To design, plan, deploy and operate, an Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) system often comprehends the integration of several scientific areas. The Architectures, Algorithms and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments (AAPELE) COST Action addresses the issues of defining software, hardware and service architectures for AAL, on studying and creating more efficient algorithms for AAL, particularly those related to the processing of large amounts of data and of biosignals in lossy environments, and on the research of protocols for AAL or, with more detail, on studying communication and data transmission protocols for AAL.

Duration: 2013 - 2017

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FUJURE was a research project funded by the Research Committee of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Project Coordinator: Prof. Gregory Paschalidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece). Its main objectives where to study the attitudes and practices of Greek journalism students regarding news consumption, alternative new media use, as well as professional values and norms. An article presenting the study’s findings is currently under revision.

Duration: 2008-2009

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Funding: € 10.000,00

CENMEP was a research project, part of the COST A30 program, which studied the current state of play for political parties and new media regarding elections in 22 EU countries. The project coordinator was Prof. M. Vergeer, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands. Within this project, I produced (a) a country report regarding the electoral system, the party system and political campaigning in Cyprus and (b) a database of coded data regarding the features of political parties’ websites prior to the European Parliament elections in June 2009.

Duration: 2009-2010

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The ePark project (http://www.e-park.eu) examined ways of applying Internet of Things technologies to improve urban parking infrastructures. Its results show that sensors, wireless communications and mobile applications can act as enablers for cities to become smarter by assisting drivers in the often cumbersome task of finding an available parking spot and paying for its usage.

Duration: 2011-2013

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Funding: € 215.000,00

“Forensics is the application of a broad spectrum of sciences to answer questions of interest to a legal system. This may be in relation to a crime or a civil action” [Wikipedia]. Since many such questions boil down to identifying, or verifying the identity, of people allegedly involved in some action, a clear relationship exists between forensics and biometrics. Biometrics developed a number of techniques which can clearly facilitate the identification of people involved in criminal actions or civil incidents. Thus, although the two communities have traditionally often operated in relative isolation, there are many scenarios where the synergic cooperation of multimodal biometrics and forensics can be successfully applied. To address such multifaceted areas it is important to develop an interdisciplinary network with complementary competences, to foster the birth of a new community which can develop novel technological solutions to crucial issues and new challenges in forensic science. The Action will promote new partnerships, will provide education and training, will contribute to develop new standards and best practices, will produce awareness of the potential benefits of advanced technologies for evidence analysis in forensic cases and will stimulate improved mutual understanding of collaborative working models linking the academic and industrial sectors.

Duration: 2012-2016

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Funding: € 360.000,00

EUVOX is a state-of-the-art, EU-wide voting advice application (VAA) for the 2014 elections to the European Parliament (http://www.euvox2014.eu). The purpose of EUVOX is to help citizens to select the political party that best matches their own policy preferences and enable them to have quick access to information about the positions of all parties in these crucial elections. The project was designed and implemented by a consortium of researchers based on Kieskompas and PreferenceMatcher, two experienced organizations in the field of VAAs that have designed many such tools across four continents, as well as country teams from all EU member states. In addition, Kieskompas has co-designed EU Profiler, winner of the 2009 eDemocracy award.

Duration: 2014 (January – June)

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Funding: € 30.000,00

Community media have been studied extensively in the past decades, but their role in conflict resolution hardly received any academic attention. Focusing on the divided island of Cyprus, and its community media center (CCMC), established in 2009, the main research question of this project is how the representations of the political and the social, and the organisation of participation by community media can contribute to a shift from antagonism to agonism within the Cypriot public space.

Duration: 2014-2018

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Funding: € 360.000,00

The goal of Econ@Tel is to develop a strategic research, training network among key people/organizations in order to enhance Europe’s competence in the field of telecommunications economics, to support related R&D-initiatives, and to provide guidelines, recommendations to European players (end-users, enterprises, operators, regulators, policy makers, content providers) for the provision of new converged broadband, wireless, content delivery networks to citizens and enterprises.

Econ@Tel coordinates the development of research methodologies, tools from engineering, media, and business research. Regulatory issues helping or hindering the adoption of economically efficient services are identified.

Econ@Tel mobilizes the “critical mass” and diversity of economists, business research experts, engineers, and scientists working in communications and content economics. It is the first cross-disciplinary COST Action tackling jointly these issues. It differentiates itself from engineering-focused projects under EU Frameworks.

The main objective of this Action is to allow business partnering to drive networking services and their sustainable provisioning for consumers and enterprises alike. CUT’s involvement in the project is mainly in the technological aspects of the project.

CUT Principal Investigator: Lambros Lambrinos

Duration: 2007-2011

Website: http://www.cost605.org

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The main objective of this Action is to investigate novel technologies for unsupervised multimodal biometric authentication systems using a new generation of biometricsenabled identity documents and smart cards, while exploring the added-value of these technologies for large-scale applications with respect to European requirements in relation to the storage, transmission, and protection of personal data. The Action will benefit the European community; individual European states; the providers of technology for biometrics, identity documents and smart cards; providers of public and private services; various security organisations wishing to use biometrics authentication for the provision of access to services and confidential information by authorised individuals. Either the challenges ahead are dealt with or the benefits of this aspect of information technology for European countries will be limited. It has become obvious that a specific fundamental research effort is needed in the transdisciplinary domain of adaptation of the state-of-the-art biometric techniques to the real-world environmental conditions and to user behaviour when using identity documents and smart cards.

CUT Principal Investigator:  Nicolas Tsapatsoulis

Duration: 2007-2011

Website: http://www.cost2101.org

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Ο κύριος σκοπός του έργου είναι η πιλοτική εφαρμογή και επίδειξη κατανεμημένου συστήματος για ανταλλαγή εκπαιδευτικού υλικού στο τομέα της ιατρικής επιστήμης σύμφωνα με τα διεθνή πρότυπα για χρήση και επέκταση του από δίκτυο ιατρικών ιδρυμάτων.  Η δημιουργία του συστήματος σε συνδυασμό με τους μηχανισμούς για τη συγκομιδή του υλικού παρέχει την δυνατότητα διάθεσης αξιόπιστου εκπαιδευτικου υλικου σε φοιτητές προπτυχιακών και μεταπτυχιακών προγραμμάτων καθώς και σε ινστιτούτα δια βίου μάθησης.

Η δημιουργία αξιόπιστου εκπαιδευτικού υλικού για χρήση μέσω του διαδικτύου από εκπαιδευτικά ιδρύματα και ιατρικούς συνδέσμους είναι δαπανηρή και χρονοβόρα διαδικασία και συχνά διέπεται από έλλειψη τεχνογνωσίας σύμφωνα με τα διεθνή εκπαιδευτικά πρότυπα. Η αύξηση των ρυθμών ανάπτυξης και η  ενίσχυση της καινοτομίας διαμέσου της διάχυσης καινοτόμων εκπαιδευτικών δραστηριοτήτων είναι αναγκαία για τις χώρες που επιδιώκουν σε οικονομική και αειφόρο ανάπτυξη. Το προτεινόμενο διαδραστικό σύστημα θα είναι σε θέση να εξυπηρετήσει ακαδημαϊκά ιδρύματα  προπτυχιακών, μεταπτυχιακών σπουδών και δια βίου μάθησης παρέχοντας αξιόπιστο εκπαιδευτικό υλικό στο τομέα της ιατρικής επιστήμης.

Ανάδοχος Φορέας: Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου

Κύριος Ερευνητής ΤΕΠΑΚ: Νικόλας Τσαπατσούλης

Άλλοι ερευνητές: Ζήνωνας Θεοδοσίου

Duration: 1/10/2008-31/03/2009

Website: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/widemednet/

Funding: Interreg IIB Archimed

Στόχος του έργου ήταν η δημιουργία μιας φορητής ηλεκτρονικής συσκευής η οποία θα απεικονίζει, οπτικά, αιωρούμενες ίνες αμιάντου και θα τις ανιχνεύει με τεχνικές ψηφιακής επεξεργασίας εικόνας. Η ομάδα του Τεχνολογικού Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου σχεδίασε, υλοποίησε και βελτιστοποίησε τους αλγόριθμους απεικόνισης των ινών αμιάντου σε ψηφιακές εικόνες και ανάλυσης των εικόνων αυτών για καταμέτρηση των ινών.

Duration: 1/12/2008-30/11/2010

Website: http://www.porpardet.org

Funding: EC, FP7 for SMEs

Project CoReflect (Title: Digital support for Inquiry, Collaboration, and Reflection on Socio-Scientific Debates) is a three year (2008-2011) research program, funded by the European Commission, under the FP7 Science in Society program. Bringing together eight diverse and multi-disciplinary teams from seven European states, the project members promoted evidence-based practice in science teaching and learning, by collaborating to iteratively design, enact, critique, and validate problem-based innovative inquiry learning environments. These environments, which are being hosted on the STOCHASMOS web-based teaching and learning platform, couple data-rich scientific rigor with the flexibility and easy modifiability that is needed for widespread adoption and use by teachers.

Εταίροι: Cyprus, Germany, Israel, Netherlands, Greece, Sweden, U.K.

Duration: 2008-2011

Website: www.coreflect.org

Funding: European Commission, Science-in-Society program, Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)

Το έργο ΠΟΣΕΙΔΩΝ εστιάζει στην ανάπτυξη ενός ευφυούς συστήματος επιτήρησης του θαλάσσιου χώρου με χρήση συστοιχιών καμερών και δικτύου αισθητήρων. Κύριος σκοπός του έργου είναι ο εντοπισμός και η παρακολούθηση πλωτών μέσων και η έγκαιρη ειδοποίηση των αρχών. Οι ερευνητικοί στόχοι είναι (α) η υλοποίηση καινοτόμων αλγορίθμων ανάλυσης βίντεο και εντοπισμού αντικειμένων καθώς και την παρακολούθηση αντικειμένων αυτών (σκαφών κλπ.) (β) η ανάπτυξη και εφαρμογή καινοτόμων πρωτοκόλλων μετάδοσης από αισθητήρες προς τις κάμερες, και (γ) ο σχεδιασμός,  ανάπτυξη και εγκατάσταση δικτύου αισθητήρων για υποθαλάσσια ηχητική καταγραφή, και έλεγχο κυμάτωσης, θερμοκρασίας, υγρασίας και φωτισμού.

Duration: 1/7/2011-30/6/2013

Website: http://www.poseidonproject.eu/

Funding: EC, Cross Region Cooperation: Greece-Cyprus 2007-2011

PROFILES is a European project comprised of 22 partners  from 20 countries, among which the Cyprus University of Technology. It is a four year research program (2010-2014). The aim of the PROFILES project is to promote reflection-oriented teaching as a means to enhance students’ scientific literacy. Emphasis is given on raising the self-efficacy of science teachers in order to put into practice more effective ways of teaching students. The project’s innovation is to implement existing, exemplary, context-led, Inquiry-Based Science Education (IBSE) focused, science teaching materials through working with ‘teacher partnerships’. The PROFILES project intends to improve science education by offering innovative scientific learning opportunities to pre- and in-service teachers, teacher educators as well as students within school and non-formal education centres.

Συντονιστής στο ΤΕΠΑΚ: Ελένη Α. Κύζα

Εταίροι: Austria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, U.K.

Duration: 2010-2014

Website: www.cut.ac.cy/profiles, www.profiles-project.eu

Funding: European Commission, Science-in-Society program, Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)

Συντονιστής στο ΤΕΠΑΚ: Ελένη Α. Κύζα

Εταίροι: Austria, Cyprus, Estonia, France, Hungary, Israel, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, U.K.

Duration: 2013-2017

Website: www.parrise.eu

Funding: € 135.168,00

COHESIFY aims to assess the contribution of Cohesion policy to citizens’ identification with the EU and produce a new strategy to communicate EU Cohesion policy to citizens. The goal is to assess how and to what extent EU Cohesion policy affects citizens’ perceptions of and identification with the European Union. The project focuses on three inter-related issues: (1) the identity(ies)of people in EU regions in EU, national, regional and local contexts; (2) the governance, communication and impacts of Cohesion policy, including citizens’ perceptions of the policy and identification with the EU, and (3) what is needed to make Cohesion policy more effective in terms of people’s perceptions of the policy and the EU more generally. A mixed-methods design is adopted to study the relationship between Cohesion policy, policy performance and attitudes to the EU, distinguishing between different levels of governance and types of actors-from those involved in programme design and implementation to final beneficiaries and the wider public. The communication channels of Cohesion policy influence are examined, distinguishing between public communication and political and social communication.

Duration: 01/02/2016-03/04/2018

Website: http://www.cohesify.eu/

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