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Piloting Teaspils in a school in Carinthia
Pupils piloted Teaspils in an agricultural school in Carinthia. Therefor an interdisciplinary approach was taken and Teaspils was used in...
Tom Economou
Jun 19, 2023


TEASPILS Bachelor Theses: Effects of greening learning spaces on students at HAUP
The bachelor thesis examines the subjective impact of greened classrooms on concentration, mental and physical wellbeing such as the...
Tom Economou
Jun 19, 2023


TEASPILS Bachelor Theses: Green classrooms for a healthy learning environment
The bachelor thesis deals with the interior greening of a classroom at the Ehrental Education Centre and the use of measurements to...
Tom Economou
Jun 19, 2023


New final degree presented: Voice assistant for monitoring the status of plants
Yesterday, April 14th, 2023, Hongyan Xie and Dina Shen presented their final degree project: The voice assistant for monitoring the...
bernardotabuenca
Apr 14, 2023


Presentation by Terra Cypria @ TPM5 in Cyprus
During the 5th Transnational Project meeting in Cyprus we had the pleasure to host a very interesting talk by Kyriaki Michael, the...
Tom Economou
Jan 26, 2023

Presenting TEASPILS to the Cyprus Environmental Education Centre (Akrotiri)
The Akrotiri Environmental Education Centre (AEEC) is located in the South of the island, West of Limassol. It is next to an important...
Tom Economou
Jan 20, 2023

Final degree project presented: Smartceta: a system for measuring basic values of a plants using IoT
Antonio Bautista presented his final degree project entitled "Smartceta: a system for measuring basic values of a plants using IoT". The...
bernardotabuenca
Dec 14, 2022

Running new pilots with Higher Education students at UPM
During the last month, Professor Alejandro Leo RamÃrez is using plants and IoT technology to teach environmental awareness in the subject...
bernardotabuenca
Dec 14, 2022

Plants can communicate in German, Greek, Catalan, Spanish, and English
Not really, but we have translated the description of the interaction commands with the IoT system via chatbot so that teachers and...
bernardotabuenca
Dec 14, 2022

Master thesis presented: Dashboard for Environmental Awareness Education
Last July 2022, Paula Balcells Falgueras presented her master thesis Master Thesis on Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media entitled...
bernardotabuenca
Dec 14, 2022

Plant-Based Learning Going into Pilot Phase
After a substantial design and development process, the TEASPILS learning ecosystem for teaching environmental awareness is entering the...
Tom Economou
Nov 18, 2022

Best paper award at ICL2022!!
Extraordinary achievement of the TEASPILS project. We have been granted with the Best Paper Award at the 25th International Conference on...
bernardotabuenca
Oct 5, 2022


Project Meeting in Athens, September 2022
The 4th Project Meeting was realised on 19-20 September 2022 in Athens, Greece. It was hosted at the premises of Doukas School, situated...
Tom Economou
Sep 21, 2022

Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL)
Christos Rodosthenous, Efstathios Mavrotheris, Wolfgang Greller, Bernardo Tabuenca (2022). Creating Environmental Awareness in Education...
Tom Economou
Sep 20, 2022


Makers Faire & Test pilots prep-up
On July 1st and 2nd, the panel: Sensors, loT for STEAM learning and environmental awareness was presented at the Maker Faire 2022...
Tom Economou
Sep 20, 2022


Plants make us happy
Some new scientific studies confirm, what we all know: that time spent in a green environment such as a forest makes us happy. Using a...
Tom Economou
Sep 20, 2022

TEASPILS at EDULEARN 22
Christos Rodosthenous, Efstathios Mavrotheris (2022). Applying Gamification Mechanics in an Environmental Education SPOC. In Proceedings...
bernardotabuenca
Sep 20, 2022


Online course to promote environmental awareness
A small private online course with 5 Live-Online-Sessions was conducted from September 2021 to February 2022 to support the study...
bernardotabuenca
Sep 19, 2022

Extracting, visualising, and understanding data
In the context of Intellectual Output 2, UPM has enabled a data dashboard to view the data reported by the sensors in real time. As shown...
bernardotabuenca
Sep 19, 2022

Spikes unboxed and tested
Christmas came early for the TEASPILS project team! In the most recent project meeting at the University College of Teacher Education,...
Tom Economou
Jun 1, 2022

Presentation at OER 2022 Conference
Tomorrow we present our work "Teaching environmental awareness using plants and IoT technologies: an open approach" at the OER22...
bernardotabuenca
Apr 25, 2022


Doukas School is getting greener!
The first plants have arrived at Doukas School. Secondary school students, accompanied by their teacher, Mrs. Manouri, had the chance to...
Tom Economou
Apr 18, 2022

TEASPILS Prototype Released
During the recent TEASPILS project meeting of partners, the first hands-on prototype of the TEASPILS Spike was presented. Matching with...
Tom Economou
Mar 26, 2022


First sessions with Spike v1.0
These days we are presenting and evaluating Spike v1.0 at the Higher Technical School of Agricultural, Food and Biosystems Engineering...
bernardotabuenca
Mar 10, 2022


Dressed for success: Training Spike v1.0 to learn from plants
At UPM we are assembling the Spike v1.0 components. We have the printed PCB, we have chosen the sensors, we have placed the displays,...
teaspilseuproject
Feb 24, 2022


Printing mini-Spikes 3D for children in schools
These days we are printing 3D mini-Spikes that will be embedded in pots in primary schools, so that younger children can understand the...
teaspilseuproject
Feb 24, 2022


Spike v1.0 is taking shape
The UPM continues progressing in the implementation of the first prototype of the spike. Juan Luis Moreno Sancho (UPM) is working hard on...
bernardotabuenca
Feb 7, 2022

TEASPILS visualization dashboard
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) is leading the design and development of the TEASPILS visualization dashboard to show plant data...
Tom Economou
Feb 7, 2022


Schoolchildren and plants
Although by now it is reasonably well understood that children have a strong inherent connection to plants and green natural...
teaspilseuproject
Dec 2, 2021

TEASPILS @ MoodleMoot Greece Conference
This TEASPILS Multiplier Event was jointly organized by the Open University of Cyprus (OUC) and Doukas School (DOU) Greece and was...
teaspilseuproject
Nov 30, 2021


Plants selected by teachers participating in the SPOC
This week, teachers at UPM participating in the SPOC have selected and received the plants at their faculties. They will be able to live...
bernardotabuenca
Nov 19, 2021

Plants have arrived
Our school children were very excited when the TEASPILS funded plants arrived in their classroom last week. The first challenge to...
teaspilseuproject
Nov 19, 2021


Multiplier event (E3) at Real JardÃn Botánico de Madrid
Next October 15 at 11:00, the E3 multiplier event of the TEASPILS project is organised. The event is entitled "Naturalising learning...
bernardotabuenca
Oct 11, 2021

New publication at IEEE 45th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference 2021
The TEASPILS teams has presented "Solutions to ventilate learning spaces: a review of current CO2 sensors for IoT systems" at the 45th...
bernardotabuenca
Sep 24, 2021

TEASPILS presenting at CO2 makers meeting organised by aireamos.org
On 14th January 2021, TEASPILS participated in the session organised by aireamos.org that aimed to disseminate good practices on the...
bernardotabuenca
Sep 24, 2021

TEASPILS SPOC
The TEASPILS project in its endeavour to promote environmental awareness in classrooms and learning spaces, is starting a small private...
Tom Economou
Aug 30, 2021

Kick-off meeting
Today, 12/4/2020, the project partners organised and held the first part of the project's partner meeting, digitally, due to COVID-19...
Tom Economou
Apr 11, 2021

The start of the TEASPILS Project!
The project officially started on September 2020 and had its first meeting, the kick-off meeting, on 12/04/2021. About the project The...
Tom Economou
Nov 16, 2020
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