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AI, IoT, SDGs and the EU AI Act: Looking back at the second run of our vital importance seminar in Platres
On Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 October 2026, 23 professionals from 16 organisations gathered at Pendeli Resort in Platres for the second run of Harnessing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) for Sustainable Environments and Smart Operations Management, an HRDA vital importance seminar. EUROCY Innovations delivered it as delivery partner to Frederick University’s Training and Certification Centre (EKEK) through our colleague Dr Ryan Grammenos who led the training. A mixed room…in the good sense! Participants came from various backgrounds including healthcare and life sciences, Internet of Things (IoT), AI and digital services, research and policy, hospitality, construction,
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The EU Accessibility Act is now in force: Is your organisation ready?
Since 28 June 2025, the European Accessibility Act (EAA) has applied to specific categories of products and services across the European Union. For businesses, understanding which requirements apply is an important step towards meeting their legal obligations. The Act is based on Directive (EU) 2019/882, which establishes common accessibility requirements for certain products and services. Its purpose is to reduce barriers for people with disabilities and make accessibility rules more consistent across the European single market. However, the legislation does not apply automatically to every business, website or digital product. The first step is to establish whether an organisation’s activities
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Building Inclusive Workplaces: Empowering People with Disabilities to Access and Thrive at Work
Work offers far more than an income. It brings purpose, independence, dignity and a sense of belonging. Yet across Europe, many people with disabilities are still kept from these opportunities by barriers that have little to do with their skills or potential. The Picture in Europe Eurostat data for 2024 show the scale of the challenge. The employment gap between people with and without disabilities in the EU stood at 24%, the widest of all the equality gaps measured.¹ Among people aged 15 to 64 with a severe disability, the unemployment rate was 11.6%, almost double the 5.9% recorded for
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Accessibility Is NOT an IT Issue, It's a Business Issue
When organizations discuss accessibility, the conversation is often delegated to the IT department or web developers. While technology plays an important role, accessibility is much more than a technical requirement. It affects how customers experience your services, how your brand is perceived and how many people can engage with your business. Accessibility should be viewed as a business priority, not simply an IT responsibility. Customer Experience Every customer deserves equal access to information, products and services. When a website cannot be navigated with a keyboard, videos lack captions or documents are inaccessible to screen reader users, customers may encounter barriers
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Smart technologies for social impact: what the Carrefour accessibility ruling shows
On 4 June 2026, the Judicial Court of Caen found that Carrefour's online grocery website and mobile app were not sufficiently accessible to visually impaired users, which shows what smart technologies for social impact are judged against once the law is enforced. Taylor Wessing describes it as a landmark interim ruling, and it came a year after the European Accessibility Act (EAA) became enforceable across the EU on 28 June 2025. Carrefour's own audit had shown 71.21% conformity with EN 301 549 (the European harmonized technical standard that defines accessibility requirements for ICT products and services), assessed through France's RGAA framework.
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From Game Maps to Multilingual Content: H5P Webinar
How can H5P be used to create more advanced, engaging and scalable learning experiences? On Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 16:00 EEST, Dr Ryan Grammenos will deliver a practitioner-led webinar with H5P.com, exploring how advanced interactive learning experiences can be designed, managed and scaled across different audiences and languages. The session, “From Game Maps to Multilingual Content: Building Advanced H5P Learning Experiences” will showcase practical approaches developed through real-world experience with interactive digital learning. From individual activities to complete learning experiences H5P provides a wide range of interactive content types, but creating a genuinely engaging learning experience often involves bringing several
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Looking back at the CoVE Forum and the PISA 2025 results: What happened?
“The PISA 2025 results have just been announced. What happened?”; this was the opening line during one of the keynote talks delivered at the Forum on Vocational Excellence in Graz, on Tuesday 8 September 2026, which coincided with the day the PISA 2025 results were announced. The Forum was attended by our colleague Dr Ryan Grammenos, who represented EUROCY Innovations during the event. The recent PISA results were indeed very disheartening, to put it mildly. Reading scores across OECD countries fell by 28 points since 2015, roughly a year and a half of learning, and mathematics fell 22 points, just over
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Consulting Meets Compliance: Lessons from Managing Multi-Country EU Projects
3 things that can make or break an EU project proposal In multi-country EU projects the challenge is rarely finding a good idea. The real challenge is turning that idea into a proposal that different organisations, programme requirements and implementation realities can support. A strong EU project proposal needs to demonstrate more than ambition. It needs to show that the right partners are in place, that the project is designed within the relevant framework and that there is a credible route from objectives to measurable results. At EUROCY, our experience across Erasmus+, Research & Innovation Foundation and Horizon projects has
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How to Make H5P Content Accessible: Best Practices
Making H5P content accessible is not a separate compliance exercise to address at the end of a project, it is a design decision that should be considered from the outset, with each content type evaluated individually throughout the development process. For course creators and instructional designers, accessibility in H5P presents unique challenges that go beyond those associated with static text or video. Interactive elements such as timed activities, drag-and-drop interactions, branching scenarios and custom user interface components can introduce barriers for learners who rely on keyboard navigation or assistive technologies, such as screen readers. This guide: explores what accessibility means specifically
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From One Language to Many: Real Use Cases for H5PTranslate in Corporate Training
For organisations operating across multiple countries and/or languages, creating training content is only the beginning. A course developed in English may eventually need to reach Germany, France, Greece, Spain or other areas. The learning objectives remain the same. The challenge is making the same learning experience accessible in different languages, without rebuilding the entire course for every market. H5P supports interactive corporate learning through formats such as quizzes, interactive videos and branching scenarios. When that content needs to be delivered in multiple languages, H5PTranslate is the solution! It translates H5P items, while preserving their interactive structure and formatting. So, what