Abstract: Future-oriented projects are large-scale activities that aim to identify, develop, test and evaluate innovative approaches (in policy) with the potential for mainstreaming, thereby improving education and training systems. They support development-oriented ideas responding to key European priorities that contribute to the improvement of education and training systems, as well as to generate significant innovative action in terms of methods and practices for all types of learning and the parameters for active participation in European social cohesion. The presentation supports the thesis of developing transnational cooperation projects that carry out a coherent and comprehensive set of sectoral or cross-sectoral activities that: promote innovation in terms of scope, innovative methods and practices and/or ensure the transfer of innovations (between countries , policy sectors or target groups), thus ensuring at European level the sustainable use of innovative project results and/or their adaptation in different contexts and audiences.
Successful will be those of them that achieve a systemic impact at the European level, by proving the capacity to implement innovative results on a European scale and/or that can transfer them to different thematic or geographical contexts.

Abstract: Romanian government legislation, investor and stakeholder expectations, as well as international voluntary initiatives have contributed to the growing demand for high-quality information on sustainability issues. The scientific community investigating the problem is expanding rapidly and the need for data is growing significantly. This is a rapidly evolving topic with many different monitoring frameworks, with some criteria overlapping, creating problems with consistency globally. This often causes uncertainty about how the data should be used to produce useful results and science-based resources. The presentation shows current monitoring trends related to sustainability, including specific analysis at the state and corporate level. An updated overview of the sources of sustainability reporting is presented, followed by a focus on well-known tools (ie, the SDG Index and the International Distribution Index) used to monitor and report nations' progress toward the SDGs.

Abstract: 5.0 provides a vision for industry that moves beyond efficiency and productivity as the sole goals, and strengthens the role and contribution of industry to society. It puts "...the well-being of human resources at the center of the production process and uses new technologies to ensure prosperity beyond jobs and growth, while respecting the productive capabilities of the Planet," reads the European Commission's (EC) definition of the next industrial revolution According to the EC, it complements the existing "Industry 4.0" approach by specifically placing research and innovation at the service of the transition to a sustainable, human-oriented European industry.
Industry 5.0 is the first concept that is not so much focused on the optimization of production, but on how to make people's lives better - both in the role of employees and consumers.
The foundations of Version 5.0 have already been laid in 4.0. Smart factories use autonomous vehicles to optimize their processes. Many of the big ports are an example of this - when unloading containers, this activity is performed by automated trolleys that follow the exact route, load themselves, etc. Husqvarna's smart factory in Ruse also uses similar technologies. This is part of Industry 5.0, which is already present in the previous concept. The same applies to the joint work of a person with a robot through the so-called collaborative robots.

Abstract: The present presentation makes an expert review, analysis and discussion of data from scientific studies regarding the place of nutrition in the prevention of modern socially significant non-infectious and infectious diseases. The author analyzes and evaluates scientific information regarding dietary approaches to reduce or eliminate reversible risk factors for the development of obesity, dyslipidemias, hypertension, and low physical activity. Dietary therapeutic principles for minimizing difficult, but still reversible risk factors - insulin resistance, type II diabetes, increased tendency to thrombosis, high levels of homocysteine in the blood - are discussed. A special topic is the author's analysis and discussion of expert opinions regarding the optimization of the nutritional model in the prevention of viral infections, in particular - of COVID-19.