The WeNet platform, of which the Open University of Cyprus is a member of its consortium, included to EC Innovation Radar

The “WeNet: The Internet of Us” project, funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 Programme, has been singled out by the EC initiative and platform, which recognised the project’s Ask4Help chatbot and WeNet diversity-aware platform as “key innovation”, evaluated as also having business-ready market maturity. The Open University of Cyprus and the OUC Computational Cognition Lab led by Associate Professor Loizos Michael, are members of the project’s consortium, contributing technologies used for the WeNet platform, while also providing the infrastructure and know-how for the online courses offered through the consortium on the research and innovation activities of the project.

The WeNet platform provides the technological infrastructure to set out a series of studies that are carried within universities worldwide with diverse student populations, and with the final goal of improving students' quality of life inside and outside the academic environment. Beyond universities, WeNet's innovative paradigm impacts human interactions in general, especially those that may benefit from a collaborative approach (creative industries, medical diagnosis, etc.), by designing and developing a machine-mediated diversity-aware platform for human-to-human interactions.

The Innovation Radar platform builds on the information and data gathered by independent experts involved in reviewing ongoing research and innovation projects funded by the European Commission. These experts also provide an independent view regarding the innovations in the projects and their market potential.