Analysis of good practices in Europe and Africa

According to the Global Status Report on Road Safety 2015 of WHO (WHO, 2015), “road traffic injuries claim more than 1.2 million lives each year and have a huge impact on health and development”. Based on the WHO regions, there has been a deterioration in road fatality rates in the WHO Africa region from 24.1 fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants in 2010 to 26.6 fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants in 2013. Over the same period, there was an improvement in road fatality rates in the WHO Europe region. Road trauma in Africa is expected to worsen further, with fatalities per capita projected to double over the period 2015-2030 (Small and Runji, 2014). The SaferAfrica project aims at establishing a Dialogue Platform between Africa and Europe focused on road safety and traffic management issues. It will represent a high-level body with the main objective of providing recommendations to update the African Road Safety Action Plan and the African Road Safety Charter, as well as fostering the adoption of specific initiatives, properly funded. The main objective of work package 7 (WP7) is to analyse good road safety practices realised at country, corridor and regional levels in Africa and to compare these practices with those of other countries and with international experiences. Also included in this WP7, are good practices in road safety management and in the policy-making and integration of road safety with other policy areas. WP7 includes the definition of a transferability audit, tailored to Africa conditions that can be used to assess the suitability of road safety interventions in the context of African countries. Finally, promising local projects were identified, that may be implemented in selected African countries (Tunisia, Kenya, Cameroon, Burkina Faso and South Africa); to this end, a procedure for assessing the potential adaptability to the local contexts (transferability audit) will be developed in WP7 and applied to promising interventions. Following a successful transferability audit, a detailed concept definition of the retained interventions will be made by SaferAfrica participants and local road safety experts. Furthermore, factsheets on five key challenging African safety issues will be developed as synthesised working documents, containing all technical and financial information necessary for understanding the corresponding set of proposed interventions...

An Initial Maturity Model for Information Governance

This report details the maturity model for information governance which will be used to assess the E-ARK Project use cases. The method that guides the application of this maturity model will then be detailed in deliverable 7.5, A Maturity Model consists of a number of entities, including “maturity levels” (often six) which are, from the lowest to the highest, (0) Non Existent, (1) Initial, (2) Basic, (3) Intermediate, (4) Advanced and (5) Optimizing. Each process can have its own Maturity Model, which expresses quantitatively the maturity level of an organization regarding a certain process. A Maturity Model provides also a way for organizations to see clearly what they must accomplish in order to pass to the next maturity level. The use of maturity models is wide spread and accepted, both in industry and academia. There are numerous maturity models, at least one for each of the most trending topics in such areas as Information Technology or Information Systems. Maturity Models are widely used and accepted because of their simplicity and effectiveness. They can easily help understanding the current level of maturity of a certain aspect in a meaningful way, so that stakeholders can clearly identify strengths and weaknesses requiring improvement, and thus prioritise what must be done in order to reach a higher level. This can be used to show the outcomes that will result from that effort, enabling stakeholders to decide if the outcomes justify the effort

Structure and detailed tasks of the Project Office (D7.1)

About this document Deliverable: D7.1 Work package in charge: WP7 Management Actual delivery date for this deliverable: Project-month 1 Dissemination level: The general public (PU) Summary The work package WP7 Management ensures the successful completion of all deliverables, achievement of milestones and reporting of progress. A project office has been set up in order to implement a sound project management. Established at DMI, the coordinating institution, the project office is in charge of implementing the following tasks: Project and financial management, Grant management, Consortium management, consortium agreement management, Project internal communication, gendered innovation, dissemination and exploitation of results, exploitation and protection, Innovation Management, risk management, compliance with OA requirements for publications. Additionally, links have been built with the project managersof the projects AtlantOS, APPLICATE, INTAROS, CRESCENDO, PRIMAVERA, CLIMATEUROPE, CERES and EU-PolarNet, for exchanging best practices in project and financial management with the coordination and project /financial managers of the H2020 projects dealing with Blue Growth and climate services

Evaluating LAB@FUTURE, a collaborative e-learning Laboratory experiments platform

This paper presents Lab@Future, an advanced e-learning platform that uses novel Information and Communication Technologies to support and expand laboratory teaching practices. For this purpose, Lab@Future uses real and computer generated objects that are interfaced using mechatronic systems, augmented reality, mobile technologies and 3D multi user environments. The main aim is to develop and demonstrate technological support for practical experiments in the following focused disciplines namely: Fluid Dynamics - Science subject in Germany, Geometry - Mathematics subject in Austria, History and Environmental Awareness – Arts and Humanities subjects in Greece and Slovenia. In order to pedagogically enhance the design and functional aspects of this e-learning technology, we are investigating the dialogical operationalisation of learning theories so as to leverage our understanding of teaching and learning practices in the targeted context of deployment. To be able to evaluate the lab@future system in its entire complexity an evaluation methodology including several phases has been developed, performing formative as well as summative evaluations

D6.4 Self-Assessment Plan

The ‘DITOs Self-Assessment Plan’ is Deliverable 6.4 (D6.4) from the coordination and support action (CSA), Doing It Together science (DITOs), grant agreement (GA) 709443. The plan ensures the quality of the project’s tasks and deliverables by defining the following procedures. Thorough review of deliverables by peers, internal appraisers and external authorities (selected from the project advisory boards). Regular monitoring and appraisal of event and engagement statistics and subsequent actions to be taken. Satisfaction questionnaire evaluation in line with deliverable D5.1, ‘DITOs Evaluation Framework’. Decision-making, issue resolution and implementation of project standards via management boards. Other issues such as field trials, data management, data protection and ethics are addressed in separate project deliverables (D5.1, D6.3