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Baltic nations Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland are targeted as "widening" countries, for increased participation and spreading excellence of European projects. The European Commission has taken measures to strengthen collaboration across Europe by improving the capacities of widening countries in research and innovation, as well as to support the reforms of national policies on strengthening the European Research Area. Widening countries, or low R&I performing countries, are countries where investment in R&I is insufficient as well as there is a lack of centers of excellence having sufficient competence to carry to an innovative growth of the Country.

The widening program is aimed at a total of 15 countries with below-average numbers of highly cited research papers, top institutions, and grant funding: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.

Being an Estonian social innovation enterprise, Global Skills Network is active in the Baltic region.

Global Skills Network has been active in the field of European projects design for over 20 years, from idea developing and proposal writing to coordinating and actively participating as a core partner. Our staff at the Global Skills Network European Projects Department are specialists in partnership pattern building and administrative coordination. The Media Lab staff are mostly Native-English speakers and multi-media specialists with skills for digital and hard-copy communications, dissemination, exploitation and

impactful storytelling with data.

During our long history in European Projects, we acquired invaluable experience in developing and delivering training courses, distance-learning solutions and consultancy services for businesses, elaborating innovative and targeted contents, methodologies and educational tools aimed at a various different target groups, including teacher training. This expertise has proven to be profoundly valuable

in the context of European Projects.

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Global Skills Network is the Estonian Partner for Horizon SHORE, a 36-month project bringing the following benefits to Estonian schools:

- Water Literacy curricula around oceans, seas, rivers and lakes designed specifically for compulsory-education students in primary school (ages 7-10), middle school (ages 11-14), and secondary school (ages 15-18) - www.BlueAnew.Net

- Teacher Training to implement the curricula in classrooms

- Twinning with other European schools

- Three open calls for up to 10.000EUR in funding for Blue School Projets

- Assistance with membership in the EU Blue Schools Network

- Collaboration with community-based organizations to monitor the Blue Economy of the Baltic Sea (www.BlueBalticEcosystem.com)

Erasmus+ supports projects aimed at enhancing education, training, youth programming and sports. The program also aims to promote the sustainable development of its partners in the field of higher education and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the EU strategy for the youth. Students, teachers and all staff in charge of school education in primary schools, secondary school and higher education (also vocational education and training, schools for adult education and youth) can apply for funding to run mobility projects to offer training and/or teaching opportunities to staff and learners.

HORIZON is the European Union's flagship Research and Innovation program, part of the EU-long-term Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) with a budget of €95,5bn. Horizon Europe is unique, as it provides both “bottom up” funding in Pillar I (Excellent science) and Pillar III (Innovative Europe) as well as mission-orientated actions in Pillar III, Global challenges and European industrial competitiveness, as well sponsoring "Missions" - lighthouses and water literacy, soil sciences, climate neutrality and climate change are amongst the priorities. Horizon Europe seeks to develop a sustainable, fair, and prosperous future for people and the planet, based on European values. Key aims of Horizon Europe include: Creating jobs Fully engaging the EU's talent pool Boosting economic growth Promoting industrial competitiveness Optimising investment impact within a strengthened European Research Area.

EUREKA Eurostars is an international network that was initially created to foster European competitiveness and encourage R&D. An eligible EUREKA Eurostars project should be aimed at the development of a new product, process or service and must fulfill seven eligibility criteria: The project consortium is led by an innovative SME from a Eurostars country. The project consortium is composed of at least two entities that are independent from one another. The project consortium is composed of entities from at least two participating countries with a minimum of one organisation from an EU or Horizon Europe Associated Country. The budget of the SMEs from the participating countries (excluding any subcontracting) is 50% or more of the total project cost. No single participant or country is responsible for more than 70% of the budget of the project. The project duration is 36 months or less. The project has an exclusive focus on civil applications.