In early November 2018 a very special group of junior consultants joined the UMI-Sci-Ed team at NTNU. Are young students aware of the career possibilities that UMI offers? What do they know about the role of UMI in society? How can we help young students to get a better understanding of UMI careers? What are […]
The UMI partnership will run a workshop at the upcoming ALL DIGITAL Summit that will take place in Brussels, BE, on October 18th-19th. It will be a part of the so-called “How-to” workshops. The “How To” workshops will be conducted on Day 1 of the Summit, They are designed to give delegates a practical understanding of how […]
By Nicolas Sklavos, Ioannis D. Zaharakis, and Achilles Kameas The 21th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, Architectures, Methods, Tools was held between 29th and 31st August 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic. The Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD’18) addressed all aspects of embedded, pervasive and high- performance, digital and mixed HW/SW system engineering, […]
by Nicolas Sklavos, Ioannis D. Zaharakis and Achilles Kameas On June 25-26, 2018, the activities of UMI-Sci-Ed project were presented during the days of 3rd Summer School on “ICT and Applications”. This summer school was targeted to the students of the last year studies of Lyceums, from the local region of the city of Patras, […]
UMI-Sci-Ed learned a lot about it by contributing to the event Games, culture, and science for Boys and Girls, organized by TAPPETINA in Trondheim. The 1-day event was attended by 35 participants. The day started with guest lectures about games for learning math, games for learning reading skills and empathy, ICT for cultural heritage, design […]
A workshop for school teachers, aiming at enhancing the impact UMI-Sci-Ed project, has been held in Athens on September the 4th, 2018, during the Pan-Hellenic Scientix Conference for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education. The workshop has been delivered by Achilles Kameas, Associate Professor at the Hellenic Open University and the school teachers Angeliki […]
Students, 14 to 16 years old, attended a summer school in Patras from the 25th to the 28th of June. This summer school was held in four different cities (Patras, Athens, Salonica and Larissa) at the same time. Their common subject was the promotion of UMI technologies through the teaching of a simple scenario: “The Internet of […]
At the beginning of the first day, after a warm up activity for the students to introduce themselves and feel at ease and after setting ground rules, a presentation of applications and the architecture of the Internet of Things was made using two videos. The first video was about everyday situations that the Internet of […]
The Educational Scenario (ES) “The Internet of Things in our hands” promotes the interactivity between teachers – students – educational materials. Through the platform and the activities of the ES, communication and collaboration between different groups, such as trainers, professionals, parents, academics, researchers or other relevant stakeholders from the same country or from different countries […]
Lower Secondary Experimental School Agion Anargyron is one of the four schools in Greece (Athens, Patras , Larissa and Thessaloniki) that organized a summer camp, implementing a full scenario on Internet of Things. These parallel summer camps took place in the framework of the Pilot Phase of UMI-Sci-Ed in Greece. Teachers responsible for organizing and […]