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Αναρτήθηκε το μονοπάτι γνώσης “Ψηφιακός Πολίτης” στην Εθνική Ακαδημία Ψηφιακών Ικανοτήτων με τη συνεισφορά της ερευνητικής ομάδας DAISSy του ΕΑΠ

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Με μεγάλη ικανοποίηση σας ενημερώνουμε ότι αναρτήθηκε το μονοπάτι γνώσης “Ψηφιακός Πολίτης” στην Εθνική Ακαδημία Ψηφιακών Ικανοτήτων. Το μονοπάτι δημιουργήθηκε από την ομάδα DAISSy του ΕΑΠ, η οποία ανέλαβε τον εκπαιδευτικό σχεδιασμό, την ανάπτυξη πρωτογενούς εκπαιδευτικού υλικού και την αξιολόγηση, μετά από ανάθεση από το Υπουργείο Ψηφιακής Διακυβέρνησης. Είμαστε περήφανοι/ες για το αποτέλεσμα, το οποίο θέτει στην υπηρεσία των πολιτών τις γνώσεις και την εμπειρία μας αναφορικά με τα Ευρωπαϊκά πρότυπα ψηφιακών ικανοτήτων και τον σχεδιασμό διαδικτυακών μαθημάτων, βοηθώντας στην βελτίωση των ικανοτήτων των πολιτών και οδηγώντας σε μια κοινωνία περισσότερο συμπεριληπτική. Η υλοποίηση του μονοπατιού γνώσης “Ψηφιακός Πολίτης” ακολουθεί μετά τη δημιουργία του διαδικτυακού εργαλείου για την αυτοαξιολόγηση βασικών ψηφιακών δεξιοτήτων, το οποίο έχει ήδη ενσωματωθεί στην ιστοσελίδα της στην Εθνικής Ακαδημίας Ψηφιακών Ικανοτήτων (περισσότερες πληροφορίες θα βρείτε εδώ).psif_pol-2

Το μονοπάτι γνώσης «Ψηφιακός Πολίτης» αποτελεί μία σειρά πέντε μαθημάτων της Εθνικής Ακαδημίας Ψηφιακών Ικανοτήτων. Οδηγεί στην ανάπτυξη βασικών ψηφιακών δεξιοτήτων, ώστε οι πολίτες να μπορούν μέσω του Διαδικτύου να πραγματοποιούν τις απαραίτητες για την καθημερινότητά τους εργασίες. Τα μαθήματα αναπτύσσονται με βάση το Ευρωπαϊκό Πλαίσιο Ψηφιακών Ικανοτήτων (DigiComp). Κάθε μάθημα, περιλαμβάνει μία τελική αξιολόγηση που οδηγεί σε λήψη βεβαίωσης παρακολούθησης.

Μπορείτε να χρησιμοποιήσετε το μάθημα ακολουθώντας το σύνδεσμο https://nadia.gov.gr/ . Στη σελίδα αυτή θα βρείτε και ένα ωραία σχεδιασμένο βίντεο που εξηγεί τους στόχους και τα αναμενόμενα αποτελέσματα του μονοπατιού γνώσης. Ήδη το μονοπάτι παρουσιάστηκε από το Υπουργείο Ψηφιακής Διακυβέρνησης στη Διεθνή Έκθεση Θεσσαλονίκης 2022 και είναι διαθέσιμο στους/στις επισκέπτες/τριες.

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Stay tuned! The open online course TOY on intergenerational learning, is available again.

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Are you interested in bringing older adults and young children together to share knowledge, skills, values and have fun?

Would you like to participate in a free of charge learning programme to develop your skills in intergenerational learning?

If yes, then the TOY online course is what you are looking for!

More than 800 learners from 40 countries have already taken part in the TOY online course, ‘Together Old and Young: An Intergenerational Approach’ that was launched in 2018 and supported by the DAISSy research group of Hellenic Open University.

The online course “Together Old and Young: An Intergenerational Approach” is unique in its focus on young children (0 – 10 years old) and older adults (65+ years old) and aims to promote awareness and expertise to support you in developing good quality, sustainable intergenerational practice. Through this course you will learn about intergenerational practice and discover practical ways to create opportunities for intergenerational learning in your own area.

This course is in English and it is relevant for those who are:

  • Early Childhood Education and Care practitioners;
  • Primary school teachers (working with 4 to 10 year-olds);
  • Social Care practitioners working with older adults;
  • Community development workers i.e. practitioners and volunteers working in community groups such as those linked to community social and cultural centres; sports clubs, scouting or religious institutions;
  • Practitioners and volunteers working in libraries and museums.

Registration will open on 10 October 2022 at the link

 

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Tour-X kick-off meeting took place in Athens!

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From the 4th to the 6th of July, the partners of the Tour-X project had the opportunity to meet in the kick-off meeting of the project that took place in the Golden Age Hotel in Athens, Greece.

AKMI SA, the coordinator organization of the project, hosted the meeting and Mr. Rodopoulos, AKMI’s president, warmly welcomed the participants. A welcome note by the Greek Minister of Tourism, Mr. Kikilias followed, while the Governor of Attica, Mr. Patoulis sent his own message through a video.

The 23 partners of the Tour-X project represent Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, and China. The participants spent 3 days of meeting exchanging views on how to better collaborate on the ambitious project of Tour-X together.

The Tour-X project brings together VET providers, Regional Authorities, Market representatives, Higher Educational Institutions, and 4 networks to bring excellence in the Tourism sector on a regional and transnational level. Hellenic Open University with DAISSy Research Group is one of the partners of the project and will hold a leading role in specific implementation tasks.

Tour-X is a Center of Vocational Excellence (COVE) Project for the Tourism Industry that will run for 4 years (2022-2026). The project aims to:

  • Foster national and transnational collaboration through the establishment of TourX Transnational Ecosystem for Excellence in Tourism;
  • Increase skills anticipation in the Tourism industry;
  • Increase sectoral employability;
  • Increase of investments in tourism-related human resources.

More information about the Tour-X project and the activities of DAISSy Research Group:


 

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Πρόσκληση σε Ημερίδα με τίτλο “Ενίσχυση της επιχειρηματικότητας στον τομέα της Άυλης Πολιτιστικής Κληρονομιάς»

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niche-posterΗ ερευνητική ομάδα DAISSy του Ελληνικού Ανοικτού Πανεπιστημίου σας προσκαλεί να συμμετάσχετε στην ημερίδα που διοργανώνει με τίτλο “ Ενίσχυση της επιχειρηματικότητας στον τομέα της Άυλης Πολιτιστικής Κληρονομιάς», η οποία θα πραγματοποιηθεί δια ζώσης, την Παρασκευή 23 Σεπτεμβρίου 2022 στις 18.00, στο Ξενοδοχείο Βυζαντινό (Ρήγα Φεραίου 106), στην Πάτρα.

Η ομάδα DAISSy – ΕΑΠ συμμετέχει ως εταίρος στις δράσεις του έργου Nurturing Intangible Cultural Heritage for Entrepreneurship – NICHE [2020-1-IS01-KA202-065809], που χρηματοδοτείται από το πρόγραμμα Erasmus+ της Ευρωπαϊκής Επιτροπής. Το έργο NICHE (https://www.nicheproject.eu/), διάρκειας 24 μηνών, στοχεύει στην προώθηση της ανάπτυξης και της βιωσιμότητας στον τομέα της Άυλης Πολιτιστικής Κληρονομιάς (Intangible Cultural Heritage), δηλαδή όλων των πρακτικών, μορφών έκφρασης, γνώσεων ή δεξιοτήτων που συναποτελούν την πολιτιστική παράδοση ενός τόπου.

Η εκδήλωση απευθύνεται σε άτομα και εκπροσώπους ενώσεων, ιδρυμάτων και επιχειρήσεων σε τοπικό, εθνικό και ευρωπαϊκό επίπεδο. Συγκεκριμένα απευθύνεται σε επαγγελματίες πολιτισμού, διαχειριστές στον τομέα του πολιτισμού και τουρισμού, παρόχους επαγγελματικής εκπαίδευσης και κατάρτισης, συμβούλους επιχειρήσεων, διαχειριστές μικρομεσαίων επιχειρήσεων στον πολιτισμό και τουρισμό, φορείς που λαμβάνουν αποφάσεις, εκπροσώπους δήμων και πολιτιστικών συλλόγων καθώς και σε φοιτητές και αποφοίτους στον πολιτισμό και τουρισμό.

Θα δοθούν βεβαιώσεις συμμετοχής.

Για οποιαδήποτε πληροφορία μπορείτε να απευθυνθείτε στη διεύθυνση info@daissy.eap.gr

Δείτε το πρόγραμμα της ημερίδας εδώ.

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Call for registrations to EUHeritage MOOC 2022 on the promotion and management of cultural heritage!

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The DAISSy research group of Hellenic Open University (http://daissy.eap.gr/) re-launches the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), developed in the framework of the European project EUHeritage: Skills for promotion, valorization, exploitation, mediation and interpretation of European Cultural Heritage (https://www.euheritage.eu/).

The project was funded under the Erasmus+/KA2/Sector Skills Alliances programme and created a new transnational curriculum for cultural professionals and students, focusing on digital and transferable competences as well as social skills linked to the ‘tourism experience’ in the cultural heritage sector. The project was implemented with the collaboration of 10 institutions from 8 European countries – the DAISSy group of HOU participated as the main technological partner of the project representing Greece.

The online training programme is offered again in 2022, by the MOOC Platform developed by the DAISSy team for the EUHeritage project. The online course starts on Monday 26 September 2022. The online course is offered free of charge, in English. Successful learners will be awarded with a Certificate of Completion and Online Open Badges!

REGISTER NOW at the link: https://forms.gle/o3f8uoqLgrMPWjL38 until 21st  September 2022!

The detailed CALL for Expression of Interest can be found here and on the project website.

For more information about the EUHeritage project and other activities of the DAISSy research group:

 

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The DAISSy Research Group of the HOU announces the start of the registration for the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in Social Entrepreneurship, in Greek, English, French and Arabic. Registration has started!

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logo-reinserThe DAISSy Research Group of the HOU announces the start of the registration for the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in Social Entrepreneurship, in Greek, English, French and Arabic. Registration has started!

The DAISSY Research Group of the Hellenic Open University announces the start of the registration for the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in Social Entrepreneurship and invites you to register.

The MOOC in Social Entrepreneurship is open to anyone interested:

  • get to know what the Social and Solidarity Economy is through specific examples and its actors,
  • learn how a group is formed and operates, the cell of each Social and Solidarity Economy project
  • to systematically look at ways of choosing which economic activity meets the objectives of the Social and Solidarity Economy
  • to get acquainted with marketing techniques directly linked to the Social and Solidarity Economy
  • to finally get to know technical tools (business plan creation, economic and technical planning, etc.) that will allow him/her to put into practice the objective of social change through the Social and Solidarity Economy.
  • to launch or develop a business venture based on the principles of the Social and Solidarity Economy,

The MOOC is offered in four languages: Greek, English, French and Arabic.

It will start on 15 September 2022 and the participants will need three weeks in order to complete the course.

Participants who successfully complete the MOOC in Social Entrepreneurship will receive a certificate of completion. In addition, they will have the opportunity (under certain conditions) to receive support for the development of their business ideas that contribute to the economic integration of refugees based on the principles of Social and Solidarity Economy, in the framework of the Social Hackathon for the Economic Integration of Refugees through Social Entrepreneurship which will take place in Ioannina, from 9 to 12 October 2022.

Register for the MOOC in Social Entrepreneurship at the following link: https://bit.ly/3Q7AINs

MOOC in Social Entrepreneurship and Social Hackathon are implemented in the framework of the project “REInSER: Economic Integration of Refugees through Social Entrepreneurship”. The main objective of the REInSER project is to contribute to improving the prospects of refugees for economic, and, more broadly, social integration in the host countries of the Adriatic-Ionian region, using social economy approaches, and in particular those of social entrepreneurship.

The REInSER project is implemented in the framework of the Adriatic-Ionian Interreg ANDRION Transnational Cooperation Program funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) II.

REInSER brings together 8 project partners from academia, business support organisations and local authorities gathering different expertise, knowledges and skills in 6 countries of the ADRION area, namely, Slovenia, Italy, Greece, BiH, Serbia and Croatia.

In Greece, the project partner is the DAISSY Research Group and the associated partners are the Special Service “ESPA Executive Structure, Employment & Social Economy Sector” of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, ANKA, and e-Trikala.

More information on the DAISSy Research Group:

 

 

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Call for applications – International Training of Trainers

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lead-online-callΗ ερευνητική ομάδα DAISSy Research Group, στα πλαίσια του ευρωπαϊκού έργου LEAD-Online-Learn, Engage, Act: Digital Tools to Prevent and Counter Hate Speech Online, καλεί εκπαιδευτικούς, δημοσιογράφους, διαχειριστές λογαριασμών social media κ.α. που επιθυμούν να εκπαιδευτούν για να γίνουν φορείς αλλαγής σε σχέση με τη ρητορική μίσους στο διαδίκτυο, να στείλουν τις αιτήσεις τους για τη συμμετοχή στην εκπαίδευση “International Training of Trainers“, που θα λάβει χώρα στη Βιέννη, στις 14-16 Νοεμβρίου 2022.

Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες δείτε την πρόσκληση. Οι θέσεις είναι περιορισμένες και θα τηρηθεί σειρά προτεραιότητας για τους επικρατέστερους υποψήφιους.

 

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MOOC on Essential Skills for Environmentally Conscious Smart Lighting Professionals

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ecos-bannerECOSLIGHT consortium is happy to announce that the registration to its MOOC training program – Essential Skills for Environmentally Conscious Smart Lighting Professionals – is now open to all interested stakeholders! ECOSLIGHT is coordinated from the School of Applied Arts and Sustainable Design and the DAISSy research group of the Hellenic Open University.

MOOC, which is freely accessible by anyone, aims at supporting lighting and wider construction industry professionals, or aspiring ones, to improve their lighting, digital, green, entrepreneurial, and life competences. It will offer specific learning modules aimed at enhancing know-how and skills in the fields related to:

  • innovative, sustainable, and human-centric lighting systems and products,
  • digital technologies for co-creation processes,
  • entrepreneurial mindset and critical thinking.

ECOSLIGHT MOOC start date is 5th of September 2022, its duration is of 8 weeks. Additional information about the course can be found here.

Ready to enroll? Please complete the online registration form here.

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DAISSy / HOU participated in the 2nd transnational partner meeting of the DigiPath project

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digipath-meeting-2On July 12 and  13, 2022, the organization SI4life hosted the 2nd Transnational Project Meeting of the project DigiPath – Digital Education Readiness for VET Teachers through Tool Assisted Learning Pathways. The meeting was held at the facilities of Aquarium of Genova, in Genova, Italy, with the participation of the DAISSy research group of the Hellenic Open University and the organisations AFBB Akademie Furberufliche Bildung GMBH (Germany), TERCIFORMA — Estudos de Comércio e Serviços, SA (Portugal), Valencia Culinary Center S.L. (Spain) και Kauno buitiniu paslaugu ir verslo mokykla (Lithuania).

During the two-day meeting, the partners had the opportunity to discuss the main findings of the research conducted to VET institutions regarding teachers’ perspectives on digital teaching and the mapping of their digital skills development needs.

The research’s findings constituted the baseline for discussion and analysis of the design of the learning paths, development of the educational material, as well as the piloting of the blended course of DigiPath project.

In addition, horizontal issues of the project regarding the exploitation and promotion of its results, as well as its management, were discussed.

The DAISSy Research Group of the Hellenic Open University participates in all the Work Packages, undertaking the implementation of the e-learning platform that will support the pilot blended course of the project.

For more information on the CRISIS project and the activities of the DAISSy research group:

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4th Scientix Conference – Call for contributions

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The 4th Scientix International Conference is one of the major science education networking events in Europe and will take place online 18 to 19 November 2022.

With only 2,000 places available, the goal of the conference is to provide an overview of the challenges and opportunities in science education in Europe and highlight the potential and possibilities that the Scientix community can bring about. Participation in the conference is free of charge and by registration only. Registration will be opened early September 2022. For more information about the conference please you visit this page: http://www.scientix.eu/conference

The Call for Contributions is now open to four different types of contributions:

  • Plenary online presentations for STEM education projects
  • Parallel online presentations on different topics related to STEM Education
  • Digital Posters on different topics related to STEM education
  • Hands-on online workshops

The submission deadline for the call for papers is 17 August 2022.

You can find more information on how to submit your contribution here: http://www.scientix.eu/conference/scx4/call-for-contributions