[{"id":15531,"date":"2018-04-23T12:57:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T09:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/blog\/portfolio-items\/education-for-sustainable-development-environmentally-friendly-technologies-materials-and-socio-economic-activities-2-2\/"},"modified":"2018-04-23T12:57:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T09:57:21","slug":"education-for-sustainable-development-environmentally-friendly-technologies-materials-and-socio-economic-activities-2","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/portfolio-items\/education-for-sustainable-development-environmentally-friendly-technologies-materials-and-socio-economic-activities-2\/","title":{"rendered":"EDUCATion for Sustainable Development: Environmentally-friendly Technologies, Materials and Socio-Economic Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p class=\"rtejustify\">The project aims to improve and complete the academic professional training of students graduating from a large variety of specialisations: Environmental Engineering, Ecology, International Business Management, Production and development, Building and construction, Transportation, Electrical and Electronic Engineering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">More specifically, the project targets at supporting the bachelor students (1st cycle) in acquiring the core technical skills and the intellectual competences necessary to operate, with a high degree of autonomy and responsibility, in the current and future globalized labour market, a market which is facing the challenges of environment protection, depleted energetic resources and sustainable development. These skills and competences are required for properly managing the potential situations and contexts afferent to their future profession.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">In order to reach the project\u2019s goals, the main activities to be performed are:<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&#8211; a series of 6 teaching and training modules (which include lectures and practical activities, debates, analyses and discussions)<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&#8211; social and cultural activities (trips, visit to the Palace of Parliament in Bucharest).<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&#8211; reporting upon the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&#8211; dissemination activities (posting info about the IP on the partners\u2019 website, press articles in local\/regional mass media, designing and distributing brochures about the IP, displaying posters, organizing short information seminars with available info about the IP addressed to students and community that cannot attended the courses).<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[119],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-15531","avada_portfolio","type-avada_portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","portfolio_category-erasmus-grants-el"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/15531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/avada_portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/15531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=15531"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_skills","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_skills?post=15531"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tags?post=15531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":11462,"date":"2018-02-07T07:54:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T05:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/blog\/portfolio-items\/enhancing-visibility-of-the-academic-dialogue-on-eu-turkey-cooperation-2\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T11:30:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T08:30:40","slug":"enhancing-visibility-of-the-academic-dialogue-on-eu-turkey-cooperation-2","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/portfolio-items\/enhancing-visibility-of-the-academic-dialogue-on-eu-turkey-cooperation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhancing Visibility of the Academic Dialogue on EU-Turkey Cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EU-Turkey relations are a highly topical field of analysis: a \u2018moving target\u2019 creating considerable challenges for research, teaching and policy dialogues. Several interlinked crises in Turkey and the EU create a high demand for an academic network linking universities and think tanks from the EU and the neighbourhood building knowledge on this relationship.VIADUCT, aiming at \u201cEnhancing VIsibility of the Academic DialogUe on EU-Turkey CooperaTion\u201d, lasts 3 years, involves 40 partners from 36 countries in the EU, Turkey and the neighbourhood. It applies a comprehensive 4&#215;4 approach to gathering information, exchanging best practices and promoting EU integration:-4 \u2018I\u2019-Strategy builds on Intergenerationality, Interdisciplinarity, Internationality and Intertemporality.-4 possible future scenarios of EU-Turkey relations frame research and teaching: (1) managing the status quo (2) upgrading existing forms of cooperation (3) reactivating the accession process (4) dealing with a difficult neighbour.-4 cross-sectorial issues integrate several disciplines and streamline the analysis: Power (Politics and Security), Resources (Economics and Energy), People (Migration and Identity) and EU\u2019s Future (e.g. impact of \u2018Brexit\u2019 on EU-Turkey relations).-4 dimensions of activities target students, junior and senior researchers, policy makers and civil society with a diverse geographical and disciplinary background:1. Face-to-face meetings during 3 VIADUCT Weeks: Academic Conferences, Informal Policy Debates, Master or PhD level seminars.2. Online exchange and dissemination platforms \u2013 Website, 7 Webcasts, Social Media, Quarterly Newsletter.3. Publications \u2013 Maps of research and teaching on EU-Turkey relations and Online Papers.4. Multiplication \u2013 Teachers\u2019 Training Seminar, 4 Research Awards, 3 Teaching Awards, 4 Public Debates, 12 Guest Lectures.VIADUCT exploits relevant networks and research projects and extends their outreach into the teaching domain and beyond the EU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU-Turkey relations are a highly topical field of analysis: a \u2018moving target\u2019 creating considerable challenges for research, teaching and policy dialogues. Several interlinked crises in Turkey and the EU create a high demand for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/portfolio-items\/enhancing-visibility-of-the-academic-dialogue-on-eu-turkey-cooperation-2\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[119],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-11462","avada_portfolio","type-avada_portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","portfolio_category-erasmus-grants-el"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/11462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/avada_portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/11462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=11462"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_skills","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_skills?post=11462"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tags?post=11462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":11460,"date":"2018-02-07T07:42:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T05:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/blog\/portfolio-items\/enhancing-quality-assurance-management-and-benchmarking-strategies-in-indian-unviersities-2\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T11:32:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T08:32:26","slug":"enhancing-quality-assurance-management-and-benchmarking-strategies-in-indian-unviersities-2","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/portfolio-items\/enhancing-quality-assurance-management-and-benchmarking-strategies-in-indian-unviersities-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhancing Quality Assurance Management and Benchmarking Strategies in Indian Unviersities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EQUAMBI is designed to address Quality Assurance management to properly support the governance and decision making required for institutional advancement and enhancement. Based on a comparative exploration of current activities and planned objectives, against international best practice, this Project will provide a \u2018benchmarking toolkit\u2019 and a programme of capacity building \/ dissemination will provide guidance for Indian universities on how best to improve \/ enhance their governance and management of \u2018quality\u2019. Whilst underpinned by agreement on the shared bases and principles for \u2018quality\u2019, the project is targeted at three specific and critical areas: teaching and learning; research and innovation; internationalisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EQUAMBI is designed to address Quality Assurance management to properly support the governance and decision making required for institutional advancement and enhancement. Based on a comparative exploration of current activities and planned objectives, against international <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/portfolio-items\/enhancing-quality-assurance-management-and-benchmarking-strategies-in-indian-unviersities-2\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[119],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-11460","avada_portfolio","type-avada_portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","portfolio_category-erasmus-grants-el"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/11460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/avada_portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/11460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=11460"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_skills","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_skills?post=11460"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tags?post=11460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":11458,"date":"2018-02-07T07:36:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T05:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/blog\/portfolio-items\/a-part-of-eu-exchange-of-good-practices-on-promoting-the-social-integration-of-young-immigrants-through-participation-2\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T11:32:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T08:32:29","slug":"a-part-of-eu-exchange-of-good-practices-on-promoting-the-social-integration-of-young-immigrants-through-participation-2","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/portfolio-items\/a-part-of-eu-exchange-of-good-practices-on-promoting-the-social-integration-of-young-immigrants-through-participation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A PART OF EU: Exchange of Good Practices on Promoting the Social Integration of Young Immigrants through Participation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BACKGROUND:<br \/>\nThe EU Youth Strategy 2010-2018 has as one of its main objectives to encourage young people to actively participate in society.<br \/>\nTo achieve this and the other objectives a dual approach is proposed, which includes:<br \/>\n\u2022 Specific youth initiatives, targeted at young people to encourage non-formal learning, participation, voluntary activities, youth work, mobility and information.<br \/>\n\u2022 &#8216;Mainstreaming&#8217; cross-sector initiatives that ensure youth issues are taken into account when formulating, implementing and evaluating policies and actions in other fields with a significant impact on young people, such as education, employment or health and well-being.<br \/>\nThe strategy proposes that these initiatives be developed in eight areas, and one of them is the participation initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>This project aims to analyze, in three countries of the EU&#8217;s Mediterranean axis, specific and cross-sector initiatives that have focused on the participation, in order to identify those that have been good practice and can be replicated in other countries.<\/p>\n<p>THEORETICAL APPROACH: WHAT DO WE MEAN BY PARTICIPATION?<br \/>\nThis project starts from a sociological concept of participation in which it is defended that in order for the human being to develop fully, it is fundamental that he finds ways of participation in the environment to which he belongs.<\/p>\n<p>From this assertion, it is derived that participating in the life of the community, will make the groups with more risks of social exclusion (young, immigrants, refugee etc.) feel more fulfilled and therefore, more integrated in their environment.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming this theoretical approach, it is necessary to make clear what we mean by the concept of participation and from what point of view we are going to approach it.<\/p>\n<p>The point of view is that the concept of participation is not unique and is not only identified with political participation. Participation, as many authors point out, is a dynamic process in which citizens engage voluntarily and consciously in the various aspects related to their daily lives.<\/p>\n<p>From this point of view, two approaches emerge that will structure the way to identify good practices on the participation of young immigrants:<br \/>\n1- There are many areas of participation.<br \/>\n2- We participate in what we have close and affects our daily life. In other words, we participate primarily at the local or regional level.<\/p>\n<p>OBJECTIVE:<br \/>\nThe main objective of the project is to identify and exchange at the transnational level, good practices in promoting the social integration of young immigrants through participation.<br \/>\nThese good practices will be identified, at local and regional level in three countries on the EU&#8217;s Mediterranean axis.<\/p>\n<p>The project also aims to generate a guide to disseminate the good practices identified, so that they can be replicated in other regions of other EU member countries.<\/p>\n<p>EXPECTED RESULT:<br \/>\nThe expected result is that the process of identifying and disseminating good practices to promote the social integration of young people through participation helps to prevent, in the EU, social conflicts associated with the exclusion and \/ or radicalization of this group.<\/p>\n<p>WORK METHODOLOGY<br \/>\nThe work methodology is best suited to meet the two approaches to identify good practices:<br \/>\n1- There are many areas of participation.<br \/>\n2- We participate primarily at the local or regional level.<\/p>\n<p>Areas of participation<br \/>\nActions to promote the participation of young immigrants in the following areas will be analyzed:<br \/>\n&#8211; Actions to promote political participation.<br \/>\n&#8211; Actions to promote participation through associationism and volunteering.<br \/>\n&#8211; Actions to promote participation through training and access to employment.<br \/>\n&#8211; Actions to promote participation through culture and sport.<br \/>\n&#8211; Actions to promote participation through the family.<\/p>\n<p>Participation at the local or regional level<br \/>\nIt is very important that partners and associate partners who work and collaborate in the project are:<br \/>\n&#8211; Regional and local administrations.<br \/>\n&#8211; NGOs working with immigrant youth.<br \/>\n&#8211; NGOs and other social institutions that collaborate with regional and local governments in actions to promote the participation of young immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Collaboration between all these agents is the key for being able to identify good practices and consequently, to exchange and disseminate them.<\/p>\n<p>BENEFICIARIES<br \/>\nDirect beneficiaries of the project are:<br \/>\n&#8211; The project partners and their associate partners who will participate in an exchange of good practices at the transnational level.<br \/>\nIndirect beneficiaries of the project are:<br \/>\n&#8211; Local and regional governments of the EU that can replicate good practices presented in the final manual.<br \/>\n&#8211; Young immigrants from the EU who will benefit from the exchange of knowledge among the agents involved in developing actions to promote their social inclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BACKGROUND: The EU Youth Strategy 2010-2018 has as one of its main objectives to encourage young people to actively participate in society. 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It supports maths and science teachers (hereafter called science teachers) to deliver inclusive education for all students, build active citizenship and foster intercultural learning. Our measure connects science education to promoting fundamental values and intercultural learning. Its core is a well-researched teaching approach, inquiry-based learning, that we expand to support combatting underachievement, in particular of learners from low socio-economic backgrounds and migrant families, and to promote a modern vision of science including social, cultural and ethical dimensions. To support teachers adopting the approach, we will design a state-of-the art professional development (PD) toolkit based on research and deliver related PD courses. An important feature of our proposal is unparalleled tandems: In each country Ministries of Education to lead the policy experimentation measure and set the frame for implementation are paired with university experts to conceptualise and deliver science teacher PD. An internationally renowned research institution will evaluate the field trials: A multi-method evaluation design with quantitative and qualitative data accompanies the process (pre-post control group design triangulated with case studies). This ensures reliable, valid conclusions on our measure\u2019s effects and routes to up-scaling. Project coordination by a team highly experienced in managing large-scale international projects, together with the outstanding project team will ensure highest-quality delivery, largest possible impact and routes to scaling-up. Our measure fully contributes to ET2020, the Youth Report, the Paris Declaration aims and related national policies. It combats underachievement; links science, social and civil competences; and effectively supports teachers to deal with increased social, cultural and competence-related diversity in their classrooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our integrative and highly innovative policy measure directly addresses priority 1. It supports maths and science teachers (hereafter called science teachers) to deliver inclusive education for all students, build active citizenship and foster intercultural learning. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/portfolio-items\/supporting-mathematics-and-science-teachers-in-addressing-diversity-and-promoting-fundamental-values-2\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[119],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-11456","avada_portfolio","type-avada_portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","portfolio_category-erasmus-grants-el"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/11456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/avada_portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/11456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=11456"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_skills","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_skills?post=11456"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tags?post=11456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":11454,"date":"2018-02-07T07:20:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T05:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/blog\/portfolio-items\/alliance-for-children-on-the-move-standard-operating-procedures-for-guardians-2\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T13:46:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T10:46:40","slug":"alliance-for-children-on-the-move-standard-operating-procedures-for-guardians-2","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/portfolio-items\/alliance-for-children-on-the-move-standard-operating-procedures-for-guardians-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alliance for Children on the Move: Standard Operating Procedures for Guardians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Objectives<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Implementation of common standards on guardianship systems in four EU countries, safeguarding the rights of unaccompanied and separated children &amp; promoting their wellbeing in EU<\/li>\n<li>Capacity-building of guardians so as to better safeguard the rights of the child &amp; his\/her best interests<\/li>\n<li>Enhance interagency cooperation &amp; understanding aiming at strengthening the role of the guardian &amp; establishing a comprehensive child protection system (CPS)<\/li>\n<li>Reinforcement of children\u2019s protection in cross-border &amp; transnational situations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Activities<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>networking meeting<\/li>\n<li>Mapping tools for guardians<\/li>\n<li>children\u2019s &amp; guardians\u2019 needs assessment<\/li>\n<li>development of: handbook on SOPs for guardians o guardians\u2019 accreditation procedure o National &amp; EU Index legislation on Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children o guardianship informational brochure for children o brochure for professionals working with Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children o transnational cooperation protocol for guardians o trainers\u2019 manual; children consultation; training of guardians 12; train the trainer (organisation for guardian\u2019s accreditation); workshop for professionals working with Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children; pilot implementation of method, tools &amp; supervision of guardians; National &amp; EU Index legislation on Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children; guardianship informational brochure for children; brochure for professionals working with Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children; transnational cooperation protocol for guardians; trainers\u2019 manual.<\/li>\n<li>children consultation<\/li>\n<li>training of guardians<\/li>\n<li>train the trainer (organisation for guardian\u2019s accreditation)<\/li>\n<li>workshop for professionals working with Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children<\/li>\n<li>pilot implementation of method, tools &amp; supervision of guardians<\/li>\n<li>National dissemination meeting<\/li>\n<li>website<\/li>\n<li>evaluation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Type &amp; number of persons benefiting from the project<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children ~190<\/li>\n<li>Guardians for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children 190<\/li>\n<li>Relevant agencies\u2019 personnel working with UASC 140<\/li>\n<li>Agency responsible for guardians\u2019 accreditation ~30<\/li>\n<li>Social Work students 200<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Expected results<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improved knowledge &amp; capacity of guardians<\/li>\n<li>Comprehensive CPS<\/li>\n<li>Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children will have their rights &amp; best interests safeguarded<\/li>\n<li>transnational cooperation of guardians<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Type &amp; number of outputs to be produced<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>National networking meeting 4<\/li>\n<li>research protocol<\/li>\n<li>Report on Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children\u2019s and guardians\u2019 needs 4<\/li>\n<li>focus groups with children<\/li>\n<li>Evaluation report on national toolkit 4<\/li>\n<li>Handbook SOPs for guardians 1500<\/li>\n<li>Legislation index 1500<\/li>\n<li>Transnational cooperation protocol for guardians<\/li>\n<li>Trainers manual 200<\/li>\n<li>National dissemination meeting 4<\/li>\n<li>Brochure for children 2000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Objectives Implementation of common standards on guardianship systems in four EU countries, safeguarding the rights of unaccompanied and separated children &amp; promoting their wellbeing in EU Capacity-building of guardians so as to better safeguard the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/portfolio-items\/alliance-for-children-on-the-move-standard-operating-procedures-for-guardians-2\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[875],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-11454","avada_portfolio","type-avada_portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","portfolio_category-other-grants-el"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/11454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/avada_portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/11454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=11454"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_skills","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_skills?post=11454"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tags?post=11454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":11452,"date":"2018-02-07T07:03:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T05:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/blog\/portfolio-items\/augmented-reality-and-new-media-against-online-promotion-of-unhealthy-foods-2\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T11:34:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T08:34:31","slug":"augmented-reality-and-new-media-against-online-promotion-of-unhealthy-foods-2","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/portfolio-items\/augmented-reality-and-new-media-against-online-promotion-of-unhealthy-foods-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Augmented Reality and New Media against Online Promotion of Unhealthy Foods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CONTEXT&nbsp;<br \/>\nChildren today are overweight and heading for early diabetes and increased risk of heart disease. The vast majority of children are overweight simply because they eat too much sugary and fatty food. Governments have invested into well-meaning projects, which aimed to change children\u2019s eating habits or encourage them to take more exercise and restrictions have been imposed for food and soft drink product advertisements to children in broadcast or non-broadcast media. However, they failed to curb online advertising of junk foods to children. Obese children or children of low media literacy (migrant children) are particularly vulnerable to advertising and need to be shielded against unhealthy influences by developing an understanding on how advertisements work and how they influence choice.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>OBJECTIVE&nbsp;<br \/>\nANEMELO has as primary objective to produce approaches and tools to help those working with children reach out to them with a view to help them adopt a healthier lifestyle by identifying, understanding and repelling the messages behind online advertising disguised under games, social networks, cartoons, competitions, etc.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PARTICIPANTS&nbsp;<br \/>\nThree schools, a pedagogical department of a university, a foundation dealing with the influence of ICT in children, a European network promoting digital technologies in E&amp;T and a company offering bespoke software development services to governmental agencies and private companies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ACTIVITIES&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe main objective will be achieved through the following activities leading to concrete results:&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8211; Elaborate and validate a didactical approach to train children on the identification and interpretation of online advertising which promotes the adoption of unhealthy nutritional choices.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8211; Design and develop an Augmented Reality game based on the didactical approach which will be used by educators to train children to identify online advertising hidden behind the online activities they engage on.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8211; Create and manage an educational website to inform about healthy diet and nutrition and to promote a healthier lifestyle to be used by professionals working with and for children.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8211; Provide the necessary resources and tools about obesity and the dangers of online advertising (eg banner advertising, commercial\/branded websites, &#8216;advergames&#8217;, branded downloads, data collection, e-cards &amp; viral ads, advertising &amp; social media and cell phone advertising).&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8211; Design campaigns to improve the take-up of sports by children and raise awareness of the importance of good nutrition and diet.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8211; Reach out to schools with the aim of increasing physical activity and making the healthy option available (e.g. responsible snacking in vending machines and day- to-day healthy lifestyle).&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8211; Develop and test a set of &#8216;best practices&#8217; &amp; recommendations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>METHODOLOGY&nbsp;<br \/>\nAn iterative methodology under which three versions of results will be produced in three iterations. After each iteration the results will be validated in workshops with teachers and children and based on the conclusions the next iteration will be planned.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RESULTS&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8211; 5 country reports on the state of play in the participant countries and a European Overview report on the use of AR in the classroom.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8211; Curriculum infused with Augmented Reality and digital resources to improve the quality of teaching and learning with regards online promotion and its relation to child obesity (EN, EL, IT, PL).&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8211; AR Content Management System to facilitate the creation of captivating content by teachers.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8211; Pedagogical methodology for teachers to engage into a leaning dialogue with children while teaching the content&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8211; Educational Game about online promotion and unhealthy food choices.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8211; Online Resources under creative commons license.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8211; Publications, conference, promotional videos, online campaigns, recommendations programme.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>TARGET GROUP&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe target groups in the life of the project comprise professionals (teachers, social workers) working with children of 11 \u2013 16 years. Apart from these direct target groups, the beneficiaries comprise also indirect target groups such as schools, children&#8217;s associations and organisations, policy makers and educational stakeholders deciding about subjects covered by school curricula, parents, children\u2019s curriculum developers, etc. After the life of the project and subject to the delivery of concrete results, more target groups become relevant, such as commercial organisations producing serious games and AR games for educational purposes, universities with pedagogical departments, media and online advertising agencies that want to act more responsibly with regards to advertising targeting under 16 years, etc.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BENEFITS&nbsp;<br \/>\nExpose the dangers of online advertising (banner advertising, commercial\/branded websites, &#8216;advergames&#8217;, branded downloads, data collection, e-cards &amp; viral ads, advertising &amp; social media and cell phone advertising) and reveal their relation to obesity through influencing the nutritional choices of children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONTEXT&nbsp; Children today are overweight and heading for early diabetes and increased risk of heart disease. The vast majority of children are overweight simply because they eat too much sugary and fatty food. 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On one hand, the EU has lifted a non-negotiable banner through its Europe 2020 strategy calling for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, and on the other hand, there is a questionable economic model to base it on. Drastic action must be taken to change the current situation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A popular proverb says \u201cA fish rots from the head down\u201d, meaning that when a state fails, it is the leadership that is the root cause. Leadership seems to be a possible cause of Europe\u2019s ill faded economy. Education is called to establish the foundation for the development of a new type of leadership to take the responsibility of the new European economies. But effective leaders do not grow on trees. We need to look into our education systems to draw some pure talents.&nbsp;<br \/>\nGifted education has been the source for prominent and valuable human resources. The idea is still good; the only difference is that Europe is in need of a new recipe in order to hatch the right leaders of tomorrow.&nbsp;<br \/>\nBreed2Lead is a project focused on a new breed of leaders found in gifted education. The need for a new generation of leaders who will satisfy a new set of criteria and have specific leadership characteristics will result to the formation of a methodology that will assist primary education teachers identify, assess and develop such talents.&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe objectives of the project are:&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8211; establish a new definition for leadership which will give European economy back its lost competitiveness&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8211; form a specialised methodology to identify, assess and develop gifted leaders in primary education and create a nurturing environment for them to reach their full potential&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8211; enrich any existing gifted education practices&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8211; develop a specialised training plan and didactic material to train teachers giving them a holistic approach to develop the gift of leadership of pupils with some natural leadership charisma&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Education authorities and stakeholders, primary schools, teachers, gifted students and their families as well as the business community and business stakeholders are the direct beneficiaries of this project and therefore represent the target groups of the project.&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe project will commence by scoping for all the cognitive abilities a Disruptive Change Agent (DCA) must possess. The source of such information is gathered from the business community through a survey and interviews. The identified DCA cognitive abilities will lead to the skills required to support them. Focus groups will allow all target groups to voice their opinion of the format of a skills development strategy.&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe set of cognitive abilities supported by a set of skills will allow the formal definition of a DCA which will regulate their extent and the correlation between them. Having the DCA definition in place, the consortium will prepare set of tools which will enable trained teachers to identify, assess and develop the new generation of leaders. The skills development plan will rely on the agreed development strategy, giving teachers all necessary educational ammunition.&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe DCA definition and the tools for identifying, assessing and developing skills, as well as a set of quality assurance measures will form the DCA methodology.&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe DCA methodology will set the ground for a training plan and didactic materials in order to train the teaching staff on the three distinct stages: identify, assess and develop. The training curriculum and materials developed for this purpose will be used during a train-the-trainer training activity in Cyprus. The partners will designate two participants with minimum prerequisites to attend and taste all intellectual outputs produced by the consortium. To secure sustainability of the project, the trained participants will commit to give two training events each within one year.&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe partnership will organise a final conference in Budapest to dissiminate the project outputs. The final conference will not be the only dissemination activity of the project. Each partner will perform various dissemination activities individually and collectively.&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe project will give to the European primary education a complete system to use for the development of the new breed of leaders. Too much talent goes to waste in Europe because there is no support system to bring it to surface and nourish it. Breed2Lead makes a very important first step. Similar support systems can be developed for other talent categories, making Europe a leader in the utilization of its human wealth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent economic crisis has surfaced problems related to Europe\u2019s economic model. On one hand, the EU has lifted a non-negotiable banner through its Europe 2020 strategy calling for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/portfolio-items\/disruptive-change-agents-the-new-breed-of-leaders-in-europe-2\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[119],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-11450","avada_portfolio","type-avada_portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","portfolio_category-erasmus-grants-el"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/11450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/avada_portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/11450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=11450"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_skills","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_skills?post=11450"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tags?post=11450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":11448,"date":"2018-02-07T06:42:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T04:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/blog\/portfolio-items\/sustainable-landscapes-2\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T11:34:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T08:34:42","slug":"sustainable-landscapes-2","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.unic.ac.cy\/el\/portfolio-items\/sustainable-landscapes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Landscapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SUSTAIN contributes to the challenges cities and regions throughout Europe face by developing education innovation that surpasses school boundaries and a rigid curriculum. The SUSTAIN project builds on state-of-the-art learning good practices to empowers pupils and teachers to engage with real-life challenges, challenges that require them to think for themselves, step out of the classroom and connect to professional networks that serve sustainable development in their region.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The project strives to:&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u2022 Spark dialogue on sustainable landscapes between secondary schools, universities and other educational providers to articulate a sense of urgency for regional sustainable development goals,&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u2022 Champion the importance of regional bottom-up so-called STEM learning ecosystems to formal and informal education providers, identify key actors and set a shared regional science education agenda,&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u2022 Deeply engage pupils and their caregivers in three countries with hands-on citizen science work, thus stimulating critical thinking and raising interest in STEM learning and work,&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u2022 Equip school teachers with the skills to bring together formal and informal learning for citizen science, through a comprehensive professional development programme,&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u2022 Commit to incremental growth in the excellence of the above initiatives and networks, and build capacity to improve science education through a tailored evaluation, monitoring and peer-learning programme,&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u2022 Identify good practices on science education and\/or citizen science and disseminate them at regional, national and international scales.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Intellectual outputs (all materials also available in the English language):&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u2022 A series of online learning modules on sustainable landscapes for secondary schools pupils available to school teachers in the EU, and an increased awareness of the urgency to contribute to the local environment;&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u2022 A series of online learning modules on academic skills to foster critical thinking (as essential 21st century skill) by secondary schools pupils. These modules will be available for school teachers in EU countries;&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u2022 A series of guides, protocols, workshops and webinars to support the professionalization of teachers in formal and informal education to use their regional learning environment to the fullest;&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u2022 A series of protocols for the initiation and exploitation of sustainable STEM learning ecosystem\/hubs, and living demonstrators in each of the three countries, each one consisting of secondary schools, universities and other providers of science education;&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u2022 Guides and protocols for science festivals, and science caf\u00e9s, on sustainable landscapes which engage pupils, peer group, caregivers and the general public; and for multiplier events that reach out to engage caregivers of pupils and students, their peer groups, as well as the general public with this educational innovation on sustainable landscapes.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SUSTAIN contributes to the challenges cities and regions throughout Europe face by developing education innovation that surpasses school boundaries and a rigid curriculum. 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Although the usual population associated with the condition is the elderly (65 years old ranges from 12- 30%), who are mostly inactive, athletes and younger individuals are also susceptible. Whilst the available data have implicated the role of the various modifiable or non-modifiable risk factors in the development and progression of OA, no study has conclusively explored the interaction and integration of other information sets in a patient-specific manner. The current OACTIVE project intents to make a significant leap forward adopting a multi-scale holistic approach where patient-specific information from various levels, including cell, tissue, organ and whole body will be integrated and combined with information from other sources such as biochemical\/inflammatory biomarkers, behaviour modeling and social\/environmental risk factors to generate robust predictors for new personalised interventions for delaying onset and slowing down progression of OA. OACTIVE targets to patient-specific OA prediction and interventions by using a combination of mechanistic, phenomenological computational models, simulations and big data analytics. Once constructed, these models will be used to simulate and predict optimal treatments, better diagnostics, and improved patient outcomes. Overcoming the limitation of the current treatment interventions, Augmented Reality empowered interventions will be developed in a personalised framework allowing patients experience the treatment as more enjoyable, resulting in greater motivation, engagement, and training adherence. OACTIVE\u2019s mission is to improve healthcare by transforming and accelerating the OA diagnosis and prediction based on a more comprehensive understanding of disease pathophysiology, dynamics, and patient outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative disease of the articular cartilage and the most common form of arthritis that causes joint pain, mobility limitation and, thus, reduces independence and overall quality of life. 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