The Steering Committee of the 15th Audiovisual Arts Festival (#AVfest2022) of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, in collaboration with the ERHMEE Lab - Department of Music Studies, of the Ionian University invites students and anyone who is interested in joining the volunteers’ team.

The program of the 15th Audiovisual Arts Festival, which will take place on Μay 12th to June 5th 2022, covers, as every year, a wide range of artistic, educational and scientific activities.

The Department of Tourism was represented by Konstantinos Voglis, Assistant Professor, George Kontogeorgis, Adjunct Lecturer, Athanasios Spingos, Academic Fellow.

The UNESCO Chair on Threats to Cultural Heritage and Cultural Heritge related Activities at the Ionian University was the first to respond immediately after consulting its members to the call of the internationally renowned Ukrainian National Academy of Music Tchaikovsky for supporting their application for the establishment of the UNESCO Chair on Music Creativity Education and Science. The (...)

Inspireurope Regional Outreach Workshop, SE Europe on March 31, 2022 will focus on further raising awareness and promoting collaboration in Eastern and South Europe with an emphasis on Balkan Universities and the ways they can support researchers at risk in their effort to continue their academic/professional career in a safe work environment in Academia Funding opportunities and opportunities to (...)

Neapolis University Pafos in Cyprus, the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at the University of Buckingham in the UK (BUCSIS) and UNESCO Chair on Threats to Cultural Heritage and Cultural Heritage -related Activities, will be co-organising an intensive workshop in Security and Intelligence studies from April 15 to April 17, 2022.

The 25-member UNESCO Group of the 1st Lyceum of Corfu, accompanied by the responsible cand. Dr. Christina Keramida Papadatou is on a four days trip visiting characteristic monuments and museums of Athens in the framework of the Research Program for the protection of the Tangible Cultural Heritage in Secondary Education (UNESCool).

The academic calendar for the year 2021-2022 is published with dates on tuition, exams and holidays.

The International Council of Museums (ICOM), in order to emphasize the impact of museums, has declared the 18th of May “International Day of Museums”, since 1977. For this year’s celebration theme, ICOM has chosen “The power of Museums”, in an attempt to give prominence to their societal role as carriers of sustainability and positive change.

Info Day of the ERMIS project, which will take place on January 28, 2021 at 11:00a.m. as a fully virtual online event. The ERMIS project, fully entitled "Smart digital applications and tools for the effective promotion and enhancement of the Ionian Islands bio-diversity" is co-funded by the European Union and implemented under the Operational Program "Ionian Islands 2014-2020".

On January 24, 2022, Study in Greece, the official body of internationalization and extroversion of Greek higher education, held the virtual exhibition "Study in Greece Virtual Fair: Expanding Bridges between Greek and US universities". The Ionian University participated with a virtual kiosk in this online exhibition, since the institution intends to design, organize, and operate foreign language curricula for international students in the near future.

The Animation Festival ICONA 2021, which took place from the 2nd to the 5th of December 2021, exclusively online, by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, was successfully completed.

Winter Cycle of Webinars with the thematic axis: Records Management and Public Administration | 2nd Seminar : Supervision of public records; Records’ appraisal and disposal | Speaker: Anastasia Dikopoulou, Archivist - M.B.A.

The proceedings of DCAC-2018 have been released by the Ionian University - Department of Audio and Visual Arts (Corfu) and CEUR.WS: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2811/. Edited by: Michail Panagopoulos, Agnes Papadopoulou, Andreas Giannakoulopoulos.

The third Ionian Contemporary Animation Festival ICONA 2021, organized and promoted by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University had exceeded our expectations with more than 1.500 submissions.

A programme for those who wish to acquire knowledge in the unlimited thematic of cultural heritage and culture through an interdisciplinary approach, to enhance their competitive abilities for examinations, participation in undergraduate or postgraduate programs, or for vocational retraining, and for those interested in the issues of cultural heritage, tourism and the threats and dangers they face.

The Humanistic & Social Informatics Laboratory (HILab - https://hilab.di.ionio.gr/) of the Department of Informatics of the Ionian University organizes the "16th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation & Personalization (SMAP 2021)", in collaboration with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

The tender application GEOLAB's MOLCO Group under the 2021AO29 procurement procedure has been found to satisfy the exclusion and eligibility criteria outlined in the call for tenders by the Council of Europe. Furthermore, after examination of the award criteria, it has been determined that GEOLAB's tender should be retained. By a decision of 24 September 2021, and in accordance with the (...)