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During the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations were forced to digitally transform their business in a timely manner. Especially the healthcare sector has faced unexpected needs for rapid digitization and acceptance of technological innovations. Previous research does not identify if training, in particular with the use of demo videos, impacts the pace of digital transformation within hospitals. Based on this, the following research question is formulated: “What is the influence of demo videos as a training method on the pace of digital transformation in the healthcare sector?”. Literature research and interviews with experts who have experience in digital transformation in healthcare were used to collect data. The results showed that demo videos can improve the pace of change by improving user acceptance, which is improved by the flexibility of demo video training and the creation of engagement of people. This research contributes to the quality of healthcare by creating more flexible and (modern-)digital hospitals. Future research can statistically prove the recommendations by conducting an experiment.

The Digital Transformation within the Dutch higher education has gone through a revolution on account of the COVID-19 pandemic. The entire higher education suddenly needed to be provided digitally. Since the higher education institutions were not digitally resilient before the crisis started, several digital products were rapidly introduced to be able to keep the education going. Online communication tools, virtual classrooms and online exam environments have been widely implemented. This digital transformation has, however, not passed by without any troubles; there was no experience among education institutions with this situation. Due to the high pressure, most institutes however still succeeded in providing education online successfully. In the end, it can be concluded that due to the accelerated digital transformation within the Dutch higher education, the digital resilience of this sector has considerably improved. This research looks deeper into the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the digital transformation of the Dutch higher education and therefore to what extent higher education is digitally resilient to new health crises now.

NEFERTITI is a ‘Horizon 2020’ project that will run until the end of 2021. It supports on-farm demonstration activities and farmer-to-farmer learning that supports innovation uptake. The name NEFERTITI reflects the full project title: ‘Networking European Farms to Enhance Cross Fertilisation and Innovation Uptake Through Demonstration’. Networking... The project involves ten networks each with a theme. The themes focus on aspects of innovation in livestock production, arable farming, and horticulture. They bring together 45 regional clusters (‘hubs’) of demonstration farmers and people who innovate in agriculture, such as advisors, facilitators, researchers, industry representatives and policy makers. You can Farm: Farm attractiveness Network 10, called ‘Farm Attractiveness’ has the goal of identifying and supporting new people and new pathways into agriculture across Europe. This network supports knowledge exchange demonstration events held on farms and online, with host farmers who are ‘new entrants’ to agriculture. The objective of the demonstration events are to encourage young people to see farming as a future and career that is both worthwhile and worth considering. Network Activities In 2019 a total of 39 events were organised by Network 10 hubs, all of which were either on-farm or in-organisation. In 2020, 31 events were held, 12 of which were held online in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Online events organised included webinars, panel discussions, and social media ‘takeovers’. One UK virtual event included contributions from four partner countries. The use of social media was critical to the success of the demonstration events, both on-farm, in organisation, or held online. Social media promotion of events attracted young and diverse audiences, and careful use of different platforms appealed to different localities and types of participants (e.g. agricultural college students). For example, the social media ‘takeovers’ involved young farmers directly uploading stories, videos, pictures, and other content to the social media of partner organisations. Videos from the events could be shared via social media to enhance knowledge exchange and links were made available to allow for later viewing. Findings Multimedia use and the use of diverse social media platforms has the potential increase and target audiences. E.g. Instagram events, targeted at young people, also promoted on Facebook and Twitter, including sharing video links. Virtual events have enabled an international dimension to be added to events. E.g. UK webinar featuring contributions from other partners Online events are available for knowledge exchange with those who cannot participate ‘live’. E.g. Webinar recordings are available on YouTube and Instagram highlights of social media takeovers are available on the host channel, and Instagram TV.

The experimental component is an essential method in Engineering education. Sometimes the availability of laboratories and components is compromised, and the COVID-19 pandemic worsened the situation. Resorting to an accurate simulation seems to help this process by allowing students to develop the work, program, test, and validate it. Moreover, it lowers the development time and cost of the prototyping stages of a robotics project. As a multidisciplinary area, robotics requires simulation environments with essential characteristics, such as dynamics, connection to hardware (embedded systems), and other applications. Thus, this paper presents the Simulation environment of SimTwo, emphasizing previous publications with models of sensors, actuators, and simulation scenes. The simulator can be used for free, and the source code is available to the community. Proposed scenes and examples can inspire the development of other simulation scenes to be used in electrical and mechanical Engineering projects. © 2022 IEEE. The authors are grateful to the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal) for financial support through national funds FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC) to CeDRI (UIDB/05757/2020 and UIDP/05757/2020) and SusTEC (LA/P/0007/2021). Thadeu Brito was supported by FCT PhD grant SFRH/BD/08598/2020 and Joao Braun received the ˜ support of a fellowship from ”la Caixa” Foundation (ID 100010434) with code LCF/BQ/DI20/11780028. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

International audience; In 2020, the latest French national agricultural censuses show the drastic decline and ageing of the farming population. At the same time, the re-territorialisation of agriculture has been developing, particularly around large cities, with the rise of AMAPs (Association pour le Maintien d'une Agriculture Paysanne in French) for example. In 2014, the French state created a policy to support local farming, farmers’ renewal and local food supply chains: the Territorial Food Projects (TFP), illustrating the rise of the food thematic, at the expense of agriculture in french national and local policies. TFPs aim to adopt a cross-cutting perspective and to integrate urban-rural relationships’ issues. They support territorialized food systems and short food supply chains. They are, first, structured at municipal or regional level, second, based on a shared diagnosis of agriculture and food in the territory between the stakeholders concerned; third on a quality objective in terms of ethics, environment, health, nutrition, etc., and, fourth, on its interconnectedness. This local management allows concerted action between political stakeholders and local food production system actors, thus enable them to produce a coordinated food and agricultural policy at local level. In 2020, local food supply chains have really taken off with the covid-19 pandemic and TFPs have emerged as key policies to meet France's agricultural challenges and fight de-peasantisation. In the framework of the European H2020 project Ruralization, the CNRS team analysed the impact of TFPs on the local development of rural areas. Indeed, this new policy, deeply bottom up and favouring action at the local level, raises questions: what type of agriculture does it encourage? Does it meet farmers' needs? Does it meet the needs of the inhabitants? Does it make food accessible to all? What interactions between urban and rural actors does it promote? And more broadly what kind of local society does it create? Based on several local case studies and reports, the aim of this paper is to understand dynamics and impacts of TFPs on rural regeneration, on farmers’ installation and on agricultural land’s preservation. It aims also to reflect on the limits of this territorial policy and on the evolution of agricultural policies in France.

Industry worldwide is facing new challenges, particularly the implementation of new technologies, climate change and currently the pandemic of the disease caused by the new coronavirus COVID-19. For the industry to be competitive, it must make technological changes. These changes are based on the concept of Industry 4.0. The changes brought about by implementing the Industry 4.0 concept and the related digitization of the economy have implications for the functioning of markets, industries, and other sectors. Significant impacts can be expected on the labor market when the demand for specific professions changes and new competencies will be required for employees. The fundamental question is how specifically these requirements can be implemented in current education conditions, specifically in the university environment. As part of practical training, it is unrealistic to demonstrate new ways of operation management on an extensive product line. It is very effective to use various forms of small-scale models. These models behave practically the same as in actual operation, and students can try out different production states, problem-solving and subsequent optimization. This article describes how we solve this problem in our university.

Open-access databases can facilitate data sharing among researchers and provide normative data for objective clinical assessment development, robotic design, and biomechanical modeling. However, most existing databases focus on gait, balance, and hand gestures without providing elbow and shoulder kinematics that are required in activities of daily living. Furthermore, the few existing upper limb datasets include small sample sizes without consistent data collection protocols, which hinder robotic engineers' ability to design robotic devices that accommodate the general population. To address the literature gap, an open-access upper limb kinematic database was proposed. Due to the impact of COVID-19 on human research, only data from 16 participants were collected. Clinical Relevance-This provides baseline kinematics for developing objective clinical assessments and rehabilitation robots.

Echocardiography probe manipulation is a strenuous task. During a procedure, the operator must hold the probe, extend their arm, bend their elbow, and monitor the resulting image simultaneously, which causes strain and introduces variability to the measurement. We propose a teleoperated probe manipulation robot to reduce the burden of handling the probe and minimize the infection risk during the COVID pandemic. The proposed robot utilizes prone position scanning that could enlarge the cardiac windows for easier scanning and eliminate the risk of the robot pressing down on the patient. We derived the robot's requirements based on a real clinical scenario. Initial evaluation showed that the robot could achieve the required range of motion, force, and control. The robot's functionality was tested by a non-clinician, in which the tester could obtain heart images of a volunteer in under one minute.

The reality of Portuguese SMEs regarding internationalization has evolved at an accelerated pace due to the digital transformation imposed, in recent years, by the conditions determined by COVID-19. [...]