Month: October 2023

The latest quarterly meeting for the six-year ERC project ‘Water Futures’ was held at in Bielefeld, Germany, from October 26th to October 27th, 2023 The ‘Smart Water Futures: Designing the Next Generation of Urban Drinking Water Systems’ team (University of Cyprus (UCY), Bielefeld University Athens Univ. of Economics and Business (AUEB), KWR Water Research Institute (KWR), University of Exeter) …

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Professor Phoebe Koundouri took part in the “Fraternal Economy of Integral and Sustainable Development” workshop series,  in the Private Capital and Public Purpose session held on October 26-27, 2023, at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. The Fraternal Economy meeting on October 26-27 complemented the June meeting by focusing on the role of private, philanthropic, …

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On October 26, 2023, Professor Phoebe Koundouri participated in the high-level conference titled “Call for an EU Blue Deal” which was organized by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). The event brought together top-level representatives from various EU institutions, water experts, and key stakeholders to discuss the most pressing water-related challenges of today and …

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On October 19, 2023, the Ministry of Tourism of Cyprus, in partnership with the Cyprus Sustainable Tourism Association (CSTI), hosted a successful Climate Change Conference at the Filoxenia Conference Center in Nicosia. The conference centered around the theme “Is Climate Change a threat to Tourism?” and had held under the auspices of the President of …

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TICHE ACADEMY Training Innovation for Circularity and Holistic economies Knowledge sharing and mutual improvement training in Athens From Monday, 16th until Thursday, 19th of October 2023, an Erasmus+ TICHE 4-day training was held in Athens, organised by Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB). During the 1st day took place at ATHENA RC, Prof. Phoebe …

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On October 12, 2023, Professor Phoebe Koundouri delivered a lecture as part of the Huawei Seeds For The Future program. Seeds for the Future is Huawei’s prominent Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative, which operates on a global scale and is designed to identify and support talented individuals through short-term training, competitions, and continuous engagement in …

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On October 12, 2023, Professor Phoebe Koundouri delivered a webinar lecture titled “Measuring SDGs for a Sustainable Transition”. This webinar was organized by the Deloitte Climate & Sustainability Competency Lab. During the lecture, Professor Koundouri connected the dots (using AI and ML approaches) between the major policy initiatives – the SDGs, the Paris Climate Agreement, …

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On Wednesday, October 11th, the FABLE GREECE team hosted a workshop at the “Athena” Research and Innovation Center, bringing together key agro-food stakeholders in the country. The primary objective of this gathering was to present the findings of the FABLE GREECE team pertaining to the 2023 Scenathon and engage in a dialogue regarding national objectives …

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From Tuesday 10th to Wednesday 11th of October 2023, the third and final General Assembly of the IntelComp project took place in Madrid, Spain in a hybrid format. ATHENA RC team was represented in person by Dr Haris Papageorgiou, Dr Ioanna Grypari and Ms Androniki Pavlidi and virtually by Ms Lydia Papadaki and Mr Charis …

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On October 8, Professor Phoebe Koundouri was invited to share her insights at the FUTURA Economia x l’ambiente Expo 2023, alongside Nobel Laureate in Economics, Professor Robert F. Engle. This three-day event, dedicated to the themes of sustainability and “economics for the environment,” took place at the Brixia Forum in Brescia and was organized by …

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From October 3rd to 4th Professor Phoebe Koundouri participated in the 10th Annual Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF) in Tokyo, hosted by the Government of Japan. Over 1,700 individuals from governments, international organizations, industry, and academia, representing 79 countries and regions engaged in dynamic discussions and explored innovative solutions to combat climate change, one …

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H2020 IntelComp project aims to deliver a platform that provides tools for assisting the whole spectrum of STI policy, i.e., agenda setting, modeling design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. It will do so by involving multi-disciplinary teams to co-develop innovative analytics services, Natural Language Processing pipelines and Artificial Intelligence workflows and by exploiting open data, services …

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From October 1st to October 3rd, Professor Koundouri participated in the 20th Anniversary Meeting of the STS FORUM (Science and Technology in Society Forum) held in Kyoto. This significant event brought together nearly 1,500 leaders representing more than 80 countries, regions, and international organizations  to discuss the benefits of advances in science and technology, and …

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On Tuesday, October 3rd, the first event in the “Environment & Innovation” series, focusing on “Energy,” took place at Innovathens. The event was organized by SciFY and primarily aimed at professionals, researchers, and students in the fields of information technology, environment, business, and new technologies. Professor Phoebe Koundouri delivered a speech entitled “Energy-climate transition pathways”  in …

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On 3 October, the DiverSEA project – Integrated Observation, Mapping, Monitoring and Prediction for Functional Biodiversity of Coastal Seas (DiverSEA) – kicked off in Porto. Funded by the Horizon Europe programme, this four-year project, which will leave a legacy far beyond its timeframe, focuses on monitoring and mapping coastal marine ecosystems through the development of …

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