On Thursday 23rd of March Prof. Phoebe Koundouri has been awarded the Academy of Athens Excellence in Science Award 2023 for her contribution to the advancement of the Science of the Marine Environment by the President of the Academy of Athens, Michael-Konstantinos Stathopoulos, and the Secretary General, Christos Zerefos . This Award, given every four …
The Level Up project was officially launched in Nicosia, Cyprus. The kick-off meeting was organised by GrantXpert Consulting, the Project Coordinator and hosted by European University Cyprus. The project is a joint initiative of seven renowned training providers from Cyprus, Greece, Germany, Italy, and Finland, supported by seven business associations from Cyprus, Greece, Germany, Poland, …
The Nicosia Municipality hosted in Nicosia on March 15 – 17, 2023, the third meeting of the European project HUB-IN – Hubs of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for the Transformation of Historic Urban Areas. The meeting took place at the ‘Information and Training Centre for Enhancing Employment and Entrepreneurship’ – KEEAED of the Municipal Multipurpose Centre …
The Mayor of Nicosia Constantinos Yiorkadjis, following an invitation received from the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth Mrs. Mariya Gabriel, is participated in the “European Days of Innovation” programme that took place in Silicon Valley in America on March 21 and 22 2023. 50 personalities (investors, mayors, university rectors, entrepreneurs, innovation …
The UNESCO Chair for Digital Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Graduate Program in Digital Methods for the Humanities of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) are launching their collaboration with Princeton University’s Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) assisted by the European Infrastructure for Research in the Arts and Humanities …
Driven by the need to apply innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to learning and education, check out the following video about the OP.E.N project – “Development of a tool to assess the need for psychological first aid in adolescent students”, implemented under the Erasmus+ KA210-SCH – Small-scale partnerships in school education. For the implementation of the …
The Open University of Cyprus (OUC) is being visited by Dr Judith Alejandra Kohan, Professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Member of the Council for the Advancement of Women in Science and Technology of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Israel, for a series of open lectures and workshops in the framework of …
Agriculture is responsible for 17-20% of global greenhouse gas emissions and is a major cause of biodiversity loss and degradation of valuable habitats. The project “Translating new Approaches and Knowledge into EnvirOnmentally Friendly Farming” (acronym TAKE OFF), which is coordinated and implemented with funding from the Erasmus+ Programme by the Open University of Cyprus (OUC) …
The Open University of Cyprus (OUC) secured another distinction at the Cyprus Education Leaders Awards 2022 for innovative applications of digital technology in education for the fourth consecutive year. The silver award in the category “Best Learning Experience” concerns the project “Design and implementation of a SimCity-type simulation educational tool for virtual city waste management“. This Waste Management Tool is perhaps the first SimCity-type …
The Open University of Cyprus (OUC) and the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU), co-organized a Staff Support Event on 9-10 March 2023, with the aim of building the capacity of conventional and distance teaching universities in open and distance education, and exchanging ideas, know-how and best practices between the participating institutions. Sixteen participants from EADTU and four of its …