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  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 Read more…

  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), Read more…

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 Read more…

  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. Read more…

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 Read 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.

Our EIT Climate-KIC Cyprus #younginnovators program featured in UNECE Report on Youth Engagement for ESD Cyprus University of Technology Cyprus Energy Agency Climate-KIC EIT – European Institute of Innovation and Technology Andri Ioannou Andreas Pastides Theognosita Karra. Thank you Aravella Zachariou for inviting us! Reading: Engaging Young People in the Read more…

CIL/EdMedia is involved in the special issue ETR&D Special Issue Call:Learning Through Design and Maker Education https://www.springer.com/journal/11423/updates/23433356 Guest Editors: Andri Ioannou, Cyprus University of Technology (Cyprus Interaction Lab), CYENS Center of Excellence, <andri@cyprusinteractionlab.com>, http://andriioannou.weebly.com/Brian Gravel, Tufts University, <brian.gravel@tufts.edu>, https://sites.tufts.edu/briangravel/ Research topics to be addressed include but are not limited to: Learning design meshing Read more…

FemPower – Gender Equality in the Clean Energy Transition is a Cooperation Partnership in Higher Education. Our journey towards a just and gender equal CET started in February 2022. FemPower aims to increase female representation in the sector, empower and prepare those who are already active in academia or the market, and Read more…

CUT is one of the members of the consortium of the DR FLEMP project   The DR FLEMP project [Erasmus + KA2] aims to support digital transformation in Foreign Language Education (FLE) in the EU, whilst focusing on filling the existing gaps and raising efficacy of foreign language education by Read more…

The ERUM Open Educational Repository is a free and open collection of the study materials that have been developed in the framework of the EU-funded ERUM project. Aimed at Higher Education students from all study fields, the 15 modules listed in the Catalogue intend to provide learners with an experiential Read more…

The event “Breaking the glass ceiling” in the context of the European project “Female Empowerment in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics in Higher Education (FeSTEM)” was held with great success on Thursday, June 2, 2022 at the Cyprus University of Technology in Limassol. The aim of the event was to Read more…

25 May, 2022  One of the main deliverables of the ERUM project was the production of learning material to foster students’ media and information literacy as well as transversal skills such as critical thinking. In this context, we developed 15 learning modules that focus on issues related to mis- and Read more…

There is no denying that misinformation and disinformation have gained incredible momentum in the past couple of years, particularly after the outbreak of the pandemic. On one side, what the United Nations and the World Health Organization have identified as infodemic has once more confirmed that no topic is immune to such Read more…

On April 28th the ERUM partners – under the lead of the University of Vienna – hosted the third ERUM conference “Facts & Figures | Evidence-based Information in Contemporary Societies: The Role of Academia and the Media” to present and discuss the project’s outcomes. An interested audience from higher education and Read more…

We are pleased to invite you to the 3rd Multiplier event of the FeSTEM project, which is organised by the team of SMILE Lab of the University of Macedonia, Greece, which will take place on Monday, May 16th, 2022 between 11:15-15:30 CET. We are pleased to invite you to the Read more…

At the last monthly consortium meeting, partners of the ENTER project discussed about various aspects of the most prominent work packages leading to the implementation of the Learning Innovation Hubs (LIHs) that will take place in the fall. The discussion was mainly about the structure of the online learning environment Read more…