Our projects

Homelessness is a growing challenge in Europe, now affecting more diverse social groups than ever. The decentralised and fragmented nature of homelessness response across the EU limits the effectiveness of interventions, making it difficult to deliver tailored and cost-effective solutions for the varied needs of the homeless population. Hence, the goal of the COMHOM project is to contribute to the digitalisation of the homelessness sector by providing accessible technology, enhancing capacity, and facilitating the adoption of digital tools by homelessness service providers to enable a more integrated and effective approach to homelessness across Europe.

Project’s objectives:

• Develop a standardised monitoring and evaluation framework to improve the coordination and effectiveness of homelessness responses;
• Create digital tools: a platform, database, and AI-powered models, to support decision-making across prevention and intervention efforts;
• Help stakeholders in the homelessness sector build their skills and knowledge through targeted programs that make it easier to adopt and use technology;
• Co-create solutions through participatory processes to ensure acceptance and ownership within the sector;
• Test and validate the COMHOM approach through two social experiments involving 25 homelessness response sub-grantees across Europe;
• Support EU policy priorities and the European Platform on Combating Homelessness by delivering evidence-based practices and promoting an integrated approach to addressing homelessness.

According to the European Research Data Landscape – Final Report, key barriers to the management and sharing of research data include time, effort, storage, required skills, lack of recognition, and concerns about data protection. These challenges discourage researchers from effectively sharing data and hinder advancements in research.

RAISE Suite will build upon the achievements of the EOSC-RAISE EU project to address and eliminate these barriers, providing innovative solutions that empower researchers to manage and share data more effectively, efficiently, and securely.

The goal of RAISE Suite is to eliminate barriers to research data sharing by automating processes, simplifying data management, and fostering a researcher-friendly ecosystem guided by FAIR principles.

Project’s objectives:

• Develop automated solutions for the entire data lifecycle, from collection to dataset generation, reducing time, effort, and skill requirements for data sharing;
• Integrate EOSC-RAISE into RAISE Suite to create a platform that simplifies dataset sharing and mitigates concerns about recognition and data protection;
• Implement a Data Management Plan (DMP)-guided policy with an extended Machine Actionable DMP that supports designated actions throughout the data lifecycle;
• Leverage and enhance the outcomes of the EOSC-RAISE project, transitioning from open data to data open for processing with technologies that streamline the data lifecycle;
• Ensure continuous updates and connections between persistent identifiers (DMP-ID), algorithms, and datasets for seamless data management, processing, reuse, and exploitation.

Clinical studies often fail to recruit and retain diverse participants, leading to knowledge gaps in understanding diseases, preventive care, and treatment effectiveness across different demographic groups. Underserved and underrepresented communities face barriers such as geographic limitations, mistrust, poor communication, and prejudice, further exacerbating disparities in healthcare research. The project READI aims is to create a more inclusive and integrated ecosystem around clinical studies by engaging diverse communities, equipping stakeholders with effective tools and training, and developing a sustainable, patient-centered digital platform to enhance access to clinical studies and foster participation.

Project’s objectives:

• Actively connect key stakeholders to improve access to a wide range of patient populations for clinical studies;
• Equip stakeholders with resources, training programs, and strategies to effectively recruit and retain participants in clinical studies, including those with unconditioned stimuli or unconditioned responses;
• Develop and implement a sustainable, open, and innovative digital platform for patient access to clinical study information, tools, and community connections;
• Test and validate the effectiveness of developed tools and approaches through at least four clinical studies;
• Leverage the expertise of a consortium of 73 organizations from 18 countries, combining skills in drug development, clinical study design, patient engagement, digital solutions, training, communication, and ethics to ensure project success.

Unfortunately, individuals on the autism spectrum often face significant barriers to inclusion in the labor market, which limits their employment opportunities and ability to lead an independent life.

The JOBAUT project aims to promote the inclusion of people on the autism spectrum in the open labor market through the development of a tailored job coaching methodology and a set of practical tools to support professionals in creating personalized job coaching pathways.

The main objectives of JOBAUT are:

• To develop a holistic coaching methodology and toolkit designed to meet the specific needs of individuals on the autism spectrum;
• To facilitate job placement by providing personalized support and guidance;
• To support individuals in building an independent life plan aligned with their professional journey.

Emergencies, including health crises, place immense pressure on the response capacities of cities, countries, and the European Union, exacerbating existing climatic, political, economic, and social challenges. Vulnerable urban populations are excessively affected, facing limited access to information, resources, and healthcare, resulting in higher morbidity and mortality. The goal of Sonar-Cities is to make Europe’s cities more resilient in health emergencies and disasters through the co-creation and implementation of a community-based, adapted toolset for people facing vulnerabilities, first responders, and decisionmakers.

The objectives of the project are:

• Analyze factors and impacts of past emergencies in six European cities, focusing on vulnerable populations;
• Co-create a citizen-centered toolset to enhance preparedness, improve health literacy and crisis communication, and strengthen decision-making;
• Disseminate the toolset via an interactive Knowledge Platform;
• Establish a Social Sciences Emergency Support network for authorities during crises.

Women’s cardiovascular health remains an urgent clinical unmet need, as cardiovascular disease risk in women, particularly those aged 40-60, is often underestimated by both clinicians and women themselves. This leads to cardiovascular diseases being underdiagnosed, undertreated, and poorly understood in this population, despite the potential for personalized risk assessment and prevention to improve health outcomes. Therefore, the goal of the CARAMEL project is to deliver an innovative personalized prevention model for women aged 40-60, using a risk assessment stratification approach that incorporates sex- and gender-specific risk factors alongside self-assessment and self-management supported by cutting-edge digital technologies.

The goals of the project are:

• Develop a cardiovascular diseases-risk assessment and stratification model powered by AI, integrating data from diverse sources such as EHRs, medical imaging, biomarkers, metabolomics, and lifestyle factors (e.g., sleep, physical activity, diet);
• Co-design and co-create a self-management app ecosystem with women aged 40-60 to empower them in optimizing their cardiovascular health;
• Test and validate the personalized prevention program through observational and interventional studies in clinical sites across Colombia, Croatia, Greece, Lithuania, and Spain;
• Mainstream gender considerations in research and interventions throughout the project;
• Deliver policy recommendations and clinical guidelines to assist health authorities and providers in updating CVD prevention plans for women aged 40-60, incorporating novel AI-driven risk models.

ERICA’s main objective is to improve citizens’ environmental awareness and civic engagement through the development of a new educational methodology on citizen science for environmental monitoring. Citizens will gain the capacity to initiate and manage citizen science initiatives, collect and assess environmental information, and convert such data into “actionable knowledge” that is perceived as useful and immediately applicable by citizens, local authorities, academic institutions, and NGOs.

The project aims:

• to outline the research findings in an e-booklet of best practices.
• to implement the ERICA training methodology for citizen science in environmental monitoring. 
• to develop the ERICA e-learning platform, a tool for creating mutual learning across different countries. 
• to evaluate both the effectiveness of the methodology and its potential to establish a community of practice during the pilot evaluation.

People with intellectual disabilities (ID) are at a greater risk of social exclusion, especially due to limited employment opportunities and reduced travel autonomy. The COVID-19 pandemic has further increased their isolation to prevent infections. Additionally, individuals with ID face challenges in utilizing digital technologies and the Internet. Mind Inclusion 3.0 aims to expand on the scope of the Erasmus+ project Mind Inclusion 2.0, in order to enhance the skills and abilities of people with intellectual disabilities through ICT tools, promoting their social engagement and improving their quality of life as a result.

The objectives of the project are:

• Co-create and develop an online learning center (OLC) and establish 3 local learning centers on the methodology of mental and social inclusion for people with disabilities.
• Create and promote the use of new digital tools to facilitate inclusion and independent living for people with disabilities.
• Share innovative methodologies and practices to create new opportunities for flexible learning.

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, remote work has become an increasingly utilized mode of work by companies, with the risk of neglecting health and safety requirements to ensure the psychophysical well-being of employees. The main objective of MENTOR+ is to improve employees’ awareness and knowledge regarding well-being in remote work, focusing on the impact that social isolation has on individuals’ psychological, physical, and nutritional health.

The project aims to:

• Promote cooperation and exchange of experiences among organizations in the field of occupational health.
• Develop a comprehensive well-being program (MENTOR+ app).
• Promote good practices for employees to maintain a healthy lifestyle during remote work.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers have faced an unprecedented crisis, treating patients with insufficient information and without knowing the long-term effects of the disease.

The GLIDE-19 project aims to support healthcare workers in achieving greater capacity and competence to effectively manage current and future pandemics. This will be achieved through innovative learning methodologies for pandemic management and the use of an ICT e-learning platform to create mutual learning at the European level.

The main objectives are:

• Improve the preparedness of healthcare workers by enhancing their operational and digital skills.
• Expand their knowledge of the side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on well-being.
• Strengthen and integrate available information on the disease at the European level to improve the management of future pandemics through good practices and skills.