On 24–25 June 2026, the four universities behind the SMART-HEAD project met at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca in Romania for two days of joint work on the project's progress. Representing the Cyprus University of Technology was Dr Antonia Christou, who joined colleagues from the coordinating Technical University of Sofia (Bulgaria), the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and the Democritus University of Thrace (Greece) to take stock of what has been built so far and to map out the phase ahead.
SMART-HEAD, short for Sustainable Mindset and AI-Supported Digital Transformation in Higher Education, is a three-year Erasmus+ partnership running until 2028. Its premise is simple but ambitious: sustainability is too often taught as theory, when it needs to be lived. The project's answer is a digital ecosystem, centred on a mobile application, that turns sustainability learning into a daily habit through flashcards, short daily questions, monthly tests and gamified challenges. Behind the scenes, AI analyses how students engage with the material and feeds back personalised content, giving lecturers a clearer picture of what works and where learners need support.
Much of the discussion in Cluj-Napoca focused on turning that vision into practice, refining the educational resources, preparing the piloting phase with student and academic target groups, and strengthening the teaching methodology that partner institutions will use to embed sustainability across their curricula. The partners also looked ahead to dissemination and the question of how to sustain the results once the funding period ends, so that the shift in mindset the project aims for outlasts the project itself.
For CUT, the meeting reaffirmed its role in shaping both the content and the pedagogy at the heart of SMART-HEAD, and in carrying the results back to Cyprus.
Kick-off meeting of the Launch Game Project
On 24–25 June 2026, the four universities behind the SMART-HEAD project met at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca in Romania for two days of joint work on the project's progress. Representing the Cyprus University of Technology was Dr Antonia Christou, who joined colleagues from the coordinating Technical University of Sofia (Bulgaria), the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and the Democritus University of Thrace (Greece) to take stock of what has been built so far and to map out the phase ahead.
SMART-HEAD, short for Sustainable Mindset and AI-Supported Digital Transformation in Higher Education, is a three-year Erasmus+ partnership running until 2028. Its premise is simple but ambitious: sustainability is too often taught as theory, when it needs to be lived. The project's answer is a digital ecosystem, centred on a mobile application, that turns sustainability learning into a daily habit through flashcards, short daily questions, monthly tests and gamified challenges. Behind the scenes, AI analyses how students engage with the material and feeds back personalised content, giving lecturers a clearer picture of what works and where learners need support.
Much of the discussion in Cluj-Napoca focused on turning that vision into practice, refining the educational resources, preparing the piloting phase with student and academic target groups, and strengthening the teaching methodology that partner institutions will use to embed sustainability across their curricula. The partners also looked ahead to dissemination and the question of how to sustain the results once the funding period ends, so that the shift in mindset the project aims for outlasts the project itself.
For CUT, the meeting reaffirmed its role in shaping both the content and the pedagogy at the heart of SMART-HEAD, and in carrying the results back to Cyprus.
