Project Funding for Research Excellence

BRIDGES is an H2020 Innovation Action funded by the European Commission for 24 months (10/2020-10/2022) with the aim to support and boost the pan-European interactive technologies industry through the development of a holistic solution for (remote and co-located) group interactions in room-scale…

The Department of Informatics and Telecommunications participates, via Assistant Professor Maria Roussou in the role of Science Communication Manager, in the new EU COST Action CA19122 European Network For Gender Balance in Informatics (EUGAIN). COST (the European Cooperation in Science and…

The InSIDE project aims to develop accessible distance education for students with visual, auditory and motor disabilities. InSIDE brings together 14 Universities from Europe and North Africa under the Erasmus+ program. From Greece, participants are the University of Macedonia, which coordinates…

Associate Professor Athanasia (Nancy) Alonistioti participates on behalf of NKUA at joint beyond 5G research initiative (JB5GRI). The joint beyond 5G research initiative (JB5GRI) with global footprint focuses on the impact of promising technologies for the future mobile telecommunication system…

European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept Grant PARSe: Program Analysis and Reorganization, as a Service was just completed PARSe, which had a duration of of two years (2018-2020), was awarded a budget of 150 000 Euros to the Coordinator, Prof. Y. Smaragdakis, to explore the potential for…

Iris SMS is a mobile app for social and solidarity economy organisations designed and developed by the Open Lab at Newcastle University and the Open Lab: Athens. The system allows sending SMS text messages to a list of subscribers through SMS donors. People supporting an organisation, group or…

A research team from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, under the supervision of Prof. Y. Emiris, coordinated the H2020 Marie Sklodowska Curie project ARCADES - Algebraic Representations in Computer-Aided Design for complEx Shapes. ARCADES aims at disrupting the traditional…

User-centric Middleware Architecture for Advanced Service Provisioning in Future Networks. Evaluation of qualitative network characteristics by counting the experience enjoyed by the end user in assessing the overall quality of the network, in the framework of the research project H2020 CASPER…

A team of faculty, senior researchers, and junior researchers / students from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications worked for three years on the EMOTIVE project, under the affiliation of the “ATHENA” Research Center in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies. The…

EOSC Enhance - Enhancing the EOSC portal and connecting thematic clouds EOSC Enhance pursues 4 objectives: Enhance the service provider interface and incorporate new services and resources into the EOSC catalogue Accelerate the deployment and uptake of EOSC services and resources Increase…

Members of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications participate in GRAPES, an EU funded project that was submitted under the H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019 call and is part of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions — Innovative Training Networks (ITN) funding scheme. GRAPES will fund 2 PhD candidates…

Researchers from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications are participating in the INSPIRED infrastructure, which is the only Greek national infrastructure in the field of Structural Biology, with the website bioerga.di.uoa.gr. The INSPIRED infrastructure offers services mainly in the…