Secondments

Constantinos Djouvas (CUT) secondment to UAB Metis Baltic (METBALTIC)

The objective of this secondment was the familiarization of the secondee with the procedure that one must follow in assessing risks and how this can be done in real-time through sensor data analysis collected from CH sites.
The secondee is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication and Internet Studies of the Cyprus University of Technology.
The secondee learned the main steps one must follow for risk assessment and management, i.e.,
● Risk identification
● Risk Assessment
● Risk Prioritization
● Risk Response
● Response Performance Evaluation

Constantinos Djouvas (CUT) secondment to UAB Metis Baltic (METBALTIC)

Baltic is a dissemination and commercialization expert, specializing in research and innovation projects, based in Vilnius, Lithuania. During this visit, project partners shared their experiences and good practices in dissemination, communication, and outreach activities.

The objective of this secondment was the familiarization of the secondee with the procedure that one must follow in assessing risks and how this can be done in real-time through sensor data analysis collected from CH sites.
During the secondment, he acquired knowledge directly connected to WP7 – Requirements, Evaluation test bed and integrated actions and WP9 – Exploitation, dissemination and outreach activities.
He also attended meetings from other projects to gain respective experience.

Vasiliki (Betty) Charalampopoulou (GMCY) secondment to POLIMI

Vasiliki (Betty) Charalampopoulou (GMCY), Prof Georgi (POLIMI) and with Maguelonne Déjeant-Pons visited the CH and NBS area of the Bosco Verticale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosco_Verticale).

Maguelonne Déjeant-Pons is the Head Landscape, Environment, Major Hazards Division / Executive Secretary Council of Europe Landscape Convention / Chef Division Paysage, Environnement, Risques majeurs /Secrétaire exécutive Convention du Conseil de l’Europe sur le paysage And works for the Council of Europe / Conseil de l’Europe in Strasbourg.

Charalampos Zafeiropoulos (NTUA) secondment to Metis Baltic (METBALTIC)

Charalampos Zafeiropoulos is a junior researcher in the fields of Signal Analysis (with a special focus on cultural heritage monuments), Maths and Statistics.

During the secondment, he acquired knowledge directly connected to WP7 – Requirements, Evaluation test bed and integrated actions and WP9 – Exploitation, dissemination and outreach activities.
1 He was introduced to specialized software and hardware equipment of METIS, particularly to tools of MS office, and CANVA to make social media posts and edit images.
2 He was taught the software interface of Wix and WordPress for website editing

He also attended meetings from other projects to gain respective experience.

Charalampos Zafeiropoulos (NTUA) to Resilience Guard (RG)

Charalampos Zafeiropoulos is a junior researcher in the fields of Signal Analysis (with a special focus on cultural heritage monuments), Maths and Statistics.

During the secondment, he acquired knowledge directly connected to WP5 – Earth Observation, Sensor Data and Geospatial Services for Increased Resilience of the Cultural Heritage areas and WP8 Transfer of knowledge, Training and Networking

  1. He was introduced to specialized software and hardware equipment of RG, particularly to the tool of QGIS in order to handle hyperspectral images.

He also attended meetings from other projects to gain respective experience.

Ioannis Kavouras (NTUA) secondment to UAB Metis Baltic (METBALTIC)

Ioannis Kavouras is an experienced Rural Surveyor Engineer and Geo-informatics.
During the secondment, he acquired knowledge directly connected to WP5 – Earth Observation, Sensor Data and Geospatial Services for Increased Resilience of the Cultural Heritage areas and WP7 – Requirements, Evaluation test bed and integrated actions.
• Making good and organized posts in social media for advertising the project.

Anastasios Temenos (NTUA) secondment to Geomatics (Cyprus) Ltd (GMCY)

Anastasios Temenos is a graduate engineer of the School of Rural, Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering (SRSGE) at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).
During the secondment, Anastasios Temenos acquired knowledge directly connected to WP5 – Earth Observation, Sensor Data and Geospatial Services for Increased Resilience of the Cultural Heritage areas. In more detail, Anastasios Temenos acquired the knowledge of how engineers collect, process and illustrate data for a Task. He observed how data are collected from UAVs or downloaded from satellites. Moreover, he saw how they are loaded in software and how are processed. Finally, he understood how a company creates formal documents and most especially formal maps for deliverables. A noticeable knowledge was during the earth observation data collection part because Anastasios Temenos had access to several datasets from many remote sensing resources. Last, Anastasios Temenos was introduced to the OPS-SAT, a cube satellite devoted to demonstrating drastically improved mission control capabilities, that will arise when satellites can fly more powerful onboard computers. The satellite is only 30cm high, but it contains an experimental computer ten times more powerful than any current ESA spacecraft. He acquired this knowledge by participating in the 6th ESA PECS Call Briefing and Information Day on ESA‘s OPS-sat2 and advanced telecommunication activities.

Carlo Andrea CASTIGLIONI (POLIMI) secondment to Geomatics (Cyprus) Ltd – GMCY

Mr Carlo Andrea Castiglioni is a Civil Engineer. He got his PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Genova. He is a Full Professor at the Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, teaching “Design of Structures” and “Structures and Earthquake Resistance Criteria“ at the School of Building Engineering.
During this secondment:
1 He was introduced to specialized software and hardware equipment of the photogrammetric laboratory of Hexagon Geospatial Series. Particularly, he was trained in software tools of ERDAS Photogrammetry and Image Station professional for 3D reconstruction and modelling.
2 He was trained in the software interface for air triangulation, control points evaluation and orthorectification.
3 He was trained in 3D shop digitization.
4 He was trained in the GIS mapping of a CH area (use of QGIS), including database creation (PostGIS) .

During this secondment, Prof. Julia Nerantzia Tzortzi and Prof. Carlo Castiglioni also visited the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment and met with Eftychia Ioannou, the Engineer responsible for the Environmental Issues from the Minister of Defence

Julia Nerantzia TZORTZI (POLIMI) secondment to Geomatics (Cyprus) Ltd – GMCY

Prof. Julia Nerantzia Tzortzi is an Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering of Politecnico di Milano previously she was a professor at Universities in Cyprus (Neapolis University of Cyprus) and in Greece (International University of Greece) and visiting professor in several Universities (ZUST University – China, Hellenic Open University – Greece, Thessaly University – Greece).

During her secondment:

  1. She was introduced to specialized software and hardware equipment of the photogrammetric laboratory of Hexagon Geospatial Series. Particularly, she was trained in software tools of ERDAS Photogrammetry and Image Station professional for 3D reconstruction and modelling.
  2. She was trained in the software interface for air triangulation, control points evaluation and orthorectification.
  3. She was trained in 3D shop digitization.
  4. She was trained in the GIS mapping of a CH area (use of QGIS), including database creation (PostGIS) .

During this secondment, Prof. Julia Nerantzia Tzortzi and Prof. Carlo Castiglioni also visited the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment and met with Eftychia Ioannou, the Engineer responsible for the Environmental Issues from the Minister of Defence.

Andrea Maria Amati (RED) secondment to NTUA

Mr Andrea Maria Amati is a building engineer with a specialization in Risk and Emergency Management and experience in the field of disaster risk assessment and risk modelling. He is Risk Management Specialist at RED SPA.

During the secondments, he acquired knowledge directly connected to WP4 – Multi-Hazard Modelling, Vulnerability and Impact Assessment of the historic areas. He focused his secondments on:

1 Acquisition of knowledge in earthquake hazard modelling with the use of Open Quake software

2 Acquisition of knowledge on building typologies in CH-sites in Europe for developing a Taxonomy

3 Study of seismic vulnerability curves from literature (SERA) to be assigned to the taxonomy classes.

Ettore Fagà (RED) secondment to NTUA

Mr. Ettore Fagà is a civil engineer with a PhD in Earthquake Engineering. He is the COO and Senior Earthquake Engineer at RED SPA.

During the secondments, he acquired knowledge directly connected to WP4 – Multi-Hazard Modelling, Vulnerability, and Impact Assessment of the historic areas. He focused his secondments on:

1 Acquisition of knowledge in earthquake hazard modelling. He studied different innovative modelling approaches (e.g., GMPE selections, IMs characterization etc.)

2 Acquisition of knowledge on most recent wind vulnerability modelling approaches (e.g., component-based)

Georgios Triantafyllou (RED) secondment to NTUA

Mr. Georgios Triantafyllou is a Civil Engineer and a seismic risk specialist at RED SPA.

During the secondments he acquired knowledge directly connected to WP4 – Multi-Hazard Modelling, Vulnerability and Impact Assessment of the historic areas, in particular, he:

1 Acquired knowledge on the development of component-based wind vulnerability functions 2 He was taught how to implement algorithms for risk assessment purposes

Resilience Guard (RG) secondment to NTUA

The National Technical University of Athens is among the oldest higher education institutions of Greece and the most prestigious among engineering schools. The valuable work of NTUA and its international reputation are due to its well-organised educational and research system, the quality of its staff and students, and the adequacy of its technical infrastructure. NTUA Faculty members publish annually more than 3.000 scientific papers (in journals, conference proceedings, chapters in volumes etc.) which earn more than 20.000 citations.

Demiridis and Markou from RG visited NTUA and exchanged their knowledge and experience with the receiving organisation.

Resilience Guard (RG) secondment to CUT

The Cyprus University of Technology is based in Limassol, the second-largest city in Cyprus. CUT is constantly committed to promoting research excellence and is internationally distinguished in this area, providing a total of 40 million Euros of external funding for 227 research programmes. Also, the CUT, being the main research and development body for the region, assists and collaborates in a variety of ways with local and international SMEs.

Markou from RG visited CUT and exchanged his knowledge of the technical aspects of the project with the receiving organisation.


Athanasios Giamas (METBALTIC) secondment to NTUA

Athanasios Giamas is a Managing director at UAB Metis Baltic, where his main competencies lie in
• The Human Resource Management
• Project acquisition and management
• Commercialization and intellectual property
• New business development

During the secondment, he acquired knowledge directly connected to WP7 – Requirements, Evaluation test bed and integrated actions.
He was introduced to specialized software and hardware equipment in the laboratory of the NTUA.

Aikaterini Georgantea (METBALTIC) secondment to NTUA

Aikaterini Georgantea is an experienced EU Programs Management in the fields of ICTs (with a special focus on culture, education and tourism), Societal Innovations, Environment and Energy.

During the secondment she acquired knowledge directly connected to WP5 – Earth Observation, Sensor Data and Geospatial Services for Increased Resilience of the Cultural Heritage areas and WP7 – Requirements, Evaluation test bed and integrated actions.

1 She was introduced to specialized software and hardware equipment of the photogrammetric laboratory of the NTUA, particularly to tools of ArcGIS and PhotoScan professional toolkit for 3D reconstruction.
2 She was taught the software interface of Matlab
3 She was introduced to user requirements and the methodology used in its specification.

Athanasios Giamas (METBALTIC) secondment to CUT

The main focus of Athanasios Giamas’ from Metis Baltic secondment to the Cyprus University of Technology is the transfer of Knowledge, Training and Networking.

During this meeting, Mr Giamas discussed the details of the next summer school with Prof. Nicolas Tsapatsoulis.