Events – CyCAT

Events

CyCAT holds monthly seminars in this topic and that one. Our seminars are held online where viewers can ask questions. Most of our past seminars can be watched here.

The PINNACLE Project has successfully concluded!

The Cyprus Center for Trustworthy AI (CyCAT) at the Open University of Cyprus has successfully concluded its PINNACLE project (Public Engagement in AI Evaluation for Education and System Benchmarking), carried out with the generous support of the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation (BRIDGE2HORIZON/0823E/0203). Over 18 months, the funding (150.000 Euro) enabled our team to conduct initial scientific research and to coordinate a proposal to extend the work through Horizon... Read More

31 July 2026 12:00 am (GMT)

Nicosia, Cyprus

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The 31st ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2026)

Maria Kasinidou, PhD candidate at the Open University of Cyprus (OUC) and Research Associate at the Cyprus Center for Trustworthy AI (CyCAT), participated in the 31st ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2026), held in July 2026, where she presented her research and contributed to the conference as a member of the organizing committee. Maria presented the paper “Participatory Design of Educational Tools with Teachers to Address Children’s AI... Read More

13 July 2026 12:00 am (GMT)

Madrid, Spain

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The 57th ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2026

Maria Kasinidou, PhD candidate at the Open University of Cyprus and Research Associate at Cyprus Center for Trustworthy AI, participated in the 57th ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2026, held in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, from February 18 to February 21, 2026. During the conference, Maria presented her paper titled: “AI in the Eyes of Middle Schoolers: Perceptions, Attitudes, and Literacy.” The paper reports findings from her doctoral research exploring how middle school... Read More

18 February 2026 12:00 am (GMT)

St. Louis, Missouri

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40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26)

Maria Kasinidou, PhD candidate at the Open University of Cyprus (OUC) and Research Associate at CyCAT, participated in the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26), held in Singapore from January 20 to January 27, 2026, and presented our work at the 16th Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI), co-located with AAAI. During EAAI, Maria presented two papers showcasing our group’s research on AI literacy and public understanding of AI. In... Read More

24 January 2026 12:00 am (GMT)

Singapore

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PINNACLE Roundtable Events

We are happy to announce that on Saturday, the 22nd of November, as part of the PINNACLE project, two stakeholder roundtable events were hosted, one in person and one online. During the two events, researchers from the PINNACLE team had the opportunity to engage, interact and solicit valuable contributions from an interdisciplinary set of participants spanning from education, industry, and the public sector. Participants engaged in an interactive dialogue and co-design activities relevant... Read More

22 November 2025 10:00 am (GMT)

Nicosia, Cyprus

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2nd CEPIS International Conference on Digital Skills and IT Professionalism (ICODSIP) – Panel

Dr Styliani Kleanthous, Assistant Professor at the Open University of Cyprus (OUC) and Co-director of CyCAT, participated in the 2nd CEPIS International Conference on Digital Skills and IT Professionalism (ICODSIP), held from 6-7 November 2025, at Universidad de Alcalá (UAH), Spain. During the conference, Dr Kleanthous contributed as a panelist in the session “The Missing Talent: Aligning Digital Skills with Industry Needs”, moderated by Marina Cabrini, Board Member of CEPIS. Drawing on... Read More

7 November 2025 12:00 am (GMT)

Madrid, Spain

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2nd CEPIS International Conference on Digital Skills and IT Professionalism (ICODSIP) – Projects presentation.

Dr Styliani Kleanthous, Assistant Professor at the Open University of Cyprus (OUC) and Co-director of CyCAT, participated in the 2nd CEPIS International Conference on Digital Skills and IT Professionalism (ICODSIP), held from 6-7 November 2025, at Universidad de Alcalá (UAH), Spain. During the conference, Dr Kleanthous participated in the project presentation track, where she presented the PINNACLE project and the AI4Everyone Erasmus+ Project. The... Read More

6 November 2025 12:00 am (GMT)

Madrid, Spain

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Keynote talk by Associate Professor Jahna Otterbacher at the 19th International Conference On Innovations In Intelligent Systems And Applications (INISTA 2025)

Dr Jahna Otterbacher, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences of the Open University of Cyprus and co-director of Cyprus Center for Trustworthy AI (CyCAT), is a keynote speaker at the 19th International Conference on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications (INISTA 2025) held in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, on October 29-31, 2025. The title of her talk is: “Trust in and Trustworthiness of AI: Building Socio-Technical Infrastructure for Assessing AI Alignment on the... Read More

31 October 2025 12:00 am (GMT)

Ras AL Khaimah, UAE

Visit at the University of Lisbon and the LASIGE research group

Maria Kasinidou, PhD student at the Open University of Cyprus and research associate at CyCAT, visited the University of Lisbon and the LASIGE research group on Tuesday, October 21st 2025. During her visit, Maria presented her PhD research along with the ongoing projects and initiatives of CyCAT. She also had the opportunity to engage with the LASIGE research team, led by Prof. Carlos Duarte, who shared their latest work in the field of AI and human–computer interaction.

21 October 2025 12:00 am (GMT)

Lisbon, Portugal

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8th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics and Society

Dr Styliani Kleanthous, Assistant Professor at the Open University of Cyprus (OUC) and Co-director of CyCAT, participated in the 8th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics and Society (AIES 2025), held from 20-22 October 2025, at IE University Tower, Madrid, Spain. During the conference, Dr Kleanthous presented the research paper titled "Legal Affiliates’ Views on Algorithmic Decision Making". The paper is available in the Vol. 8 No. 2 (2025): Proceedings of the Eighth AAAI/ACM Conference on AI,... Read More

20 October 2025 12:00 am (GMT)

Madrid, Spain

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