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  |studies=MD (Distinction; Germany);  PhD Neurophysiology (summa cum laude; Germany); Systems Engineering (USA; GPA 4.0)
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<font color="red">For a detailed curriculum vitae of Dr. Laouris click: [[Vitae: Yiannis Laouris|Full CV]].</font>
'''Yiannis Laouris''' is a social-, science-, and business entrepreneur. He is a medical doctor, a neurophysiologist, and a systems engineer, trained in Germany and the US. Laouris interrupted his academic career in the mid-90s to dedicate his life to working for a better world. Most of his social contributions were conducted through CYBER KIDS<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/CYBER_KIDS CYBER KIDS in Future World Pedia]</ref> and Future Worlds Center<ref>[http://www.futureworldscenter.org Future Worlds Center]</ref>,<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Future_Worlds_Center Future Worlds Center in FWpedia]</ref>. CYBER KIDS was grounded on the vision that introducing advanced computer technology in the lives of a critical number of young children using an educationally relevant and socially responsible, peace-enhancing curriculum would allow them to “transcend” the socio-cultural, political, and educational limitations of their country and move the new generation a decade ahead<ref>[http://www.cyber-kids.net/index.php?title=CYBER_KIDS_Vision CYBER KIDS Vision]</ref>. Future Worlds Center Future was founded as an incubator of ideas, projects, organizations, and most importantly social entrepreneurs. It is grounded on the vision to ''consciously re-design humanity's futures'' envisioning a world based on values of freedom, equality, and justice, using complexity and systems science and harnessing the positives of the digital era.


Laouris is mostly known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions in the fields of peace, sustainability, and democracy through the application of modern technology and the science of Structured Dialogic Design (SDD)<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Dialogic_Design_Science Dialogic Design Science]</ref>. His team has implemented more than 100 SDD applications<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Chronological_List_of_SDDPs_by_Future_Worlds_Center_and_Associates  SDDPs by Future_Worlds and Associates]</ref> in both social and technological domains. They have established the SDD as a key methodology within the Operations Research<ref>Laouris, Y., & Michaelides, M. (2018). Structured Democratic Dialogue: An application of a mathematical problem structuring method to facilitate reforms with local authorities in Cyprus. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 918-931.</ref>,<ref>Laouris, Y., & Romm, N. R. (2021). Structured dialogical design as a problem structuring method illustrated in a Re-invent democracy project. European Journal of Operational Research.</ref>  and have developed most of the currently used tools that support the process<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/ISM_Software Review of ISM software]</ref>. He 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. He 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.


Laouris is one of the 12 authors of the ONLIFE Manifesto<ref>Floridi, L. (2015). The onlife manifesto: Being human in a hyperconnected era (p. 264). Springer Nature.</ref> developed on behalf of the European Commission's  Digital Futures Task Force<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/The_Onlife_Initiative Digital Futures Task Force]</ref>, and a key author of Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era Manifesto<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Reinventing_Democracy_in_the_Digital_Era_(UNDEF) Project page: Cick on manifesto report below]</ref> funded by the UN Democracy Fund<ref>[https://projects.undemocracyfund.org Project 532]</ref>.
==Education==
Laouris graduated the medical school of the University of Leipzig in Germany. His studies were supported by three parallel scholarships; one by the Government of Cyprus; a second for top grades, and a third for being among the top foreign students of his school year. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school. This achievement was publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. 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 was then invited by Douglas G. Stuart to join two departments at the University of Arizona, Neurophysiology (medical school) and  Robotics, Prosthetics, Motor Control Group (transdisciplinary). In the US, he also completed a Master's in Systems and Industrial Engineering.


'''Yiannis Laouris''' was inspirer and key founding member of many organizations including the following:
==Childhood and early life==
* [[Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute]]
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.
* [[Future Worlds Center]]
* [[CYBER KIDS]]
* [[Ekkotek High-tech business incubator]]
* [[Technology for Peace]]
* [[Cyprus Society for Systemic Studies]]
* [[Cyberethics: Cyprus Safer Internet Center]]
* [[N.E.T.S. Mediterranean Graduate School of Applied Social Cognition]]
and a number of other organizations and initiatives.  


Laouris currently serves as Chair of the Board of [[Future Worlds Center]] and [[Head of Unit|Vice Head]] of the [[New Media Lab]] and [[Head of Unit|Head]] the [[Futures Design Unit]]. He is also currently reviving the [[Neuroscience Lab]], which supports the next generation of [[Mental Attributes Profiling System]] commercialized under [[GNOUS Labs Ltd.]].  
==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 various startup companies including [[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.  


He serves in the following posts:
==Contributions in Peace and Conflict Resolution==
In the nineties, Laouris was a founding member of the Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus_Conflict_Resolution_Trainers_Group Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group in Wikipedia]</ref> and Technology for peace<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_for_peace Technology for peace in Wkipedia]</ref>,<ref>Laouris, Y. (2004). Information technology in the service of peace building. The case of Cyprus. World Futures, 60, 67–79.</ref> <ref>Laouris, Y. and Laouri, R. (2008). Can Information and mobile technologies serve close the economic, educational, digital and social gaps and accelerate development? World Futures, 64(4), 254-275.</ref> <ref>Laouris, Y., Laouri, R. and Christakis, A. (2008). Communication praxis for ethical accountability; The ethics of the tree of action. Syst Res Behav Sci 25(2), 331–348.</ref>initiative. His team envisioned, designed and implemented almost a dozen of peace projects in Cyprus with the most recent [[Civil Society Dialogue project in Cyprus|civil society dialogue]] project aiming to re-engage peacebuilders from both communities following the negative outcome of the [[Annan Plan]]<ref>Laouris, Y., Michaelides, M. Damdelen, M., Laouri, R., Beyatli, D., and Christakis, A. (2009). A systemic evaluation of the state of affairs following the negative outcome of the referendum in Cyprus using a structured design process. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 22, 45-75.</ref> <ref>Laouris, Y., Erel, A., Michaelides, M,. Damdelen, M., Taraszow, T., Dagli, I., Laouri, R. and Christakis, A. (2009). Exploring options for enhancement of social dialogue between the Turkish and Greek communities in Cyprus using the Structured Dialogic Design Process. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 22, 361–381. </ref>.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.


* Executive Board Member of the [[Institute of 21st Century Agoras]] since 2010.
* Invited Expert of the [[Core Foresight 2050]], think tank groups created by the Digital Futures Task Force of the European Commission to anticipate global changes on the planet and to advice the EC on how ICT could facilitate shape those futures by 2050.
* Invited Expert of the [[The Onlife Initiative]], a high profile Think Tank of 12 philosophers and natural scientists created by the [[Digital Futures Task Force]] of the European Commission to anticipate changes in the concepts humans use to explain the world, draft [[The Onlife Manifesto]], and to advice the EC whether concept re-engineering might be necessary.
* Member of the Wisdom Research Network of the University of Chicago<ref>[http://wisdomresearch.org/members/laouris.aspx Wisdom Research Network of the University of Chicago]</ref>.
* Represents Cyprus as Delegate of the [[Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative|Cybercrime Initiative]] launched by the Commonwealth in 2011.
He has served in the past or continues to serve:
* As National Representative and/or Expert in many European Research Networks
** [[COST 276: Knowledge Management]] (Invited Expert 2005-2006)
** [[COST 219ter Accessibility for all to services and terminals for next generation mobile networks]] (National Representative 2005-2007)
** [[COST 298: Participation in the Broadband society]] (Invited Expert 2007-2008)
** [[COST 2102: Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Non-verbal Communication]] (National Representative 2008-2011)
** [[Insafe]] (Member of the Steering Committee 2006-present and Member of the Advisory Board 2010-2012)
** [[EU Kids Online]] (National Representative 2008-Present).
He was appointed as Local Representative for a  number of American-based Organizations such a:
* [[Institute of World Affairs]] (Director for Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East 1999-2003)
* [[HasNa Inc.]] (Project Director 2002-2008).
He was/is Director for many European Program Consortia, including:
* [[Extending EU Citizenship]]
* [[Cyberethics: Cyprus Safer Internet Center|Cyberethics]]
* [[TeachMDGs]]
* [[Act Beyond Borders]]
* [[MobLang]]
==A social and business entrepreneur==
Yiannis has launched many successful social and business ventures and/or initiatives. Some key ones are mentioned below.
===Tech4Peace project===
Founding member of the [[Technology for Peace]] project, together with [[Harry Anastasiou]], [[Dervis Besimler]], [[Bekir Azgin]] and [[Hrach Gregorian]].
===CYBER KIDS===
[[CYBER KIDS]] was a nation-wide experiment launched in 1992 in Cyprus by Yiannis Laouris, George Vakanas and Maria Symeonides with the vision that introducing advanced computer technology in the lives of a critical number of young children using an educationally relevant and socially responsible, peace-enhancing curriculum would allow them to “transcend” the country’s educational and political life and move the new generation a decade ahead. By 1999, the number of children who benefited from their curriculum exceeded 15,000, which is approximately equal to 20% of the country’s youth population (ages 6-15). During the same period, the organization trained and employed 186 young and talented university graduates, thus combating brain drain while simultaneously spreading the [[CYBER KIDS Philosophy]] and knowledge to many more spheres of social life.
===The Multimedia Factory===
[[The Multimedia Factory]] was founded by Laouris, [[George Vakanas]], the [[Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute]] and [[MISnTED Ltd.]] in 1993 as one of the first multimedia software and educational software producing companies.
===Ekkotek===
[[Ekkotek High-tech business incubator]] was founded by Laouris, [[Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute]] and [[MISnTED Ltd.]] in 1999 as the first high technology business incubator in Cyprus. In 2009 it was revived and it now focuses on developing mobile and web Apps specialised in education and the domains of collective intelligence and wisdom
==Books==
* [[Masks of Demons]], a book that exposes stereotypes between so-called "'lifelong"' enemies.
* [[10 COMMANDMENTS Citizens to the State]], published in  multiple languages; provides dialectic essays pointing towards major reforms in democracy
* [[The Onlife Manifesto]], co-author; guides EC funding priorities, as well as political and societal priorities in the hyper-connectivity era
==Awards==
Yiannis received numerous honors and awards throughout the years<ref>[http://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Honors_and_Awards Detailed list of Laouris Honors and Awards]</ref>, the most notable being:
* Summa cum laude for his PhD (1985)
* [[Provost's Teaching Award]] and [[Medical Innovation Award]] for innovation in university teaching (1991/92)
* [[Creativity Award to Cyber Kids Curriculum|First Award for Innovation and Creativity]] by the Employers and Industrialists Federation for [[CYBER KIDS]] curriculum (1998)
* The [[Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies Award]] for contributions in systems science (2008)
* Honorable Mention of the [[Anna Lindh Award to Future Worlds Center]] for promoting intercultural dialogue freedom and citizenship (2011)
A complete list of awards is available [[Vitae/Yiannis Laouris/Honors and Awards|here]].
==Key publications==
Yiannis has over 50 peered reviewed papers in experimental neuroscience, neuropsychology, neuro-education, collective wisdom and structured dialogue and over 150 conference presentations.
The full list is available [[Vitae/Yiannis Laouris/Publications|here]].


==Notable Awards==
{|
| '''Year'''
| '''Description'''
|-
| 1979-1984
| ''Leistungstippendien'', Leipzig, Germany<br>Parallel scholarship given to students with high GPA (50% of a regular scholarship).
|-
| 1985
| ''Salvator Allende Stippendium'', Leipzig, Germany<br>Scholarship awarded to the top foreign student (equal to 200% of an ordinary scholarship)
|-
|1984 & 1985
| ''Leistungshau 1984 & 1985'', Leipzig, GDR<br>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<br>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<br>Special scholarship awarded by the Makarios Foundation.
|-
| 1990
| ''Provost's Teaching Award'', Arizona, USA<br>Teachnig Award for innovations in Medical teaching.
|-
|1992
| ''Medical Innovation Award'', Arizona, USA<br>For the development of Multimedia to teach neurophysiology to students of different disciplines.
|-
| 1992
| ''International Program Development Fund Award'', Arizona<br>Distinction for significant contribution in International collaborations (with Estern bloc).
|-
| 1996
| ''ISO 9001/2'' for CYBER KIDS, London, UK<br>Top company to achieve UK ISO registration.
|-
| 1995
| ''Silver Award'', INPEX 95, Pittsburgh, USA<br>Innovation Competition Fair with thousands of participants from all over the world.
|-
| 1996
| ''The Elected of the Year '96'', Jerusalem, Israel<br>Award for CYBER KIDS in Israel.
|-
|1996
| ''Qualidat'', Geneva, Switzerland<br>Award for CYBER KIDS.
|-
| 2008
| ''First Award for innovation"'<br>Nicosia, Cyprus.
|-
| 2008
| ''Civil Society Award'', Cyprus<br>First Award for Future Worlds Center for social innovation.
|-
| 2011
| ''Hellenic Society for Systems Studies Award''<br>Dinstinguised Greek Scientist with international caliber.
|-
| 2017
| ''Euro-Med Award for the Dialogue between Cultures''<br>Second place Anna Lindh Foundation.
|-
| 2017
| ''Global Education Innovation Award 2017''<br>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''<br>Awarded to GNOUS Labs Ltd.
|-
| 2018
| ''Disrupt Cyprus Award''<br>Awarded to GNOUS Labs Ltd.
|-
| 2018
| ''Get in the Ring Award''<br>Awarded GNOUS Labs Ltd.
|}


==Citations==
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==External Links==
* [http://www.cnti.org.cy/Personal_Data/YiannisLaouris/index.html Laouris page at the Cyprus Neuroscience & Technology Insitute]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiannis_Laouris Laouris page in Wikipedia]
* [http://www.globalagoras.org/about/executive-board Laouris page at the Institute for 21st Century Agoras]
* [http://dialogicdesignscience.wikispaces.com/Books  Wiki managed by world-wide SDD scientists and practitioners citing Laouris contributions]


==Links==
*  [https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Yiannis_Laouris Yiannis Laouris in Future Worlds Pedia]


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Dr. Yiannis Laouris
Laouris TalkingLR.png
Social-, Science and Business Entrepreneur
Γενικές Πληροφορίες
Επιστημονικό Πεδίο Απασχόλησης Medical Doctor; Neurophysiologist; Systems Scientist
Σημαντική Συνεισφορά CYBER KIDS
Future Worlds Center
Σημαντικές Δημοσιεύσεις 100+ scientific publications
Βραβεύσεις 12 International Awards
Προσωπικά Στοιχεία
Γεννήθηκε 1958
Τόπος Γέννησης Pafos, Cyprus
Εθνικότητα Greek Cypriot
Υπηκοότητα Cypriot; Permanent USA citizen
Σύζυγος Joulietta Kalli Laouri
Παιδιά Romina Laouri Faulb
Σπουδές MD (Distinction; Germany); PhD Neurophysiology (summa cum laude; Germany); Systems Engineering (USA; GPA 4.0)
Ιστοσελίδα
Yiannis Laouris in Future Worlds Pedia



Yiannis Laouris is a social-, science-, and business entrepreneur. He is a medical doctor, a neurophysiologist, and a systems engineer, trained in Germany and the US. Laouris interrupted his academic career in the mid-90s to dedicate his life to working for a better world. Most of his social contributions were conducted through CYBER KIDS[1] and Future Worlds Center[2],[3]. CYBER KIDS was grounded on the vision that introducing advanced computer technology in the lives of a critical number of young children using an educationally relevant and socially responsible, peace-enhancing curriculum would allow them to “transcend” the socio-cultural, political, and educational limitations of their country and move the new generation a decade ahead[4]. Future Worlds Center Future was founded as an incubator of ideas, projects, organizations, and most importantly social entrepreneurs. It is grounded on the vision to consciously re-design humanity's futures envisioning a world based on values of freedom, equality, and justice, using complexity and systems science and harnessing the positives of the digital era.

Laouris is mostly known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions in the fields of peace, sustainability, and democracy through the application of modern technology and the science of Structured Dialogic Design (SDD)[5]. His team has implemented more than 100 SDD applications[6] in both social and technological domains. They have established the SDD as a key methodology within the Operations Research[7],[8] and have developed most of the currently used tools that support the process[9]. He 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. He 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.

Laouris is one of the 12 authors of the ONLIFE Manifesto[10] developed on behalf of the European Commission's Digital Futures Task Force[11], and a key author of Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era Manifesto[12] funded by the UN Democracy Fund[13].

Education

Laouris graduated the medical school of the University of Leipzig in Germany. His studies were supported by three parallel scholarships; one by the Government of Cyprus; a second for top grades, and a third for being among the top foreign students of his school year. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school. This achievement was publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation[14]. 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 was then invited by Douglas G. Stuart to join two departments at the University of Arizona, Neurophysiology (medical school) and Robotics, Prosthetics, Motor Control Group (transdisciplinary). 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 various startup companies including 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[15] and Technology for peace[16],[17] [18] [19]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 peacebuilders from both communities following the negative outcome of the Annan Plan[20] [21].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.

Citations

  1. ↑ CYBER KIDS in Future World Pedia
  2. ↑ Future Worlds Center
  3. ↑ Future Worlds Center in FWpedia
  4. ↑ CYBER KIDS Vision
  5. ↑ Dialogic Design Science
  6. ↑ SDDPs by Future_Worlds and Associates
  7. ↑ Laouris, Y., & Michaelides, M. (2018). Structured Democratic Dialogue: An application of a mathematical problem structuring method to facilitate reforms with local authorities in Cyprus. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 918-931.
  8. ↑ Laouris, Y., & Romm, N. R. (2021). Structured dialogical design as a problem structuring method illustrated in a Re-invent democracy project. European Journal of Operational Research.
  9. ↑ Review of ISM software
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  11. ↑ Digital Futures Task Force
  12. ↑ Project page: Cick on manifesto report below
  13. ↑ Project 532
  14. ↑ Media coverage of PhD award
  15. ↑ Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group in Wikipedia
  16. ↑ Technology for peace in Wkipedia
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  18. ↑ Laouris, Y. and Laouri, R. (2008). Can Information and mobile technologies serve close the economic, educational, digital and social gaps and accelerate development? World Futures, 64(4), 254-275.
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  20. ↑ Laouris, Y., Michaelides, M. Damdelen, M., Laouri, R., Beyatli, D., and Christakis, A. (2009). A systemic evaluation of the state of affairs following the negative outcome of the referendum in Cyprus using a structured design process. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 22, 45-75.
  21. ↑ Laouris, Y., Erel, A., Michaelides, M,. Damdelen, M., Taraszow, T., Dagli, I., Laouri, R. and Christakis, A. (2009). Exploring options for enhancement of social dialogue between the Turkish and Greek communities in Cyprus using the Structured Dialogic Design Process. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 22, 361–381.


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