Year: 2018

The group projects will be presented at the Thessaly Science Festival, to be held in Larissa, Greece on October 11-13, 2018 see more on the event

The LEAP project has been selected by the Erasmus+ Green National Agency, IKY, to be presented in Lodz, Poland in a TCE event that highlights European funded research projects focusing on serious games, design thinking, and other innovative learning methods.The event was held on September 28-30,, 2018 and provided a very good opportunity for sharing project results and networking with other scientists with an interest on serious games, design thinking, and other emerging learning approaches.

The kick-off meeting of project ALIEN took place in Volos, Greece on June 20-22. 40 participants from 17 organizations participated in the three day meeting, which kick started project activities. The following organizations were represented: University of Thessaly, Greece Porto Polytechnic, Portugal University of Central Lancashire, UK University of Gabrovo, Bulgaria Tallinn University, Estonia Meanchey University, Cambodia Institute of Technology Cambodia, Cambodia Von Neumann Institute, Hanoi University, Vietnam Hanoi University, Vietnam Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam University of Malaya Malaysia University of Kathmandu, Nepal Tribhuvan University, Nepal ISRA University, Pakistan University of Battambang, Cambodia National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan University Tenaga National, Malaysia

A multiplier event on the LEAP project results took place on April 27, 2017. It took place at Hotel Xenia in Volos and it was co-organized by the University of Thessaly and the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas. The purpose of the event was to promote the objectives, activities, and outcomes of the LEAP project to the target tertiary education sector as well as industry. The event was very well attended by 150 individuals approximately, all of whom were representative of the target sector.   The students that attended the event were from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Arthitecture of the University of Thessaly. In addition, the audience included a significant number of students from the Technological Institute of Thessaly (TEI Larissas) from…