The International Faculty at the 1st Thessaloniki Science Festival

The University of Sheffield International Faculty, CITY College celebrated science by participating in the 1st Thessaloniki Science Festival, with a series of workshops and presentations, 14-17 May 2015.

Prof. Panayiotis Ketikidis, Vice Principal of our Faculty delivered an interesting speech on ‘The Greek Startup scene: a bubble or a window to the future’ and discussed the growing number of Greek startups and their potential to become profitable and successful.

Workshop by Dr Ladas and Dr Chrysochoou
at the Thessaloniki Science Festival

Representing the Psychology Department, Dr Frosso Kalyva, Honorary Senior Lecturer and Dr Aristea Ladas, Lecturer and Research Associate together with Dr Elisavet Chrysohoou, Lecturer, run a series of interactive workshops entitled ‘We Say "No" to Violence' and ‘Brain science for kids: Come play…with our brains!’ respectively. The workshops engaged many children that enjoyed their participation while parents commented that they were very useful and educative.

Dr Kostas Dimopoulos, Lecturer at our Computer Science Department, along with a team of student-volunteers presented two robotics-related demonstrations: ‘Virtual worlds in education: Three 3-dimension games on education' and ‘Ants and Robots: Learning from nature how to build robots that cooperate’. Both demonstrations attracted many visitors of the event who joined Dr Dimopoulos with his teams and watched and played with the robots.

A very informative presentation was also delivered by Mr. Chris Liassides, Director of Postgraduate Studies at our Business Administration and Economics Department. Mr Liassides talked about ‘Online, Offline Product Placement’ presenting the new trends of online and offline marketing.

The Thessaloniki Science Festival presented one more opportunity for CITY College to distribute knowledge and connect to the wider community.