Current Projects
3D ANIMATION AND GAMES
Design and development of a new postgraduate program in 3D Animation and Games.
Partners: University of West Attica, Greece; Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Funding Sources: Greek Government
Role: Coordination committee member of Distinguished university partner
Funding Amount: 372K EUR (total) – 81K EUR (for CUT) – external funding
Duration: 2025 – 2026
ReSens-Nature
Restorative Effects of Haptic and Visual Sensory Supplementation of Nature Sounds in VR of Nature for Deaf people. ReSens-Nature project seeks to bridge the gab between hearing and deaf/hard-of-hearing individuals in VR restorative experiences by developing an innovative VR environment that integrates vibrotactile and visual cues to replicate nature sounds for deaf/HoH users. The project will assess whether this sensory supplementation can deliver restorative benefits comparable to those experienced by hearing individuals.
Partners: GET Lab, Cyprus University of Technology
Funding Source: HORIZON-EUROPE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions – PF
Role: Coordinator, Hosting Supervisor
Funding Amount: 148K EUR (for CUT) – external funding
Duration: 2024 – 2025
Completed Projects
RISE – Phase 2
Research centre in Interactive media, Smart systems and Emerging technologies
Establishment and operation of the RISE Research centre on Interactive media, Smart systems and Emerging technologies, operating at internationally-high standards.
Website: rise.org.cy
Partners: RISE Centre of Excellence, Cyprus; Nicosia Municipality, Cyprus (coordinator); Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus; University of Cyprus, Cyprus; Open University Cyprus, Cyprus; Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI), Germany; University College London (UCL), UK.
Funding Sources: EC H2020-WIDESPREAD-01-2016-2017-Teaming Phase 2; Cyprus Government through the Directorate General for European Programmes, Coordination and Development; the European Structural and Investment Funds; multiple other resources including partners’ contributions.
Role: CUT Founding Coordinator & Principal Investigator & Overall deputy scientific coordinator
Funding Amount: ∼50M EUR (∼35M cash + ∼15M in-kind) – external funding
Duration: 2017 – 2024 (84 months)
VRTEACHER
Virtual reality-based training to improve digital competences of teachers
Empowering the personal and professional development of educators/teachers through a novel Virtual Reality (VR) based approach and tool.
Website: vrteacher.eu
Partners: Cyprus University of Technology (CUT), Cyprus; University of Aegean (UAegean), Greece; University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M), Spain; Future In Perspective Limited (FIPL), Ireland; Fundación Siglo22 (Siglo22), Spain; The Commonwealth Centre for Connected Learning (3CL), Malta
Funding Sources: Erasmus+
Duration: 2021-2023 (24 months)
HaptiSense
HaptiSense: High-resolution Haptic Device
Conception X is the UK’s leading PhD deeptech venture programme. Our proposal ‘HaptiSense’ based on GET Lab’s PhD student’s work, was successfully accepted in the ConceptionX program.
Partners: GET Lab, Cyprus University of Technology
Funding Source: ConceptionX
Role: Coordinator, Supervisor, Principal Investigator
Funding: In-kind: Intensive in-person -at UK- training in turning a research idea into a deeptech startup
Duration: 2023
OTHELLOS – Stage 2
Bringing Historic Famagusta to Life for School-Aged Children – Stage 2
Project of the sister team of GET Lab – VR for Well-Being group
Othellos-Stage 2 is an extension of the Othellos project, adding new features to the educational game including a new online and multiplayer version.
Partners: sister team of GET Lab – VR for Well-Being group
Funding Sources: EU/UNDP
Role: Coordinator
Funding Amount: 22K EUR – external funding
Duration: 2021 – 2022
ZARVAN
Maintenance System – Smart City Ahead of the Future
Zarvan maintenance system is based on digital twins. Zarvan exploits real time data from smart digital city that are used to prevent failures.
Partners: sister team of GET Lab – VR for Well-Being group
Funding Source: Nicosia2 Accelerator
Role: Coordinator, Supervisor
Funding: In-kind: Intensive in-person training
Duration: 2021
OTHELLOS
Bringing Historic Famagusta to Life for School-Aged Children
Project of the sister team of GET Lab – VR for Well-Being group
Development of an educational game for the increase of awareness and appreciation for EU-renovated sites, in the historic walled city of Famagusta.
Affiliation: sister team of GET Lab – VR for Well-Being group
Other external partners: Cyprus Institute
Funding Sources: EU/UNDP
Role: Work Packages Leader
Funding Amount: 120K EUR (∼83K cash + ∼37 in-kind) – external funding;
Duration: 2020-2021
BrailleBoard
Prototyping a Mid-air Haptics (Braille) Keyboard for Blind People
Project of the sister team of GET Lab – VR for Well-Being group
Exploration of the mid-air Ultrahaptics device for the development of innovative applications.
Partners: sister team of GET Lab – VR for Well-Being group
Funding Sources: ULTRALEAP
Role: Coordinator
Funding Amount: 6K EUR in-kind (3 Mid-Air devices) – external funding
Duration: 2019-2020
INTELed
Innovative Training via Embodied Learning and Multi-sensory Techniques for Inclusive Education
Support for special and general education teachers in acquiring knowledge and skills for the use of multi-sensory technology for learning, assessment, and addressing the needs of children in inclusive educational contexts.
Partners: Cyprus University of Technology-Social Computing Research Center, Cyprus; University of Piraeus Research Center, Greece; CESIE, Italy; University of Valladolid, Spain.
Founding Source: EC-ERASMUS+ KA201 – Strategic Partnerships
Role: Consortium member
Funding Amount: 154K EUR for all partners – external funding
Duration: 2017 – 2019 (24 months)
CSRC – Phase 1
Cyprus Science Research Center
Business plan preparation for a Science and Research Center in Cyprus focusing on STEAM.
Partners: University of Cyprus, Cyprus University of Technology, Open University Cyprus, University of Nicosia, European University Cyprus, UCLan Cyprus, Neapolis University, Frederick University of Technology, Etablissement Public Du Palais De La Decouverte et de la Cite Des Sciences Et De l’Indisutrie, France; Fondazione IDIS-Citta della Scienza, Italy; Kobenhavns Universitet, Denmark; Leibniz-Institut Fur Die Padagogikder Naturwissenschaften Und Mathematik An Der Universitat Kiel, Germany; University College London, UK; Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Greece.
Funding Source: WIDESPREAD-04-2017: Teaming Phase 1
Role: Consortium member
Funding Amount: 476K EUR for all partners (60K EUR) external funding
Duration: 2017 – 2018 (12 months)
NOTRE
Network for Social Computing Research
Develop a network to strengthen and enhance the research and innovation potential and capability of the Social Computing Research Centre at the Cyprus University of Technology.
Website: notre.socialcomputing.eu
Partners: Cyprus University of Tehnology-Social Computing Research Centre, Cyprus; Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Greece; IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain; MIRALab-Universite De Geneve, Switzerland; University of Dusseldorf, Germany.
Funding Source: HORIZON 2020 – TWINNING – 2015
Role: Work Package Leader
Funding Amount: 1M EUR for all partners (0.5M EUR for CUT) – external funding
Duration: 2015 – 2018
RISE – Phase 1
Research centre in Interactive media, Smart systems and Emerging technologies
Business Plan preparation for the RISE Research centre on Interactive media, Smart systems and Emerging technologies.
Website: phase1.rise.org.cy
Partners: Nicosia Municipality, Cyprus (coordinator); Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus; University of Cyprus, Cyprus; Open University Cyprus, Cyprus; Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI), Germany; University College London (UCL), UK.
Funding Source: HORIZON 2020 – WIDESPREAD-2014-1 – TEAMING
Role: Principal Investigator & Overall Deputy Scientific Coordinator
Funding Amount: 476K EUR for all partners (60K EUR for the author) external funding
Duration: 2015 – 2016 (12 months)
Starting Grant
Starting grant provided to newly elected academic staff of the University to facilitate their research activities. The funding of this resource has been exploited to conduct research on VR experiments and 3D simulators.
Partners: GET Lab, Cyprus University of Technology
Funding source: Cyprus University of Technology
Funding: 40K EUR – internal funding
Role: Principal Investigator
Duration: 2013-2014 (24 months)
This starting grant has funded or partially funded:
Microsoft Sponsorship
Establishment and equipped of a research lab conducting research on Computer Graphics.
Partners: Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Funding source: Microsoft Cyprus
Funding: 20K EUR – external funding
Role: Principal Investigator
Establishment: 2012