture. That includes intervention in both individual and professional levels (counseling and training) as well as the creation of a community network.
The program will examine the obstacles faced by women in participating in cultural activities, good integration practices will be demonstrated, while multicultural training programs and networking with local actors will be developed, to address the difficulties immigrants face in accessing education and the cultural life of host societies. The project also aims to systematize this process in a tool that allows the transfer of the model at European level.

Duration: 24 months
Total Budget: 600.918€

TITLE: Generating Social and Human Capital for Third Country Nationals

ACRONYM: MINGLE

http://mingle.projectsgallery.eu/

Partnership: 10 partners
Nicosia Municipality Multifunctional Foundation (Cyprus) Coordinator

M.M.C Management Center Limited (Cyprus)
Asociacion Instituto Europeo de Estudios para la Formacion y el Desarrollo (Spain)
Empresa Municipal de Desarrollo Urbano de Santander SANTURBAN (Spain)
Dimitra Ekpaiditiki Simvilitiki AE (Greece)
Dimos Lariseon (Greece)
Stiftelsen Kursverksamheten VID U-AUNIVERSITET (Sweden)
Integrationslyftet Sverige (Sweden)
gemeinnützige Gesellschaft für berufsbildende Maßnahmen mbH (Germany)
Metropolisnet-European Metropolis Employment Network EWIV (Germany)

Description:
The program aims to strengthen the integration of third-country nationals into the country of residence as active citizens through developing relationships with the local community.
The actions of the program include:
- learning and training events, mentoring and mentors' workshops meetings between citizens and foreign nationals, visits to cultural sites, institutions and activities
- the creation of educational material for mentors on multicultural communication & mentoring
- an online tool (EMKIT) and a digital platform for the activities of the program where the relevant material will be made available for use by local authorities, NGOs, local bodies, as well as interested citizens.

Duration: 24 months
Total Budget: 615.262,62€

TITLE: Integration of Third-Country Nationals in the Construction sector

ACRONYM: In2C

https://in2c.eu/en/

Partnership: 9 partners
Technical Chamber of Greece, Regional Department of Central and Western Thessaly (Greece) Coordinator

Dimitra Ekpaiditiki Simvilitiki AE (Greece)
Dimos Lariseon (Greece)
Fundation Laboral de la Construccion (Spain)
Asociacion Instituto Europeo de Estudios para la Formacion y el Desarrollo (Spain)
Federation of the Building Contractors Associations of Cyprus (Cyprus)
M.M.C Management Center Limited (Cyprus)
Stiftelsen Kursverksamheten VID U-AUNIVERSITET (Sweden)
Sverige Stroj AB (Sweden)

Description:
Construction work is more and more left to TCN workers who are hired for specific work tasks and for unskilled work by (sub-)contractors. For many TCNs, construction work is the entrance to the labor market. Because of differences in culture, language barriers and knowledge about national policies, these workers have a higher potential to be exposed to work related risk factors and labor market exclusion.
The In2C project aims to facilitate and foster early and effective integration of TCNs in labor market in construction sector through an integrated training, which target to enhance host country language skills in their job field, and networking with employers who will actively be engaged in In2C activities.
The activities of the project will include awareness raising activities, identification of good practices, labor market needs and barriers in the construction sector, training programs (improvement of language skills in technical terminology, knowledge of national and European policies, duties and obligations at the workplace, safety and hygiene issues, etc) as well as networking for matching employers with TCNs. At least 1000 people (400 TCNs, 400 employers & 200 members of VET providers, NGOs and other stakeholders) will benefit directly through the project’s activities.

Duration: 30 months
Total Budget: 713.669,67€

TITLE: Transnational Actions on Asylum, Migration and Integration

Acronym: CONSULTING EUTH

Partnership
14 partners

• Universita Degli Studi Roma Tre (Italy) Lead Partner
• Agenzija Zghazagh (Malta)
• Tia Formazione Internazionale Associazione (Italy)
• Hogskolan I Halmstad (Sweden)
• Solidarity And Overseas Service Malta (Sos Malta) (Malta)
• Roma Capitale (Italy)
• Municipality of Larissa (Greece)
• Innovation Hive – Kypseli Kainotomias (Greece)
• Platform Ins (Netherlands)
• Instituto Ikigai, Asociacion Espaniola Para el Emprendimiento y el Desarrollo Personal y Profesional (Spain)
• Ayuntamiento De Zaragoza (Spain)
• European Migrant Platform (Belgium)
• Migration Policy Group (Belgium)
• D'Antilles Et D'Ailleurs (France)

Description:

The main objective of the program is to set up a system of European and local advisory bodies involving migrants and refugees in policy-making, taking into account the different legislative frameworks of the various Member States involved in the project, based on a multi-stakeholder approach promoted from a partnership consisting of specialized NGOs in training and education, Universities, Municipalities and government authorities. The partners of the organization belong to Spain, Italy, Greece, France, Malta, Sweden, Belgium and Cyprus. The active participation of immigrants in counselling and decision-making processes can contribute to their empowerment and long-term integration into society for a mutual and better understanding and improvement of the policy framework in each country. The project is also intended to provide, through close cooperation, the design of policies that raise awareness among Member States hosting migrants and refugees.

Duration: 24 months

Total budget: 749.749,00 €

Total budge for Municipality of Larissa: 36.754,50 €

Consulting EUTH Project's Newsletter - September 2023 (en)

TITLE: AdaptInGR

Partnership: 19 partners
Ministry of Environment and Energy (Greece) Επικεφαλής εταίρος

https://www.adaptivegreece.gr/el-gr/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8eGTM6TJZ8

National Technical University of Athens (Greece)
Green Fund (Greece)
Union of Greek Regions (Greece)
Central Union of Municipalities of Greece (Greece)
National Center for Environment and Sustainable Development (Greece)
Region of Central Greece (Sterea Ellada) (Greece)
Region of Western Greece (Greece)
Region of Ionian Islands (Greece)
Municipality of Katerini (Greece)
Municipality supply and sewerage company of Komotini (Greece)
Municipality of Larissa (Greece)
Municipality of Agii Anargyroi – Kamatero (Greece)
Municipality of Rhodes (Greece)
Bank of Greece (Greece)
Academy of Athens (Greece)
National Observatory of Athens (Greece)
ELLINIKI ETAIRIA Society for the Environment and Cultural Heritage (Greece)
Mariolopoulos-Kanaginis Foundation for the Environmental Sciences (Greece)

Description:
The “AdaptInGR” program aims to strengthen the implementation of the National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for Greece, addressing the following specific objectives: (a) systematizing and improving short- and long-term climate change adaptation; (b) the promotion of adaptation actions and policies in all sectors, in particular the most vulnerable; (c) the establishment of a monitoring mechanism for the implementation of the acquis communautaire, evaluation and revision s policies and adaptation actions, and (d) enhancing the adaptability of Greek society through awareness raising and dissemination at national, multiregional and polytope level. At the national level for all 13 Regions, LIFE-IP will monitor and evaluate adaptation actions and policies and provide recommendations to the National Climate Change Adaptation Committee for the implementation of the national strategy. In all 13 regions, LIFE-IP will work with stakeholders in the private and public sector and social actors to raise awareness of climate change adaptation measures and the options available to finance them, to develop guidelines and to disseminate knowledge about good adaptation practice. In addition, the project includes case studies and pilot projects in 3 Regions (Sterea Ellada, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands) and 5 municipalities (Katerini, Komotini, Larissa, Agioi Anargyroi-Kamatero, Rhodes) throughout Greece to cover the most immediate threats, vulnerabilities and response to adaptation needs in the National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy.

Duration: 96 months
Total Budget: 14.189.548,00 €

TITLE: Public Resilience using TEchnology to Counter Terrorism

Acronym: PRoTECT

https://protect-cities.eu/

Partnership: 13 partners
STICHTING DUTCH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGY, SAFETY & SECURITY (Netherlands) – Coordinator

Center for Security Studies (Greece)
NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO (Netherlands)
Inspectoratul General al Politiei Romane (Romania)
FORUM EUROPEEN POUR LA SECURITE URBAINE (France)
LIETUVOS KIBERNETINIU NUSIKALTIMU KOMPETENCIJU IR TYRIMU CENTRAS (Lithuania)
City of EINDHOVEN (Netherlands)
AYUNTAMIENTO DE MALAGA (Spain)
Municipality of Larissa (Greece)
VILNIAUS MIESTO SAVIVALDYBES ADMINISTRACIJA (Lithuania)
City of BRASOV (Romania)
STICHTING KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT BRABANT (Netherlands)
MINISTERIO DEL INTERIOR (Spain)

Description:
The PRoTECT project aims to strengthen local authorities’ capabilities in Public Protection by putting in place an overarching concept where tools, technology, training and field demonstrations will lead to situational awareness and improve direct responses to secure public places pre, in, and after a terrorist threat. This cross sectoral project is an initiative of the Core group of the European Network of Law Enforcement Technology Services (ENLETS). The program will produce training materials and assessment tools that will help to raise the awareness of municipal authorities on security concepts and adaptation of technology in the protection of public spaces, share best practices and lessons learned to efficiently apply technology concepts to protect public spaces as well as build collaborations between municipal authorities and law enforcement via existing networks (ENLETS, EFUS).

Duration: 24 months
Total Budget: 1.312.039,35€