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Empowering rural communities to act for change

Center for the Advancement of Research & Development in Educational Technology

CARDET (Center for the Advancement of Research & Development in Educational Technology) is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental, research and development organisation based in Cyprus, with partners around the world. CARDET is one of the leading institutions in the Euro-Mediterranean region for research and development. Our team strives to offer the highest quality services to benefit society. We collaborate with local and international organisations, public and private bodies, and across diverse disciplines in designing solutions for local and global challenges.

CARDET’s aims to inspire next generation education, and to promote research, innovation, and development through evidence-based practices, cutting-edge research, and empowered people.

Role within RURACTIVE

The centre is responsible for developing the eLearning Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) and gamified capacity building resources. The MOOC comprises several open source online interactive courses, composed of different interactive and multi-media learning modules (texts, videos, web-based links, pictures). The gamified learning resources aim to actively engage participants and videos will be produced based on content developed in other tasks within the project.

Main contacts

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Marios Demosthenous

Researcher/ Project manager

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Marinos Papaioakeim

Team leader/Project manager

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Andreas Georgiou

Head of program management