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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.

Our paper CompLicy: Evaluating the GDPR Alignment of Privacy Policies – A Study on Web Platforms, was accepted for publication at the 15th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2021) and was presented by Evangelia Vanezi on May 11–14, 2021. The conference was, initially to be held in Limassol (Cyprus) was organised online due to COVID-19.

Full Citation: Vanezi, Evangelia, Zampa, George, Mettouris, Christos, Yeratziotis, Alexandros, and Papadopoulos, George A. “CompLicy: Evaluating the GDPR Alignment of Privacy Policies-A Study on Web Platforms.” Research Challenges in Information Science: 15th International Conference, RCIS 2021, Limassol, Cyprus, May 11–14, 2021, Proceedings. Springer Nature.

Our paper DIG-IT: Digital Education Initiatives and Timely Solutions, was accepted for publication at the 15th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2021) and was presented by Evangelia Vanezi on May 11–14, 2021. The conference, initially to be held in Limassol (Cyprus), was organised online due to COVID-19.

Full Citation: Vanezi, Evangelia, Yeratziotis, Alexandros, Mettouris, Christos, Papadopoulos, George A., and Colla J. MacDonald, “DIG-IT: Digital Education Initiatives and Timely Solutions.” Research Challenges in Information Science: 15th International Conference, RCIS 2021, Limassol, Cyprus, May 11–14, 2021, Proceedings. Springer Nature.

Our paper CHATBOT Technologies for Digital Entrepreneurship Education of Adult Learners-CHAT2LEARN, was accepted for publication at the 15th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2021) and was presented by Dr. Thomas Fotiades on May 11–14, 2021. The conference, initially to be held in Limassol (Cyprus) was organised online due to COVID-19.

Full Citation: Fotiades, Thomas, Vanezi, Evangelia, Petrova, Mariana, Vasileva, Vitlena, Papadopoulos, George A., “Technologies for Digital Entrepreneurship Education of Adult Learners–CHAT2LEARN.” Research Challenges in Information Science: 15th International Conference, RCIS 2021, Limassol, Cyprus, May 11–14, 2021, Proceedings. Springer Nature.

The SEIT Research Laboratory (Software Engineering and Internet Technologies Laboratory) of the Computer Science department of the University of Cyprus participates in “ALIVE: Make Biology Fun with Virtual Reality” Erasmus+ project.

The ALIVE project provides a solution that combines the benefits of online education with traditional face to face classroom teaching in the Biology subject area. Through virtual reality and the 3D world, it will enable the teacher to conduct distance learning – in virtual reality – but at the same time to be in direct contact with their pupils as if they were in their own classroom.
UCY participates in the project via the SEIT and Bioinformatics Research Laboratories. The main contributions of UCY are in the design of curriculum and innovative learning material for Biology and in the design and development of the 3D Virtual World Educational Platform

Find out more here (click here).

The “eDash” tool is now up and running and as such we are currently evaluating our tool.

Would you like to participate in this evaluation?

If yes, please see the video(click here) and then fill in this questionnaire(click here).

The SEIT lab team in collaboration with the Center for Teaching and Learning is offering the course “Designing, Delivering and Evaluating Online Study-Units” to university academic and teaching staff of the University of Cyprus.

The course has kicked-off on Wednesday 03 March 2021, with a synchronous online session. The course is being taught in parallel in five different countries, in five different universities in Cyprus, Malta, Slovenia, Italy, and Finland.

At the University of Cyprus we have 27 learners in this course, from several different faculties. The course is hosted in the CS department Moodle platform.

The course facilitators are: Dr. Alexandros Yeratziotis, Evangelia Vanezi, Michalis Kaili

The course was selected for an Honorable Mention award in the E-Learning category of the 2020 International E-Learning Awards, given by the International E-Learning Association.

The course is offered in the context of Dig-It Erasmus+ Project. More information about the project can be found here: http://project-digit.eu

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

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

The project “Participation and Recreation through Inclusive Martial Arts Education and E-Learning” (acronym “PRIMAE”), approved by the Erasmus Plus National Agency in the UK as part of the program Erasmus Plus KA2 Strategic Partnerships for Adult Education as action n.2019-1-UK01-KA204-061975, has reached the middle of its development path and it is time to produce the appropriate interim report of activities. The European initiative, well coordinated by Ray Sweeney, head of Ikkaido Ltd (a registered charity based in Oxford), aims to develop the first platform to provide online education and training in the martial arts sector, providing an e-learning tool accessible to all, to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities through the aforementioned sport. A respectable partnership is working on the project which, in addition to the English Ikkaido Ltd, includes the following partners: Areadne Oe (Greece), EURO-NET and Futuro Digitale (Italy), Ikkaido Inclusive Martial Arts (Ireland), Stockholm Vastra Idrottsforening For Funktionsnedsatta (Sweden), University Of Cyprus (Cyprus) and Aux Couleurs Du Deba (France).

The project fits perfectly into the European Commission’s <<Europe 2020>> strategy for inclusive, smart, sustainable and active growth which sets the goal of relieving at least 20 million European citizens from poverty and social exclusion and, at the same time, increasing the employment of the population aged between 20 and 64 to 75%. The aim of the project is, in fact, to develop an innovative and useful training curriculum that will include modules that will range from martial arts coaching for adults and children to the use of medicines in sport, from the approach to disabilities to the protection and inclusion of vulnerable children and adults.

In the first year of activity, the partners worked hardly to develop the basis of the various intellectual products, collecting many good sectoral inclusion practices, placing the emphasis on the development of a necessary pedagogical plan, developing an e-learning platform where it will be possible to participate to online courses and a respectable training curriculum.

The objectives that the project wants to achieve – underlined Ray Sweneey, coordinator of the entire project – are very ambitious and that is why we are working hardly, despite all the problems that the covid-19 pandemic has created in the various partner countries, in order to develop a project to be proud of and which can be classified at the end of the activities as a good practice in the Erasmus Plus program because it will have allowed many people with disabilities to engage in physical activity and sport, opening up, at the same time, new job opportunities in the martial arts world. The ultimate goal of the partnership is that the project could be officially recognized by the various countries and by the CEN (European Committee for Normalisation): it would be an exceptional result to which all the Partners are dedicating themselves with great passion and that we are sure to to be able to obtain.

The European initiative, which can also be followed on social media thanks to a specific Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/IkkaidoPrimae, started in September 2019 and will end if there will be no extensions due to the pandemic, by February 2022.