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Professional Development Seminar: Project Management using Scrum
Thursday, 31 October 2019
29/10/2019
Executive Development Seminar by Prof. Szamosi in Baku
"Managing and Leading Change Effectively in a Complex World" Tuesday, 17 December 2019 | 09:00 am Baku | Hilton Hotel Speaker: Prof. Leslie Szamosi Executive MBA Director / Professor CITY College, International Faculty of the University of Sheffield Overview of the seminar: There is only one constant inside today’s organizations and that is the management of change. With all of the internal and external forces impacting our companies today the need to stay on top of, and ahead of, change is critical. In this workshop we will work through a hands-on, toolkit approach to developing strategies for change that take into account the most important factor in any change process, people. We will evaluate our own organizations and identify areas that need to be changed and develop plans to begin or enhance what we have started. Seminar Agenda (PDF) Topics to be covered: Foundations and models of organizational change Why change initiatives fail / Resistance to change Critical elements for successful change including groups and teams Developing a change plan Supporting the workforce and customers during change / Building a business case for change Throughout the workshop various successful and not so successful change processes of companies throughout the world will be looked at. The workshop will balance the latest thinking Workshop leader Prof. Leslie T. Szamosi was born and educated in Canada and has been working in South and Central Europe for the last 20 years. He has practical experience working with the highest levels of organizations in developing and mastering change. He is a highly sought after consultant and seminar leader and is the Director of the MBA program of the University of Sheffield International Faculty, CITY College. He is also a panel chair for AMBA (Association of MBAs). Some of the companies he has worked with include: Heineken, Telus, A1, Deutsche Telekom, Posta Telekom Kosovo (PTK), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the European Business Association, the World Bank / IMF, the Romanian Bankers Association, and ELBO. Who should attend? Senior Managers, Executives, Middle Level Managers. Anyone who has an important role in leading or managing change. Why should you attend this seminar? There are seminars and workshops on finance, marketing, negotiations yet few if any are related to the most important issue that managers of all levels need to work with, change! There is an implicit assumption that anyone can manage change but nothing could be farther from the truth. This 1-day event will help participants lead and manage organizational change more effectively and efficiently and give themselves and their organizations a greater chance for short and long-term success. Book your place now! Seminar cost: 520 Manat (10% early bird registration by November 15 / 10% corporate discount for 3 or more participants) Join and share! Register online
25/10/2019
Professional Development Seminar Series by the Computer Science Department
October - November - December 2019
25/10/2019
CITY College at Thessaloniki International Symposium in World Affairs
Mr. Zaharis, Director of SEERC , moderator of the Round Table Discussion For another consecutive year CITY College supported the Thessaloniki International Symposium in World Affairs, one of the most important events held annually in Thessaloniki and aims at exploring contemporary socio-political issues. The 8th edition of the Symposium took place this year with great success on 20 October 2019 at Olympion theatre. Themed ‘The world in 2020: Governing at a time of ungovernability’ the Symposium examined Greece’s position in a complex and volatile international political and economic environment with many distinguished speakers from politics, academia who shed light on the topic from their viewpoint. Mr. Nikos Zacharis, Director of CITY College’s research centre, SEERC, participated in the event as moderator of the Round Table Discussion on ‘Europe in changing times’. Welcome addresses were delivered by the Mayor of Thessaloniki, Mr Konstantinos Zervas, Mr. Dimitris Keridis, Director, Navarino Network and Mr Stavros Andreadis, Chairman, Cultural Society of Entrepreneurs of Northern Greece. Speakers included Margaritis Schinas, Commissioner-designate nominated as European Commission’s Vice-President for Protecting our Way of Life covering Migration, Security, Social Rights, Education, Culture and Youth, Dimitris Avramopoulos, European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship who discussed the topic, Adonis Georgiadis, Minister of Development and Investment, Anna Diamantopoulou, resident, “DIKTIO” Network for Reform in Greece and Europe, Athens and former EU Commissioner, Brussels, Kevin Featherstone, Eleftherios Venizelos Professor in Contemporary Greek Studies and Professor in European Politics, London School of Economics, Dimitris Tsarouhas, Professor, Bilkent University, Turkey, Florian Bieber, Director, Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, Florian Bieber, Director, Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, Anders Åslund, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council, Washington, Marcus Engler, Migration Researcher and Consultant, Berlin and many other prominent representatives of politics and the academia from around the world who analysed crucial on the Symposium’s topic. The Symposium was organised by the Cultural Society of Entrepreneurs of Northern Greece and the Navarino Network and shed light on issues of radical Islam, innovation and growth, new security challenges, European crisis, Greece and Cyprus’ crises. CITY College is annually supporting the Thessaloniki International Symposium with the aim of promoting the dissemination of ideas and opinions of top speakers on current socio-political issues, as well as enhancing Thessaloniki's extroversion.
24/10/2019
Project for the Special School at Filiro by our Psychology students – 1st project meeting
The first meeting for the project that students from the Psychology Department of CITY College are going to undertake this year for the Special School at Filiro took place on Monday 7th of October. A group of student-volunteers visited the school together with Mr Vassilis Tsoulis, Director of Career, Employability & Enterprise Centre and discussed with the school’s social worker, psychologist and supporting personnel the details of the project. The project will involve supporting children’s with special needs social life and activities. Our students will be meeting with the school’s young students in their free time and will organise different outings to help them socialise, engage in social activities and develop social skills necessary for their social integration, quality of human relationships and level of happiness. During the meeting, the school staff provided our students with information about the school, its activities and its students and their needs of course. The project presents our students with an invaluable opportunity to get hands on experience from their contact with the children with special needs. Lecturers from our Psychology Department will be guiding our students and providing meaningful feedback during the project. This specific activity is another way in which the Psychology Department and CITY College overall will give back to the community and support those in need putting knowledge into practice. The first meeting concluded with both our students and the school staff feeling positive and excited about this new collaboration.
24/10/2019
The English Studies Department Considers the Value of Adapting
1st Personal and Professional Seminar for academic year 2019-20 The English Studies Department’s first Personal and Professional Development Seminar for the 2019-2020 academic year commenced Tuesday, 22 October, 2019 with an engaging thematic area significant to teachers and learners. Our guest speaker and staff member, Ms Maria Sachpazian delivered an engaging seminar titled: “Reasons and Rationale behind materials’ adaptation in the digital age” thus bringing forward the concept of adapting in the teaching/learning context. In nature and in life, to not adapt can result in becoming obsolete to say the least! Similarly, teaching and learning with regard to methods, material, types of assessment, aims, Learning Outcomes, use of technology and more, need to adapt as the components and aspects of teaching and learning change and develop. For teachers, especially novice teachers, the idea of adapting ready-made course books and similar material can appear overwhelming or even unnecessary. And this may be the case as Ms Sachpazian highlights, so one always needs to consider the context. Initially, a teacher needs to know the course book and the material; a SWOT analysis can further help to see what is weak or missing from such material. Next, Ms Sachpazian suggests personalizing the material to ourselves as teachers but more importantly to our students. Ms. Sachpazian with Dr Marazi, lead organiser of the PPD seminars Drawing on McGrath (2016), Ms Sachpazian informs that when adapting we need to consider the 3 Es: Extemporation (on the spot-thinking/spontaneous reaction), Extension (quantitative change), Exploration (qualitative change). Of course, this is not done randomly, without rationale, aim, purpose, or considering different parameters of learning such as materials, classroom, steps/stages, time availability, learner level, the teacher’s role and the overall purpose of a course. Teachers, amongst other professions, need to adapt so as to meet their learners’ needs, so as to consider the whole class as well as the individuals that comprise it, to increase learners’ emotional engagement and motivation, to balance certain imbalances, increase exposure and interaction and keep students on their toes. Teachers do this because as Ms Sachpazian confirms they care – or should care – about effective learning and engaged, motivated learners. More often, adaptation is unprincipled thus lacking in creativity, purpose, rationale, suiting the teacher’s preferences rather than the students. According to Ms Sachpazian, effective lesson planning, lesson preparation and our reflective teaching practices are and can be accompanied by adaptation but it needs to be the right type of adaptation where we: amend, add, supplement or reject BUT deliberate! When our goal is teaching meaningfully we need to adapt – ourselves as well as methods and materials – so as to be relevant, knowledgeable, aware, flexible, effective, creative and productive!
24/10/2019
Gaming Club Monthly Tournaments
22/10/2019
CSU Vice President Elections 2019-20
Contact: Theofano Kyriakou, Director of SSAD email: tkyriakou@citycollege.sheffield.eu Office: L.Sofou Building ground floor
21/10/2019
Welcome Party by the Students' Union (CSU)
Thursday, 24 October 2019
21/10/2019
CITY MUN Club: First meeting for academic year 2019-20
Tuesday, 22 October 2019
21/10/2019
Our Computer Science Department receives re-accreditation from the British Computer Society (BCS)
CITY College International Faculty is pleased to announce that its Computer Science Department was re-accredited for another five years with no conditions by the British Computer Society (BCS). The accreditation holds for the undergraduate programmes (Bachelors) delivered in Thessaloniki: BSc (Hons) in Computer Science BSc (Hons) in Computer Science (Business Informatics) BSc (Hons) in Computer Science (Internet Computing) The programmes met the rigorous criteria and high standards set by the BCS. The BPS accreditation is a definite hallmark of quality of our programmes. More specifically the panel commended the Computer Science Department for: the collaboration that staff has with students while at the same time maintaining the balance and boundaries between a friendly supporting environment and professionalism the outstanding NSS scores that reflects overall student engagement the staff development process and the integration of new staff the strong links with industry the focus on people (students and staff) The BCS is the industry body for IT professionals, and a Chartered Engineering Institution for Information Technology. The first (BCS) visit to CITY College was carried out in 2004 when the Computer Science received the first BCS accreditation. Graduates of the undergraduate programmes of our Computer Science Department may become members of the BCS. CITY College warmly congratulates the staff of the Computer Science Department on their hard work and commitment clearly confirmed by the BCS re-accreditation.
18/10/2019
Open MBA Class on digital revolution by Dr Dimitriadis in Belgrade
CITY College organised a successful Open MBA Class that took place 9 October in Belgrade with Dr Nikolaos Dimitriadis, our Regional Director for Serbia, who discussed digital revolution. In his seminar “Stupid AI, Startup Bubbles and the Revolution that Never Was: Uncovering the Dark Side of Digital" questioned whether digital revolution includes diverse subjects such as the startup explosion, the shared economy, social media domination, online business models, AI and robotics. Dr Dimitriadis used economics, business data, case studies and neuroscience to prove that the digital revolution is not exactly what most people think and also spoke about an upcoming revolution for which we need to prepare. The event offered the opportunity to participants to get a feel of what an MBA class at CITY College, International Faculty of the University of Sheffield is like and get informed of the Executive MBA offered in Belgrade.
17/10/2019
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