Category: News

Please check out the second Newsletter of the Erasmus+ CONNECT project that our lab is involved in!!

Our poster for the eSticky project submitted recently for the EUROPEAN WEEK OF ACTIVE AND HEALTHY AGEING (AAL event) in Gdańsk, Poland!

All partners contributed on this, is a really nice poster that is precenting the eSticky project! You can have a look on it to learn more about the project!

For the original Facebook post click here.

The intensive training of students for the Erasmus+ JobJo programme was completed on Monday 4 July.

Dr Konstantinos Tsouris gave a lecture on “Job interview – a practical approach: common questions and techniques”.
Afterwards, the students presented their final projects.
The students completed and presented their projects successfully.
The two-day session was completed with the Certificates that were given to all participants.

We thank all the students from Jordan for their participation in this intensive two-week training. Also, many thanks to Dr. Konstantinos Tsouris and Mrs. Aggeliki Tziongkourou for their help during the training!

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GTUp!

GIRLS TEAM UP!

Start: 01-11-2021

End: 31-10-2023

Project Reference: 2021-1-ES01-KA220-HED-000031153754

SEIT Research Laboratory (Software Engineering and Internet Technologies Laboratory) of the Computer Science department of the University of Cyprus participates in the GTUp! project, started in November 2021, with a duration of 24 months.

GTUp! is funded through the Erasmus + KA220-HED – Cooperation partnerships in higher education.

Girls Team Up! is an Erasmus+ project that focuses on inclusion and diversity in all areas of education, training, and sports. It addresses digital transformation through the development of digital readiness and capacity. GTUp! aims to develop a global system dedicated to training in new active methodologies in online environments. This project will also include an interactive game that improves physical, technical, and tactical skills in different sports modalities. Girls Team Up! is an interesting project so stay tuned so that you don’t miss out. #GTUp #GirlsTeamup

The partnership includes the following organizations:

FUNDACIÓN DIOCESANA DE ENSEÑANZA SANTOS MÁRTIRES DE CÓRDOBA, Spain, Coordinator
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II, Italy
INSTITUT DE HAUTE FORMATION AUX POLITIQUES COMMUNAUTAIRES, Belgium
University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Re-Think/Re-Act focuses on the inclusion of secondary education students with adaptation difficulties and/or behavior in classrooms due to poor training of soft skills, which, currently, supposes a real challenge for education systems, since they tend to focus their training on hard skills as a priority.

RT RA aims to develop a global model of care for students, through different results closely related to each other, so that it will provide tools to accompany those students in the search for their own talent, encouraging reflection and positive emotional reaction, which in turn leads them to redirect possible disruptive behaviors and attitudes.

The project launched with a few successful meetings already!

Keep an eye out for this project, it’s really promising!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rethinkreact_/?hl=es
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Re-Think-Re-Act-112403718126921
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ReThinkReAct_

BEE-IN project is an Erasmus+ project that aims to boost knowledge and technology transfer in the apiculture sector.

Its objective is to foster the introduction of digital training in VET by bringing relevant expertise and resources across the international development community into a more coherent and systematic approach.

Recently, the website of the project http://beein.cs.ucy.ac.cy/ has been launched! Take a look to see all the details about this project.

Our lab hosted another physical meeting about the EU funded Erasmus+ project, T4SVEN.

The T4SVEN project addresses the priority innovative practices in a digital era by developing and introducing guidelines and training for Education and Training (VET) teachers for integrating digital technologies in teaching and learning meaningfully, particularly concerning the distinctive features of VET such as work-based learning (WBL) and sector-specific skills. The meeting took place on 30th of June until 1st of July 2022 at the University of Cyprus Library at Nicosia, Cyprus.
In the meeting partners discussed about several tasks: development of the platform, finalization, translations, piloting propositions, interim results, virtual scenarios, peer evaluation. Future work was also a topic of discussion.

The intensive student training for the Erasmus+ project JobJo, continues with students from Jordan participating and attending a variety of new and useful activities on Thursday 30th of June and Friday 1st of July.Michalis Panayides gave a lecture on why LinkedIn is useful as an employability tool and how to use it in order to successfully find job opportunities.Stylianos Argyrou demonstrated a live LinkedIn account creation along with an effective way on how to write the information on each section in LinkedIn. Dr. Constantinos Tsouris gave a lecture on the process of looking for and applying for a job. Then Dr. Tsouris answered questions about detailed matters like references and cover letters.As an assignment, the students had to create individual LinkedIn accounts and prepare a skills document that highlighted how they have obtained the skills mentioned on LinkedIn and their document. The students completed and presented their assignments and projects successfully. They have also answered a questionnaire about their experience with this session.

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Our lab hosted another physical meeting about the EU funded Erasmus+ project, DIG-IT.

DIG-IT provides solutions to address the imbalance and inequity of digital education opportunities offered at EU universities. The meeting took place on 5^th-6^th of May in 2022 at the University of Cyprus Library at Nicosia, Cyprus. Partners discussed the last developments on the project and agreed on future work. During the meeting, videos that will be used in the project were recorded.

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BEE-IN project partnership made a desk research on the issues and needs the bee-keepers are facing as well as their expectations, from one side, but also, the challenges in the VET system, and then developed the BEE-IN project idea of introducing digitalization in apiculture and VET.

The first challenge of BEE-IN project is to boost knowledge and technology transfer in the apiculture sector. The possibility to increase the level of information available to apiculture practitioners about new technologies and training is directly linked to sectorial investments, economic and environmental efficiency and sustainability, food healthiness and safety as well as the ability to compete in the international market area.

On 21st and 22nd of May 2022, we had the first Transnational Project Meeting in Limnos Greece, where all the partners shared their ideas for the project and how it will be developed.

Check out more about the project here.

Τhe DIGI-Sporting project published the last Newsletter to promote the Self Assessment Evaluation Tool and the last updates of the project.
Read more here: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/seit/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/DIGI-SPORTING-4th-NL.html

The intensive student training for the Erasmus+ project JobJo, continues with the 15 students from Jordan participating and attending a variety of interesting activities on Tuesday 28th and Wednesday 29th of June.
Dr. Constantinos Tsouris gave a lecture about how we will Build a paper CV for employment and postgraduate studies. After Dr. Tsouris, Marios Kyprianou show a CV template from Microsoft word to the students and explain how to use them to create their own cvs.
Last Constantinos Xenofontos show some usefull things from Microsoft Excel to students.
As an assignment, the students had to create their own cvs throught Microsoft Word template and to resolve an exercise with basics of Excel.
The students completed and presented their assignments and projects successfully. The two-day session was completed with the Certificates that were given to all participants.

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Re-Think/Re-Act is an ERASMUS+ funded project that has as main goal to provide a global model of attention to students that allows them to develop the soft skills necessary to improve their well-being, facilitate their personal growth and avoid early school dropout thanks to the discovery of their own talents.

On 7th of April 2022, we had the first Transnational Project Meeting in Cordoba, where all the partners shared their vision on the project and how it will be developed.

Learn more about the project.

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Re-Think-Re-Act-112403718126921
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ReThinkReAct_

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