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Welcome to the First InclusiVR@Work Newsletter! Dear Readers, We are thrilled to introduce you to InclusiVR@Work – an innovative project dedicated to making European workplaces more inclusive for people with disabilities. Our mission? To reduce the employability gap by promoting…

What if you could step into someone else’s world—just for a few minutes? For millions of Europeans with disabilities, the workplace is still full of invisible barriers. Despite decades of policies and good intentions, only around half of people with…

The paper ‘Co-designing virtual reality-based solutions to promote the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals’, authored by Kalliopi-Evangelia Stavroulia, Marina Emmanouil, and Andreas Lanitis, has been awarded the Best Practical Paper Award at the 21st European Mediterranean & Middle Eastern Conference…

The European project VRTEACHER – Virtual Reality-based Training to improvE digitAl Competences of teacHERs funded under Key Action 2 of the Erasmus+ program (01/06/2021 – ­31/05/2023, 2020-1-CY01-KA226-SCH-082707) was selected among numerous Erasmus projects form all European Countries to be among…

June 2021. The kick-off meeting of the European project entitled “VRTEACHER – Virtual Reality-based Training to improvE digitAl Competences of teacHERs ” took place from Wednesday 9 June to Thursday 10 June 2021. The VRTEACHER project is funded under Key…

December 2020. CAIP 2021 is the 19th in the CAIP series of biennial international conferences devoted to all aspects of computer vision, image analysis and processing, pattern recognition, and related fields. CAIP 2021 will feature contests and tutorials preceding the…

September 2020. The coordinator of the Visual Media Computing Lab (Andreas Lanitis) participated as a member of the jury for the 14th European Biometrics Max Snijder, Research, and Industry Awards of the European Association of Biometrics (EAB) (https://eab.org/).  These prestigious…