Yiannis Laouris

Dr. Yiannis Laouris
Social-, Science and Business Entrepreneur
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Yiannis Laouris in Future Worlds Pedia

Yiannis Laouris is a social-, science-, and business entrepreneur. He is a trained medical doctor, a neurophysiologist, and a systems engineer. He was trained in Germany and the US. Laouris interrupted his academic career in the mid-90s and dedicated his life to working for a better world. Most of his social contributions were conducted through CYBER KIDS and Future Worlds Center. He is mostly known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions in the fields of peace and development through the application of modern technology and the science of Structured dialogic design. One of the 12 authors of the ONLIFE Manifesto, and key author of Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era Manifesto. Leads internationally the theory and application of the science of structured dialogic design and conducts research towards developing systems to enable scaling up participatory dialogic processes to engage asynchronously thousands of people in meaningful authentic dialogues, thus accelerating institutional and societal change. Promotes the application of broadband technologies and structured democratic dialogue as tools to bridge the digital-, economic-, educational- and inter-personal divides in our planet.

Education

Laouris graduated the medical school of the University of Leipzig in Germany. His studies were supported by three parallel scholarships; one given to him by the Government of Cyprus; a second for top grades, and a third for being among the top 5 of his school year. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology a few weeks before graduating the medical school. This achievement was publicized in many district and national German and Greek newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August University Göttingen with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors Hans Diedrich Henatsch and Uwe Windhorst. He then joined the Robotics, Prosthetics, Motor Control Group at the University of Arizona, where he collaborated with Douglas G. Stuart. In the US, he also completed a Master's in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

Childhood and early life

Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including The English School, Nicosia, the Pancyprian Gymnasium and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the Cypriot National Guard as the first Cypriot senior cryptographer in the Headquarters after the Military coup in Cyprus of the Greek military junta and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974.

Current and Previous Notable Posts

Laouris was one of the Founding Members of Future Worlds Center, where he now serves as CEO and Lead Scientist. He is also the Founder and CEO of two startup companies, GNOUS Labs Ltd. and Concertina Enterprises. He has previously founded CYBER KIDS and Ekkotek Ltd.. Laouris is also founding member of the Cyprus Society for Systemic Studies; member of Board of Institute for 21st Century Agoras; national representative in several COST Actions, Insafe, Inhope, EU Kids online, ECSO, Cybercrime Centre of Excellence, ECTEG – Europol, and member of Boards and/or partner in several high-tech companies.

Contributions in Peace and Conflict Resolution

In the nineties, Laouris was a founding member of the Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group and the Technology for peace project initiative. His team envisioned, designed and implemented almost a dozen of peace projects in Cyprus with the most recent civil society dialogue project aiming to re-engage peace builders from both communities following the negative outcome of the Annan Plan .Students from universities across the world conduct internships and complete Masters and PhD theses with his group in order to learn about the combined application of conflict resolution, structured dialogic design, and information technologies in the service of peace and positive social transformation. The work has been recognized in 2008 with the awarding of the first prize for social cohesion of the Cyprus civil society awards.

Notable Awards

Year	Description
1979-1984	Leistungstippendien, Leipzig, Germany Parallel scholarship given to students with high GPA (50% of a regular scholarship).
1985	Salvator Allende Stippendium, Leipzig, Germany Scholarship awarded to the top foreign student (equal to 200% of an ordinary scholarship)
1984 & 1985	Leistungshau 1984 & 1985, Leipzig, GDR Selected to present science achievements in of his PhD in "1984 Leistungsshau" and “1985 Leistungsshau". Selection of best PhD research across all Universities in Germany
1985	Summa cum laude, for PhD Highest score for a PhD that receives 5 A’s (from the 3 evaluators, from the defense process, and having achieved excellent score in basic studies)
1986	Παγκύπρια Πορεία Αγάπης Αρχιεπισκόπου Μακαρίου Γ, Λευκωσία, Κύπρος Special scholarship awarded by the Makarios Foundation.
1990	Provost's Teaching Award, Arizona, USA Teachnig Award for innovations in Medical teaching.
1992	Medical Innovation Award, Arizona, USA For the development of Multimedia to teach neurophysiology to students of different disciplines.
1992	International Program Development Fund Award, Arizona Distinction for significant contribution in International collaborations (with Estern bloc).
1996	ISO 9001/2 for CYBER KIDS, London, UK Top company to achieve UK ISO registration.
1995	Silver Award, INPEX 95, Pittsburgh, USA Innovation Competition Fair with thousands of participants from all over the world.
1996	The Elected of the Year '96, Jerusalem, Israel Award for CYBER KIDS in Israel.
1996	Qualidat, Geneva, Switzerland Award for CYBER KIDS.
2008	First Award for innovation"' Nicosia, Cyprus.
2008	Civil Society Award, Cyprus First Award for Future Worlds Center for social innovation.
2011	Hellenic Society for Systems Studies Award Dinstinguised Greek Scientist with international caliber.
2017	Euro-Med Award for the Dialogue between Cultures Second place Anna Lindh Foundation.
2017	Global Education Innovation Award 2017 One of 12 awarded by GENE – Global Education Network Europe to Future Worlds Center for its innovative Map Your Meal project.
2017	Digital Champion Cyprus Award Awarded to GNOUS Labs Ltd.
2018	Disrupt Cyprus Award Awarded to GNOUS Labs Ltd.
2018	Get in the Ring Award Awarded GNOUS Labs Ltd.

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