June 2023 – Present
smartHEALTH focuses on enhancing competitiveness through the utilisation of state-of-the-art research, development and implementation in digital health combining the complementary expertise of the partners and their cutting-edge research activities and available infrastructure. It will utilize internationally leading expertise in the areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cybersecurity and High-Performance Computing (HPC), amongst others, to facilitate the development of innovative products and services for diagnostic imaging, precision medicine and bioinformatics. smartHEALTH aims to offer added-value services to the wider healthcare ecosystem that consists of key players in the private & public sectors. It addresses the needs of companies in the sectors of health IT, medical and biomedical informatics, bioimaging, diagnostics and drug design, pharma industry, healthcare provider organizations (hospitals, medical & diagnostic centres, primary care, social and elderly care etc.), healthcare professional organizations, public health authorities, patient advocacy groups, regulatory organisations, insurance companies and others.
Support for the Internationalization Actions of the University of Western Macedonia
March 2023 – Present
As part of this Action, UoWM will implement actions that strengthen its dynamics as an extroverted educational institution which is in constant communication and interaction with the educational systems of other countries, the international economy and the society. More specifically, it will proceed with the internationalisation of twenty-one (21) foreign language postgraduate programmes of the third cycle and at the same time strengthen its extroversion, its visibility, its competitiveness and its ranking in international evaluation lists.
Aug 2020 – Present
As part of the “Intelli-Wheelchair” project, a wheelchair will be designed and built, the movement of which will be controlled exclusively through mental and voice commands by a person with a severe disability, without the need for any physical feedback feedback to operate it. The movement through mental commands will take place through the recording of the electrical activity of the neurons of the brain (Electroencephalogram – EEG). The representation and control of the system is to be done through the application of a brain-computer interface (Brain-Computer Interface).
May 2018 – Dec 2018
Associated with Special Account for Research Grants of the
Technological Educational Institute of Epirus
The main goal of this Business Plan for the “Smart City” is to balance the current situation, analyze relevant initiatives worldwide, and draw up a series of reporting actions that can be unfolded over a period of five (5) years, with a corresponding time frame performance horizon. The implementation of this Plan in addition to the strengthening of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, due to communicating factors, will have a very positive and significant impact on other sectors of the local economy and life with obvious multiplier effects. In recent years, the Municipality of Ioannina has been transformed into a metropolitan center with wider influences that continues a long tradition of history and culture. Strategies for a smart city are a complex process with desirable initiatives in the context of Smart governance, Smart citizens, Smart living, Smart mobility, Smart economy and Smart environment.
