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Finance Club events - May 2017

08/05/2017

Alumni Reconnect talk by Mr Thomas Panagiotou

Friday, 12 May 2017  

08/05/2017

Randstad seminar on job interview techniques

Thuesday, 9 May 2017  

08/05/2017

Computer Science students accept Programming Challenge for DEVit tickets

A group of ten students from the Computer Science Department accepted the Programming Challenge, prepared by the academic staff of the Department, in order to win free tickets for DEVit Conference the important event on Web Development taking place in Thessaloniki. The competition took place on Friday, 5 May 2017. The two students that won the challenge are Ioannis Boutsikas and Arlind Avdullahi. Congratulations to the winners! The Computer Science Department of the International Faculty, CITY College is happy to support for the 3rd consecutive year, DEVit.

08/05/2017

Groundbreaking research on Bilingualism by our Psychology Department

The Bilingualism Group at the Psychology Department of the University of Sheffield International Faculty, CITY College, led by Dr Lisa Chrysochoou and Professor Ana B. Vivas conducts groundbreaking research on the so called bilingual advantage, and other neuro-cognitive and language aspects of bilingualism. From left to right, Anja Redzic (UG student), Anna Maria Arandjelovic (UG student), Likane Cana (UG student), Aleksandra Laketa (PhD candidate), Prof. Ana Vivas, Arvesa Studenica (PhD candidate), Dr Lisa Chrysochoou, Dr Aristea Ladas This research line started with the collaboration of Professor Vivas with Dr Albert Costa from the University of Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (Spain) with Catalan-Spanish bilinguals, and continued with a SEERC PhD thesis by Dr Aristea Ladas (co-supervised by Professor Vivas and Professor Michael Siegal and Dr Dan Caroll at Sheffield), which examined Greek-Albanian bilinguals across the life span. Dr Chrysochoou was also involved in large-scale National funded project leaded by Aristotle University to investigate Greek-Albanian bilingual children. This line of research has also been funded by the COEUS summer internship scheme, awarded to Dr Chrysochoou, Professor Vivas and Dr YangJing Wu from the University of Sheffield and to our postgraduate student in Cognitive Neuropsychology, Vasiliki Salvari, to study brain function using EEG in Greek-Albanian bilinguals. The research of the Psychology Department so far has challenged previous findings of bilingual people outperforming monolingual people in cognitive skills (memory, attention, cognitive flexibility).  The Bilingualism Group  recruited data from over 350 participants, 161 Greek-Albanian bilinguals (and matched, on socio-status, general intelligence, age and gender, Greek monolinguals), ranging in age from 5 to 90 years old, and 27 simultaneous French-Greek bilinguals, and examined both cognitive performance using behavioural tasks, and brain function using EEG. Currently, researchers from our Psychology Department are collecting data from other linguistic bilingual populations in South East Europe in the framework of two SEERC PhD studentships, Aleksandra Laketa and Arvesa Studenica, in collaboration with Dr Emma Blakely (at Sheffield), and several undergraduate and post-graduate research projects. The Psychology Department is also collaborating with Dr Patsala, from the English Studies Department, to study second language learners of English among our multi-linguistic student body. Research findings are of crucial importance, since understanding the impact of bilingualism on cognition across the life span, whether bilingual children have better cognitive performance than their monolingual peers and bilingual older adults show less cognitive decline, has strong implications for policy making (e.g., inclusion of mandatory L2 learning in the school curriculum, and recommendation of L2 learning as a preventive strategy for healthy aging).   About Bilingualism More than half of the worldwide population speaks at least a second language, whereas a similar number (58%) has been reported for Europeans in a recent survey conducted by the European Comission (2012). The factors contributing to the increase of bilingualism in our current society are cultural openness, migration and globalization. Given these numbers, understanding what are the advantages and disadvantages associated with learning a second language or growing up in a bilingual-multilingual context has become the focus of policy makers and researchers. For instance, the European Commission launched in 2005 A New Framework Strategy for Multilingualism to promote actions for maintaining and increasing linguistic diversity in Europe. While there are obvious socio-economic advantages associated with speaking more than one language (cultural agility, linguistic diversity, enhanced communication and better economic, educational and professional opportunities), research is not conclusive with regards to the cognitive and language specific benefits associated to bilingualism.   For more information about the research on Bilingualism by our Psychology Department you may read the following: Ladas, A. I., Carroll, D. J., & Vivas, A. B. (2015). Attentional Processes in Low‐Socioeconomic Status Bilingual Children: Are They Modulated by the Amount of Bilingual Experience?. Child development, 86(2), 557-578. Vivas, A. B., Ladas, A. I., Salvari, V., & Chrysochoou, E. (2017). Revisiting the bilingual advantage in attention in low SES Greek-Albanians: does the level of bilingual experience matter? Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1-14. Our research will be also presented in a symposium organized by our research group at the 16th  National Conference of the Hellenic Society of Psychology, in Thessaloniki (http://www.elpse2017.gr/). If you are bilingual and want to participate in the research please contact our PhD student, Ms Studenica at astudenica@citycollege.sheffield.eu  

08/05/2017

Business Student launches innovative website Digital4youth

Business student of the International Faculty, CITY College, Anastasia Akimenko, recently launched an innovative website ‘digital4youth’, a platform specifically created for students with passion in digital marketing and online tools. Through Digital4youth users can create and share their own work as well as seek for other students’ and young professionals’ knowledge in this field. Anastasia created this website with the intention for it to be a knowledge database where young people can share and find interesting and well-written articles about digital marketing. “Digital4youth can be a great way to collect all this knowledge and help students and young professionals in their development process. I call it as 'P2P' or 'professional to professional'” says Anastasia and continues: “Digital4youth.com is the first digital community for knowledge exchange amongst young professionals. Nowadays, the words 'digital transformation' can be found in, literally, all industries, which emphasise the importance of this topic. Transformation of education for tech savvy generations is another issue that should be addressed. Digital4youth is the experience of sharing and getting necessary knowledge in a simple and easy way." Setting up ‘digital4youth’ proved more challenging than expected as Anastasia says describing her experience and lessons learnt in the way “I realised the  real difficulty of creating something from scratch. On paper your idea is usually looks simple. However, when you start putting everything together a number of unpredicted parameters and details appear. These tiny obstacles make your life complicated on the one hand, and improve your final outcome on the other.” Anastasia is a 2nd level student at the BA (Hons) in Business Studies (Marketing) programme offered by CITY College, International Faculty of the University of Sheffield.

05/05/2017

Mr Liassides delivers insightful presentation on GAMIFICATION

Mr. Chris Liassides, Director of the Postgraduate programmes of the Business and Economics Department at the International Faculty, CITY College, delivered an insightful presentation on Gamification. The presentation took place in the frame of the successful event entitled ‘Gamification: Gaming as Marketing Tool’ organised by the Marketing Club of the Thessaloniki TEI at THE MET Hotel in Thessaloniki. Mr Liassides focused his presentation on the Gamification approach that is revolutionising the field of Marketing. He covered several elements of gamification and discussed its philosophy and practices in Greek and Cypriot enterprises. He also presented a step-by-step process for its application. The second speaker of the event, Mr Vassilis Gogidis, Gamification+ and Representative of International Gamification Federation in Greece also shared valuable insights with the audience. The event was very successful overall, received positive response and attracted high profile marketers and entrepreneurs as well as university students interested to keep up with innovative trends of marketing and management.

04/05/2017

CSU Elections 2017 - Your candidates announced!

The students standing as candidates for President, Public Relations and Communications, Welfare & Education and Sports & Recreational Activities Officer roles in the CSU Officer Elections 2017 are the following:   PRESIDENT Basholli Rina Computer Science Dpt Jovanovski Marko Psychology Dpt   PUBLIC RELATIONS & COMMUNICATIONS Ballas Andreas Business Administration and Economics Dpt Krystallis Georgios Business Administration and Economics Dpt   WELFARE & EDUCATION Arqimandriti Klajd Computer Science Dpt Xhelili Euron Business Administration and Economics Dpt   SPORTS & RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES Aliu Bedri English Studies Dpt Honaramiz Couros Psychology Dpt   Voting will take place during Week 9 so make sure to be present to all your lectures.   Meet the candidates at the CSU blog

03/05/2017

Guest Lectures by Prof. Ketikidis and Mr Zaharis

Thursday, 4 May 2017  

28/04/2017

Psychology student from the UK talks about her study years at the International Faculty, CITY College, in Thessaloniki

Our student, Amelia Fox attending the MA in Counselling Psychology with a Practicum shares her study experience with us. Read what she had to say about her studies and life in Thessaloniki: "In October 2016 I moved from the UK to Thessaloniki to start my Masters in Counselling Psychology with a Practicum at the university of Sheffield International Faculty, CITY College. Thessaloniki is much larger than the city I completed my Bachelors in back in the UK. It is an exciting city with a great community feeling and is an excellent place to be a student. There are many apartments in the city for students and staff at CITY College are always ready to help international students find a place to live. My apartment was right in the centre, a short walk from the sea front and the Ladadika District, where there are tavernas with wonderful, reasonably priced Greek food. Thessaloniki has an amazing night life and is a great place for both shopping and sight seeing. The Student Union of CITY College plan many events for the students, I took part in the Alexander the Great 5k Marathon with some friends. This is something I used to do back in the UK so was glad to have the opportunity to continue in Greece. During the weekends and holidays I travelled to many places in Greece outside of Thessaloniki. Within the first year I visited Athens, Meteora, Mt. Olympus, Edessa, the beaches of Halkidiki and some of the beautiful Greek Islands. Most of these can be accessed by the Thessaloniki main bus station or student trips. There are many sites to see in Thessaloniki and learn about the history including the Arch of Galerius, Rotunda, White Tower, Umbrellas, Castle and Churches. Many of my friends and family from the UK visited throughout the summer and we visited many of beaches close to Thessaloniki and it was very easy to travel to the beaches in Halkidiki. There are different activities to do in Thessaloniki including renting bikes at the water front, bar cruises, a waterpark and the escape rooms. The International Faculty, CITY College has different sites across the city which provide good facilities, my course is well organised and the staff and lecturers are always extremely supportive and helpful. I have met some amazing friends from different countries at the University and I also adopted a Greek kitten who I brought back with me to live in England. Thessaloniki has a great atmosphere and is a beautiful city to live, I am happy I made the decision to study abroad, it has been a great experience and I would definitely encourage others to study in Greece." Amelia is now back in the UK doing her counselling placement with young adults.

28/04/2017

Executive MBA Annual Study Week 2017 in Thessaloniki

All our 2nd year Executive MBA students from Thessaloniki, Belgrade, Bucharest, Sofia and Kyiv met in Thessaloniki to participate in the Annual Study Week 2017 that took place between 1-8 April 2017. Traditionally the study week is comprised with classes, seminars, company visit activities, networking, free time and exciting outings. Specialised Units The study week kicked off with students attending the first track units of the MBA specialization they have chosen and gaining insights in the one of the six (6) specialized areas of the MBA (i.e. General Management, Marketing, Finance, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Healthcare Management, Human Resources Management). Big Data & Business Analytics In the context of the study week all executive MBA students had the opportunity to attend an interesting seminar on ‘Big Data & Business Analytics’ by Dr Zenon Michaelides, Lecturer and unit leader at our MBA programme. 9th International Strategic People Management Workshop This year the 9th International Strategic People Management Workshop took place within the MBA Annual Study Week in Thessaloniki. On 5 April 2017 the Laboratory for Strategic People Management successfully organised the Workshop entitled ‘The Shifting Sands of People Management: Worker Migration Into and Inside Europe’ which hosted presentations by Dr Leslie Szamosi, Academic Director of the Executive MBA, Professor Alexandros Psychogios, Dr Pavlos Gassis and Dr Diamantidis lecturers at our Executive MBA. The event was endorsed by Executive Development Institute (EDI) and was well attended by our students. Insightful Guest Lectures During the study week a series of company guest lectures took place giving MBA students the opportunity to get insight from different industry sectors. Dr Alexander Green Harvard University professor gave a lecture on “Cross Cultural Competency in Healthcare Delivery” to our MBA in Healthcare Management students. Also Professor George Miaoulis visited from USA to deliver lectures for the Healthcare specialisation units along with Dr Janet Harris and Dr Andrew Lee lecturers from School of Health and Related Research (UoS). Mr Titos Simitzis, Managing Director of one of the leading Marketing Research companies in Athens Greece was guest speaker on the Strategic Brand Management unit of the Marketing specialization. He presented all new developments in the field and a number of case studies regarding global and local brands. Professor Andrew Fearn, well-known professor of Global Logistics provided students with his cutting edge knowledge stemming from his long research and consultancy experience in the area of Global Logistics. On Saturday, 1 April, representatives from the Greek company ‘tuvunu’, trading Greek mountain tea, presented the company, its philosophy and success story. On the next day the company presentations continued with our alumna Ms Argyro Barata, FEAST Co-Founder, who gave a presentation on Crowd funding and representatives from Elektronio, who presented the case of handmade custom bicycles. On Friday, 7 April our alumnus, Mr. Dimitrios Kourtesis presented his successful start-up, Goodvidio, while Mr. Dimitris Stratakis presensetd Wellaby’s in Greece, a joint venture with his brother and CITY College alumnus, Alexandros Stratakis. Finally, Mr Baybars Altuntas, Chair of the World Business Angels Investment Forum held a guest speech and talked to our MBA students about his professional experience and successes and gave valuable advice to our MBA students on how to get Start Up and Scale Up funding. Boat cruise in Thermaikos Gulf The Annual Study Week always combines work and pleasure. The scheduled boat trip in Thermaikos Gulf was a pleasant escape from classes for our MBA students. Our students enjoyed the beautiful city view of sunny Thessaloniki while sailing. They had the opportunity to admire the city and the warm weather from a different angle along with a pint of beer or a glass of wine. Other Activities Many of our MBA students visited during their stay interesting and important archeological, cultural and tourist places like Meteora, Vergina, Halkidiki, museums in Thessaloniki, etc. Once again the MBA Study Week in Thessaloniki was a true networking and learning opportunity for our students from Thessaloniki, Belgrade, Bucharest, Sofia and Kyiv who spent a full week together, exchanged ideas and practices, participated in interesting activities, saw in practice the programme’s programme’s holistic approach and had lots of fun while enjoyed the charming city of Thessaloniki.   Photos To view more photos from the event please see the link below: Executive MBA Annual Study Week 2017 in Thessaloniki photo gallery  

28/04/2017

"INFINITY" Club - Google Forms Seminar

28/04/2017