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Open Science Training Handbook in Greek

Featured image: Open Science Basic Concepts, from OSTH

I enjoy very much my volunteer work for the translation of the Open Science Training Handbook (OSTH) in Greek!

Open science is the movement to make scientific research, data and dissemination accessible to all levels of an inquiring society (definition of Open Science taxonomy @ Foster site). Open Science is frequently defined as an umbrella term that involves various movements aiming to remove the barriers for sharing any kind of output, resources, methods or tools, at any stage of the research process. The following picture gives an overview of the term:

Open Science taxonomy (Pontika et al., 2015)

OSTH offers guidance and resources for Open Science instructors and trainers, as well as anyone interested in improving levels of transparency and participation in research practices.

I am responsible for the translation in Greek of Chapter 3: “On Learning and Training“. It is very helpful for me because it presents an overview of training techniques as well as practical tips for designing a course. I always enjoy reviewing different teaching approaches and refreshing my knowledge in educational methods and practices.

The first part of our translation work will be finished by the end of October 2018. I will let you know when Open-Science-TrainingHandbook_EL is ready…

“Open Up Entrepreneurship” project: a success story

Presentation of OpEn @ Helexpo, Thessaloniki, September 2017

Presentation of OpEn @ Helexpo, Thessaloniki, September 2017

Our project “Open Up Entrepreneurship“ has been selected as a “success story” by a panel of experts from the Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture of the European Commission. “Success stories” are finalised projects that have distinguished themselves by their impact, contribution to policy-making, innovative results and/or creative approach and can be a source of inspiration for others.

Our project has developed the open online course entitled “OpEn: A Learning Walk in Digital Entrepreneurship“. OpEn is a 32-hour (8-week) multilingual (English, Greek, Italian and Spanish)  course, which aims to inspire and engage existing or future young entrepreneurs in digital entrepreneurship.

The selection of our project as a success story was made on the basis of rigorous criteria regarding its quality, relevance and results. The project has been marked as “success story” in the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform, a database where you can find descriptions and results of projects supported by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ Programme.

Cultivating an ‘entrepreneurial spirit’: Insights from the OpEn online course

The OpEn course was presented at the International Conference “Alliance for Entrepreneurship and Development in Western Greece”, organized by the Region of Western Greece on 13/12/2017.

The scope of my presentation entitled “Cultivating an ‘entrepreneurial spirit’: Insights from the OpEn online course” (in greek), co-authored with Dr. M. Komninou, was to present the OpEn course as a good example of the Triple Helix (university-industry-government) relationship.

OpEn is an open online course in digital entrepreneurship available at https://openup.upatras.gr/, funded by Erasmus+ within the project “Open-up Entrepreneurship”. Through this example, we wanted to highlight the challenges that educators face during the design and implementation of such a course and the way in which our collaboration with the “outside” (from the academic world) has helped us.

Finally, we discussed the “lessons” we have taken through the process of implementing OpEn and attempted to answer the question “Can we cultivate the entrepreneurial spirit, and if so, in what way?”

Cultivating an ‘entrepreneurial spirit’: Insights from the OpEn online course

Cultivating an ‘entrepreneurial spirit’: Insights from the OpEn online course

Opatel, 1st training seminar @ Upatras, 20/11/2017

Opatel, 1st training seminar @ Upatras, 20/11/2017

OPATEL is a new Erasmus+ project in Key Action 2 (KA2), related to the cooperation for innovation, the exchange of good practices and capacity building in Higher Education. OPATEL means “Online Platform for Academic TEaching and Learning in Iraq and Iran”.

The University of Patras participates in the OPATEL consortium, which consist of 3 Universities in Europe (Germany, Greece and Portugal), 5 Universities in Iraq and 3 Universities in Iran.

During the week of November 20th, 2017, the University of Patras organized the 1st Opatel seminar. During this seminar we had the opportunity to share experiences in e-learning and academic information systems with our colleagues from Iran and Iraq. Below you can find my presentations in this seminar.