Projects

National and EU Research Projects


Title: Virtual Reality Immersive Learning for Emergency Services
Funding Body: European Union
About: ViRaLes aims to increase the effectiveness of VET training for emerging services by providing a cost-effective and efficient VR training and raising awareness among VET trainers about the possibilities of VR technologies.
Duration: 2024-present

Title: Innovation Vocational Excellence in Tech
Funding Body: ERASMUS-EDU-2023-PEX-COVE
About: INVESTech promotes skills development, green transition, and social inclusion via collaborative efforts among diverse stakeholders.
Duration: 2024-2028

Title: Food Waste Management Information System for Hotels
Funding Body: Research and innovation Foundation
About: FW4H project, funded by the Research and Innovation Foundation, tackles hospitality sector food waste, crucial in tourism-dependent countries.
Duration: 2023-present

Title: Sign Language Keyboard Android and iOS Applications
Funding Body: Research and Innovation Foundation
About: A.G. Connect Deaf Limited is an award winning Social Small Medium Enterprise (SME) working in the field of diversity and inclusion with a focus on Deaf and Hard of Hearing sign language users.
Duration: 2019-2020

Title: Accessible System and Social Media Mobile Application for Deaf Users (Role: Principal Investigator/Partner)
Funding Body: Research and Innovation Foundation
About: People who are Deaf have been at an unfair disadvantage with regards to access to technology.
Duration: 2021-2022

Title: Alliance for Fostering Business and Education Innovation through Digital Supply Chains
Funding Body: ERASMUS +
About: The courses will be designed to include innovative teaching methodologies and interactive learning tools.
Duration: 2022-2025

Title: AUgmented and virtual ReAlity enabled communication, training and data streaming in healthcare
Funding Body: Eurostars 3 – Call 1
About: The AURA project aims to optimize care-provision in modern healthcare by developing an innovation- and User Centered Design.
Duration: 2022-2025

Title: Health Literacy for Disadvantaged Adults
Funding Body: Erasmus+
About: DHeLiDA project will enable citizens to better manage their health and illness, improve prevention, enable more accurate diagnosis and treatment, and facilitate communication with health professionals.
Duration: 2022-2024

Title: Boosting health LIteracy for School Students
Funding Body: Erasmus+
About: BLISS project will enable young citizens to better manage their health and illness, improve prevention, enable more accurate diagnosis and treatment and facilitate communication with health professionals.
Duration: 2022-2024

Title: Fairness in Teaching
Funding Body: Erasmus+
About: Fairness In Teaching aims at developing an advanced approach to stepping up fair teaching practices especially in STEM disciplines, given equal opportunities and access to STEM.
Duration: 2021-2024

Title: UPDating university curricula on Early InTervention
Funding Body: Erasmus+
About: The goal of this project is to create innovative practices in the digitization and ICТ of the cultural heritage and its accessibility.
Duration: 2022-2024

Title: Open Lab for the up-skilling of higher educational staff in on-line Μanagement Εducation
Funding Body: Erasmus+
About: OLMedu project aims at the creation of an open lab for the up-skilling of HES staff in online management education.
Duration: 2021-2023

Title: High level knowledge awareness of BlockChain Technology applications in SMEs (BCT4SMEs)
Funding Body: Erasmus+
About: BCT4SMEs aims at supporting managers utilizing and integrating blockchain technology, and benefit from the advantages that it comes with. In order to achieve its goal, the project will create a personalized environment.
Duration: 2020-2022

Title: GUIDed Assisted-Living and Social Interaction Platform (GUIDed)
Funding Body: EU AAL Programme and RiF Cyprus
About: GuiDed will design and develop a smart Augmented Reality (AR)-enabled platform based on existing fully customizable hardware boards to offer a set of simple, plug-and-play, assisted-living (AL) services to real users.
Duration: 2020-2022

Title: SportsTraveler76
Funding Body: Research Innovation Foundation (RIF)
About: Sports traveler aims to provide innovative services that enable travelers to book and actively participate in “soft sport tourism” activities, which is not currently addressed by other platforms and websites.
Duration: 2019-2021

Title: HIT (Hate Interrupter Teams)
Funding Body: JUST Programme, European Commission
About: Hate Interrupter Teams: Youth counteracting hate speech towards migrants and minorities through participatory and creative campaigning. (#HITproject).
Duration: 2018-2021

Title: A Non-Immersive Virtual Reality Booking Platform for The Hospitality Sector (Dinetours)
Funding Body: RiF Cyprus
About: This project delivers the extensible Dinetours web platform, which is marketable (TRL9) and where each module is provided as a Web Service. It offers virtual reality tours and booking services for supporting reservations in the hospitality sector.
Duration: 2020-2021

Staff involved External Projects


Title: H5CM UCY Startup Funding
Funding Body:
About: A context-aware middleware was built that includes context-aware sensor and reasoner modules for cross-platform development of context-aware applications.
Duration:

Title: SCICHALLENGE: Next Generation Science Challenges Using Participatory Techniques and Digital Media
Funding Body: Horizon 2020 (H2020)
About: The SCICHALLENGE project focuses on developing novel concepts to actively integrate young people in science education using a contest-based approach to self-produced digital education materials from young people for young people.
Duration: 2015-2017

Title: PaaSage: Model Based Cloud Platform Upperware
Funding Body: EU FP7
About: PaaSage will deliver a development platform, with an accompanying methodology, with which developers of enterprise systems can access services of cloud platforms in a technology neutral approach that abstracts the technical details .
Duration: 2012-2016

Title: Prosperity4All: Ecosystem infrastructure for smart and personalised inclusion and PROSPERITY for ALL stakeholders
Funding Body: EU FP7
About: Prosperity4all focuses on developing the infrastructure ; one that is based on self-rewarding collaboration, that can reduce redundant development, lower costs, increase market reach and penetration internationally etc.
Duration: 2014-2018

Title: COIN: COllaboration and INteroperability for networked enterprises
Funding Body: EU FP7 ICT
About: The mission of the Coin IP is to study, design, develop and prototype an open, self-adaptive, generic ICT integrated solution to support the above 2020 vision, starting from the field of Enterprise Interoperability and Enterprise Collaboration.
Duration: 2010-2011

Title: VALS: Virtual Alliances for a Learning Society
Funding Body: Erasmus LLP
About: VALS LLP will establish sustainable methods and processes to build knowledge partnerships between Higher Education and companies to collaborate on resolving authentic business problems.
Duration: 2013-2015

Title: Connected Vitality Network (CVN)
Funding Body: Active and Assisted Living Programme
About: ConnectedVitality project aims to develop 'the second best connection' a video communication network, enabling immobile senior citizens to organize their social network and choose the activity and select levels according to their individual needs.
Duration:

Title: MUSIC: Self-adapting applications for mobile users in ubiquitous Computing Environments
Funding Body: FP6-IST
About: MUSIC is a focused initiative that develops a comprehensive open-source software development framework that facilitates the development of self-adapting, reconfigurable software that seamlessly adapts to the highly dynamic user.
Duration: 2006-2010

Industrial Projects/Public Procurements


Title: CYFIT - A web platform for supporting the National Program Physical Condition Assessment of the student population "Aristotle" Secondary School.
Funding Body: Ministry of Education
About: Program to assess the physical condition of ME school-aged children and adolescents through which valid, representative and comparable data are expected to be available.
Duration: 2021-2025

Title: CloudScanner
Funding Body: IBSCY
About: A web platform that allows non-IT users to automatically setup, configure and deploy their own IaaS cloud solution.
Duration: 2016-2017