- Greece
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
Profile
The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is the largest university in Greece, with 11 faculties and 41 departments. Its mission is focused on offering high-quality education to its students and producing actionable and applied research outcomes. The Department of Informatics is consistently ranked among the best in Greece, with highly cited papers and active faculty members who strive to bridge innovative technologies with established learning methodologies.
Projects
AUTH has successfully carried out various projects related to skills analytics. Labour market analytics and the creation of online courses. Most notable efforts include the ComproFITS project which produces valuable insights on Competence Management, the SKILLAB project for the continuous monitoring of the European Labour Market and the Blockademic project for courses and certifications on lifelong education. Other projects include Gradana and Comalat, targeted towards vocational training and Data Science graduates.
Expertise
AUTH, and most specifically the Department of Informatics, in the context of DIRECT, is highly skilled in software engineering, data science, machine learning methodologies and the extraction and natural language processing of textual information from various sources.
Key Tasks
AUTH is the coordinator of DIRECT, given its extended expertise in managing and delivering European research projects. AUTH is also the leader of WP4 which will produce a skills analytics engine for learning pathways recommendation.
Team
Ioannis Stamelos
Proposal Coordinator
Dr Ioannis Stamelos is Professor and Head of the School of Informatics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and serves as Proposal Coordinator for DIRECT. Having acted as scientific coordinator or PI on 30+ ICT R&D projects, he supplies the consortium with proven leadership and deep expertise in software engineering, effort estimation, competency building and applied AI, guiding DIRECT toward responsible digital innovation.
Lefteris Angelis
Team Leader
Dr Lefteris Angelis is Professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and leads the AUTH team in DIRECT. A specialist in the human dimension of software engineering, he applies advanced statistical methods to analyze competencies, skills and learning pathways. Angelis provides the consortium with data-driven insight on human factors, guiding evidence-based curriculum design and impact evaluation in digital-responsibility education.
Anastasia Deligka
Project Administration
Anastasia Deligka is a researcher in software engineering and educational technologies. She holds a degree in Informatics from the Hellenic Open University. She has a lot of experience in supporting R&D projects related to the above-mentioned topics in the past 20 years.
Maria Ganopoulou
Project Manager
Dr. Maria Ganopoulou is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Biostatistics. Her research focuses on the statistical analysis of data, with an emphasis on the application of causal models. She has participated in five research projects, and she will contribute to data analysis. She also serves as DIRECT project manager.
