November 2023
National Committee for Combatting the Looting and Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Heritage
Dr. Athos Agapiou, coordinator of the ENGINEER project has been appointed by the Deputy Ministry of Cultural as an Honorary Member of the National Committee for Combatting the Looting and Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Heritage of Cyprus (Cabinet decision 898/2023).October 2023
ENGINEER at FPCUP Summer School
ENGINEER project act as a supporter of the FPCUP summer school - workshop. In addition, invited lectures were given by A. Agapiou and K. Themistocleous. FPCUP is organised under the Copernicus European Space Programme. Each workshop is aimed at local and regional experts, archaeologists, decision makers, authorities, companies, researchers and students who provide training and sharing knowledge about the use of data Copernicus to monitor and maintain cultural heritage. FPCUP is a framework partnership agreement for use Copernicus data. It is...
ENGINEER at elementary and high schools.
The Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF) invited Dr. Athos Agapiou to participate in visits at Primary and Secondary Schools on the 30th of October 2023, in the framework of the “Researchers at Schools” Programme. The main objective of the Programme is to increase the interaction between students/teachers and researchers as well as to promote the significance of research, innovation, and science, presenting at the same time scientific and research careers as an attractive career option for the future. Dr. Agapiou had...
Virtual Lecture (VT2): “Proposal writing webinar” – Part 2
The 2nd part of Virtual Training 2 (VT2) entitled “How to Prepare a Collaborative Proposal for Horizon Europe” of the ENGINEER Project has been successfully completed on November 26th (12:30-14:30 BST). This training had a specific focus on collaborative EU project and was delivered by the European Research & Innovation Office of the UCL.
“Geomatic Sensors for Heritage Documentation” to MDPI Encyclopedia
The joint article of A. Agapiou and D. Skarlatos entitled “Geomatic Sensors for Heritage Documentation: A Meta-Analysis of the Scientific Literature” published at Heritage 2023, 6, 6843-6861. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage6100357, has been selected to be included in the MDPI Encyclopedia. Find more here.
ENGINEER @ ArcGIS User Meeting 2023, Athens
CUT postgraduate student Mr. Kyriakos Michaelides presented his work at the ArcGIS annual user meeting in Athens. Mr Michaelides communicated his work dealing with the development of a WebGIS and story-telling platform for heritage sites in the area of Keryneia. The platforms were developed using archived aerial and cadastral data as well as archived photos. This initiative was formulated under the agreement between the CUT Library Office and the Municipality of Keryneia. Michaelides K., Agapiou A., Papakonstantinou A., Lysandrou V., Online...CUT – POLIMI meeting
A tele-meeting was organised earlier today between the project coordinator, Dr. Athos Agapiou and the POLIMI PI, Dr. Branka Cuca to discuss ongoing issues related to the ENGINEER project. The discussed topics included an overview of the activities conducted so far and the issues related to the upcoming interim report.
ENGINEER at the Summer School “Re-envisioning Cultural Heritage Documentation in the Metaverse Age”
Dr A. Agapiou was invited to the Summer School “Re-envisioning Cultural Heritage Documentation in the Metaverse Age”, organized by the ERA Chair of Digital Heritage and the UNESCO Chair. The summer school took place between 23-27 October 2023 at the Pefkos hotel in Limassol. Dr Agapiou’s talk was focused on the use of non-contact remote sensing approaches for cultural heritage. The title of the presentation was “Earth Observation for Cultural Heritage: an overview of applications.”
