Global Greek Influence
162 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsI am Panagiota Pimenidou (PhD in hydrogen production, MEng in Chemical Engineering), with over 15 years in international academia. The Global Greek Influence podcast aims to bring together international Greeks who talk about technology through research, innovation, the economy, geopolitics, entrepreneurship and (yes) history, which define and address our current and future challenges on earth and (possibly) in space. It’s their view, their perspective, that makes the difference.
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Top Learn Moments
May 28, 2023 17:00 - 19 minutes - 36.4 MBMimicking tissues and organs and fish dynamics, the forces of nature with simplicity and without simplification, maximising current technologies for more affordable offshore wind farms where population density is high and there is a shortage of available land, producing plant-based biofuels non-chemically are some of the top learning moments at the Global Greek Influence podcast. Researchers may speak with modesty, presenting the advantages and disadvantages of their work. This does not mea...
Astromining: space exploration, sustainable goals and geopolitics
May 21, 2023 05:00 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBHow are Space exploration and Sustainable Goals interlinked? Is Astromining an extension of Geopolitics or the future of ground-breaking technologies? What does the Outer Space Treaty deal with? How do national, international and financial actors shape celestial bodies mining? The roles of NASA and SpaceX, China and the US. Music: "Fortitude" by Humans Win Source: Storyblocks --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/panagiota-pimenidou/message
Ο παγκόσμιος Ελληνισμός και το εθνικό δικαίωμα στο εκλέγειν & εκλέγεσθαι- Μέρος 2
May 21, 2023 05:00 - 21 minutes - 20.2 MBΜε τον Δρ Απόστολο Πιστόλα, ειδικό στην εκλογική συμπεριφορά αλλά και Έλληνα του εξωτερικού, ολοκληρώνουμε τη συζήτηση μας: Ποιό το μέλλον της συμμετοχής των Ελλήνων του εξωτερικού σε επόμενες εκλογές; Πως αντιλαμβάνονται τα πολιτικά κόμματα τους πολίτες και εκλογείς; Πως καθορίζουν οι αντιλήψεις μας, τις επιλογές μας; Music: "Fortitude" by Humans Win Source: Storyblocks --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/panagiota-pimenidou/message
The future technology world and talents in research
May 14, 2023 11:11 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MBHow does business affect the future of technology and politics? Where do research talents fit in the business that shapes the future of science, engineering and technology? Does investing in research talents bring solutions to the business and technology? Music: "Fortitude" by Humans Win Source: Storyblocks --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/panagiota-pimenidou/message
Ο παγκόσμιος Ελληνισμός και το εθνικό δικαίωμα στο εκλέγειν & εκλέγεσθαι- Μέρος 1
May 14, 2023 09:29 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBΜε τον Δρ Απόστολο Πιστόλα, ειδικό στην εκλογική συμπεριφορά αλλά και Έλληνα του εξωτερικού, συζητάμε για τη σημασία της εκλογικής συμμετοχής των Ελλήνων της διασποράς, αν αφορούν οι εθνικές εκλογές στους Έλληνες της διασποράς (παγκόσμιους Έλληνες), ποια τα ποιοτικά χαρακτηριστικά τους ως εκλογείς και η σύγκριση τους στην εκλογική συμπεριφορά με αυτή των Τούρκων αποδήμων για τις προεδρικές εκλογές. Μείνετε συντονισμένοι για το 2ο μέρος της συζήτησης με τον Δρ Απόστολο Πιστόλα, την επόμενη Κ...
The chemical engineering energy and environment
May 07, 2023 05:00 - 43 minutes - 79.6 MBProfessor Christos Maravelias, the Anderson Family Professor in Energy and the Environment of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Chair of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University (US) speaks to the Global Geek Influence podcast about: - transitioning toward a #sustainable industry and products in the next decade, - making more objecti...
Your guide, from 1 to 10, of a hybrid future- Part 2
April 30, 2023 14:35 - 21 minutes - 39.4 MBWhat makes our future better and wiser? You can find out how technology, science and engineering research help in the innovation and growth of our societies through your guide from 1 to 10 of a hybrid future. In this last part, we cover quantum computing, future food needs, energy and the UN blue economy, future digital education, chemical engineering and new disciplines from the point of view of Global Greek Experts. You can always catch up if you missed the first part of your guide from ...
Your guide, from 1 to 10, of a hybrid future
April 23, 2023 05:00 - 27 minutes - 49.8 MBThe first part of your guide from 1 to 10 of a hybrid future covering: AI, medicine, business, space exploration and exploitation, transportation and smart cities, quantum computing on cybersecurity and drug discovery, future food needs, energy and the UN blue economy, digital-future-global education, chemical engineering- new disciplines- the Universe, from the point of view of Global Greek Experts. Stay tuned for the second part, next Sunday, 30 April 2023. Music: "Fortitude" by Humans ...
Your guide, from 1 to 10, of a hybrid future- Part 1
April 23, 2023 05:00 - 27 minutes - 49.8 MBThe first part of your guide from 1 to 10 of a hybrid future covering: AI, medicine, business, space exploration and exploitation, transportation and smart cities, quantum computing on cybersecurity and drug discovery, future food needs, energy and the UN blue economy, digital-future-global education, chemical engineering- new disciplines- the Universe, from the point of view of Global Greek Experts. Stay tuned for the second part, next Sunday, 30 April 2023. Music: "Fortitude" by Humans ...
The growing trend and future of remote work
April 16, 2023 05:00 - 15 minutes - 29.1 MBWhat are the five trends in the growing movement of remote work? What are the five scenarios of the future hybrid approach, remote and in-person work? What tools could guarantee improved productivity of remote work business operations? What is the impact of remote work on business operations? Why remote work flexibility becomes an important consideration for both employee retention and recruitment? Why does the remote work trend continue in the industry? Why shouldn't be employers tr...
Renewables and emissions reduction- Q&A in a nutshell
April 09, 2023 05:00 - 16 minutes - 29.3 MBThe least approached answers of 5+1 questions for renewables and emissions reduction you might listen to elsewhere as custom-made to various sectors narratives: Why do we want to reduce emissions? Who benefits from reducing emissions? Why would the industries and economic actors be interested in reducing emissions? What strategies could industrial actors follow to reduce emissions? How can we reduce emissions? What is the future of renewables in transportation? Music: "Fortitude" by H...
Space exploration and the challenge of machine learning in space weather
April 02, 2023 05:00 - 42 minutes - 39 MBDr Spyros Kasapis, a research scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center and working on Machine Learning Applications for Heliophysics speaks about: space weather, upcoming space missions and space communications, studying abroad, his vision of space exploration, its international competition and emerging space technologies, and some reflection on his career so far and his PhD experience. Spyros did his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronauti...
Birthdays of humans, technologies, ideas and politics
March 26, 2023 05:00 - 13 minutes - 25.2 MBWhat do birthdays have to do with technology? Anyone and anything born: a human, a technology, an idea, reminds us of the beginning of a life cycle. What is the future of AI in scientific research (ChatGPT- Large Language models), and why should it matter to all? Is there a future for engineering, science and technology researchers' innovation in politics? Why, when innovation is born, should be co-developed and implemented with the active participation of engineering, science and techn...
Financing the tech start up ecosystem: The SVB case
March 19, 2023 06:00 - 40 minutes - 74.6 MBGerasimos Papaleventis (Vice President - Treasury, Head of Controlling and Monitoring in FIMBank plc, Malta) discusses and helps us detangle the implications of the current banks’ crises to see how they could affect the start-up and technology sectors: how startup-focused banks affect the innovation ecosystem globally (US, Israel, the Gulf countries), upcoming vulnerabilities to the US banking system and the US market crisis in the next six months, what start-ups and venture capitals shou...
AI in infrastructures: Transforming the future of the Built Environment
March 12, 2023 06:00 - 27 minutes - 49.8 MBProfessor Ioannis Brilakis, the Laing O'Rourke Professor of Civil & Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge (UK), discusses how AI in infrastructure transforms the future of the Built Environment: · making roads safer and greener, · robotics and automation science and technology, · game technologies in construction plant safety operations, · 3D mobile mapping and digital twins for infrastructure, · moving forward with the digitalisation of industrial operations, · minimi...
The case of culture in safety
March 05, 2023 06:00 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MBWhy is the socio-cultural safety mentality important to avoid needless accidents when we have available technologies? Why is the design of safety procedures important, even if we employ the latest cutting-edge technologies available? Why are socio-cultural safety mentality and the design, implementation and practice of safety procedures communicating vessels? The three Es: Engineering, Enforcement and Education. Music: "Fortitude" by Humans Win Source: Storyblocks --- Send in a voic...
The Revolution and Evolution of Elevating Greece
February 26, 2023 06:00 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBMichael Dritsas, CEO of ‘Elevate Greece’, the Hellenic Republic’s national start-up platform and in-depth information resource on the Greek start-up Ecosystem, is the Head of the Cabinet of the Deputy Minister for Development and Investments under Research and Innovation. Mr Dritsas discusses: boosting organisational and corporate synergies to heighten Greece's innovation environment and knowledge transfer with institutional tools, balancing the attraction between excellent global entrepre...
Is Innovation serving research or world challenges?
February 19, 2023 11:17 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MBWhy do we meet national and international competition in the world economy around start-ups? How did we get to the point that the old economy no longer serves the new one? And what are the reasons such a trend was set? Would the innovation approach toward science, engineering and technology serve research as we know or transform it into a new research type? Does innovating the economy and scientific, engineering and technology research meet the world's challenges? You can learn more abo...
The future of Research and Innovation investment and development
February 12, 2023 06:00 - 29 minutes - 27 MBThe Deputy Minister of Development and Investments of the Hellenic Republic, under the Research and Innovation portfolio, Christos Dimas (PhD), discusses: · How "Elevate Greece" links start-ups with investors to accelerate nationally or internationally · Changing the mentality of academia toward innovation and entrepreneurship · Transforming structures within the institutions and public organisations to drive innovation · The sustainability of the Competence Centers beyond their initial ...
The benefits of foresight in an innovative economy
February 05, 2023 12:37 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBWhat is the interplay between neuroscience, leadership, innovation, human capital and talent? Is foresight a concrete procedure for organisations, or is it also transferrable to individuals? Is upskilling and retraining enough when we transform the economy through novel technologies whose core are innovative science and engineering? Or are we missing deepening novelty through the personalised foresight for PhD candidates and holders in Science, Engineering and Technology to diffuse innova...
Talking Medicine and Forefront Healthcare
January 29, 2023 06:00 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBWith Dr Kyriaki (Kiki) Sonidou, a GP (General Practitioner), a specialist in Cardiology and Diabetes, and President of the Hellenic Medical Society in the U.K., LSE and Harvard University Global Health delivery and systems), we discuss: if we are close to the end of the pandemic (or is it too soon to tell) and the new variants, the triple threat of COVID-19, flu, RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus), the present crisis in primary health care, lessons from the pandemic period to best design f...
The AI Age of Predictions
January 22, 2023 06:00 - 38 minutes - 69.6 MBProfessor Dimitris Drikakis (Vice President for Global Partnerships, Executive Director for Research and Innovation at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus, Defence and Security Research Institute President) discusses how Artificial Intelligence (AI): and Computational Science become predictive technologies, impacts on innovation, accelerates the energy sector, calls for re-approaching the value and purpose of the human mind. Professor Drikakis received twice the William Penney Fellowship ...
Precision medicine and “circular” healthcare
January 15, 2023 06:00 - 31 minutes - 58 MBWith Dr Constantine Stratakis (Chief Scientific Officer, ELPEN, Athens, Greece- Director (Res. A'), Human Genetics & Precision Medicine at Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Chief Scientific Officer of ELPEN, SA), we discuss how precision medicine: becomes a tool by AI that can be used for prediction, prevention, diagnosis and treatment, predicts diseases before they happen, and transforming innovative research into products and services within the “circular” healthc...
Redefining technology
January 08, 2023 06:00 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MBWelcoming you into the 4th season of the Global Greek Influence podcast, you are re-introduced to what binds together: · international Greeks who talk about technology through research, innovation, the economy, geopolitics, entrepreneurship and (yes) history, · to define and address our current and future challenges on earth and (possibly) in space in a technology podcast. One could say that redefining technology is going back to the roots of philosophy or simply being well-informed about...
The first 2023 episode- Το πρώτο επεισόδιο για το 2023: bonus episode
January 01, 2023 06:00 - 39 minutes - 36.8 MBThis is our first new year’s episode and the first one in Greek! We keep our usual technology and around-technology format. My first guest is Dr Dimitris Kontziampasis, whom you first met in January 2020 at the episode “A Greek, young academic living and working abroad”. Our episodes in English will resume next Sunday, but more episodes in Greek will be introduced. We now meet Dimitris, three years later, going through two academic positions, now in his third one as an Assistant Professor ...
The first 2023 episode- Το πρώτο επεισόδιο για το 2023
January 01, 2023 06:00 - 39 minutes - 36.8 MBThis is our first new year’s episode and the first one in Greek! We keep our usual technology and around-technology format. My first guest is Dr Dimitris Kontziampasis, whom you first met in January 2020 at the episode “A Greek, young academic living and working abroad”. Our episodes in English will resume next Sunday, but more episodes in Greek will be introduced. We now meet Dimitris, three years later, going through two academic positions, now in his third one as an Assistant Professor ...
Bonus: The first 2023 episode- Το πρώτο επεισόδιο για το 2023
January 01, 2023 06:00 - 39 minutes - 36.8 MBThis is our first new year’s episode and the first one in Greek! We keep our usual technology and around-technology format. My first guest is Dr Dimitris Kontziampasis, whom you first met in January 2020 at the episode “A Greek, young academic living and working abroad”. Our episodes in English will resume next Sunday, but more episodes in Greek will be introduced. We now meet Dimitris, three years later, going through two academic positions, now in his third one as an Assistant Professor ...
A Christmas for curious minds
December 25, 2022 06:00 - 49 minutes - 46.2 MBAs engineers, scientists, technologists, researchers in STEM and other researchers, we seek originality in science and its potential applications. As people, we fit into a role we choose. Christmas is a season we mostly reconnect with our people, also tend to look inwards and seek answers. How can we explain the new by studying the old? In this episode with Marios Koutsoukos (PhD candidate soon to become a doctor of philosophy in the History of Religions in the Late Antiquity at the Univers...
A Christmas for curious minds: bonus episode
December 25, 2022 06:00 - 49 minutes - 46.2 MBAs engineers, scientists, technologists, researchers in STEM and other researchers, we seek originality in science and its potential applications. As people, we fit into a role we choose. Christmas is a season we mostly reconnect with our people, also tend to look inwards and seek answers. How can we explain the new by studying the old? In this episode with Marios Koutsoukos (PhD candidate soon to become a doctor of philosophy in the History of Religions in the Late Antiquity at the Univers...
The value of researchers in science, engineering and technology
December 18, 2022 06:00 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MB"The value of researchers in science, engineering and technology" is about i) re-inventing their research field and bringing transparency to the new market and economy, ii) creating an environment where researchers can also thrive as individuals based on their talents and human approach, iii) enjoying more every moment and step without worrying too much or striving for perfection. I am talking to Dr Vassilis Katos, a Professor of Cybersecurity and Head of the Computer Emergency Response T...
Strategical innovation and leadership in the cyber-physical age
December 11, 2022 06:00 - 45 minutes - 83.2 MBWith Tyrone Pitsis (Professor of Strategy and Technology, Director of the Centre for Innovation and Technology Management, Durham University, U.K.), we discuss: The necessity of collaborations (alliance) in entrepreneurship. Design(erly) thinking in strategic formulation. Does foresight help us predict the future? What makes a project critical (to the eyes of the beholder), Redesigning leadership and organisations in the cyber-physical age. Are the challenges of the cyber-physical age ...
Advanced automobility and transportation- Part 2: Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)
December 04, 2022 06:00 - 24 minutes - 22.9 MB"Advanced automobility and transportation- Part 2: Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)" is about bringing together engineering knowledge, human senses, and product quality, also improving operational instabilities in advanced automobility (fuel cells), "connected and autonomous" vehicles (CAVs) and sustainable transport cybersecurity. I am talking to Professor Anna Stephanopoulou, William Clay Ford Professor of Technology, from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan University, Ann...
The arrival of next-generation energy
November 27, 2022 09:47 - 41 minutes - 75.2 MBDr Vasilis Gregoriou (CEO of Advent Technologies in the US, PhD in Physical Chemistry from Duke University in the US, Director and Chairman of the Board at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF)) discusses - in what Advent Technologies owes its technological #leadership worldwide, - the factors that make the “readiest” #hydrogen and #renewablefuels market between Europe, the US and Japan, - why the Green HiPo (Important Projects of Common European Interest, IPCEI) Project in Gre...
Advanced automobility and transportation Part 1- Innovation in travel futures
November 20, 2022 06:00 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MB"Advanced automobility and transportation- Part 1: Innovation in travel futures" is about the current, future and #hybrid technologies (internal combustion #engines, #fuelcells, #batteries) also multimodal travelling and mobility-as-a-service in smart cities travel, perceived #experience quality in automobility 5.0 and cognitive processes' mapping. #podcast #travel #smartcities. I am talking to Professor Anna Stephanopoulou, William Clay Ford Professor of Technology, from the Department o...
Decision making in crisis times
November 13, 2022 06:00 - 17 minutes - 32.3 MBMaking decisions at a personal, professional also collective level, especially in times of crisis, is a process we tend to avoid, or we foresee the uncertainties related to them. In this special episode, Professor Koundouri and Professor Psychogios answer to: how can we make better and faster decisions, how can we make the best decisions under the uncertainty of current rapid global changes, the keys to and how we could develop dynamic relationships under crisis and global changes. Music...
Forging scientific communication for technological progress and democracy
November 06, 2022 11:58 - 19 minutes - 35.5 MBIn the past years, the scientific and research communities have been put in this awkward position to apologise for non-experts' spread of misinformation including that scientists are corrupt because their facts do not align with what has been widely disseminated. Either anonymously through social media or well-established show hosts selectively invite a single guest to promote a specific direction agenda rather than asking a panel of experts to allow their audience to draw conclusions. Is...
For all mankind: lunar and deep space exploration- the chemical engineering perspective
October 30, 2022 06:00 - 30 minutes - 55.1 MBWith Dr Vassilis Inglezakis (PhD, Chemical Engineer, Reader in Chemical Engineering, and Director of Research at the University of Strathclyde, the U.K.), we discuss the case of Lunar and Martian camps for the planets also deep space exploration: the available hydrogen production systems (fuel cells' water electrolysis), carbon dioxide, oxygen, nitrogen capture technologies for energy, fuels and fertiliser production, the best purposing of zeolites with hydroponics on Mars, based on our c...
For all manking: lunar and deep space exploration- the chemical engineering perspective
October 30, 2022 06:00 - 30 minutes - 55.1 MBWith Dr Vassilis Inglezakis (PhD, Chemical Engineer, Reader in Chemical Engineering, and Director of Research at the University of Strathclyde, the U.K.), we discuss the case of Lunar and Martian camps for the planets also deep space exploration: the available hydrogen production systems (fuel cells' water electrolysis), carbon dioxide, oxygen, nitrogen capture technologies for energy, fuels and fertiliser production, the best purposing of zeolites with hydroponics on Mars, based on our c...
Working smarter, not harder in the era of AI?
October 23, 2022 10:24 - 20 minutes - 37 MBAre we working smarter, not harder, in the era of AI? In the age of artificial intelligence, businesses and organisations benefit from making informed decisions based on artificial intelligence and machine learning. What happens to those hard-skilled scientists and engineers, including researchers? Have they been working smarter, not harder, professionally? A self-reflective episode, also based on studies and surveys on the tools we need to work smarter and not harder, whether we use AI or ...
Systems thinking of decision making for sustainable development
October 16, 2022 05:00 - 36 minutes - 34.1 MBProfessor Phoebe Koundouri (Athens University of Economics and Business- Greece; Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)) speaks to the Global Greek Influence podcast on "Systems thinking of decision making for sustainable development". We discuss: · keys to sustainably financing climate change mitigation & adaptation across the economy and society, · how solving the climate crisis can deliver and secure peace, · transforming capitalism fo...
A special announcement
October 09, 2022 04:50 - 3 minutes - 7.31 MBThe Global Greek Influence podcast will continue to bring exclusive guests' master class discussions as free content every two weeks. Starting this Sunday, subscribers will be able to listen to exclusive content by contributing to the podcast, as currently, platforms in Europe do not give you the option of donations. So, you can keep listening for free to the new guest interviews every two Sundays and the subscription specially created episodes in between. I hope you enjoy the Global Gree...
The brain of an adaptive leader: Future leadership and neuroscience
October 02, 2022 05:00 - 40 minutes - 73.9 MBProfessor Alexandros Psychogios, a Leadership & International HRM Professor and Director of Research at Birmingham City Business School in the UK, discusses · neuroscience advancing leadership and if leadership is for professional managers only, · adaptive leadership and supporting its development, · HR management in NE and SE Europe and brain gain, · the development of dynamic relationships under crisis and global changes, · innovative knowledge-intensive companies leading people and o...
Heavy metal: the Greek history and mythology
September 18, 2022 05:00 - 42 minutes - 39.8 MBMarios Koutsoukos (PhD candidate in History of Religions in the Late Antiquity at the University of Liverpool (UK)) has also been involved in the international metal music scene, writing lyrics and developing concepts for bands in Greece as well as worldwide and a bass player, since 2004. With Marios, we discuss: - Why is metal music inspired by Greek history and mythology, more so by ancient Sparta? - If metal music influences our perception of classic times also more recent historical e...
The HELC Young Leaders Programme
September 04, 2022 05:00 - 35 minutes - 33.3 MBThe HELC (Hellenic European Leadership Council) was founded to connect and activate Greeks in the diaspora of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa to help on the principle of common purposes and national interests. With Angeliki Tzampazi and Despoina Tripylioti (HELC members, also the Young Leaders Programme organising committee members) and two of the 2022 HELC Young Leaders, Angeliki Martinou and Konstantinos Kolokotronis, we discuss: · the importance of the "Young Leaders Programme" to t...
An intentional future: the perception of automobility 5.0 quality
August 21, 2022 05:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBWith Dr Kostas Stylidis (CEO and Co-Founder of Intended Future, an Associate Professor at University West and part-time associate researcher at the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), we discuss: intentionally planning our future, living the revival of the roaring 1920s in automobility, why researchers and academics are needed now more than ever in the industry? how AI could utilise engineering knowledge, human senses, and product quality to deliver quality in future automobility...
Strengthening history- the European Pontic Greek Youth
August 07, 2022 05:00 - 27 minutes - 50.1 MBThe Pontian Greek Youth of Europe (OSEPE Youth) connects 50 Pontian Greek Youth Associations youth departments in Europe Vasileios Agathaggelidis, the Secretary-General of the OSEPE Youth speaks to the Global Greek Influence podcast about the reasons for: past and current attempts to reconnect existing Pontic Greek-speaking populations in Turkey with their cultural heritage, the urgency in recognising the Pontic Greeks' genocide worldwide, the steps towards the EU Pontic Greeks' gen...
The hybrid innovation
August 03, 2022 09:12 - 46 minutes - 64 MBDr Fotis Filippopoulos (PhD), an innovation management expert, a corporate innovation specialist, an advisor at the European Commission in Innovation, with a business footprint in 15 countries and 5 continents, discusses: - entrepreneurship in the so-called 4th industrial revolution, - the hybrid industry and its connection to synthesis research (https://lnkd.in/e2_uS4Pr), - “The Αge on Entanglement”, - disciplined entrepreneurship, - the future leader, - researchers who want to become...
Opportunities and challenges in sustainable travel futures
July 24, 2022 05:00 - 28 minutes - 51.9 MBDr Alexandros Nikitas ( Reader in Smart Transport, Future Mobility Lab Founding Director, Deputy Director of the Behavioural Research Centre, the University of Huddersfield in the UK- 2022- 2025 Chair of the UTSG (Universities' Transport Study Group) discusses the challenges and implications of the #socio-technical transition to #sustainable #future #transportation, the ‘deceit’ of "connected and autonomous" vehicles (#CAVs) and #AI, #multimodal travel vs clean vehicle engineering and the...
The future crises and managing peace
July 10, 2022 05:00 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBCaptain Efstathios Kyriakidis is the Branch Chief Operations Coordination in the EU Military Staff (EUMS) and Deputy Director of the EU Maritime Area of Interest Coordination Cell (MAICC) and whose career spans over four decades. We discuss aspects of the future crises and managing peace by the EU through: · the contribution of the EU Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) in Ukraine, · considering the CSDP extension from conflict prevention to a security actor, · the "EU Strategic Com...
The 2022 French parliamentary elections
June 26, 2022 05:00 - 32 minutes - 44.9 MBGiven France's leading position in the EU, we discuss, with George Tassiopoulos (PhD in Political Sciences, empirical and theoretical expert in French and European politics and political parties), the influence of the 2022 French parliamentary elections regarding: - sanctions toward Russia, - the presidential (Macron's) "national and European sovereignty" programme and the president's authority in foreign policy, - the reality about Mr Mélenchon (NUPES) and Mrs LePen (Rassemblement Nation...