Year: 2023

A webinar titled Unveiling Educational Robotics: Design and Deployment of an Open-Source Programmable Bot was delivered in the context of the ICT-INOV: Modernizing Higher Education for Harvesting Innovation (http://ictinov-project.eu) webinar series on December 19, 2023. The webinar was delivered by Dr. Alden Dochshanov by EUTrack (Italy). See more on the webinar, including the webinar video

The kickoff meeting for project DigitCreche: Digital Transformation in the Western Balkans Education, funded by the Capacity Building in Higher Education program, took place on December 13 - 15, 2023 in Tirana hosted by Beltani University and Mediterranean University see more

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), and specifically the Creative Learning Technologies (http://ctll.e-ce.uth.gr) team, organized a digital skills workshop for the students of the Second Chance School. The event was organized in the context of project INCLUDEME: Inclusive Digital Environments for Quality Education of Disadvantaged and Disabled Learners, funded by the Erasmus+ program. The activity took place in the department's computer room on Thursday, December 7, 2023. More than 20 students participated, accompanied by the Director of the Second Chance School Mr. Lino Vigla and teachers of the school as well as the Director of Nea Ionia High School Mr. Antonis Plageras. Students had the opportunity to participate in experiential active learning activities that increase presentations, classroom interaction, and collaboration. They implemented exercises in language, mathematics, science, history,…

DigiMat project summer school on materials engineering in Poland The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Thessaly (ECE), and specifically the Creative Technologies Learning Lab (http://ctll.e-ce.uth.gr) research group, participated in the organization of a summer school on materials engineering addressed to higher education students and held at the Technical University of Lodz in Poland. The summer school took place on July 9 – 16, 2023. It was attended by 12 students and 8 mentors from European universities see more

Instructor training on deploying design thinking continues in project ICT-INOV: Modernizing Higher Education for Harvesting Innovation. Two more events were organized by the University of Malaya, Malaysia , an ICT-INOV project partner, engaging 25 instructors. The events took place on March 22 - 23, 2023 and July 4 - 5, 2023. Participants were from the Departments of Software Engineering, AI, Information Science, and Engineering see event in March see event in July

Our Erasmus+ project ICT-INOV: Modernizing Higher Education for Harvesting Innovation develops a digital learning intervention for fostering collaboration among higher education students. We are very proud that the project solution is used in courses at Hanoi University, Vietnam, a partner in the ICT-INOV consortium. The project is a collaboration of 12 universities, 8 of which are located in Asia and 4 in Europe see more

A multiplier event took place for promoting project NATURE: Serious Games for Natural Resources Management at the Hellenic Open University. The event took place in the context of the Hellenic Open University's summer school on disaster management. It was hybrid and was attended by over 250 individuals see more

Announcing ICT-INOV: Modernizing ICT Education for Harvesting Innovation project webinar Prompt Engineering: Making Generative AI Work for You. The webinar will be delivered on July 20, 2023 by Prof. Mutee U Raman from ISRA University. The webinar will focus on AI advances and their benefits. About the presenter: Dr. Rahman actively contributes to the development of NLP tools and resources. He published more than 40 articles. He also serves as a consulting and development member of the NLP pipeline for Sindhi in the Open Source Stanza framework, which is an initiative led by Stanford University. Dr. Rahman is a founding Society for Natural Language Processing Pakistan member see more

A press release was published for project C-TOUR: Circular Mindsets for Sustainable Small Tourism see more

A project ICT-INOV: Modernizing ICT education for Harvesting Innovation (http://ictinov-project.eu) community building event was organized by Tallinn University, a consortium partner, at the University of Life Sciences (EMÜ) in Tartu on April 18, 2024. The purpose of the event was to raise awareness on ICT-INOV project objectives, methodologies, and outcomes. During the event, which included several sessions, the audience had the opportunity to become familiar with design thinking, to be exposed to suggested related exercises, and to deploy the ICT-INOV digital learning platform for collaboration. The event was attended by over 50 individuals., mostly teaching staff see more