The Creative Technologies Learning Lab organised a multiplier event for project eDea on October 24, 2024. The event was attended by students and educators from the the Public Vocational Training School of Volos (SAEK), whovisited the computer lab of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DECE) of the University of Thessaly. A total of 50 students accompanied by tby the Director, Mr. Aris Papathanasiou and professors Mr. Themistoklis Konstantinou, Ms. Cleopatra Xanthi, Mr. Dimitris Sakabalas, Ms. Anna Iroidou, and Ms. Anna Sarafi., participated in the event.
Students participated in experiential workshops for innovation, which profoundly impacted their learning. Tailored to each group’s interests, knowledge, and skills, they applied design thinking, a profoundly human-centred methodology of synthesising solutions to complex challenges of entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship, to introduce solutions related to the United Nations Sustainability Goals. Through exploration, ideation, and synthesis, they presented creative ideas to address broad sustainability challenges, such as managing plastics, using electromobility to reduce carbon emissions, recycling, preserving biodiversity, raising awareness of poverty, and more.
Project eDea is funded through the Research—Create—Innovate Greece 2.0 action and is implemented from May 2021 o February 2025. The project aims to design digital services and content to promote innovation. Project partners are the University of Thessaly, the University of the Aegean, and the companies Design4Future and Butlair. The scientific coordinator of the project is DECE Pr. Elias Houstis. DECE researcher Dr. Hariklia Tsalapatas coordinated the activities.