Extension Education Officer, and writer, DEET (Australian Federal Ministry of Education), DSE (Victorian Ministry of Education) and MGTAV (Modern Greek Teachers Association of Victoria) project, Curriculum Development for teaching Greek as a Second Language in Australian Secondary Schools

Duration: Aug.-1992- Sept. 1994

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Eltham High School Web Page of Collaborative Project with Schools from Australia and France. Designer, Facilitator and Coordinator.

Duration: 1999-2000

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Project “Paedia Omogenon” University of Crete, Pedagogy Department, Centre of Intercultural and Migrant Studies, (E.DIA.M.ME.) Greek Ministry of Education, programme member from Australia, sub-committee coordinator: Teaching Greek as a Foreign Language – Program Evaluation Group Leader, and Curriculum Development and Writer

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Δράση «Μαθητές στην έρευνα – ΜΕΡΑ» συμμετέχουσα ως έμπειρος ερευνητής για το δημόσιο ΙΕ΄ Δημοτικό Σχολείο Λεμεσού (Κ.Β.)

Duration: 2005 - 2006

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Intercollege: design, writing, implementation, evaluation, project coordination.

Duration: 2003 - 2010

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European Socrates Programme, Grundtvig: Strategies for promoting adult immigrant participation to the Life Long Learning (SPALL). Θεοδοσίου, Α. & Παρασκευά, Α. (2006) Απλά Ελληνικά για ξενόγλωσσους (Simple Greek for Foreigners) Intercollege Education and Training Unit: Παπαδήμα-Σοφοκλέους, Σ. Scientific Consultant. Επιστημονικός σύμβουλος

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European Socrates Programme: A European Pedagogy for Autonomous Learning: Educating Modern Language Teachers through ICT: EUROPAL. My work as teacher educator (including reflection and student and teacher autonomy) was presented in section 3 as a Case Study.

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Website: http://www.euro-pal.net/

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Action: Training of School Education Staff:  European Curricula in New Technologies and Language Teaching (ECNTLT): Papadima-Sophocleous, S. teaching / research professional: teacher training curriculum and 3 module writer.

Duration: 2003-2007

Website: http://eurolinguaict.net/

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Socrates Programme, Comenius 2.1 Action (Training of School Education Staff) (5 European partners): research professional / project academic adviser.

Duration: Autumn 2007-January 2010

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partner: surveying teacher educators around the world to obtain a picture of the current state of teacher/lecturer development in mobile learning internationally. We currently have 42 partner institutions in 20 countries, sto collect rich, representative data. Steering Committee: Grace Oakley and Mark Pegrum, University of Western Australia, Bella Xiong, Guangxi Normal University, Kevin Burden, University of Hull, and Sophie Tauwehe Tamati, University of Auckland. This project is at a preliminary stage and has not yet applied for any grant.

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Role in project: Substitute of the Representative of Cyprus in the Management Committee of the Action (Management Committee (MC Substitute) Delegate

Duration: 2016-2019

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Funding: European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST)

The research project was supported by the European Commission under the Grundtvig scheme of the Lifelong Learning Program. The project has been undertaken by the Language Centre of the Cyprus University of Technology as one of the six participating organisations in the programme. The project aims at improving the quality and accessibility of mobility throughout Europe of people involved in adult education, and at improving the quality of cooperation between organisations involved in adult education in Europe. The specific actions supported by the Grundtvig Programme include mobility of individuals which funds visits to the countries of the participating organisations and attendance of meetings, as well as partnership focusing on themes of mutual interest to the participating organisations. Fundamental activities of this project are to provide key expertise of creativity, linguistic and intercultural learning through technology for young people, for adults and for emigrants, organise intercultural activities to support a better social and cultural integration.

Role in the project: Researcher

Duties: a) design and development of a social media platform for collaborative learning (http://www.createchgrundtvig.wikispaces.com/); b) qualitative research on cultural elements that facilitate and/or hinder the adaptation of foreigners in the Cypriot context; c) design and development of an online collaborative dictionary in five languages; (d) attend meetings with the representatives from the other participating organisations, prepare reports, conduct research as part of the deliverables of our part, give presentations on the use of new technologies in language teaching and the use of the Interactive Whiteboard.

Duration: January 2010-September 2011

Website: http://createchgrundtvig.wikispaces.com

Funding: European Commission Lifelong Learning Programmes

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. The LUCIDE network has been set up to develop ideas about managing multilingual citizen communities. It aims to build up a picture of how communication occurs in multilingual/multicultural settings across the EU and beyond and so to support institutions (councils, schools, hospitals) and national economies to make better productive use of diversity as an economic resource and to shore up social cohesion by fostering better communication and mutual understanding.

Role in the project: Researcher

Duties: state-of-the-art research in the area of language, immigration, and diversity. This involves a) essential desk research on the current situation and gather basic linguistic data from Limassol; b) questionnaire development with key questions addressing the various aspects of language, urbanization, migration and policy making in Limassol; c) data analysis related to aspects of multilingualism in economic, educational, urban, public and private sphere in the city of Limassol and d) summary report of key themes for the city of Limassol.

Duration: December 2011 - November 2014

Website: http://www.urbanlanguages.eu/

Funding: European Commission Lifelong Learning Programmes