Tag: Greece

3asyR among the 25 best startups

3asyR among the 25 best startups

3asyR successfully moves on to the next phase of the MITEF Greece startup competition.  As MIT Enterprise Forum Greece announced yesterday, 25 Semifinalists, among them 3asyR, have been selected to participate in seminars on business management that will last for three months. The Semifinalists cover a wide range of sectors as for example Internet and […]

‘I was looking for a reading tool and I decided to create it’

‘I was looking for a reading tool and I decided to create it’

Source: Neos Kosmos, Melbourne,  Australia 07/09/2016 From Nikos Fotakis Mary Tsiana explains how she came up with 3asyR, a web plug-in that makes reading easier for dyslexics For most people, being dyslexic means missing out on opportunity. Mary Tsiana did the exact opposite. She used her dyslexia as an opportunity to create a tool that would […]

Inspiring teachers – Angelos Patsias

Inspiring teachers – Angelos Patsias

 Angelos  Patsias is the teacher that everyone would like to have. He is cool, pleasant, passionate and loves children a lot. What else would a kid want from his/her teacher? Love and understanding. I first met him at TEDxThessaloniki back in 2013, where he presented the work he did in Fourfoura, Crete. This year, he is […]

Can dyslexics become academics? Yes!

Can dyslexics become academics? Yes!

Vasiliki Mylonopoulou grew up in Thessaloniki, Greece, but for the last three years she lived in Umeå, Sweden, and just recently moved to Oulu, Finland. She is dyslexic, but this didn’t prevent her from beginning an academic career. She enjoys long walks, music, board games and also speaks Greek, Swedish and English and is currently […]

Best Wep App award

Best Wep App award

It was beginning of May 2014, when in a conversation with my friend Kyros Voyatzoglou, a marketing expert, I mentioned an idea about an online tool that would help dyslexics read easier only. He got interested and suggested I should take part in a  competition that was taking place a few days after. It was the first time I […]