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Forum on Vocational Excellence 2025 in Kolding, Denmark
“Together we design the future”
Between 10 and 12 September 2025, the Forum on Vocational Excellence 2025 was held in Kolding, Denmark, bringing together leading Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVEs), educators, researchers, and professionals to exchange insights on skills development, innovation, and collaboration in vocational education.
Representing the CATALYST Project Erasmus+, Ms. Eleni Toli and Ms. Lydia Papadaki from the Athens University of Economics and Business, under the leadership of Professor Dr. Phoebe Koundouri (PI), actively contributed to the event.
The CATALYST team hosted the workshop “Sustainable Transformation & Future Competences”, an interactive session designed to explore how the CATALYST platform and programmes can support CoVEs in addressing emerging skill needs.
The workshop included:
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Interactive Mentimeter polls to map participants’ organisational backgrounds and identify urgent skill gaps,
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A hands-on session using the catalystplatform.eu, where participants explored available courses and services,
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A group exercise in which participants co-designed upskilling programmes, pilot projects, and collaboration ideas with the support of the CATALYST team,
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A dynamic closing session with key takeaways, collaboration commitments, and feedback on CATALYST’s access models.
Participants left the session with concrete ideas for future partnerships and tailored learning pathways, in line with the CATALYST mission to foster future-fit competences through co-creation, specialisation, and business innovation.
The Forum also featured high-level presentations and thematic exchanges on mobility, digital transformation, sustainable industries, inclusive education, and the evolving role of CoVEs in shaping Europe’s skills ecosystem.
On 16 September 2025, at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia, the first stakeholders’ workshop of the ERC Water Futures Limassol Multi-Actor Forum was jointly organised by the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), the KIOS Center of Excellence, the University of Cyprus, and the Limassol District Local Government Organization (EOAL).
The workshop, titled “Challenges in Water Resources Management: Addressing Water Scarcity and Fair Pricing,” brought together researchers, policymakers, and local organisations to discuss pressing challenges in water management during times of scarcity and to explore fair approaches to water pricing. It provided a platform for interdisciplinary teams and stakeholders to exchange ideas on the obstacles faced by the Cypriot water system, consider potential solutions and priorities, and foster cross-fertilisation between economics, engineering, and policy research.
Following a welcome by Professor Marios Polycarpou (University of Cyprus, KIOS Center of Excellence) and an opening presentation by Professor Phoebe Koundouri (AUEB & University of Cambridge) on the project’s overarching goals, Dr Demetris Eliades (University of Cyprus, KIOS) gave an overview of current water and demand management challenges in Cyprus.
The core of the workshop centred on two interactive activities facilitated by Ms Lydia Papadaki and Dr Conrad Landis (AUEB), together with Dr Stelios Vrahimis (KIOS). In the first activity, participants identified and validated key challenges—such as water losses, demand reduction, and droughts—while examining drivers, impacts, barriers, and possible solutions. The second activity focused on exploring fair water pricing approaches and their implications, using the interactive tool menti.com to capture participants’ perspectives.
The workshop concluded with a synthesis of the key outcomes and an outline of next steps by the research team, emphasising how the insights gathered will inform ongoing water pricing modelling efforts.
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