Press Release of MICA online kick-off meeting
The DAISSy research group of the Hellenic Open University (http://daissy.eap.gr/en/) participates in the activities of the new project entitled “MU.SA International Community Activators – MICA”, which is co-funded by the Erasmus + Programme 2021-2027.
The small-scale MICA project (with a duration of 12 months) aims at creating a practical community of self professional education and self lifelong learning for Heritage professionals. The primary target group includes participants and partners of eCult Skills and Mu.SA Museum Sector Alliance projects.
The main goals of MICA are to guarantee a wider age range in participants to activities, to give a wider and multicultural approach to professional experience, to fight cultural field isolation, to avoid social, age, sex, economic barrier to access high level professional training and to increase digital skills and new technologies access for participants.
MICA project capitalizes the results of the Mu.SA project and addresses especially the learners of the four Specialisation Courses (in 4 emerging role – profiles: Digital Strategy Manager, Digital Collections Curator, Digital Interactive Experience Developer and Online Community Manager) in Mu.SA course, coming from Greece, Italy and Portugal. The focus of the activities will be “How to manage and engage an active community for Cultural Institutions”. The partners Melting Pro, Hellenic Open University and University of Porto have collaborated closely in Mu.SA project.
On January 28th, 2022, the kick-off meeting of the MICA project was delivered online, hosted by Cultura REPublic from Italy, Coordinator of the project. In the meeting participated also the partners Melting Pro, from Italy and Hellenic Open University – DAISSy, from Greece.
The first project meeting was dedicated to an overview on the MICA project, the proposal submitted and previous agreements among partners. In the first part of the meeting the topic “Tools and Communication” was discussed, and proposals were made concerning MICA’s next steps. The discussion focused on the WORK CAFÉs and on how they can be translated from a live format to a digital one. More specifically, five WORK CAFÉs on subjects of Heritage field will be organized: Wc1 Tools, Wc2 Cultural best practices, Wc3 other fields best practices, Wc4 Crowdfunding, Wc5 Guests. Young experts from different fields (e.g., Gaming, Comics, online entertainment etc.) will be invited to each session, in which engaging an active community through digital means is already a consolidated reality.
Another issue in the agenda was the communication strategy, the community of participants created through an online digital platform, the project work activity and the crowdfunding campaign on a specific activity per community at country level.
The second part began with a summary of proposals on shared tools to be used for the collaboration of partnership and communication with the target groups. The last part of the meeting was about work packages, tasks, time –plan, financial & administrative issues.
Re- opening the DELTA MOOC!
Are you a passionate archaeology student, professional or scholar? Do you want to improve your archaeological knowledge and skills and develop digital skills and meeting in fora with your peers? If the answer is yes, then the DELTA course is the right choice for you!
The DELTA MOOC opens again this year, for all students and professionals in archaeology and cultural heritage!
DELTA course “Digital Excavation” developed by DELTA project partners (https://lnkd.in/deUVYQH), consists of four Modules:
- Digital Tools for Archaeological Practice/ Excavation;
- Documentation in situ and after excavation;
- Digital Preservation of cultural heritage monuments and artifacts;
- Open-Air Museums and Experimental Archaeology.
The MOOC will be delivered through DELTA platform, from 1st March 2022 until the 23nd May 2022. The course is in English, open to all and free of charge.
Apply now before February 25, 2022 (23:59 CET): https://lnkd.in/d2b9VPAH
Το έργο DELTA στην εφημερίδα του Ελληνικού Ανοικτού Πανεπιστήμιου!
Κυκλοφόρησε το νέο τεύχος της Μηνιαίας Εφημερίδας του Ελληνικού Ανοικτού Πανεπιστημίου Open2U για τον μήνα Φεβρουάριο 2022!
Στο ερώτημα Ποιες είναι οι κοινωνικές, ψηφιακές, εκπαιδευτικές δεξιότητες που απαιτούνται στις σύγρονες κοινωνίες, το άρθρο “Εκπαιδεύοντας αρχαιολόγους μέσω…Διαδικτύου”, έρχεται να δώσει απαντήσεις για τους φοιτητές και τους μελλοντικούς επαγγελματίες στο χώρο του πολιτισμού και δη, της αρχαιολογίας.
Στη σελίδα 15, το αφιέρωμα στο καινοτόμο έργο του DELTA το οποίο και συντονίζει το Ελληνικό Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο – ερευνητική ομάδα DAISSy με τη σύμπραξη 3 Πανεπιστημίων – Τμημάτων Αρχαιολογίας από την Ελλάδα, την Ιταλία και την Τσεχία. Τι νέο υπάρχει στο έργο DELTA;
Ανοικτό Webinar στις 9 Φεβρουαρίου για τις αναδυόμενες τουριστικές αγορές στην Ελλάδα
Το Ευρωπαϊκό Δίκτυο για τον Προσβάσιμο Τουρισμό (ΕΝΑΤ), εταίρος μας στο έργο INTOUR στο οποίο συμμετέχει η ομάδα DAISSy, σε συνεργασία με την InclusiveGreece θα πραγματοποιήσουν το 1ο Ανοικτό Διαδικτυακό Σεμινάριο για τις Αναδυόμενες Τουριστικές Αγορές: Νέες Επιχειρηματικές Ευκαιρίες για την Ελλάδα.
Το webinar θα λαβει χώρα την Τρίτη 9 Φεβρουαρίου 2022 στις 16.00 μέσω Zoom. Η συμμετοχή είναι δωρεάν.
Περισσότερες πληροφορίες για το webinar θα βρείτε εδώ.
Πόσο σημαντικός είναι ο προσβάσιμος τουρισμός για το τουριστικό προϊόν μιας χώρας; Ποια η κατάσταση στην Ελλάδα;
Θα βρείτε τις απαντήσεις στην πολύ ενδιαφέρουσα συνέντευξη του κ. Ivor Ambrose, Managing Director του Ευρωπαϊκού Δικτύου για τον Προσβάσιμο Τουρισμό (ΕΝΑΤ)
The CrAL platform of the project Creative Audiovisual Lab for the promotion of critical thinking and media literacy, which is designed and developed by the DAISSy Reserach Group of HOU is ready!
The DAISSy Reserach Group of the Hellenic Open University (HOU) has already designed and developed the online interative CrAL platform of the EU project Creative Audiovisual Lab for the promotion of critical thinking and media literacy.
The innovative platform rises to the challenge of engaging the educational and local communities of the five participating countries (Belgium, Italy, Spain, Greece, Croatia and Lithuania) in an exciting, experimental learning experience aiming to foster critical thinking, active citizenship and media literacy among learners, parents and educational staff. The main objective of the platform is to support:
- An Online training Course for teachers and trainers: The modules of the massive Open Course (MOOC) have started being uploaded on the CrAL online platform. Thanks to the intensive cooperation of the project partners, all the educational content of the MOOC is translated into all languages of the participating countries.
- A Showcase of the audiovisual materials: The Showcase will be developed during the implementation phase of the project and it will contain the audiovisual material (videos, short films, interviews etc.) produced by young people during the pilot action.
- The establishment of the online Community of Practice. The Virtual International Community of Practice is technically supported by the platform. It will serve as a vehicle for offering teachers and tutors access to the educational material for media literacy; ensure their preparedness; manage training in the most suitable and effective way and enable professionals of all levels of education to promote collaborative learning and co-creation of content in a virtual environment.
The platform provides the following main services: (a) Online Training Course, (b) User registration and profile management, (c) Showcase of the audiovisual materials/Upload content, (d) Collaboration/Community Space and finally (e) Fora. In this way, the platform provides a virtual space for all those (students, teachers, tutors, parents, community) who share this common interest about media education and work towards the shared goal.
So, the CrAL Platform of the Creative Audiovisual Lab for the promotion of critical thinking and media literacy is almost ready to start up tutors training!!
Are you ready to launch into it with us? We are looking forward to it!
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- Screenshot of the “Group Setup” on the CrAL platform
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- Screenshot of the Units and the learning objects of the CrAL e-Learning Course on the CrAL platform
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- Screenshot of the modules of the CrAL e-Learning course on the CrAL platform
For more information on CrAL and other DAISSy projects and activities, you can visit:
- Website : http://daissy.eap.gr/en/projects/cral/
- Facebook: @DAISSyResearchGroup
- Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/daissyresearchgroup/
- Twitter : https://twitter.com/daissy_research
- Instagram: @daissy_researchgroup
- Email : info@daissy.eap.gr
The kick-off meeting of the WorkingSmart project
On December 20-21st, 2021, a first transnational meeting of the WorkingSmart project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ of the European Commission, took place in Lyon, France. Hellenic Open University with DAISSy research group is the Greek partner of the project.
Hosted by IPRA/MEDEF Auvergne Rhone Alpes, 15 persons participated in a two-day long meeting (9 persons on-site at MEDEF premises, and 6 persons were connected on-line) representing all project partners coming from France, Greece, Italy, Slovenia, and Spain.
The project meeting was dedicated to networking, project management, administrative, financial aspects, the quality evaluation, and reporting obligations of all partners. It was fundamental to all partners as has allowed to draw a common understanding of project goals and objectives, validate the management of the project work plan, better clarify rules and responsibilities of each partner, and define communication agreements and procedures.
WorkingSmart is a two-year long Erasmus+ project (November 2021-October 2023) striving to challenge EU MSMEs to take into account the empowerment culture brought about by new technologies and smart working with different working approaches and lifestyles, among women and men.
The project aims to train and empower a novel Smart Working Manager/Advisor capable of dealing with resistance to change inside and outside EU organizations, primarily embedded into the resistance not (only) to technical change but social and cultural change (personal relationships) that will accompany the digital change.
The project seeks for participation of indirect beneficiaries (entrepreneurs, managers and executives, workers, and independent professionals) at different stages of the project (focus groups, piloting, multiplier events), so as to better manage their specific concerns and make learners more skilful.
During the project a number of ICT-based training tools and resources will be developed to support the acquisition of digital and entrepreneurial competences compliant with the EU DigComp and EntreComp frameworks, with a particular focus on problem solving issues.
Novel professionals benefiting from this project will be trained to help organizations and their managers to be capable of planning smart working in a way that is flexible and fit for purpose, dealing with organisational and labour issues, including compliance to the GDPR and performance measurement and management, in terms of both measurable and acceptable modifications in the physical and daily routines of the job, as well as the way flexible working will alter the established hierarchical and control relationships.
At the end of this learning and teaching experience of global smart working competence, the EU workforce, including young professionals will be better prepared and engaged as collaborative problem solvers, regardless of the specific job levels.
If you or your institution are interested in smart working and you wish to contribute, benefit, or simply follow up on the development of the WorkingSmart project, please contact the DAISSy research group of HOU:
- Website DAISSy: http://daissy.eap.gr/en/
- Facebook : @DAISSyResearchGroup
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daissyresearchgroup/
- Twitter : https://twitter.com/daissy_research
- Instagram: @daissy_researchgroup
- Email : info@daissy.eap.gr
Project partners:
- IPRA/MEDEF AUVERGNE RHONE ALPES, France, Coordinator
- HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY with DAISSy Group, Greece
- aiComply, Italy
- GOSPODARSKA ZBORNICA SLOVENIJE CENTER ZA POSLOVNO USPOSABLJANJE / Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia – Institute for Business Education, Slovenia
- FUNDACIO PER A LA UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA, Spain
- INMEDIA SOLUTIONS, Spain
DELTA Press Release of the 2nd Greek multiplier event
On Wednesday, 12 January 2022, at 18.00-20.00, an online event with the title “Digital skills in archaeological research and education” was organized as part of the European project DELTA. The event was organized by the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, partner of the DELTA project, with the participation of the Hellenic Open University, coordinator of the project.
The event was divided in two parts, one hour each. The first part focused on the results of the DELTA project, presented by researchers of the project. The second part was of more general character, dealing with the use of digital technologies in archaeology and the training of archaeologists, which were the subject of the talks given by two distinguished invited speakers.
The event started with a short presentation of the project by Dr. Achilleas Kameas, Professor of the School of Science and Technology of the Hellenic Open University, Director of the DAISSy research group of the Hellenic Open University, and Scientific Coordinator of the DELTA project.
The first presentation was made by Mrs. Panagiota Polymeropoulou, Archaeologist – Museologist MSc., Researcher in the DAISSy Research Group of the Hellenic Open University; the presentation focused on the pilot blended course “Digital Excavation” and the online DELTA platform. Mrs. Polymeropoulou presented in detail the methodology and the content of the pilot blended course which was designed and developed by the four partners of the DELTA project, as well as the online learning platform, which was designed and developed by the DAISSy Research Group of the Hellenic Open University. The online part of the pilot blended course “Digital Excavation” took place from 10 May to the end of August 2021. The final phase of the course was the Intensive Study Program.
The next two presentations referred to the tutors’ experience during the supervision of the pilot blended course “Digital Excavation”. Mrs. Antigoni Kalara, PhD candidate of Prehistoric Archaeology in the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, presented her experience from the tutoring of the trainees in the digital platform of the course. The following presentation by Dr. Yiannis Papadatos, Associate Professor of Prehistoric Archeology in the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and Director of the NKUA excavation at Plasi, Marathon, concerned the teaching experience from the face-to-face activities and the Intensive Study Program, held in the NKUA excavation at Marathon in October 2021.
The first part of the event closed with the presentations of Mrs. Eleni Gourgouleti, Mr. Giorgos Ntzoufras, and Mr. Giorgos Tasopoulos, undergraduate students of the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The students presented their experience from the participation in the pilot blended course (i.e. the digital platform, the face-to-face activities and the Intensive Study Program in the field), and discussed the strengths of the course, and made suggestions about possible improvements.
The second part of the event included the presentations of two invited speakers dealing with the implementation of the digital technology in the modern archaeological research and the digital skills that need to be acquired by students of archeology during their studies.
The first presentation was given by Dr. Yiannis Lolos, Associate Professor of Classical Archeology in the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology of the University of Thessaly, and Director of Sikyon Excavations, concerning the use of digital technologies in the archaeological field research.
The second presentation was given by Dr. Markos Katsianis, Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Patras, concerning the digital skills which are considered essential for modern archeologists and need to be included in undergraduate studies offered by Greek Departments of Archaeology.
The event closed with an open discussion and answers to questions made by the audience. The discussion demonstrated the need for digital tools and skills to be included in the archaeological curricula of the Greek Departments of Archaeology. Also, many students expressed their interest to attend the online course “Digital Excavation”, when the online training platform will be reactivated at the end of February 2022.
The event was organized online, via Webex, because of the measures against the pandemic . It was particularly successful; 114 people attended the meeting, which was also widely advertised in the social media. Out of a total of 114 participants, the largest part of the audience (75%) were students and graduates of study programs related to Culture and Archeology from many Greek universities: Athens, Thessaloniki, Thessaly, Patras, Ioannina, Crete, Aegean, Thrace, Peloponnese, Ionian, Hellenic Open University, Athens University of Economics and Business, National Technical University; some participants were from universities outside Greece: Rovira i Virgili in Taragona, Groningen, University College London, Antwerp, Cologne, Aix-Marseille and Tübingen. Apart from students, who represented the largest part of the audience, the event was also attended by professors of Archeology of Greek universities, researchers from Greek research institutions, as well as archaeologists serving in the Ministry of Culture and Sports, museums and other Greek cultural institutions.
CrAL project: Media literacy is a nessecity
The DAISSy Reserach Group of the Hellenic Open University (HOU) and the whole CrAL project team, working during this period on the localization of the innovative CrAL methodology, look forward to moving on to the next step. The CrAL MOOC will be soon available on the CrAL platform, which is developed by the DAISSy Research Group of HOU, the Greek partner of the project.
CrAL is aiming to promote media literacy, critical thinking and active citizenship among the teenagers (14-19 years old) of the participating European countries.
Nowadays, Media literacy is considered as one of the most important skills. The importance of media literacy was underlined by the Greek Pedagogical Institute since 1995-2004, when an initial focus on the Audiovisual Expression in a Laboratory by the well-known Program „MELINA – Education and culture“, resulted to a „Teacher’s Guide for Audiovisual Expression“. It was a Pedagogical Institute’s first initiative to form a Greek Curriculum included a series of suggestions for activities that step by step promotes audiovisual consciousness of those who practice them.
As we are waiting for the CrAL MOOC and the implementation of Creative Audiovisual Literacy methodology in Secondary schools, lets see what „media“ is and why „media literacy“ becomes an evident nessesity nowadays for the worldwide democracy.
McLuhan had predicticted long time ago that „media is the message“. He focused on analysing the form in which the content is delivered to us by the media. He argues that, since the „medium is the message“, if we don’t understand the medium we don’t understand the message either. The form informs our “identities”, the way we perceive ourselves, and as the form changes to the current digital media, our perception of the world and of ourselves is also shaped by this fast growing shift. The following EAVI’s video presents McLuhan’s theory in a very thorough and descriptive way.
https://eavi.eu/marshall-mcluhan-digital-prophecies-the-medium-is-the-message/
In addition, the Following EAVI’s video clip „A Journey to Media Literacy“, a 7-minute cartoon, will also offer us, in a fun and simple way, what Media Literacy is all about, and why it is essential in order to live freely and participate fully in society.
Call for Abstracts for the International Conference “Economic and Social Integration of Asylum Seekers and Refugees through Social Entrepreneurship”
The International Conference “Economic and Social Inclusion of Asylum Seekers and Refugees through Social Entrepreneurship” will be held on March 10th, 2022, at the University of Bologna, in the framework of the REInSER project, whose partner is the DAISSy Research Group of the Hellenic Open University.
Contributions focusing on theoretical approaches, policies and practices and projects to integrate refugees through social entrepreneurship are invited. Applications from senior and junior scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and everyone who works or has an interest on the Conference theme are accepted. As for scholars, please note that the conference is interdisciplinary, and open to contribution from economics, political sciences, sociology, anthropology, and other relevant disciplines and sub-disciplines.
The deadline to submit abstracts is January 30th, 2022.
For more information, please visit https://bit.ly/3qqhx7S
About the REInSER project
The main objective of the REInSER project is to improve the economic, and consequently wider, integration of refugees in host societies of the ADRION programme area by using approaches of social economy and in particular social entrepreneurship and by tapping the potential of networking and knowledge transfer of transnational as well as cross-sectional cooperation of key stakeholders.
The long-term objective of the REInSER is on the one hand to enhance possibilities for refugees to become active economic actors and agents of their own integration in a given host society and on the other hand to contribute to the local and regional sustainable economic development by generating employment and supporting the creation of new social responsible businesses.
REInSER brings together 8 project partners from academia, business support organisations and local authorities gathering different expertise, knowledge and skills in 6 countries of the ADRION area (Slovenia, Italy, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia).
REInSER main outputs involve:
- The creation of an innovative transnational cooperation network that will bring national, regional and local governments, governmental bodies, NGOs, social entrepreneurs, academics and refugees together in a common programme as the first of its kind in the ADRION region.
- The transnational knowledge exchange through study trips, gathered best practices, shared methodologies and approaches.
- A business toolbox and pilot actions (including a hackathon) envisaging the development of contrete social entrepreneurial ideas with refugees, supported by an experimental social ecosystem.
- The preparation of a holistic transnational strategy and an action plan for the successful integration of refugees, supported by an experimental social ecosystem.
The project is supported by the Interreg ADRION Programme funded under the European Regional Development Fund and IPA II fund.
For more information on the REInSER project: www.reinser.adrioninterreg.eu
Training the archaeologists with digital skills
The Department of History and Archeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens invites you to participate in the second online event organized in the framework of the European project DELTA! The event will take place on Wednesday 12 January 2022, from 18.00 to 20.00 online, through the WebEx platform.
In the event participates the research group DAISSy – Hellenic Open University, coordinator of the DELTA project.
The DELTA project (Digital Excavation through Learning and Training in Archeology) is a transnational program under the Erasmus + EU program (Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education) and is coordinated by the Hellenic Open University, bringing together 4 partners – Universities from 3 European countries (Greece, Italy and the Czech Republic). The project aims to design and develop a mixed course that combines the physical space of an archaeological excavation with the digital space of online education. With the course “Digital Excavation” Archeology students will be able to improve their knowledge and skills and specially to develop digital skills for the 21st century.
A prerequisite for attending the event is your registration in the Form.
Participation in the event is open to all students, graduates as well as the scientific and teaching staff of the Departments of Archeology, Culture and Tourism.
The link for your entry into the WebEx platform and for your participation in the event.
* Prerequisite for participation:
By participating in the event, you confirm that you have been informed and consent to the video recording of the event, as well as the use of the material that will be produced on the website and social media pages of the DELTA project and the DAISSy research team of the Hellenic Open University, for dissemination purposes and project communication.
Download event programme.