30th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2025)

Maria Kasinidou, PhD candidate at the Open University of Cyprus (OUC) and Research Associate at CyCAT, participated in the 30th Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2025), held from June 30 to July 2, 2025, at Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

During the conference, Maria presented the research paper titled “From Teachers to Students: Evaluating Canvas City as a Path to AI Literacy”. The paper was the result of a student internship at CYENS Centre of Excellence, supervised by Assistant Professor Styliani Kleanthous (OUC).  The paper is published as an open access article in the ACM ITiCSE 2025: Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Vol. 1, and is available here: https://doi.org/10.1145/3724363.372906

Maria also presented a poster titled “‘AI Training Should Be for Everyone’: Informal Training on AI”, a collaboration with HawkStars NGO and Politécnico da Guarda, in Portugal.  The poster paper is available in the ACM Digital Library, published in ITiCSE 2025: Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Vol.2: https://doi.org/10.1145/3724389.3730776