Project Funding for Research Excellence

2024

Extended Reality for training firefighters at the Athens International Airport
22/03/2024
In a journey spanning three years of dedicated work, scientific dissemination via article and presentations at conferences, and numerous pilot evaluations, the research project titled “A hyBRID (physical-diGital) multi-user Extended reality platform as a stimulus for industry uptake of interactive…

2020

BRIDGES project logo
02/12/2020
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…
COST-EUGAIN
20/10/2020
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…
2020_InSIDE_Erasmusplus
19/09/2020
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…
09/09/2020
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…
ERC logo
31/03/2020
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…
DERC Iris user research
28/01/2020
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…

2019

ARCADES project poster
31/12/2019
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…
CASPER network assessment
31/12/2019
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…
EMOTIVE user at the Athens Agora
16/12/2019
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 graphic
01/12/2019
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…
GRAPES - Learning, processing and optimising shapes
01/12/2019
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…