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Nowadays, data are everywhere becoming more and more important in everyday life. Recently, during the COVID-19 outbreak, data are being used on a massive scale, and having the skills to understand the information conveyed through numbers, percentages and trends curves became essential. From this perspective, data literacy is a competence not only important for those operating in computer science or technological sectors, but it is acquiring a key role in other sectors such as social science, humanities, and journalism. In this paper, we present the DEDALUS project, an EU-funded project aimed at developing data literacy courses for university students. DEDALUS defined a competence framework that identifies a set of competences related to data literacy, to which modular university courses in different disciplines are based upon. The outcomes of the project were piloted in 5 European countries in order to define the implementation strategies that identifies different models of data literacy inclusion in the higher education domain.
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The treatment of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is based on the patient's clinical status and levels of inflammatory biomarkers. The comparative activity of these biomarkers in KT patients with COVID-19 pneumonia from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and non-SARSCoV- 2 aetiologies is unknown. The aim of this study was to compare the clinical presentation and inflammatory parameters at admission of KT patients with COVID- 19 pneumonia and those with non-COVID-19 pneumonia over the same period. METHOD: Biomarkers were measured and compared between KT patients with COVID-19 pneumonia (n=42) and non-COVID-19 pneumonia (n=18) from March to November 2020. RESULTS: Both groups showed comparable demographics. The COVID-19 KT patients had fewer neutrophils (4,650 [2,925-9,498] vs. 9,100 [7,170-11,150],p=0.01) than the non-COVID group, although there was no significant difference in the lymphocyte count. Non-COVID-19 pneumonia was associated with a higher d-dimer (962 [427-1,448] vs. 1,704 [868-2,481],p=0.09) and IL-6 (37 [23-10] vs 254 [53- 602],p=0.006) levels. The ferritin level was higher in the COVID-19 group (908 [496- 1,377] vs. 340 [264-785],p=0.008). CONCLUSION: COVID-19 pneumonia in KT recipients shows a different presentation of inflammatory biomarkers than other non-COVID pneumonias. It could be usefully to identify KT patients with COVID-19.More detailed studies are necessary to understand the presentation of biomarkers in KT with COVID-19.