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Practice abstracts and videos are often envisioned within the multi-actor approach (MAA), which is typical of Horizon 2020 projects and brings together a range of different stakeholders, spanning people from science, practice, or anyone who can help tackle the objectives of the project. All experience and knowledge are therefore taken into account and the partners co-create results together, to address real-life problems through innovative and intersectoral approaches. In this perspective, practice abstracts and videos are intended to communicate a short summary of information or recommendations that have been observed or developed during the lifetime of a project, as well as to provide good practices as role models for replication in other contexts. As part of SmartCulTour’s WP6, Task 6.4 included the production of practice abstracts and the recording of relevant videos on interventions that were identified in the SmartCulTour Labs for their relevance as interesting and insightful cultural tourism interventions, and were either taking place in the region and supported by the Lab’s activities, implemented within the SmartCulTour project or co-designed by Labs’ stakeholders for future implementation. These are innovative/promising direct and indirect interventions, or a combination thereof, for the sustainable development of cultural tourism, with potential/possible impacts on sustainability and resilience of the destination. Accordingly, each Lab Manager was requested to produce one or more practice abstracts and videos, by providing practical information and outlining the main objectives and findings related to the selected intervention(s). Deliverable 6.2 gathers the texts of the practice abstracts produced by each of the six SmartCulTour Living Labs, along with the links to access the videos on the SmartCulTour website and YouTube channel. Two typologies of videos were produced: presentation video(s) of each Living Lab, and videos showcasing the intervention(s) selected, designed and/or implemented by each of them. These materials were developed primarily with a communication purpose to facilitate information sharing with those who can directly apply the findings, namely cultural tourism practitioners, policy-makers, etc. Local stakeholders were also involved in the production of the practice videos, so as to let them shape the storytelling for their own destination, while leveraging local ownership of the interventions. In order to boost their dissemination and outreach, the practice abstracts are available both in English and in the Living Lab’s local language, while the videos are subtitled in English or in the local language, as needed.

In lieu of an abstract:The Revolution of 1917 and the ruthless civil war that followed forced many subjects of the former Russian Empire to flee. Russian-speaking refugees from different parts of the empire rushed to board the often overcrowded and sometimes scarcely seaworthy steamers that could take them from the empire’s southern ports to Istanbul. By the beginning of 1921, refugees from the former Russian Empire were almost everywhere in the city (fig. 1). It is not surprising that with such a large number of new settlers, many periodicals and other publications in the Russian language began to appear.

From page 2 to page 6. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 892230. The PI is Francesca Saggini. See CORDIS website at https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/892230

En 1762 Manila cae por sorpresa en manos británicas. A partir de ese momento comenzará una tenaz resistencia al invasor en un contexto de improvisada guerra irregular que incluyó nativos filipinos y religiosos. Tal confrontación dio pie a diferentes comportamientos respecto a los varios tipos de cautivos involucrados.

Abstract Different forms of charity, relief and humanitarian action can be jointly approached as a means of governance and social regulation. More precisely, in the Middle East the question of stability – social and political – can be considered as a central driver for local and international actors alike. This study adopts a broad historical framework, reaching from antiquity to the present day, with the aim of approaching the subject with an openness conducive to understanding the evolution of the actors, modes of action and representations underlying aid initiatives. The longue durée approach allows to show two main specificities of the modern and contemporary Middle East: firstly, the evolution of aid practices is directly linked to human mobility, since they are connected to religious practices, commerce or violence, which led to the need to take a census, to categorise and sometimes isolate populations in order to govern and control them. Secondly, in the absence of the welfare state as the most important provider of aid, the state has until today in the Middle East much less prominence among the multiplicity of aid providers, such as the family, non-governmental, religious and community organisations.

RESUMEN: El clima se ha propuesto como uno de los posibles factores desencadenantes de la extinción de los Neandertales. Las oscilaciones rápidas y abruptas, registradas en diferentes registros climáticos del hemisferio norte, empujaron los ecosistemas hacia resultados catastróficos durante el Estadio Isotópico 3 (MIS3). En estas condiciones, la supervivencia de una especie dependió, fundamentalmente, de sus habilidades de adaptación. Comprender el rol que esos episodios tuvieron en la subsistencia de las ultimas poblaciones neandertales, pero también en la de los Humanos Anatómicamente Modernos en el continente europeo durante la transición del Paleolítico Medio al Superior es, por lo tanto, esencial. El proyecto SUBSILIENCE, financiado por el European Research Council (ERC), aborda esta cuestión mediante la evaluación de la flexibilidad del comportamiento y la resiliencia de ambas especies humanas analizando tanto su dieta como los diferentes patrones de subsistencia adoptados. A la vez, con base en los mismos elementos de su dieta, se centra en reconstruir las condiciones climáticas y ambientales a nivel local y regional. A partir del análisis de los materiales arqueozoológicos de más de 20 yacimientos localizados en las penínsulas del sur de Europa, este proyecto permitirá obtener respuestas sobre qué patrones de subsistencia particulares (si es que los hubo) favorecieron a nuestra especie en condiciones medioambientales tan cambiantes y a su vez, en qué grado las oscilaciones climáticas afectaron en la desaparición final de los Neandertales. La metodología, resultados y conclusiones de este proyecto serán relevantes para el estudio de la Prehistoria a escala paneuropea. ABSTRACT: Climate has long been proposed as a possible trigger factor for the extinction of Neanderthals. Abrupt and acute oscillations of climate, as recorded from different climatic proxies such as Greenland polar ice sheets, are particularly threatening as they can push ecosystems towards catastroph¬ic outcomes. Under these conditions, the survival of a species critically depends on their adaptive skills. Understanding the exact role that these episodes could have had on both Nean¬derthals and Anatomically Modern Humans (AMH) during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition is, therefore, es¬sential. SUBSILIENCE, a funded ERC project, is address¬ing this problem by assessing the behavioural flexibility and resilience of both human species based on their subsistence strategies, together with a newly obtained accurate climatic and environmental reconstruction across southern European peninsulas during MIS3. This novel approach will offer pre¬cise answers to questions concerning a) which particular subsistence patterns (if any) favoured AMH while coping with the changing environments and b) the extent to which climatic oscillations affected Neanderthal extinction. This it will be of relevance to the study of Prehistory on a pan- European scale. Esta investigación está financiada por la Consejo Europeo de Investigación, bajo el Programa Horizonte 2020 en Investigación e Innovación de la Unión Europea (convenio de subvención núm. 818299, Proyecto SUBSILIENCE https://www.subsilience.eu).

This deliverable describes the achievements of the last year of the Joint Research Activities (JRAs for short) of the ARIADNEplus project, with a special emphasis on the Knowledge discovery and browsing service, implemented by the ARIADNE Portal with the support of the ARIADNE Aggregation Infrastructure. The report provides an integrated overview of all the scientific and technological developments that have taken place in JRA Work Packages during the above mentioned period. These Work Packages are: WP12 JRA1 - Data Integration and Interoperability (Lead beneficiary CNR) WP13 JRA2 - ARIADNEplus Infrastructure Operation and Management (Lead beneficiary CNR) WP14 JRA3 - The ARIADNEplus knowledge management system (Lead beneficiary FORTH) WP15 JRA4 - Innovative Services for Users (Lead beneficiary SND) WP16 JRA5 - Innovative Methods and Pilots (Lead beneficiary INRAP) This deliverable corresponds to the activities of tasks 12.5 (Knowledge discovery and browsing) and 12.6 (Monitoring JRA activities). The document consists of one main Section (Section 3) which provides an overview of the progress in the JRA WPs covering four main fronts: Infrastructure and Virtual Research Environments setup and operation Aggregation infrastructure The ARIADNE Content Cloud Services and pilots. A separate Section (Section 4) is devoted to the Knowledge discovery and browsing service. Sections 5 to 9 are devoted to the JRA WPs, from WP12 to WP16, in the order. Each WP Section has the same structure: 1. Goal of the WP 2. Planned schedule of activities (table) 3. Results obtained from Month 37 to Month 48 (bulleted list) 4. Problems encountered and open issues, if any. No milestone was set in the fourth year of the project for the JRAs.

This ARIADNEplus deliverable is the “Final Report on the Project Impact” completed in the last month of the project’s lifecycle. The evaluation of the project results covers all activities of the project. A common evaluation scheme for the impact of Integrating Activities does not exist, but ARIADNEplus developed a reporting framework that takes full account of the statements of expected impacts of the RI Programme and/or its section “Specific features for Research Infrastructures”, Part D. Chapter 2 comprises the summarised results of 11 areas of project activities, stated or implied by the expressed expectations of the RI Programme: • Extension of the stakeholder community • Supporting the FAIR data agenda in archaeology • Standardisation of archaeological datasets • Access to integrated knowledge-based resources • New services and virtual research environments (VREs) • Research infrastructures coordination • Cross-disciplinary fertilisation and sharing of resources • Innovation and partnership with industry • Use of services beyond research • TNA, training activities and resources • Dissemination and communication These activities have different weights, for example, Access to integrated knowledge-based resources comprises the whole ARIADNEplus Data Portal and integrated datasets, while Use of services beyond research is not a project priority, but nevertheless has been one of its ambitions. Chapter 3 outlines the framework. It describes in greater detail the Integrating Activity scheme, gives important background for the expected impact statements, briefly discusses the 10 statements, and references the sections which present the related activities and results achieved. Chapter 4 evaluates each of the 11 areas of project activities in detail.