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The project aims to exploit transnational cooperation to explore the social and economic potential of Smart Industrial Tourism (SMIT), as a sustainable economic activity that can benefit tourism actors, SMEs, the industry, CCIs, R&D centers, HEIs and technology providers, and the local communities.   The project will create transnational working groups involving 4helix stakeholders to explore industrial tourism and related advanced technologies applications. It will eventually define a common strategy and Action Plan for the development of SMIT in the Med regions. The result will be a diversification of the economy and of the sector, a reduction of over-tourism and seasonalization, and a boost to social and economic growth and to technological innovation of tourism at large.

xShare envisions everyone sharing their health data in EEHRxF with a click-of-a-button. The xShare button to be featured across health portals and patient apps and allow people to exercise their data portability rights under GDPR. Hence, the European EHRxF will be the driver for research and innovation in EHDS. xShare will establish the European EHRxF Standards and Policy Hub, the “Hub” partnership of six standards developing organizations (CEN/TC251, HL7 Europe, IHE Europe, SNOMED, CDISC, IEEE) market actors (DIGITAL Europe, MedTech-Europe and EUCROF), supported by competence centers, nationals and regional authorities and European SMEs. xShare will develop: 1) Harmonized common specifications, create and maintain xBundles i.e., collection of common data specifications including FHIR implementation guides, tools and data sets, and educational support for key EHRxF health information domains as noted in the EHDS draft regulation Annex 1. 2) A set of common elements across EHRxF health information domains applicable across EHDS-1 (Xt-EHR), public/population health (EHDS-2), and clinical research. 3) Extended harmonized IPS specification to include care plans and making it fit for the purpose of clinical research use cases i.e. clinical trial eligibility, real world data, patient reported outcomes, and returning clinical research data to patients. 4) xShare feature the xShare Button in 8 adoption settings in Hospital network (Italy), National portal (Greece, Ireland, Cyprus), regional network with emphasis in medical tourism and the connection of the public to the private sector (Catalunya and Madeira), entry of digital health applications to the myHealthSpace ecosystem in France. Care plans will be demonstrated in Denmark. xShare investigate the feasibility and value of the EU xShare Industry label as a vehicle towards implementing the draft EHDS regulation. Lastly open calls at the last year of the project aim to onboard with EHRxF almost 100 settings across Eu...

Adults with dyslexia appear to display most of the deficits commonly seen in children with dyslexia. Like children with dyslexia, who are most often studied, adults with dyslexia have difficulties in segmenting words into sounds, in working memory, and in rapid naming, among others, in addition to difficulties in reading and writing. However, while in children with dyslexia, difficulties with accuracy in reading and writing (i.e., spelling) may be the main symptom of dyslexia, some adults with dyslexia, particularly those with a high level of education, may have overcome or mitigated this type of difficulty. Some deficits may have been compensated, while others may manifest themselves differently, possibly more pronounced when compared to children. Furthermore, the characteristics of the writing system where they learned to read and write may influence the manifestation of difficulties. European Portuguese (EP) has an orthography of intermediate depth, with characteristics distinct from other systems where this population (college students diagnosed with dyslexia) has been studied. How to identify dyslexia and characterise it and what its cognitive predictors are the research questions of this project.

Today, in the digital era society is evolving at a rapid pace and investing in education have vast social and economic advantages for it. It is the education that allows people to have access to SDGs 4. It is not argued that a better educated people break away from poverty more easily, help to reduce inequalities and achieve gender equality; they are more tolerant, they contribute to reduce crime, to increase political and civic participation and generally to have more peaceful societies with reduced inequalities and imbalances. Within this context the project brings together European, Asia and African academic and non-academic organizations in a staff exchange program, with the goal to explore, design and deploy innovative and context sensitive solutions for transforming higher education systems. This international and multi-sector consortium is created as a platform for collaboration and is united by the principles of innovation, partnership and solidarity with the purpose to research and identify successful contemporary models and modern instruments that can help higher education transformation and support the sustainable and effective adaptation of the higher education systems of the consortium members to the digital age. The aim of the project is study the process of digitalisation in different organisations and offer solutions concerning the improvement of the digitalisation practices. The project consortium comprises both academic and non-academic partners as well as experts in diverse fields such as, but not limited to, economics, law, management, linguistics. This allows a broad and an indepth approach to digitalisation. On the basis of the identified gaps in the digitalisation process, the project will propose approaches and methodologies which will be realised as different disciplines for the academic institutions’ partners in order to build sustainable competences for the transfer of knowledge and skills

This project aims to study the determinants of sustainability that impact business performance in Madeira’s hospitality sector. Not only are there a considerable number of decision-makers with different and conflicting values and preferences involved in this issue, but there is also a significant number of sustainability determinants to be considered. While this makes the integration of sustainability into business strategies and decisions more challenging, it is also true that this is an increasingly pressing issue for hospitality companies in Madeira. A better understanding of sustainability determinants and their interconnections will assist city planners and decision-makers in enhancing value creation through better-informed decisions. Simultaneously, this will contribute to advancing sustainability objectives.