Funded Projects 
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For details please visit https://www.cyprusinteractionlab.com/projects/ and http://edmedia.cyens.org.cy/projects/ 

Current
  1. Entering the EdTech Entrepreneurship World [ENTER 2020-2023; Grant No: 621584]; Funded to the University of Piraeus Research Center - UPRC (A. Ioannou as local coordinator- Research Centre on Interactive media, Smart systems and Emerging technologies – CYENS) under the scheme ERASMUS+ KA2: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices - Knowledge Alliances. This 1M project aims to improve the quality of entrepreneurship education with a focus on EdTech, bringing together academic and industrial partners with experience in entrepreneurship education and educational technology, aiming to empower undergraduate & postgraduate students, faculty members, researchers, educators as well as university alumni to become EdTech entrepreneurs, https://www.enteredtech.eu/.
  2. Cost Action EUGAIN: European Network For Gender Balance in Informatics [2020-2023]  (A. Ioannou is a member of the management committee of the Action, representing CUT and RISE). The main aim of this COST Action is to improve gender balance in Informatics through the creation and strengthening of a truly multi-cultural European network of academics working on the forefront of the efforts in their countries, institutions and research communities, https://www.cost.eu/cost-action/european-network-for-gender-balance-in-informatics/#tabs|Name:overview.
  3. Research Centre on Interactive media, Smart systems and Emerging technologies [CYENS 2018-2024; Grant No: 739578]; Funded to the Municipality of Nicosia-Cyprus and the three public Universities of Cyprus (A. Ioannou as participating researcher and Team Leader of the Multidisciplinary Research Group on Interactive Media and Education/Edutainment) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme - scheme H2020-WIDESPREAD-01-2016-2017 (Teaming Phase 2). The project aims the establishment of a cross-disciplinary Research Center in Cyprus to integrate research in the Visual Sciences, Human Factors and Design, and Communications and Artificial Intelligence. The grant awarded was 0.5 million EUR in Phase 1 (2015-2016) for the development of the business plan for the Centre. In Phase 2, the grant awarded was over 30 million EUR (2017-2024) for the establishment of the Centre. https://www.cyens.org.cy/en-gb/ 

Completed 
  1. Qualitative Study on SELFIE Impact [QUASI 2021-2022; eTendering JRC/SVQ/2021/MVP/0074]. Funded to the University of Valladolid (A. Ioannou as local coordinator- Research Centre on Interactive media, Smart systems and Emerging technologies – CYENS). This 100K project aims to understand the digital readiness of 15 schools from three different countries in Europe (Spain, Netherlands, and Cyprus), explore how SELFIE (a JRC self-reflection tool on schools' digital capacity) is used and perceived by its users, identify and describe the impact of SELFIE, situate its impact in the more complex nexus of interrelated concepts like: digital readiness of schools, school management models, the changing landscape of technologies, theory of change in organizations, integration of innovation in education as well as the datafication of schools, and provide a set of recommendations on the improvement of the tool, support material, school actions, best practices, stakeholder actions, social innovation actions. 
  2. Innovative digital solutions to assess 21st century skills in makerspaces [AssessMake21 2020-2022; Grant No: 065969]; Funded to Learnovate Research Centre - Ireland (A. Ioannou as local coordinator - Social Computing Research Centre - SCRC) under the scheme ERASMUS+ KA201 - Strategic Partnerships for school education. The core objectives of this 298.561€ project is to provide, pilot and validate novel assessment methods and tools intended to use for the assessment of 21st century skills increasingly evident in K‐12 schools and nonformal makerspaces, https://assessmake21.eu/.
  3. ​Enhancing Research Understanding through Media [ERUM 2019-2022; Grant No: 051482]; Funded to the University of Vienna - Austria (A. Ioannou as local coordinator - Social Computing Research Centre - SCRC) under the scheme ERASMUS+ KA203 - Strategic Partnerships for higher education. The core objectives of this 325.301€ project lie in the quality of information today, between mis- and disinformation or so-called “fake news”. The project aims to: 1) improve the educational offer on the topic of quality of information in higher education and equip students with transversal skills that are necessary for the exercise of democratic citizenship. 2) foster structured collaboration between higher education and media and contribute to the policy discussion about the role of universities and media in the knowledge and information society 3) improve the quality of information with regards to research-based communication, https://projects.uni-foundation.eu/erum/.
  4. Best practices of pedagogical chatbots in higher education [EDUBOTS 2019-2021; Grant No: 612466]; Funded to EdTech Foundry - Norway (A. Ioannou as local coordinator- Research Centre on Interactive media, Smart systems and Emerging technologies – CYENS) under the scheme ERASMUS+ KA2: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices - Knowledge Alliances. This 713,578€ project aims to investigate the pedagogical use of chatbots in education, build best practices for how to approach the new technology for formative assessment, help to create a community of educators, and improve quality of education and reduced drop-out rates, https://www.edubots.eu/.
  5. YICY2020 – Climate KIC [Young Innovators 2020 – Climate KIC; January 2020 – December 2020; Grand No: 200491] funded to the Cyprus University of Technology (A. Ioannou as collaborating researcher) under the EIT- European Institute of Technology. The project’s consortium includes the Cyprus University of Technology (Lead Partner), the Cyprus Energy Agency and the Centre for Systems Solutions in Wroclaw- Poland. This €53,250.00 project aims to support secondary and high school students to develop their 21st century skills and competences related to climate innovation, under the umbrella of Problem Based Learning (PBL) pedagogy. https://yicy2020-ck.cyprusinteractionlab.com/
  6. Engineering and Industry Innovative Training for Engineers via PBL [ENGINITE 2017-2019; Grant No: 026728]; Funded to the Social Computing Research Centre (SCRC) and the Cyprus Interaction Lab of the Cyprus University of Technology (A. Ioannou as principal investigator and scientific coordinator) under the scheme ERASMUS+ KA202 - Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training. This 219, 655 EUR project proposes a new industrial-oriented postgraduate vocational training programme which is based on PBL pedagogy and combines advanced applied academic topics with hands-on aspects, in order to endorse the knowledge and skills of graduate engineers, preparing them for the industry of the 21st century. http://enginite.eu/
  7. Research Centre on Interactive media, Smart systems and Emerging technologies [RISE 2018-2024; Grant No: 739578]; Funded to the Municipality of Nicosia-Cyprus and the three public Universities of Cyprus (A. Ioannou as participating researcher and Team Leader of the Multidisciplinary Research Group on Interactive Media and Education/Edutainment) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme - scheme H2020-WIDESPREAD-01-2016-2017 (Teaming Phase 2). The project aims the establishment of a cross-disciplinary Research Center in Cyprus to integrate research in the Visual Sciences, Human Factors and Design, and Communications and Artificial Intelligence. The grant awarded was 0.5 million EUR in Phase 1 (2015-2016) for the development of the business plan for the Centre. In Phase 2, the grant awarded was over 30 million EUR (2017-2024) for the establishment of the Centre. http://www.rise.org.cy/en-gb/home/
  8. Innovative Training via Embodied Learning and Multi-Sensory Techniques for Inclusive Education [INTELED 2017-2019; Grant No: 026733]; Funded to the Social Computing Research Centre (SCRC) and the Cyprus Interaction Lab of the Cyprus University of Technology (A. Ioannou as principal investigator and scientific coordinator) under the scheme ERASMUS+ KA201 - Strategic Partnerships for school education. This 154,099 EUR project aims to support special and general education teachers in acquiring knowledge and skills about the use of multi-sensory technology for learning and assessment, for addressing the needs of children in inclusive education contexts. https://www.inteled.org/
  9. ​Network for Social Computing Research [NOTRE 2015-2018; Grant No: 692058]; Funded to the Social Computing Research Centre (SCRC) of the Cyprus University of Technology (A. Ioannou as participating researcher), under the scheme CSA - Coordination and support action (H2020-TWINN). This 1 million EUR project aims to enforce excellence and strengthen the presence of SCRC by establishing a network with external partners in Germany, Greece, Spain and Switzerland. http://notre.socialcomputing.eu/ 
  10. Limassol – One city, the whole world [Μια Πόλη, ο Κόσμος Όλος, ΥΕ/ ΥΑ/ ΤΑΜΕ/ 2015-2016 and 2016-2017]; Funded to the Limassol Municipality and other authorities in Cyprus (Cyprus Interaction Lab as subcontractor). This project is part of the integration programs by local authorities to enforce solidarity, progress and prosperity starting from the inclusion of the immigrants in the island. In this project the Cyprus Interaction Lab/Andri Ioannou, as a subcontractor conducted the technology-enhanced interventions using interactive tabletops to help reduce conflict and promote social perspective taking and collaboration between students in public schools in Cyprus with a large number of migrants. http://integrationlimassol.com/ 
  11. EnhaNcing seCurity And privacy in the Social wEb: a user centered approach for the protection of minors [ENCASE 2015-2019; Grant No: 691025]. Funded to the Social Computing Research Centre (SCRC) of the Cyprus University of Technology (A. Ioannou as researcher in secondment/placement), under the scheme MSCA-RISE-Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE). This 2 million EUR project aims to design and implement a browser-based architecture for the protection of minors from malicious actors in online social networks and provide an effective protective net against cyberbullying and sexually abusive acts. The project achieves this through an interdisciplinary secondment program for Experienced and Early Stage Researchers targeting exchange of expertise and transfer of knowledge between academia and industry across Cyprus, Greece, Spain, Italy, UK. encase.socialcomputing.eu/
  12. WoMEnpower [WE-ME 2014-2015; UNDP funds]; Funded to CIL@CUT (A. Ioannou as project manager) by UNDP and USAID. This $30000 project delivered an online platform, populated with content and communication tools to support dialogue between women mentors and mentees in the fields of academia, business, healthcare and technology and encourage interdisciplinary research such as women's studies, gender studies and technology.  https://weme.cyprusinteractionlab.com/
  13. Creative Multimodal Information Spaces for Problem Based Learning [InfoSpaces 2012-2014; ΔΙΑΚΡΑΤΙΚΕΣ/ΚΥ-ΣΛΟ/0411]; Funded to CIL@ CUT (A. Ioannou as principal investigator and scientific coordinator) by the Cyprus Research Foundation. This 25000 euro project aimed to explore innovative, multimodal learning environments for the support of problem based learning in higher education, particularly design education. The project delivered an empirically-validated classroom artifact ecology for problem-based learning which made creative use of everyday, affordable technologies to promote collaboration, problem solving, reflection and learning in active design courses. http://infospaces.cyprusinteractionlab.com/
  14. Multitouch Interactive Tabletops for Collaboration and Peacemaking [PeaceTables 2011-2013; Cyprus University of Technology Start-up Funds]; CUT Start-up Grant funded to A.Ioannou as Principal Investigator. This 40000 euros start-up grant funded several small-scale interdisciplinary, exploratory projects in the area of technology-enhanced learning using interactive tabletops. https://www.cyprusinteractionlab.com/projects/startup-ai/
  15. The GlobalEd Project [GlobalEd]; Funded to the University of Connecticut (A. Ioannou as Researcher 2006-2009) by the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences. This $5,500,000interdisciplinary project aimed at advancing literacy in science and technology in K-12 through a role-play, web based simulation of international negotiations in social studies courses in middle schools across USA. https://globaled.education.uconn.edu/
  16. Teachers for a New Era Project at UConn [TNE]; Funded to the University of Connecticut (A. Ioannou as Researcher 2004-2008) by the Carnegie Corporation and the Annenberg and Ford Foundations. This $5,500,000 interdisciplinary aimed at improving teacher preparation programs across USA – technology integration in various domains being one aspect of TNE. https://education.uconn.edu/tag/teachers-for-a-new-era-network/
  17. Young Researcher Grant [PENEK/ENISX/0308/53, 2008-2010]; Funded to A. Ioannou as Principal Investigator/ Young Researcher, by the Cyprus Research Foundation. This 30000 euro project aimed at the exploration of the affordances of Web 2.0 (e.g., wikis and forums) for the support problem-based group collaboration in asynchronous courses at the University level.