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A digital euro is to be one of the innovations, which might change our daily life in the nearest future. The purpose of the introduction of a digital euro is to provide Europeans with a new, simple, universally accepted, safe, and trusted means of payment. A digital euro would be accessible to individuals and companies. A digital euro would not substitute the current euros. As the opposite of that, a digital euro would be an additional choice on how to pay. A digital euro is a new electronic form of money in addition to banknotes (cash money) and bank account [...]

Practical learning has become so much more important in the post-covid business management education. By using corporate live case projects at CIIM, we offer a challenging and effective learning process that today’s students both expect and need – a learning process in a real-life context and with real-life complexities. CIIM’s Master of Science in Business Management (MBM) runs every year a Corporate Live Case Project as part of our ‘Learning by Doing’ teaching philosophy. This year, the Live Case Project was organised in cooperation with Top Kinisis, a leading travel agency in Cyprus. Competing student teams were challenged to provide [...]

Φιλοσοφία της κρίσης Δρ Ιωάννης Σ. Χριστοδούλου, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής Φιλοσοφίας Διευθυντής του Μετ. Προγράμματος “Εκπαίδευση, Ηγεσία και Διοίκηση” CIIM – Cyprus International Institute of Management Ο Γενικός Γραμματέας των Ηνωμένων Εθνών, Αντόνιο Γκουτέρες, πριν λίγες ημέρες δήλωσε: "We must make sure funds go where they are needed most. Latest reports indicate that there has been a $5 trillion surge in the wealth of the world's richest in the past year,..." … "I urge governments to consider a solidarity or wealth tax on those who have profited during the pandemic, to reduce extreme inequalities,..." "But we need to go beyond debt [...]

Μνήμες 1821, μνήμες 1995-59, μνήμες που υποχρεώνουν, που σταυρώνουν τη συνείδηση κάθε Έλληνα, που σκέφτεται και τιμά τους προ-υπάρξαντες συνέλληνες, που κοίταξαν κατάματα τον φόβο, και είπαν "όχι". Τούτη η περιφρόνηση του πιο μαρτυρικού από τα συναισθήματα, του φόβου, είναι που έδωσε ταυτότητα στον Έλληνα, στο πέρασμα της ιστορίας του χιλιάδων χρόνων. Και γίνεται, τότε, φοβερός ο Έλληνας: γίνεται πολεμιστής. Και η μοίρα του αμείλικτη, για τον ίδιο που σηκώνει το ανάστημα, και λέει «όχι», και για κείνους που το εισπράττουν ως απάντηση, οι επίβουλοι και άδικοι. Γιατί τέτοιους εχθρούς έχει ο Έλληνας: επίβουλους και άδικους. Κι αν είναι να [...]

The covid-19 pandemic has imposed unprecedented disruptions upon the operations of a vast majority of businesses worldwide. Of course, not everyone is cursing the virus: big online retailers, pharmaceuticals, social media giants, food delivery platforms, online video conferencing companies are flourishing like never before. But for most businesses these are indeed very challenging, if not critical, times. For almost a year now, the focus of business leaders has naturally been all about business survival, yet as the pandemic unfolds, there has never been a more urgent need for companies to rethink and reconfigure their strategy in the new world of the [...]