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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

A webinar took place on May 22, 2023 titled Education in Emergency: Role of Emerging and Disruptive Technologies. The webinar was delivered by Dr. Manish Pokharel, Dean of the School of Engineering at the University of Kathmandu. The webinar focused on educational challenges in developing countries and discussed how emerging technologies can contribute reaching educational objectives and empowering students to become the problem-solvers of tomorrow. About the presenter Prof. Dr. Manish Pokharel Manish Pokharel is a Professor and Dean of the School of Engineering at Kathmandu University. He has been working at Kathmandu University since early 1996. His interests include artificial intelligence, personalized learning, and active learning at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He was involved as Principal Investigator (PI) in Capacity Building in Higher Education project Active…

A piloting and instructor training event for project INCLUDEME took place on March 18, 2023. The event was attended by 30 students and educators from the 2nd Evening Vocational Hich School of Volos. The participants had the opportunity to reflect on the importance of inclusive education. In addition, participants used the INCLUDEME project digital learning platform and educational activities that promote interactivity and inclusiveness in the classroom through adjustable user interfaces and relevant content. More specifically, participants were exposed to interactive exercises based on visual representations, including pattern matching, word discovery, interactive videos, and more. The exercises aimed to build skills and knowledge on languages and science education.

The 1st consortium meeting of project DigiMat: Excellence for digital education in materials engineering took place in Volos, Greece on May 10-11, 2023.