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The first ARIDLL (Augmented Reality Workshop for Language Learning) workshop in Cyprus occurred on July 5th, 2023 at the Cyprus University of Technology.

The FemPower project announces the FemPower Summer School that will take place in August in Thessaloniki, Greece! The summer school will have a duration of five days and aims to: -> Raise awareness regarding the current situation within the project partner countries with respect to the CET in terms of Read more

The research project started in February 2022 and proceeded via regular teleconferencing meetings. Due to pandemic restrictions and other administrative difficulties, the partners met in person for the first time on the 1st of December 2022, in an intense, but also enthusiastic and fruitful, two-day meeting, that took place at Read more

On Thursday, 26th of January, the CYENS Centre of Excellence, GrantXpert Consulting, and Cyprus University of Technology hosted the closing event of the ENTER EdTech project. The event involved a pitching experience for six EdTech start-ups, who competed for one of the following remarkable and valuable prizes

The Clean Energy sector is a traditionally male-dominated field but the EU-funded project FemPower (2021-1-EL01-KA220-HED-000030178) has been inspiring change by helping scientists in seven countries to better understand how gender equality can benefit the field.

ENTER EdTech 2nd face-to-face meeting has been successfully completed in Athens on the 21st of November! The partners developed fruitful discussions reflecting on the completed tasks, revised ongoing work, and agreed on an action plan for accomplishing the next steps.

The Assessmake21 coordinator, Learnovate Centre based in Dublin, organized the Final Multiplier Event of the project on Oct13th, 2022 (virtual event). This end of project event was aimed at educators, facilitators of makerspaces and those interested in the development of 21st C Skills through making activities. We provided an introduction Read more

The @Cyprus Interaction Lab and the @Language Center of the @Cyprus University of Technology, hosted the 3rd Transnational Project Meeting of the #DR FLEMP project on the 20th-21st of October aiming to review the project results’ progress and discuss future steps. Partners from Germany, Sweden, Lithuania and Cyprus attended the Read more

Erasmus days 2022 event at Museum Thalassa at Agia Napa, Cyprus. Stella Timotheou from the Cyprus team disseminated the work of Assessmake21 and presented projects from the pilots in which she was involved, directly linked to her PhD work.

ARIDLL project (Augmented Reality Instructional Design for Language Learning) had the project kick-off meeting on the 19th-21st of September in Trondheim, Norway. The workshop intended to bring together a group of experts in Augmented Reality (AR) with all types of expertise required in the project and all partners to get Read more

As part of the Cyprus Forum events 2022 The “Future of Makerspaces in Education” organized by the Cyprus Forum, Youth Makerspace Larnaka and Oxygono, begun with an introduction to the Erasmus+ project Assessmake21 and what was achieved in the context of developing and piloting a digital tool to assess the Read more

  Are you 18–35 years old with an artificial intelligence or a social innovation background? Join our Hackathon | Stronger Together through the power of AI for the Common Good!We are joining forces with Microsoft Cyprus and CYENS Centre of Excellence for a hackathon, where young people will explore and Read more

  Learning a Foreign Language Education (FLE) can increase engagement and can become more immersive and interactive with the help of emerging technologies. Language experts have been interested in using Extended Reality (XR) technologies in education [various simulation-based technologies, such as Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Mixed Reality (MR), Read more

Register @ https://www.facebook.com/events/797358381265455The “Future of Makerspaces in Education” organized by the Cyprus Forum, Youth Makerspace Larnaka and Oxygono, will begin with an introduction to the Erasmus+ project Assessmake21 and what was achieved in the context of developing and piloting a digital tool to assess the development of 21st C Skills.The Read more

  On behalf of CYENS and the European Erasmus+ funded project ENTER EdTech we would like to invite you to the “Learning Innovation Hub” Develop the skills, introduce your idea to a broad network of mentors and pitch your start-up to an established group of professionals at the closing event. Read more

Multiplier Event:ASSESSMAKE21 Final Conference and Dissemination Event This end of project event is aimed at educators, facilitators of makerspaces and those interested in the development of 21st C Skills through making activities.As the Maker movement is increasingly adopted into Primary and Secondary schools and nonformal makerspaces, students have more opportunities to Read more

A Design Thinking Workshop took place in September at the Cyprus Interaction Lab of the Cyprus University of technology, as part of the DR FLEMP project. In the workshop, language instructors, instructional designers and nursing professionals participated and a storyboard of the future VR application scenario was drafted. Some of the ideas discussed during the workshop include the engagement of the students in different real-life scenarios and real-life dialogue in medical emergencies, ways to increase active learning and promote learning autonomy of students as well as the promotion of collaborative learning.

Our EIT Climate-KIC Cyprus #younginnovators program featured in UNECE Report on Youth Engagement for ESD Cyprus University of Technology Cyprus Energy Agency Climate-KIC EIT – European Institute of Innovation and Technology Andri Ioannou Andreas Pastides Theognosita Karra. Thank you Aravella Zachariou for inviting us! Reading: Engaging Young People in the Read more

Special issue ETR&D Special Issue Call:Learning Through Design and Maker Education https://link.springer.com/journal/11423/volumes-and-issues/72-1 Guest Editors: Andri Ioannou, Cyprus University of Technology (Cyprus Interaction Lab), CYENS Center of Excellence, <andri@cyprusinteractionlab.com>, http://andriioannou.weebly.com/Brian Gravel, Tufts University, <brian.gravel@tufts.edu>, https://sites.tufts.edu/briangravel/ Research topics to be addressed include but are not limited to: Learning design meshing pedagogy and practice to Read more

FemPower – Gender Equality in the Clean Energy Transition is a Cooperation Partnership in Higher Education. Our journey towards a just and gender equal CET started in February 2022. FemPower aims to increase female representation in the sector, empower and prepare those who are already active in academia or the market, and Read more