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Events

Explore our archive of past events to see the impact we’ve made and the milestones we’ve achieved. Each event showcases our commitment to excellence and meaningful engagement.

April 2024

  • 16-17/4: CROssING progress meeting in Myrina, Lemnos.

 

March 2024

 

February 2024

 

January 2024

December 2023

  • 14/12: GreenVETers ME “Forging synergies for climate action and advocacy: The role of educational institutions in tackling climate change”, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  • 10-13/12: GROMADA kick-off meeting in Milan, Italy.
  • 3-6/12: CROssING kick-off meeting in Marseille, France.

 

November 2023

  • 28-29/11: Acting4Water kick-off meeting in Myrina, Lemnos, Greece.
  • 23-24/11: Welcome! project meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece.
  • 8-13/11: EnvisionAlliances project meeting at Delft, The Netherlands.
  • 7-11/11: Baltics4UA Challenges at DigiEduHack 2023.
  • 10-12/11: BOLD presentation at the 12th Conference of Pedagogigal Society of Greece, Ioannina, Greece

 

October 2023

 

July 2023

  • 6-7/7: Fourth transnational project meeting of the CitSci4All project. Athens, Greece

 

June 2023

  • 28-29/6: (invited) Working group on Agri-food by the European Citizen Science Association(ECSA), INRAE, Paris.
  • 19/6: “Crowdfunding in practice”: insights from an Irish museum”. eCHOIng webinar.
  • 13/6: “Education and advocacy for environmental justice”. Webinar of the GreenVETers project.

 

May 2023

  • 30-31/5: HEIDI project Final Conference (online)
  • 24/5: “Introduction to fundraising for cultural heritage: possibilities, aims and examples”, eCHOIng webinar.
  • 11/5: 2nd transnational meeting of the LibOCS project, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  • 10/5: “Digital actions for a social purpose: University libraries for active citizenship through citizen science”, HEIDI Multiplier event in Greece, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki.

 

April 2023

  • 11/4: “Business and academic resilience to support the Ukrainian crisis response in the Baltics”. Webinar of the Baltics4UA project
  • 3-4/4: final project meeting and multiplier event of the HEIDI project, Learning Planet Institute, France.

 

February 2023

  • 12-14/2: Final project meeting of The GLAMers project, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus.

 

January 2023

  • 25-27/1: Second transnational project meeting of the GreenVETers project. Warsaw, Poland.
  • 23/1: “Academic activism as manifestation of societal engagement and social innovation in responsible research”. Workshop of the Re_ACT project hosted by the Roskilde University, Denmark. 
  • 19-20/1: Third transnational project meeting of the CitSci4All project. Lyon, France.
  • 17-18/1: Kick-off-meeting of the AGILE project. Université Paris 8, France.
  • 17-18: Kick-off-meeting of the Welcome! project. Brno, Czech Republic.

December 2022

  • 12/12: “European Citizen Science”. Presentation at the “Open Science services in Greece and the European Open Science Cloud Pilot Cloud (EOSC)” workshop organised by “Athena”​ Research and Innovation Center and Innovation Center, and the RAISE Science project. Thessaloniki.
  • 6/12: “Environmental citizen sensing: social participation, arts and technology”. Webinar of the GreenVETers project.
  • 1/12: “Visitors as active citizens: enhancing public participation in actions of cultural heritage institutions for climate change”. Multiplier event of The GLAMers project at the Goulandris Natural History Museum, Kifisia.

 

November 2022

  • 8/11: “Forms of citizen engagement in cultural heritage preservation: case study from the war in Ukraine”. Presentation at the Euromed Conference 2022, Cyprus.
  • 8/11: “Citizen Enhanced Open Science in Cultural Heritage – Review and analysis of practices in Higher Education”. Presentation at the Eurome Conference 2022, Cyprus. Study.

 

October 2022

  • 27/10: “Universities in crises: The quest for resilience in higher education institutions (and its effect on bottom-up social participation). Invited talk at the International Online Conference & Bar Camp “Resilience Day – What we can learn from crises” organised by FH Münster’s project “THEA Ukraine X”.
  • 27/10: “Hackathons as open innovation examples for cultural heritage preservation during conflict”. Presentation  at the No Time To Wait Conference, The Netherlands.
  • 25/10: “Active citizenship: The role of librarians in citizen science”. Workshop delivered in the online event organised by OpenAIRE Cyprus as part of the CeOS project.
  • 6/10: “Citizen science for environmental and health issues in conflict zones”. Presentation at the 2022 European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) conference, Berlin, 5-8 October.

 

September 2022

  • 29/9: “Open innovation in academia-society cooperation: examples of cultural heritage preservation in a crisis situation”. Talk at the annual Europeana conference.

 

August 2022

  • 30/8: final project meeting and multiplier event of the INOS project. Leiden University, The Netherlands

 

July 2022

  • 7/7: “From Open and Citizen Science to Activism: Roles for Academic Staff”. Webinar of the INOS project.

 

June 2022

  • 10/6, “community- driven innovation for Ukrainian cultural heritage”. Webinar on “Cultural Heritage Threats and the Role of Citizen Engagement Inside and Outside Universities”, INOS project.
  • 2/6, “hacktivism by using earth observations for a social purpose”. Webinar on “Digital action: scope, methodology, tools and practices”, HEIDI project.

 

May 2022

  • 3/5, “Citizen science in academia-society relationships: few thoughts at the 3-year INOS journey”. Multiplier event, Bringing Open Knowledge and Innovation to Higher Education, University of Bordeaux.
  • 4/5, “EU Space data for cultural heritage”. Online workshop “Open data in all its form: science, pedagogy and society” by the datactivists and University of Bordeaux.

 

February 2022

  • 24/2, « citizen science : introduction to the role of librarians” (in Greek) Επιστήμη των πολιτών: εισαγωγή στο ρόλο των βιβλιοθηκονόμων. Greek and Cypriot Node of OpenAIRE Link

 

January 2022

  • 18/1, invited ignite talk at European hackathon CitizensHack

October 2021

  • 13/10: online workshop “Youth audience engagement during COVID: digital ideas and methods from The GLAMers” in cooperation with Europeana, for The GLAMers project. Announcement.

 

September 2021

  • 29/9: webinar “Practices of digitally mediated youth engagement in GLAMs during the pandemic”, in cooperation with Europeana, for The GLAMers project. Announcement.
  • 16/9: “Language learning as the agency for a social purpose: examples from the coronavirus pandemic”. Irish Association for Applied Linguistics (IRAAL)
  • 8/9: “Audience Engagement Practices by Cultural Institutions During the Pandemic”. Fourteenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, Abstract

 

June 2021

  • 6/6: “Designing a Hackathon Challenge of L2 content creation for university students of Digital Language Education”. talk at JALT CALL 2021 conference. Abstract
  • 4/6: Invited talk “Citizen science initiatives in the cultural heritage sector: insights into open cultural data”. Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Abstract

 

April 2021

  • 14/4: Invited talk: “Digital activism: challenges and opportunities for language learning” University of Juväskylä,  Finland, Department of Language and Communication Studies. 

 

March 2021

  • 26/3:  “Citizen enhanced open science in the cultural heritage sector“. Presentation by Katerina Zourou and Mariana Ziku at “Open cultural data in citizen science” workshop Open Belgium 2021. Slides.
  • 10/3: “Supporting the digital transformation of a Higher Education institution: The example of Central University “Marta Abreu” of Las Villas, Cuba”. Invited talk, University of Habana/inSTEC, Cuba.

November 2020-January 2021:  consultation for 2 Caribbean universities, the University of West Indies, Jamaica, and Universidad Central de Las Villas, Cuba. Staff upskilling and digital transformation of two university degrees.

 

December 2020

  • 10/12: presentation at the European University Association webinar “University approaches to citizen science in the transition to Open Science”. Short talk “Academia permeating society through Citizen Science: Use cases of engagement in Higher Education” (programme).

 

November 2020

  • 12-13/11: host of two hackathons within DigiEduHack annual event: one for teachers of languages for specific purposes (Catapult Challenge) and one for university students of languages aiming to upskill them on citizen science (INOS Challenge).

 

October 2020

  • 24/10: Keynote talk “Digital activism during covid-19 and its potential for language learning”, 2nd Online Forum on Innovations in foreign language teaching, Moscow, Lomonosov Moscow State University. Website in Russian.

 

July 20-August 10: online specialisation course offered at 2 Caribbean universities, the University of West Indies, Jamaica, and Universidad Central de Las Villas, Cuba. Details.

 

June 2020

  • 6/6: “Language learning as agency for a social purpose: examples from the pandemic”: talk by Katerina Zourou at JALTCALL conference (online). Slides and abstract

 

May 2020

  • 4/5: “Some examples of how the pandemic is affecting education and ways forward”: talk  at the webinar “Challenges for Higher Education in the era of Covid19″. Slides. 

 

April 2020

  • 24-26/4: EUvsVirus hackathon. Katerina acting as mentor for 6 teams competing for the Challenge “Education and remote working”. Blog post also available.

 

  • 30/3-April 4: Catapult project meeting and teacher training event, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland (cancelled-carried out online)

March 2020

  • 9-10/3: Creating a citizens’ information pack on ethical and legal issues around ICTs: what should be included? Workshop organised by ECSA and PANELFIT consortia. Natural Sciences Museum, Berlin.

 

February 2020

  • 26-28/2: EOSC training, organised by Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), The Hague, The Netherlands.
  • 12-14/2: VALS/ASLA conference, oral presentation “Rétroaction entre pairs dans des communautés web 2.0 d’apprenants de langues : état des lieux”. University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

December 2019

  • 7-14/12: invitation by the Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) for lectures and transnational cooperation building, Shanghai.

 

November 2019

  • 24/11: grant to attend the GO-TRAIN Workshop on FAIR training and skills, Leibniz Information Centre for Economics in Hamburg, Germany.
  • 3-6/11, 3rd Intensive Course in Laser Based Patterning & Sintering Processes, iPEN project, Friedrich Alexander Universität Nurnberg-Erlangen, Germany.



October 2019

 

September 2019

  • 26/9: 2nd project meeting, CRETE project, Brussels.
  • 9/9: 1st project meeting, INOS project, Aalborg University, Copenhagen campus

 

August 2019

  • 20-30/8: scholar stay of Dr. Bohlouli, Petanux, at W2L premises. Grant offered by the EnetCollect network.

 

May 2019

  • 28-29/5: staff training event, Catapult project, Pedagogical Institute of Krakow, Poland.
  • 14-15/5: 2nd  Intensive Course in Laser Spectroscopy and Safety, iPEN project, Milano Polytechnic.

 

April 2019

  • 2-6/4: Intensive Course on critical skills of electronic engineers, CRETE project, Aalborg University, Copenhagen campus.

 

March 2019

  • 14-15/3: Annual meeting of the EnetCollect network, Lisbon.

 

January 2019

  • 23-25/1: Crowdfest οrganised by the EnetCollect network, COST premises, Brussels.

December 2018

  • 16-17/12: closing meeting, Council of Europe project “development of online resources for teachers and other education practitioners“, Strasbourg.
  • 5-7/12: grant to a crowdsourcing experiment, EnetCollect network, Gothenburg, Sweden.

 

November 2018

  • 14/11: kick-off meeting, CRETE Erasmus+ project, Warsaw.

 

October 2018

  • 24-25/10: Intensive course on Modern teaching methods and soft skills development in science. Weizmann Institute of Science, Tel Aviv, Israel.
  • 12-13/10: closing meeting and webinar, e-lang project, Council of Europe/European Centre for Modern Languages, Graz, Austria

 

September 2018

  • 13-14/9:  first meeting of new EU funded project Catapult, Paris.

 

July 2018

  • 19-20/7: 3rd meeting of Council of Europe’s project “development of online resources for teachers and other education practitioners“, Strasbourg.
  • 4-6/7: “Dynamics of role playing and social participation in online language learning communities”, presentation (with Anthippi Potolia) at XIX Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) conference, Bruges.

 

June 2018

  • 7-9/6: “Apprendre, accompagner et produire dans une communauté d’apprentissage des langues en ligne : heur ou malheur ?” talk (with Anthippi Potolia) at EPAL conference 2018, Grenoble.

 

May 2018

  • 23-24/5: Digital Humanities Course Registry Metadatathon; organised by the Digital Research Architecture for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) annual meeting, Paris. Scholarship to attend the workshop.
  • 9-10/5: 2nd meeting of Council of Europe’s project “development of online resources for teachers and other education practitioners“, Strasbourg.

 

April 2018

  • 18-20/4:  Open Science Trainer Bootcamp. Grant awarded by the organiser (FOSTER project), Barcelona.
  • 12-13/4: MOONLITE project meeting, Madrid

 

March 2018

  • 14/3: “Crowdsourcing: language learning and commercial imperatives in web 2.0 language learning communities”. Talk at EnetCollect network meeting, Iasi, Romania. Slides.
  • 12/3: “Crowdsourcing in language learning and teaching: “small” languages’ achievements”. Invited talk at University of Iceland, Department of Languages. Slides.
  • 1-12/3: research stay at the University of Reykjavik, Iceland. Grant for a Short-term scientific mission (STSM) awarded by the EnetCollect network.

 

February 2018

  • 12-13/2: launch of Council of Europe’s project “development of online resources for teachers and other education practitioners“, Strasbourg.
  • 6-9/2: winter school on data analytics, GraDAna project, University of Bonn.

October 2017

  • 10-12/10: workshop on digital literacies for language teachers in English and French, as part of the E-lang project, Graz, Austria.

 

September 2017

  • 28-29/9: second meeting of MOONLITE project, Berlin, hosted by ESCP Europe, Berlin.

 

August 2017

  • 28/8: closing conference, COMALAT project, hosted by the University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany.

 

July 2017

  • 13-14/7: first meeting of GraDAna meeting, University of Bonn/Fraunhofer-Institut.

 

June 2017

  • 24/6: (with Roula Kitsiou and Eleutheria Zaga): presentation “Σχεδιάζοντας εκπαιδευτικό υλικό για ενήλικες πρόσφυγες: Προκλήσεις και διλήμματα”, conference “Refugee Education and Support”, Athens.
  • 15/6: “MOOCs with a language learning focus for refugees“. Within the seminar “How Relevant is Open Education for Refugees?”, EDEN 2017 annual conference. Presenter: Tatiana.

 

March 2017

  • 28/3: (with Anthippi Potolia):  Webinar “Apprentissages non formels en réseaux”, at the seminar “Environnements numériques pour l’enseignement-apprentissage des langues”, Centre de linguistique appliquée  & Université de Franche-comté, Besançon, France.
  • 9-10/3: Fifth group meeting of COMALAT project. Thessaloniki, Greece (participant: Katerina).
  • 7/3: 1st Management Committee meeting of the COST project “European Network for Combining Language Learning with Crowdsourcing Techniques” (enCollect), Brussels

November 2016

  • 28-29/11: Kick-off meeting of MOONLITE project. Madrid, hosted by UNED 
  • 24-26/11: presentation “Apprendre les langues au sein d’une communauté web 2.0 : regards sur l’autonomie des apprenants”at Ranaclès 2016 conference, Paris 

 

September 2016

 

August 2016

  • 24-27/8: EUROCALL conference 2016. Presentation on Social networking affordances for open educational language practice. Limassol, Cyprus 

 

June 2016

  • 30/6-July 1st: presentation at the International conference Future of Education, Florence, Italy 
  • 22/6: invited talk at The Future of Learning: Critical Perspectives on Higher Education in the Digital Age. University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.  Slides.

 

April 2016

  • 9-12/4: joint presentation with Carl Blyth and Joshua Thoms at AAAL conference, Orlando, USA. Title: An International OER/OEP Initiative: How Open is Foreign Language Education in the United States and Europe? Details

 

February 2016

  • 4-5: first meeting of the Elang project, funded by ECML. Graz, Austria. 

November 2015

  • 19-20/11: workshop “Open resources for science education”, at the Scientix/EMINENT conference, Barcelona.  Slides and blog post.
  • 7/11: OER in Greek language and how to reuse them. Workshop co-organized with Sofia Papaditriou, Greek Ministry of Education, at the 2015 ICODL conference. Slides and blog post.

 

October 2015

  • 20-21/10:  12th seminar of EdReNe (Educational Repositories Network). Hosted by the Danish Ministry of Education, Copenhagen .
  • 7-9/10: seminar on “OER and Regional anf Minority languages”, Fryske Akademy, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands.

 

September 2015 

  • 25/9: final meeting and conference of OREA project, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece 

 

May 2015

  • 30-31/5: LangOER teacher training course for Greek educators on OER and OEP. 

 

April 2015

  • 24-26/4: 22nd Symposium on Theoretical & Applied Linguistics (ISTALL22), Thessaloniki, Greece. Talk on “Open Educational Resources (OER) in less used languages: a European state-of-the art study and insights into the Greek landscape” in relation to the LangOER project
  • 14-15/4: OER15 conference, Cardiff, Wales.  Talk on “Social networks and their role in Open Educational language Practice and interaction”, in relation to LangOER project

December 2014

  • 11/12: Education in the Digital Era conference, Brussels (invited: Giulia and Katerina)

 

November 2014

  • 3-4/11: kick-off meeting of ExplOERer project, Thessaloniki (participants: Ioannis and Katerina). Slides available.

 

October 2014

  • 13-16/10: LangOER international workshop followed by project meeting. Oslo 

 

August 2014

  • 20-23/8: ““OER: insights into a multilingual landscape” at the EUROCALL 2014 Conference. Co-organised with Tita Beaven, Kate Borthwick, Linda Bradley, and Sylvi Vigmo.

 

May 2014

 

March 2014

 

January 2014

  • 27-28/1: First LangOER meeting in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands 

December 2013

  • 12-13/12: ALSIC conference “Médias sociaux et apprentissage des langues: quelle(s) nouveauté(s)?” Montpellier
  • 4-6/12: Online Educa Berlin, presentation of the Web2LLP project 

 

November 2013

  • 7-8/11: Web2LLP final event and workshop, Coventry University

 

September 2013

  • 25-26/9. European Commission conference on “Languages for mobility, jobs and active citizenship“. Organised by DG EAC and Lithuanian presidency of the Council of European Union. Vilnius, Lithuania 
  • 11-14/9: EUROCALL 2013 conference, conference talk “Social media training and support for European project managers: the Web2LLP project”. EÉvora, Portugal 

 

July 2013

  • 10-13/7:  WorldCALL Paper presentation (research) Intrinsic motivation in a blended learning environment 
  • 10-13/7:  WorldCALL Paper presentation (research)  Investigating networking practice in informal language learning communities. WorldCALL conference, Glasgow 

 

June 2013

  • 13/6: Round table “Apprentissage collectifs informels en réseau : où, avec qui, comment, pourquoi ?” EPAL conference, University of Grenoble



April 2013

  • 29-30/4:  Workshop on Open Educational Resources for Lifelong Learning, organised by the Joint Research Center IPTS (Institute for Prospective Technological studies), Seville, Spain

November 2012

  • 28-30/11:  European expert seminar ‘Social Media and Lesser Used Languages‘, Ljouwert, The Netherlands. 
  • 19-20/11: Thematic Cluster Meeting on “Transferability and valorisation of project results”, EACEA. The Hotel, Brussels.
  • 12/11: EACEA Infodays, Brussels.
  • 9/11: Digital Learning Congress 2012, Copernicus Science Center, Warsaw, Poland. 

 

October 2012

  • 4-5/10: intermediary meeting of the Web2LLP project, Florence. 

 

September 2012

  • 7-8/9: Conference CLE International, London- Web 2.0 tools and language learning 
  • 7-8/9: Workshop on Web 2.0 tools and teacher training, CLE International 
  • 7-8/9: Workshop on Social Media and teacher training, The French Institute, London 
  • 24/9: Conference “ICT and Social Media in Language Education“, New library building, University of Warsaw, at the framework of the celebration of the European Day of Langauges Event organized by the Polish National Agency,  the European Commission and EUNIC ((European Union National Institutes for Culture) 
  • 18-23/9: ECER2012, University of Cádiz. Cádiz, Spain. 

 

July 2012

  • 11-13/7: 3nd International PLE (Personal Learning Environments) conference, University of Aveiro, Portugal and Deakin University of Australia, Melbourne http://pleconf.org/ 
  • 2-4/7: EDULEARN12, 4th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Hotel Princessa Sofia, Barcelona, Spain. 

 

May 2012

  • 21- 25/5: 8th Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning, Estoril, Portugal http://www.prolearn-academy.org/Events/summer-school-2012 

 

March 2012

  • 1-2/3: kick-off meeting of the EC-funded Web2LLP project in which Web2learn ensures the smooth management.

November 2011

  • 21/11: “Social Mobile Networking for Informal Learning”, SOMOBNET Roundtable, London, November 21th, 2011 Institute of Education, London, WLE Centre. 
  • 14/11: OPAL/CONCEDE Policy Seminar, UNESCO Building in Paris.

 

September 2011

  • 5- 9/9: ESERA 2011, the biannual conference of the European Science Education Research Association 

 

July 2011

  • 11-13/7: The PLE Conference 2011, Southampton, UK , University of Southampton. 

 

May 2011

  • 29/5 -3/6: 7th Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning, Chania, Crete, GREECE
  • 19/5: Summit on the 2011 EU-China Year for Youth, Brussels. Workshop on use of ICT by young people in Europe and China

 

March 2011

  • 27-31/3: 2nd STELLARnet Alpine Rendez-Vous