On October 31st, 2024, the MOVING project (MOuntain Valorisation through INterconnectedness and Green growth) has offically come to its conclusion. Nubisware participated to the project as a linked third party of the Italian National Council of Research (CNR-ISTI). Nubisware developed software components supporting the project with a novel approach (referred to as Weblet and described later). Additionally Nubisware designed and developed the MOVING Mountains APP for Android and iOS devices. The mobile App has been developed under the responsibility of the University of Cordoba (UCO), the project coordinator. This app integrates with the services of the project’s institutional portal and the D4Science infrastructure.
The MOVING project was funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program, Grant Agreement No. 862739. Its goal was to improve the resilience to climate change of European mountain regions. MOVING engaged 23 European partners and collaborated with 23 mountain areas across 16 countries to propose policy initiatives supporting value chains in mountain areas. It focused on three key priorities: climate change adaptation, promotion of sustainable practices, and creation of incentives for enhancing mountain products. Among the project’s key achievements were: integrated policies linking agriculture, forestry, and tourism, supporting resilient food systems and biodiversity protection, as well as proposals for engaging local stakeholders in effective policy-making and better inclusion of mountain regions in future EU-funded programs.
In the project, CNR-ISTI has been one of the main technological partners. It provided technical support and training for users of the Virtual Research Environments (VREs) implemented on the D4Science infrastructure. These VREs are crucial in projects involving various scientific partners across Europe, offering web tools and services to manage distributed virtual laboratories. Consortium members could connect, communicate, organize work, share and compare documents, data, and data analysis, thereby promoting Open Science practices.
Weblet
The D4Science infrastructure is a complex system comprising headless services and web interfaces based on Liferay Portal and thus constrained by this specific technology. To overcome these limitations, Nubisware worked, within MOVING, on a novel concept named Weblet and based on web components technology.
The Weblet concept draws inspiration from Micro-frontends, providing modular and reusable UI components, and Web-components, which allow the creation of isolated HTML, JavaScript, and CSS elements that can be easily integrated into web pages. Weblets are interactive frontend elements that securely communicate with D4Science services, designed to be embeddable, composable, and reusable in external web portals or third-party web applications, regardless of their implementation technology.
Examples of Weblets include the d4s-boot, a Weblet for managing authentication and authorization via Single-Sign-On and making secure backend service requests; the d4s-social, which implements interactive interfaces for D4Science’s Social Network service; the d4s-storage, which provides interface and interactions with the Storage Hub and Workspace services.
This approach has been successfully tested, integrating Weblets into existing portals and other platforms, such as WordPress, Jupyter Notebooks, and the MOVING Mountains APP.
MOVING Mountains APP
The MOVING Mountains APP is available in the official app stores for mobile devices:
It is free to install and features public sections in addition to reserved sections for project members and stakeholders.
Public sections in the App are native mobile implementations of content also found on the project’s official website: “About,” “News,” and “Blog.” An “Events” section is publicly available in order to synchronize the user’s personal calendar with the calendar feed of the project’s portal thus allowing easy registration for events and receiving notifications as the events approach.
The app also has a “Community” section accessible for registered users of the project’s Virtual Research Environment, including members of the European Multi-Actor Platform (EU MAP). This section serves as an agora where the MOVING community can share ideas, documents, articles, knowledge, initiatives, and trends related to mountain area value chains. It can also be used as a traveler’s logbook for sharing photos, comments, and experiences of specific regions and places, navigable via an integrated interactive map. The “Community” section benefited from the d4s-boot and d4s-social Weblets, validating the approach.
In conclusion, over the four years of the project, Nubisware successfully met the project’s needs and requirements. It also had the opportunity to research, develop, and experiment with new technologies and solutions further enhancing the company’s expertise to the benefit of our products and customers. Feel free to email us for any needs!