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SciFY: Science For You
We bring technology and research results
as solutions to everyday life
www.scify.org
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A Technological Non Profit Company that Solves Real-Life Problems by
Sharing Technology - Managing Innovation -
Spreading Knowledge - Building Communities
Bridging Scientific Innovation with Society’s needs
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2020● 6 employees - 10+ Volunteers● 4 awards - Dozens of projects● Partnerships with Universities, NGOs,
Companies...● Projects funded by EU
Our journey...so far..
the journey continues ...
2012
● 8 Members - Volunteers● 3 Projects
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Sponsors and Collaborators
Sponsors● Major Greek Welfare Institutions
● International funding○ EU projects (H2020, Erasmus+...)○ EEA and Norway Grants
Collaborators: Universities and Research Institutes
● 6 Major Greek Universities● 2 Research Centres
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Freedom for people with disabilities
Helping Organizations create value
Startups and Innovation
Artificial Intelligence
Impact areas
Training & Education (through SciFY Academy )
Knowledge Dissemination - Skills development
Assistive Technologies
E-democracy tools
Empowering Citizens
Civil SocietySupport
Helping Civil Society bring results
Helping Organizations get smarter
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How we bring results
Free tech tools
We create freedigital solutions
Supporting Community
We form a communityof changemakers
We create viable solutions
Knowledge Sharing
We disseminate knowledge
Innovation management
We help bring ideas to life
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Assistive technologies
Assistive tech - At a glance
Freedom for people with disabilities
● We help people with disabilities, professionals and carers by
○ Creating assistive technology tools
○ Offering them for free
○ Conducting trainings and innovative awareness campaigns
● Thousands of users use our solutions:
○ Electronic Games for the blind
○ App for carers of people with dementia
○ Systems for people with cerebral palsy
○ Tools for educators
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Artificial Intelligence at a glance
● EducationWe are preparing citizens and businesspeople for AI
● Digital Transformation using AIWe are helping business boost results with AI
● Free ΑΙ SolutionsWe are creating and publicly offering AI solutions
● Technology transfer of research resultsWe are using research results to create working solutions
Artificial Intelligence
Helping Organizations get smarter
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● We help Startups:
○ Create IT Solutions that fit their needs
○ Exploit AI potential
○ Use efficient methodologies & business processes
○ Form a growth strategy
● We conduct trainings on entrepreneurship
● We run Social Entrepreneurship projects
Entrepreneurship at a glance
Startups and Innovation
Helping Organizations create value
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E-democracy tools
Empowering Citizens
e-Democracy at a glance
● E-tools for public engagement
● Crowdsourcing
● Events (eg Athens Democracy Forum)
● Gamification
● Training - Knowledge Dissemination
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Civil Society Support at a glance
● IT Tools for NGOs (eg volunteer / beneficiary management)
● Training - Consulting
● Social Entrepreneurship Projects
SupportingCivil Society
Helping Civil Society bring results
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SciFY Academy at a glance
● Training (Events, Workshops, Educational programmes)
● Knowledge dissemination (White papers…)
● Educational Games
SciFYAcademy
Knowledge Dissemination
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Whom do we support ?
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Whom do we support ?
● Helping people with disabilities
● Building citizens’ skills
● Offering free tools for everyday problems
● Listening to needs - creating solutions
● Creating communities of changemakers
● Offering free use of software solutions
● Boost NGOs’ funding potential
● Increase NGOs’ social impact
● Upgrade NGOs’ resources with IT
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Whom do we support ?
● Creating IT Solutions that fit business needs
● Helping exploit AI potential
● Guiding into digital transformation
● Helping innovate in CSR and Marketing
● Offering access to innovation sources
● Creating IT Solutions that fit startups’ needs
● Guiding into AI potential exploitation
● Helping use efficient business processes
● Supporting IT department growth
● Helping form a growth strategy
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Whom do we support ?
Help Universities and Research Institutes:
● Demonstrate research results exploitation
● See their research applied
● Empower their research with AI and IT
● Enrich their educational activities
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Services we offer
Software andAI solutions
Innovation Management & Product Development Guidance
Gaming & Gamification
Innovative Education & Skills development Fundraising support
Communication & Networking
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Contact us | [email protected]
Vassilis GiannakopoulosMarketing & Social Impact [email protected],mobile: + 30.697.20.58.648LinkedIn: http://gr.linkedin.com/in/vgiannakopoulosTel. +30.211.400.4192
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Appendix I
Analysis of Services Offered
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Services we offer
Software and AI solutions
○ Web apps - Platforms development
○ Artificial Intelligence - Machine Learning - Natural Language Processing Solutions
○ Mobile apps development
○ Digital Transformation
○ Assistive Technologies
○ Data Integrations
○ Analytics, Business Intelligence
○ Big Data
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Services we offer
Communication and Networking
○ Events organization
○ Community building
○ Co-creation
○ Digital tools for communication
○ Mobilizing support communities
○ Stakeholder mapping
○ Science Communication
○ Research results dissemination
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●○ Requirements Collection
○ Technical Analysis
○ MVP development
○ Social Innovation
○ Hackathons
○ Cross-discipline solutions
creation
○ Open source sustainability
○ Sustainable Innovation
Services we offer
Innovation Management / Product development guidance
○ Concept development and testing
○ Technology productization
○ Business Model Canvas creation
○ Agile product development
○ Prototyping
○ Exploitation and Monetisation
of Research Results and Proofs-of-concept
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Services we offer
Gaming and Gamification
○ Serious / Educational Games development
○ Inclusive games (for People with Disabilities)
○ Gamification consulting and Integration
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Services we offer
Innovative Education / Skills development
○ Artificial Intelligence (AI) Training
○ Events / Talks
○ Hackathons / Workshops
○ Educational Repositories
○ Educational Games
○ Inclusive Education
○ STEAM education
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Services we offer
Fundraising support
○ EU proposal writing / EU Funding
○ Proposal writing for Grants
○ Crowdfunding
○ Consulting for funding opportunities
○ Crowdsourcing
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Appendix II
Financial Info and Key projects
How do we change reality?
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Revenue Breakdown
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Assistive Tech- Indicative Projects
● 30+ electronic games for the blind
● 19,000+ beneficiaries across the world
● 5 tournaments between blind and non-blind students
● 100+ mentions/articles on the media
● Smartphone application for people with dementia and their carers
● 5,500+ Beneficiaries
● 60+ media mentions/articles
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A.I. - Indicative projects
Technological Breakthrough
Automatic News Summarization using advanced AI technology
Automatically collects & summarizes news from multiple sources - in many languages
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e-Democracy - Indicative projects
Collaborative consultation platform
Citizen participation
Comments analysis
Common framework for consultation for EU citizens
Creation of an online repository on crowdsourcing
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Volunteer Management Platform
From recruitment and selection
To assignment to actions and shift planning
Civil Society support - Indicative projects
Online platform for beneficiary management
For NGOs that help socially vulnerable groups
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EnSoEd: Innovative teacher training on social entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship - Indicative projects
Fireathon (solutions against wildfires)
Teams’ Mentoring - Ideas’ Incubation - Support
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SciFY Academy - Indicative projects
Open Seminars
5,000 beneficiaries in 2017 only
20 Seminars - 15+ Skills
100+ of attendees in each event
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SciFY Academy - Indicative projects
STEM Game- Moondiver Xperience
Thousands of downloads
Collaboration with Educational organisations