The University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) is a teaching and research institution officially founded in 1980. The university employs over 7.500 people in 31 faculties and schools distributed in three different campuses, with more than 57.000 undergraduate and postgraduate students. The UPV/EHU offers the highest number of doctorate programmes of all Spanish universities, one third of which have received a mention of excellence from the Spanish Ministry of Education. The UPV/EHU has been recognized as an International Research Campus of Excellence by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN), and in 2021 was awarded the HRS4R award by the European Commission for human resources excellence in research.
Innovation Hive is a private non-profit organization located in Greece, specialized in the fields of research and innovation. Our actions aim to enhance the economic and social cohesion of European societies while our goal is to find solutions to the new innovation challenges, achieve growth, sustainability and maximize the impact to the society. The organization’s philosophy in order to achieve these goals is based on co-creation methodologies and a quadruple helix approach. The engagement of stakeholders from industry, science and society is aiming to create links between the businesses, the academia and the civic actors in order to develop a combination of knowledge, skills, tools, values and motivation.
Innovation Bee is a B2B technology company based in Greece. The company focuses on IT research services, integrated solutions, and software support and helps businesses adapt their solutions as defined by the new digital age. Our mission is to create Web & Mobile application solutions and help businesses unlock their growth potential and gain competitive advantage. Our goal is to provide businesses and people with powerful tools, technology solutions, and custom insights that make sense and drive customer loyalty and retention. Innovation Bee specialises in the following fields:
– Blockchain Technology
– Research and Development
– Artificial Intelligence
– Web and Mobile Application solutions
– Innovation-driven solutions
– Technological tools and solutions
– Digital Transformation and Technology
● Blockchain Technology
● Research and Development
● Artificial Intelligence
● Web and Mobile Application solutions
● Innovation-driven solutions
● Technological tools and solutions
● Digital Transformation and Technology
The Cyprus Computer Society (CCS) is the ICT professional association of Cyprus. It is a not-for-profit private association which represents the ICT professionals in Cyprus. Established in 1984 it has more than 1000 members and is active in the areas of professional training, ICT skills certification, research and development, projects and collaborations. Since 1999, the CCS has been the National Licensee of the ECDL programme (from 2020 renamed to ICDL) in Cyprus. CCS has been playing an active and productive role in the implementation of the National Grand Coalition for Digital Skills and has been awarded a project by the Ministry of Education involving the introduction of the ICDL in schools through which students are trained and certified for free based on the ICDL standard curriculum.
CCS has been involved in various projects targeting students, teachers and other groups related to digital skills, coding, robotics, etc.
More information on CCS projects and activities: https://ccs.org.cy
GoINNO Institute has been established in 2016, as a non-profit private organisation dedicated to science outreach and STEM education. GoINNO Institute’s goal is to increase the awareness of STEM importance and to excite the young generation to start loving science and maybe someday pursue their studies in the STEM area. The first programme developed was STEM programme for children aged 7 to 10 years of age. The program was developed by our own team of professionals adapting the methodology and workflow from the scientific world with the goal of providing hands-on interdisciplinary STEM activities boosting children’s curiosity, creativity, self-confidence, and critical thinking with growth mindset amongst other skills obtained by the program. In the course, children do hands-on experiments with chemistry, physics, engineering materials and use innovative technologies such as 3D pens, 360° video, augmented reality (AR) tools learning STEM, while having fun doing the experiments.
Innomate is an Turkish SME which offers professional development seminars to teachers, educators and facilitators who want to become more effective in their respective teaching experiences. Well organized, attainable programs provide participants with theory, ideas, methods and techniques to become more effective in teaching process. Innomate is also fully
engaged with the development of innovative learning tools and initiatives including content development for online courses addressed towards different target users in the relevant topics. Our main activities include:
-ICT courses for teachers/educators including web 2.0 Tools and online training platforms for educational purposes
-STEAM education for teachers/educators which allows students to connect their learning with arts practices, elements, design principles
-Empower teachers/educators to integrate GAMIFICATION into their lessons
-Entrepreneurship Education
-Empower teachers/educators to integrate CLIMATE LITERACY into curriculum
Innomate is also specialised in research and development in the ICT training materials. The fields of interest:
-Cyber security to internet of things
-Augmented reality and virtual reality
-Artificial intelligence
-Cloud Computing
-IoT and Robotics
-Blockchain and Big data.
CEPROF is the company managing the VET School of Espinho (a coastal city near Porto), known as ESPE.
It is a School that is deeply involved in the economic fabric and social structure of the region. Founded in March 1990, it’s one of the oldest in the country and offers VET Education for youngsters, which was non-existent till that date.
Trying to attend to the various existing socio-economic realities and provide precise and appropriate responses to the training needs and job offers in the region, the main courses are related to tourism, business, health, robotics and A.I. ESPE has a special vocation for the training of more vulnerable groups, offering more practical and job-oriented teaching, trying to assure professional excellence and social progression of their students, with relentless curricular and extracurricular support.
Currently, it has roughly, 40 teachers, 400 students and 30 other professionals.
