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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