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The Coordinator of the Internal Programme (Project Coordinator) must be a Post-doctoral Researcher. Each Research Proposal must have only one Coordinator and the Post-doctoral Researcher may submit and participate in only one Research Proposal. Upon approval of the Proposal, the Post-doctoral researcher must necessarily be physically present at CUT.

June 29-30 and July 3-4, the EdMedia CYENS Centre of Excellence (extension of the Cyprus Interaction Lab of the Cyprus University of Technology), in collaboration with the UCL Knowledge Lab, organized and delivered an innovative workshop for children entitled: “Constructions with Micro:bit technology and electronic fabrics”.

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 implementation and gender equality -> Improve the awareness of the participants regarding the gender dimension in the field of Energy, with a focus on the CET -> Provide the participants with tools and skills to work in CET careers through STEAM gender inclusive practices  -> Test and evaluate the methodologies created in PR6  -> Prepare the female students for their professional pathways in the field of CET, through the introduction and promotion of the Fem to FemPower network. Gender equality is not only about the education of female students. In some ways, it is much more about the education of male students regarding gender …

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 the Polytechnic School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). During the meeting, each workgroup presented and reviewed the progress made so far, critical issues were addressed, and above all, the consortium aligned once more to work jointly for the same goals. Hashtags: #FemPower #GenderEquality #CleanEnergyTransition #ErasmusPlus

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 about the project, who was involved, and what we achieved in the context of developing and piloting a digital tool to assess the development of 21st C Skills. The Cyprus Interaction Lab research team, presented key findings from the Cypriot pilots. Also, two teachers from Cyprus presented their views on how the Assessmake21 tool helped them, and their students, raise awareness of their 21st-century skills during making activities. Other partners and teachers from pilots in Ireland, Finland, and Greece, shared their experiences and perspectives too. 

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 meeting. Many ideas were shared towards the development of the Mixed Reality application for language learning for medical purposes and the next steps to be taken were defined. #virtualreality #vrinforeignlanguageeducation

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 to know each other. During the meeting a list of challenges and solutions was developed along with user stories. Also, technical recommendations for AR tools to support language learning as well as instructional design guides for language learning with AR were drafted.The Cyprus Interaction Lab and the Language Centre of the CUT participated in this first expert workshop.

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 development of 21st C Skills. The event continued with a panel discussion bringing into conversation three doctoral candidates — Stella Timotheou, Giorgos Pallaris, Dora Constantinou — and early career researchers like Andreas Papallas, which have been working and researching digital making and learning through makerspace environments. The event took place on Saturday, 17th of September, at the Youth Makerspace Larnaka of the Youth Board of Cyprus and the participants will have the opportunity to meet the space!

  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 showcase the power of Artificial Intelligence for the common good. The hackathon is taking place on 16–18 December in Nicosia and is supported by the Cyprus University of Technology / Τεχνολογικό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, the Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου | University Of Cyprus, UCLan Cyprus, University of Nicosia, the European University Cyprus and Frederick University Cyprus, under the auspices of the Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy / Υφυπουργείο Έρευνας, Καινοτομίας & Ψηφιακής Πολιτικής.

  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), and Holography (HG) (Pomerantz, 2019)], particularly in language learning.    VR produces an entirely artificial and virtual environment (Hein et al., 2021) and it also provides learners with the opportunity to practice their speaking skills (Li et al., 2020).   AR overlays virtual content over real-world objects and locations while MR falls halfway between AR and VR. According to Hein et al. (2021), MR refers to human-machine interactions produced by wearables and computer technologies in real and virtual settings that are merged.    One of the topics DR FLEMP project aims to examine is the identification of the barriers and …

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 event will continue with a panel discussion bringing into conversation three doctoral candidates — Stella Timotheou, Giorgos Pallaris, Dora Constantinou — and early career researchers like Andreas Papallas, which have been working and researching digital making and learning through makerspace environments.The panel will be taking place on Saturday, 17th of September, at the Youth Makerspace Larnaka of the Youth Board of Cyprus and the participants, will have the opportunity to meet the space!

  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. The ENTER EdTech project aspires to promote entrepreneurial skills and create an entrepreneurial mindset in the education technology sector, at a time when education is undergoing fundamental changes.    The Learning Innovation Hub will be offering free online training & in-person mentoring divided into three phases:   Phase 1: Training Programme – Online18.10.2022 “Education Market”25.10.2022 “Product Market Fit & Evaluation”02.11.2022 “Sales Process”08.11.2022 “Financial Planning & Revenue Models in EdTech”15.11.2022 “Commercialisation, Marketing and Pitching”   Phase 2: Mentoring – CYENS, NicosiaFour in-person mentoring sessions with an established local network of mentors26/11/2022 | 03/12/2022 | 10/12/2022 |17/12/2022   Phase 3: Closing EventOne …

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 generate unique, personalized projects and artifacts, such as computer programs, robots, DIY electronics and develop new competencies and skills. These making activities can provide learning experiences that promote young people’s creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and problem-solving skills – the essential skills necessary in the workplace of the 21st century. Register  We will provide an introduction about the project, who was involved, and what we achieved in the context of developing and piloting a digital tool to assess the development of 21st C Skills. There will also be an opportunity to meet other stakeholders through breakout sessions. Find out 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.