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The SEIT Lab of the University of Cyprus participates in the D-Collab. Erasmus+ Key Action 2 Cooperation for Innovation and the exchange of good practices, Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness.

The project will focus on training the teaching staff as well as the students at all three levels of higher education to equip them with the knowledge and competencies needed for effective teaching and learning in the digital environment. The project will also develop digital competencies of students with special needs, who are in an even more challenging situation due to the shift towards online learning.

The project aims to:

1. Train teaching staff of the University of Economics in Bratislava in methodologies and technologies of digital teaching, including the teaching of students with special needs
2. Train doctoral students at the University of Economics in Bratislava in methodologies and technologies of digital teaching and including the teaching of students with special needs
3. Train students at all three-degree levels in digital competencies needed for effective learning (including students with special needs)
4. Improve digital competencies of students relevant for the labor market
5. Improve the quality of digital instruction at the University of Economics in Bratislava
6. Train the trainers in digital competencies
7. Create the preconditions for the introduction of new digital study programs
8. Produce Intellectual outcomes (Report on the needs of target groups, E-learning platform, Guidebooks)

The EKONOMICKA UNIVERZITA V BRATISLAVE in Slovakia coordinates the research project, which the European Union finances through the Erasmus+ program.

The 24-month research project is implemented within a consortium of 4 internationally recognized organizations from 4 countries: EKONOMICKA UNIVERZITA V BRATISLAVE  (Slovakia), UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS (Cyprus), FOR SRL (Italy), M&M Profuture Training, S.L (Spain)
The team leader of the University of Cyprus in the SEIT laboratory is Professor George A. Papadopoulos.

This important contribution of the SEIT Laboratory will help the University of Cyprus to enrich its knowledge and experience in this field of specialization and, at the same time, will open new perspectives for future collaborations.

More information about this research project can be found on the website: http://d-collab.cs.ucy.ac.cy/

In the context of IO3 of the Digi-Sporting Erasmus+ Project, our team here at the SEIT lab, designed and developed a web platform and a tool for the self-assessment of sports clubs. The tool is available to use in 7 different languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Greek, Portuguese.

The tool was developed in collaboration with the project coordinator (UCLM), who created the questions for the assessment process.

The tool is now open for clubs to test it, and we invite everybody to participate.

Click here to test the self-assessment tool

#digisporting #ErasmusPlus

The SEIT Lab of the University of Cyprus participates in the DigiWater project (“Digitalisation of water industry by innovative graduate water education”), an Erasmus+ Key Action 2 Cooperation and Innovation for Good Practices, Knowledge Alliances for a higher education project.

The project aims (1) to develop new, innovative and multidisciplinary approaches to teaching and learning by using multidisciplinary curricula integrated with digital learning tools and virtual facilities like sharing of labs/software with access in cloud systems and Problem Based Learning; (2) to stimulate entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial skills of higher education teaching staff and company staff using Innovation Camps and (3) to facilitate the exchange, flow and co-creation of knowledge by creating inter stakeholder courses integrating academic, corporate learning and professional development for external specialists. The ambitions of the project are to foster digital innovation in the water sector by showcasing in water and parallel sectors (e.g. energy), building IT skillsets to water professionals, mainstreaming technology entrepreneurs into the water sector, connecting the water sector with related industries and resource issues, such as energy, health and agricultural production and ecosystems and changing conservative, cautious perceptions and shift future water leaders from late to early adopters of innovations and ideas.

Specifically, the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) organization in Norway coordinates the research project DIGIWATER, which the European Union finances through the Erasmus+ program. The 36-month research project is implemented within a consortium of 13 internationally recognized organizations from 7 countries: NORGES MILJO-OG BIOVITENSKAPLIGE UNIVERSITET (Norway), TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE OSTWESTFALEN-LIPPE (Germany), ISTANBUL TEKNIK UNIVERSITESI (Turkey), Sumaqua (Belgium), KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN (Belgium), DOSCON (Norway), UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS (Cyprus), UNIVERSITATEA DUNAREA DE JOS DIN GALATI (Romania), SMARTECH AUTOMATION SRL (Romania), MEMSIS ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CO.LT (Turkey), I.A.CO Environmental & Water Consultants Ltd (Cyprus), STEB (Germany), EWA (Germany)

The team leader of the University of Cyprus in the SEIT laboratory is Professor George A. Papadopoulos.

This important contribution of the SEIT Laboratory will help the University of Cyprus to enrich its knowledge and experience in this field of specialization and, at the same time, will open new perspectives for future collaborations.

More information about this research project can be found on the website: https://waterharmony.net/digiwater/

The SEIT Lab participates at the #Erasmusdays2021 by hosting a Multiplier Event for the Erasmus+ project Digi-Ageing! Organizer is our collaborators the Materia Group.
The event will take place on Thursday, 14th of October, 11:00-15:00 at the University of Cyprus Library, room LRC 012.
More information can be found here.
To register, please fill in this form.

The project’s second meeting was organized in Brno, Czech Republic, on September 27&28, 2021. It was a hybric meeting, with some partners attending it physically and others online.

Starting with a welcoming presentation the leading partners of the project, the partners introduced themselves, proceeded to discuss curriculum and innovative learning scenarios and decided on their next steps.

The SEIT Lab’s team (UCY) attended the meeting physically and included Constantinos Xenofontos and Marios Kyprianou.

The increasing demand for healthcare services is changing the required skills in the health sector.

The Erasmus+ Digi4Me project addresses the skills insufficiency of the health sector and looks into determining the digital skills that every health professional should possess in order to use eHealth solutions correctly and effectively.

Click here to watch an introductory video!

To find out more about the Digi4Me visit the project’s website at https://digi4me.eu/

The European project Digi-Sporting: A new step towards digital transformation through sports science (2019-1-ES01-KA203-065505) held its fourth Translational Project Meeting, between all the partners. Due to the Corona-Virus world crisis, the meeting was held once again online.

It was a very productive and successful TPM for the #ErasmusPlus #DigiSporting project, where SEIT Lab as a partner of the project, participated constructively.

What are we without memory? It is possible to face daily challenges by forgetting who we are or the name of the objects that surround us.

Memory is a territory still to be explored for science, but research is well underway. 

The term memory indicates cognitive capacity thanks to which we are able to store data and carry out actions. 

The valuable activity carried out by the faculty of remembering and is divided into

• long-term memory (indefinite duration)
• short-term memory (small amount of information for 20/30 seconds)

Daily activities are characterized by recurring gestures. If we wanted to present an example, we could resort to the procedural memory that we activate when we are driving: we learn a series of actions that, repeated frequently, do not come to consciousness and are performed automatically. It emerges by itself that memory is the control center of our activities, and must be preserved. However, with advancing age it is possible to encounter some problems with the ability to remember, such as Alzheimer’s and dementia. 

These disorders are characterized by the inability to perform simple functions, also compromising the autobiographical memory and the relationship with loved ones.

The difficulties do not only involve the person affected by the disorder, but also extend to the family, which will have to constantly monitor the elderly. 

Memory-related functions don’t just affect the older.

Implementing tools to support “weak” people pursues a double objective: to protect the health of those affected by these diseases and to alleviate the concerns of families.

ESticky acts as a technological link between individuals and families, ensuring the transmission of information on the activities undertaken during the day.

Now that our ELSE project is approaching completion, we would like to disseminate our results and present our Intellectual Outputs to Universities and Schools! Due to the COVID19 pandemic, the ELSE Multiplier Event must necessarily be organized as an online event (on ZOOM). Yet, we will show how one can exploit the technologies we have developed in the past two years and we will present our method. We will also offer a hands on experience regarding our tools!

More information and the agenda can be found here.