Projects

Funding: 200k EURO
QCCS – Quality Controlled Component-based Software development: before Component Based Development will be accepted widely, the quality of the components needs to be guaranteed. The QCCS developed a methodology and supporting tools that can guarantee that a component will perform as specified.

Funding: 100k EURO
Purpose of the bioGRID project is to conduct a trial for the introduction of a grid approach in the biotechnology industry.

Funding: 65.140k EURO
The Brights Erasmus+ project

• At the students’ level, the project intends to respond to the need for awareness on the SDGs and Sustainability, for skills development, necessary to ensure proper youth involvement in the transition, and as a tool of empowerment in the rising green jobs market.
• At the teaching staff level, BRIGHTS responds to the need for new methodologies to help teachers upskill and reskill their didactic modalities, and to deliver content in new stimulating ways.
• At a systemic and organisational level, BRIGHTS intends to meet the need highlighted by the Green Deal, to empower Universities in their capacity to address the green transition.

The project aims at reaching three results: 1. The creation of MOOCS and the implementation of Sustainability Leadership sessions to educate students about the 2030 Agenda. The MOOCS (formal education) and associated interactive activities (non-formal education) will facilitate behavioral changes for individual preferences, consumption habits, and lifestyles as well as develop sustainability awareness and critical thinking, promoting learners’ leading attitude towards the active engagement in environmental sustainability. 2. The creation of creative, student-centered delivery systems for lessons on sustainability. On the one hand, it will assist teachers in upgrading and reskilling their teaching modalities and in presenting material in fresh, energizing ways. On the other hand, it will encourage the development of methodologies focused on developing green skills, to meet the needs of individuals by implementing and testing creative, student-centered replicable practices. 3. The creation of a manual compiling and disseminating best practices for establishing a Sustainability Center (SC) in higher education will strengthen universities’ ability to address the green transition by assisting them in establishing and bolstering the Sustainability Centers as catalysts for green opportunities.

Funding: 47.1 k EURO
ICD-4TVET: The project’s main objective is to develop an open innovation concept and an approach to optimize and accelerate the process of creating curricula in the technical VET sector, in order to: (a) enable Europe’s VET institutions to keep up with the demands of the labour market, (b) enable VET Learners/ Graduates and workers to pursue a successful career in terms of school and profession and (c) foster quality improvements, innovation excellence and internationalisation at the level of education and training institutions, in particular through enhanced transnational cooperation between education and training providers and other stakeholders.

Funding: 55k EURO
PRIMAE: An Inclusive eLearning Best Practice report, Inclusive Curriculum, Inclusive Pedagogical Plan, and Inclusive eLearning course in physical activity (martial arts) and education on an eLearning platform will be created using the ADDIE methodology to provide learners with and without a disability with the specific opportunity to gain accredited and regulated Awards and Certificates on the European Qualification Framework. SEIT is responsible (among other) for the design and development of the accessible e-learning environment.

Funding: 43.2k EURO
Digi-Sporting: Digi-Sporting aims to develop a guide of good practices for the effective incorporation of technology in sports clubs and academies, as well as the creation of a competitive profile of Sports Technologist and a postgraduate training package. SEIT is responsible (among others) for the design and development of the Self-diagnostic interactive tool to define sports organizations specifics needs and award of a digital seal.

Funding: 78.6k EURO
Dig-It: Dig-It will explore how EU universities, and the healthcare industry can collaborate to benefit from international networks that support educators to develop confidence and skills to use emerging technologies to enhance learning opportunities. Creating an inter-nation learning community of practice and collaboratively creating, sharing and distributing online continuing education (CE), open-access resources will reduce redundancy, time and cost. SEIT is responsible (among others) for creating an online learning environment for the developed healthcare courses, a repository of resources and an interactive tool for the educational framework.

Funding: 44.2k EURO
TOOLS: The project stems from the belief that foreign languages, English in particular, form a very powerful platform for enhanced education and personal development for learners with different individual needs. The project main goal is to prepare pre- and in-service English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers to face diversity in the EFL classroom. Other goals concentrate on raising their awareness of the necessity of dealing with mixed ability, enhancing the quality of teacher training in social and cultural inclusion, promoting ICT as an instrument to favour inclusion, providing educators with strategies and resources to create a learning environment that meets all students’ needs, organizing seminars to advocate for non-discriminatory attitudes in teaching, and setting up a debate platform to share ideas regarding inclusion in the EFL class. SEIT is responsible (among others) for developing the online e-learning environment and tools.

Funding: 43.2k EURO
Higher Education Learning Platform for Quantitative Thinking – QHelp Erasmus+ Project: The QHelp project is both innovative and complementary to the TquanT project carried out from 2016 to 2018 within the EU Erasmus+ programme. The QHelp system will be composed of two fundamental modules: an assessment and a learning module. The former will be used for determining the state of knowledge of a student. This will be done by applying the adaptive assessment procedures that are available in the knowledge space theory (KST) framework. At the end of the assessment the student will receive a detailed report containing the results of the assessment in both summative and formative terms. In the learning module the student will be guided through the contents in a structured way, starting from the notions, knowledge and concepts that are immediately accessible from her state of knowledge. This personalized learning should help keeping high the student’s motivation to stay in the system.

Funding: 47k EURO
WINGS Erasmus+ (SEIT Lab Coordinator): “Internationalization serious Game for Start-ups and entrepreneurs” is an Erasmus+ project designed to identify core and innovative learning methods that best encourage success in international activities for start-ups and entrepreneurs. In specific, partner organisations will design an innovative serious business and internationalization game that will be supported by a training course for start-ups. With this, the project aims to solve the special needs of start-ups and entrepreneurs, as well as to make available the proper training about essential aspects of the internationalization process.

Funding: 39.5k EURO
DiFens Erasmus+ (SEIT Lab Coordinator): The DiFens project concept is to elaborate such comprehensive, accessible and feasible outputs, which will navigate young people – potential young entrepreneurs and young entrepreneurs – in the process of utilizing ICT technologies in their business.

Funding: 84k EURO
EASIER Erasmus+ (Knowledge Alliance): EASIER involves leading higher education institutions and companies in bringing together different training technologies to provide a multi-skills learning experience for surgical and interventional education. It proposes an innovative solution for teaching and learning technical and nontechnical skills based on TEL. The solution will integrate TEL assets (virtual reality, augmented video, augmented box trainers, etc.), providing residents and mentors with a learning management system to programme training activities, have access to ubiquitous learning and monitor progress on their learning experience. SEIT is responsible (among other) for the design and development of the Learning Management System, and its integration with existing solutions.

Funding: 44k EURO
IDEA Erasmus+ (SEIT Lab Coordinator): the general objective of the project is to improve the quality of practices in the education of adults on the challenges and opportunities related to energy poverty eradication. The project aims to develop a high quality educational approach which will be able to address both sides of the problem (technical and social) and also highlight the entrepreneurship possibilities in the area of energy advising.

• Design an innovative learning environment based on learner-centred pedagogies (holistic, constructivist, connectivist approaches), which can activate students’ learning process through problem-solving, learning-by-doing, gamification, or digital information research;
• Demonstrate to teachers that these opportunities can be realised through the application of Higher Order Thinking ICTs;
• Provide appropriate and easy to use training material to make this transformative journey possible.

Funding: 24.6k EURO
SENSE aims to promote STEM careers amongst young people in a modern and attractive way, to develop and strengthen cooperation between schools and companies in order to increase the quality of VET, to support young women and students with special learning needs to follow the career in STEM fields and to reach the highest level of education possible and to upskill teachers and companies in work with talented students.

Funding: 42.5k EURO
VeLoCiTy Erasmus+ (SEIT Lab Coordinator): The proposed project deals with the problem to find a job in another country which is derived from culture and ethnic differences. Many European countries use different forms of job interview, and therefore the interviewees should attend consulting courses in order to become familiar with the diversity in the theories and practices of the interviews. In several cases however, the geographical/ economic/age barriers, become a preventing factor to attend such courses. The main goal of this project is to eliminate these barriers, providing equal opportunities to remotely attend a series of consulting courses through an innovative platform, and therefore facilitating the transition to world of work. In detail, the proposed project aims at providing people with different age and economic backgrounds with the opportunity to explore the techniques of interview, including teamwork, and control anxiety in order to empower them to take an active role in their self-presentation and career recruitment. The training process will be performed through an innovative virtual world environment, offering in this way high quality learning opportunities for unemployed and misemployed adults to adapt to different working environments and interviews.

Funding: 44k EURO
World-of-Physics Erasmus+ (SEIT Lab Coordinator): The World-of-Physics Erasmus+ project aims to assist students in studying the physics domain with the utilization of innovative technologies like virtual reality. Specifically, a 3D virtual reality educational environment will be developed possessing innovative educational infrastructure, and offering immersive and efficient learning opportunities, engaging students in various educational activities, learning scenarios and offering students an attractive, entertaining and efficient way to learn various topics of the challenging domain of physics. The students will have the ability to virtually visit laboratories, perform experiments, explore procedures and examine the ways that are conducted.

Funding: 7k EURO
AT-SGIRES – Erasmus+ tackles the problem of Smart Grids field knowledge being underrepresented in the existing technically overwhelmed teaching curricula at universities by integrating the SG and the methods of integrating RES to electrical grid in RE teaching programmes offered at HEIs in beneficiary countries.
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Funding: 41.9k EURO
The aim of the Job Jo project is to recruit Jordanian in remote areas with high rates of poverty and unemployment, through teaching, training, and requalifying the unemployed graduate students and empowering these areas at the economic and social levels with special focus on women.
The project plans to carry out activities in the following areas
1. Establishment regional Business Service Network Bureau(BSNB) to promote employment in the provinces of Karak, Tafila, Maan, Aqaba and Irbid.
2. Development of Training courses in the BSNB based on the experience exchange with the EU.
3-Producing training material
4. Adapting job creation instruments to the needs of young people in remote areas.
5. Supporting initiatives designed to enhance the employability of young people in the region.
6. Creating employment opportunities by supporting entrepreneurship.
7. Lesson Learned from the European partners to include their cooperation with non‐academic partners.
8. Establishing Network Service between the Universities, Industries, and Public and Private Sectors.
9. Promote the relationship between the Jordanian Institutions with EUs.
10. Students and staff from JO partners will receive training in EU

Funding: 161k EURO
CyberSafety ΙΙ brings together major national stakeholders in Cyprus in order to create a safe internet culture, empowering creative, innovative and critical citizens in the digital society. CyberSafety II aims to enrich the existing awareness platform where actors can find resources and tools, share experiences, expertise and good practices. At the same time it aims to contribute towards a European approach and provide qualitative and quantitative feedback at European level, through the core service platform. The Awareness activity will be the core of all the Action Activities. It aims to create a culture among children, parents and teachers to take advantage of the affordances of the Internet with safe, responsible and ethical use. Awareness will continue the existing work that is taking place in Cyprus, update and enrich the digital content and resources already developed, enhance existing services and tools deployed and extend collaborations and synergies among stakeholders.

Funding: 27k EURO
ReaDI-STANCE (RESTART 2016 – 2020 PROGRAMME) READING DIFFICULTIES INTERVENTION: SCIENTIFIC, TECHNOLOGICAL, AND NEW COMMUNITY EFFORTS: Early intervention is crucial to the prevention of reading difficulties (RD). Nevertheless, there are no empirically validated answers to the question of what intervention(s) work best, for which children, in what setting(s), for what duration, and for what reason. Hence, there is an urgent need for several educational systems to get more deeply involved in this area. The aims of the present project are three-fold: First, to examine the efficacy of two intervention programs, one with more cognitive (PREP: PASS Reading Enhancement Program) and one with a more phoneme-code (Graphogame) focus. Both programs will be delivered as web-based applications through platforms that will allow data storage and processing via remote servers. Second, to develop a novel framework for analyzing remediation data micro-genetically. We expect that this sort of data processing will help us explore the learning progress dynamics and developmental stages of the readers during the intervention and examine the type of early intervention most useful for treating specific RD. Finally, the third aim is to intensively train graduate students, special education teachers, and school psychologists to understand better how to apply evidence-based effective intervention in theory and practice.

Funding: 160k EURO
ERIS: Electronic Roads in the Information Society
Duration: 1998-2001
Sponsor: University of Cyprus