Coordinator

Sotiris Chtouris - Sotiris Chtouris

Thermi Towers Mytilene

   Curriculum vitae




Main scientific expertise

 

Clinical Sociology , Urban Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Culture, Clinical Sociology. Social and Cultural Networks, Biographical Research, Voluntary Foundations, Poverty and Social Disorganization & Pathology.

 

 

1979 Diploma in Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, University of Frankfurt

1987 PhD. in Sociology, Department of Sociology, Social Sciences, University of Frankfurt

1979 -1984 Researcher: Institute for Social Research Frankfurt

1984- 1986 Research Assistant, Panteion University of Athens

1986-1987 Researcher at the Foundation for Mediterranean Studies, Athens

1987-1988 Military service - Greek Army (6 months)

1988-1991 Principal researcher, University of Kassel, E.U. & Prof. DIpsen

1991-1993 Professor at the University of the Aegean, Department of Anthropology

1993-2021 Professor, Department of Sociology, University of the Aegean

2021 >  President of CREATION, Ecological Research Initiative .

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The most recent and current positions and activities :

 

  • -τ. President and founding member of the Interdepartmental Graduate Studies Programme: "Applied Clinical Sociology and Art. (2017-2021). Department of Sociology - University of the Aegean, School of Fine Arts, -University of Western Macedonia.  2021-2022, lecturer with a project contract in the same Master's degree in the subjects of Clinical Sociology and Art-based Action Research.
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  • Director and founder (1995) of the Laboratory of Social and Cultural Documentation of the Department of Sociology (until relatively recently). Which I continue to support with research projects, publications and activities. The lab has completed major projects particularly on music art and its artistic performance.  An important series of works entitled "Musical Crossroads of the Aegean" has been published following long-term research in which important professors, musicology, ethnomusicology and traditional and contemporary musicians have collaborated and continue to collaborate.  The main collaborator and scientific co-editor of these works and publications is Professor Dim. Papageorgiou, current vice-rector of the University of the Aegean. 

 

  • President of the Research-Ecological Cooperative and Publishing House, university books and art books. DemouErgia (2020-2022)

 

 

Research interests - Academic - Courses.

  • Clinical Sociology, Clinical Social Research 
  • Urban Sociology
  •  Clinical Sociology
  • Sociology of Art.
  • Qualitative and quantitative social research methods and techniques, biographical research
  •  Studies on migration, refugees and xenophobia
  •  Information Society - Knowledge Society
  •  Social and cultural networks - Social capital, voluntary foundations
  • Poverty and social inequality
  •  Youth and employment

 

-Research interests- Academic Courses

 

urban sociology 

clinical sociology

Sociology of Art 

Qualitative and quantitative Methods and Techniques of Social Research, Biographical Research

Migration, Refugee and Xenophobia Studies

Information Society- Knowledge Society 

Social and Cultural Networks - Social Capital , Voluntary Institutions 

Poverty and Social Inequality 

Youth and Employment


Teaching . 

1>Teaching the course Sociology of Art and Nature in the Department of Sociology for 7 years and until the end of my tenure in the Department of Sociology uninterrupted in all academic years from 2015 to August 2021.  

2>Teaching the course 'The Social Dimension of Art' at the School of Fine Arts of the University of Western Greece. Academic year 2020-2021 and academic year 2021-2022 

3> Teaching the course 'Critical Readings in Sociological Theory and Aesthetic Theory [EKKT21BX]' in the MSc, Applied Clinical Sociology and Art (2017-2022).

4>I teach the courses of Sociology of Cities and Sociology of Networks in all academic years since the start of the Department of Sociology at the University of the Aegean. 

5> Teaching the course 'Applied - Clinical Sociology and Art: Basic Concepts and Principles [EKKT21BX]' in the MSc, Applied Clinical Sociology and Art (2017-2022).

Books, articles, working texts.  Conferences. Scientific workshops.

[Books, Journal Papers, Working Papers, Reports and Conference Presentations relevant to Research Projects in which I have participated as a Senior-researcher]                    

Chtouris, Sotiris (2022). Auto-ethnographic work for the Frankfurt School and the Social and Cultural Environment of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research. "Adorno's Pajamas". Mytilene, DemouErgia. (book).                                                                       

Chouris Sot. & Anna Micheli (2022). Autoethnography and Artistic Creation Autoethnography. The Artwork, the Artist and their Social Context. Callippos, Academic writings. (under publication-approved Textbook 350 p.)

Chtouris Sotiris (2020) Second (b') updated edition (1η Epikentron), Youth in Greece today.  Their life in the era of successive crises Principal Researcher and Editor- In4Youth.  In collaboration with : Dionysis Balourdos. Stella Kalogeropoulou, Malama Redaris, George Stalidis, Anastasia Zisi. Chr.Bellas. Mytilene: DemouErgia.

Chtouris, Sotiris (2020).  The conceptual and aesthetic dialogue with the work of art. The method of dialectical En-imaging.  Mytilene: DemouErgia (Book).                                                                                                                                                           

Chouris, Sotiris & Flora, Tzelepoglou (2020). Images Messages and Interpretations. Simple Lessons in Sociology in the Age of the Image. Mytilene:DemouErgia

 Chouris, S. Anastasia Zisi (2020). Our social self, family and social attitudes during the constraints of the Covid pandemic - 19 in 2020). The Greek Review of Social Research, 154, 41-64. doi:https://doi.org/10.12681/grsr.23228 

Chtouris, S., (2020). The emergence of the new Bio-Sociality in the pandemic of Covid-19. The beginning of a new social era. In, Afouxenidis, A., & Chtouris, S. (2020). Foreword: talking about the pandemic.  The Greek Review of Social Research 154, 1-10. doi: https://doi.org/10.12681/grsr.23233

Zissi, A., Chtouris, S., (2020) Covid-19 Pandemic as inequality accelerator and installer of new forms of inequality. Social Research Review, 154, 65-73. doi:https://doi.org/10.12681/grsr.23229

     Chtouris, S., Zissi, A. (2019). Refugees trauma and volunteer's involvement in their positive and negative dialectics of identity. In, Andreas Hamburger et.al. ed., Forced Migration and Social Trauma. Interdisciplinary from Psychoanalysis, Psychology Sociology, Politics. NY, Routledge.

     Chtouris, S., (2019). The dynamic        dialectic      relationship of empirical data        and   theoretical  concepts      . A framework for documenting and understanding social phenomena. A framework for documenting and understanding social phenomena). The Greek Review of Social Research, 151, 137-170. doi: https://doi.org/10.12681/grsr.19859

  • Chouris, S., Apostolidou, K., (2019). Employment policy and the role of human capital for the integration of young people into the labour market, In, Proceedings of the Conference, "The political phenomenon in transition", Department of Political Science and International Relations. University of Peloponnese, Loutraki, 13-15 Dec. 2019. 

Htouris, S., (2019). The three levels of men's dialectic with women. Theory, painting and dramatic artwork.                                                                                                            

Miller DeMond Shondell and Chtouris Sotiris (2017). The Differing Perceptions of Zones of Exclusion: the Redefinition of the Modern European Protectionist State in an Era of Unprecedented Irregular Migration, In. Frank Jacob, & Adam Luedtke, Migration and the Crisis of the Modern Nation State, Delaware:, Vernon Press 

Miller DeMond Shondell and Chtouris Sotiris (2017). The Struggle for Place and Space. in The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises, Oxford: Oxford U.P.   

Chouris S. (2017) Mother and child, a psychological, symbolic, physical and aesthetic physical bond. With reference to two visual artworks by Egon Schiele[1] : Synapsis issue 46 [July-Aug-Sept] 2017]                 

Chtouris Sotiris (2017) Youth in Greece today. Social Status, Work and Social Networks. The era of Generation G., Principal Researcher and Editor- In4Youth.  In collaboration with : Dionysis Balourdos. Malama Redaris, George Stalidis, Anastasia Zisi. Chr.Bellas. Thessaloniki: Epikentron.

Sotiris Chtouris (2017) Embodied dialectical meta-memory in the city, in Cavafy's poetry, in Yannis Ziogas, Stellaiou, Landscape: Histories, political representations. , Thessaloniki: State Museum of Contemporary Art.,p.p. 115 - 123. 

Chouris Sotiris (2017) Visual Dialectical Realism (Caravaggio, Kavafis, Frida Kahlo). Working Paper. CultureLab, Mytilene: University of the Aegean.

Chtouris Sotiris (2017) Visual Dialectical Realism (Caravaggio, Kavafis, Frida Kahlo) Working Paper, CultureLab, Mytilene: University of the Aegean

Chtouris, S. (2017). The Social and Cultural Identity of Refugees in the Current European Crisis. A Paper presented at: East-West Dialogue: Migration, Trauma in Transition, Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo, 7th-15th April 2017. 

Chtouris, S. &  Zissi A. (2017).  The trauma of a community: a short commentary on Caravaggio's painting (1601-1602) "The Incredulity of St. Thomas" A Paper presented in: East-West Dialogue: Migration, Trauma in Transition, Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo, 7th-15th 2017. 

Miller DeMond Shondell and Chtouris Sotiris (2017) Postcards From the Edge of Europe: Immigrant Landscapes and the Creation of Greektopia, Heterotopia, and Atopia in Lesvos, Greece , Space and Culture 1-10

Chtouris Sotiris & Miller DeMond S. (2017) Refugee Flows and Volunteers in the Current Humanitarian Crisis in Greece, Journal of Applied Security Research, 12:1, 61-77, DOI: 10.1080/19361610.2017.1228025

DeMond S. Miller, Sotiris Chtouris, Nicola Davis Bivens, Nyjeer Wesley & Darius Fraction (2017) Fostering Community-Based Resilience in Zones of Exclusion: Irregular Migration and National Security at the Forefront of Global Protection Against Human-Induced Terrorist Disasters, Journal of Applied Security Research, 12:1, 179-195, DOI:10.1080/19361610.2017.1228426

DeMond S. Miller & Sotiris Chtouris (2017) Borderland Security and Migration: Balancing Humanitarian Response with Crisis Preparedness & Emergency Management-The Social and Cultural Challenges to Homeland Security, Journal of Applied Security Research, 12:1, 1-6, DOI: 10.1080/19361610.2017.1227620

Chtouris, Sotiris and DeMond S. Miller. (2017) Dimensions of Space and Place in Sustaining Socio-Cultural Capital in Parallel Public Spheres: Indignatos and The Occupied. PUBLIC SPACES AND ITS (DIS)CONTENTS. editor Svitlana Shlipchenko (pp. 134-151). Heinrich Böll Foundation/KИÏВ.

 Hthorys, Sotiris and Miller, DeMonde S. (2017). Chasoprostori vimiria zaveniya sociocultural capitals in parallel pubblical spheres: Indignatos and The Occupied. (NE)DETECTIVE PUBBLISHING PROBLEMS. Ed. Svitlana Shlipchenko (pp. 134-151) Kiev: VD Vsevit, Im. Г. Gy. Gy. Bjoll.

Sotiris Chtouris (2016) Pity, Solidarity & Justice in the light of the current refugee crisis: from Aristotle to Rawls, Hanna Arendt and back : >The case of Volunteers in the Informal Camps of Eidomeni, Piraeus Port, and Victoria Square-Athens: Forming Interaction - Forming Identity. International Conference of Caramanlis Foundation & Lesvos. 9/7/2016 

Sotiris Chtouris (2016). Theoretical essay on the ontology of social and political man. In. John Mason. He is the author of. Volume VII, Athens : Sideris, pp.67-93.

Chtouris Sotiris (2016) Theoretical Essay on the Ontology of social and political Man. in I. Metaxas. political theory. volume VII, Athens: Sideris. pp 67-93.

Chtouris, S., Zissi, A., & Rentari, M. (2015). A proposal on the dialectic methodology of empirical research: the example of focused groups for the social and labour integration of young people. Greek Review of Social Research, 145 (B), pp 2-25.

Chtouris, S., Miller, D., Stalidis, G., & Rentari, M. (2015). Labor integration processes and job embeddedness of young people and the role of social factors in the current Greek economic crisis. Paper presented at the 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Prague, Czechoslovakia.

Sotiris Chtouris, Anastasia Zisi, (2015). The ontology of the social bond. Theoretical and empirical tests for the ontology of social bonding.   University of the Aegean. 15th Panhellenic Conference of Psychological Research (ELPSE). 27-31 May 2015, Nicosia, Cyprus.

Chtouris, S., Zissi, A., Stalidis, G., & Rontos, K. 2014. 2014. Understanding Xenophobia in Greece: a correspondence analysis.European Journal of Sociology. vol 55, 2014, No I. 

Chtouris S., Miller S.D. 2014. social accumulation of value for economic recovery-research model (saver) in, Nicholas P. Petropoulos and George O. Tsobanoglou (eds), The Debt Crisis in the Eurozone: Social Impacts, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014 (541 pp).

Zisi, A., Chouris, S., Rontos, K. & Stalidis, G. (2013). The empirical study of xenophobia in Greece today: Socio-demographic and socio-psychological determinants. Psychology, 20 (2), 176-193.

Zisi, A., Chouris, S., Chiou, M. & Redari, M. (2013). The emergence of the xenophobic self in the current Greek social experience: findings from focus groups. Psychology, 20 (1), 68-81.

Chtouris S. 2013. Handicrafts from Sheep an Goat raw material. Traditional Food Processing Technologies based on Sheep and Goat. The traditional social regime in Greece.

Chtouris, S. 2012, Dimension of youth and new poverty: Policies for the transition of youth from education to professional life, in New Poverty in Greece, Ed. Panagiotis Coroublis, Hellenic Parliament, Athens.

Chtouris, S. & Anastasia Zissi, 2012. social discrimination in Greece. local policies to compact discrimination and poverty, In Balourdos D. Ed. Compating Dicrimination in Greece today. national Institute for Social Research - EKKE, Athens : Papazisi 

Chouris, S., Zisi, A., Rontos, K. & Rentari, M. (Eds.) 2012. Social groups with xenophobic tendencies.  Proceedings of a conference. Mytilene: University of Aegean.

Chouris, S., Bellas Ch., 2012. In. H.F. H.A. (H.F.L. (87.11.), "The role of the unemployed in the labour market", in the field of employment and social inclusion in the labour market: Aegean University.

Chouris, S. & Zisi, A. 2012. Youth and place: Constructing ways of being in the world. In K. Tsoukala &. Χ. K. K. K. Pantelidou (Eds.) Youth. Disorderly Gatherings +Lexes Crossings (pp. 93-117). Thessaloniki: Epikentro. 

SCDD Laboratory Univ. of the Aegean. 2011. "Social Groups with xenophobic attitudes '' , Scientific Director Chtouris S., European Integration Fund for the Third Country Nationals - Annual Programme 2009, Action: 2.3/09, Priority: 2.  

Chouris, S. & Zisi, A. 2012 . In. D.D. D.L. and A. Mouriki (Eds.) Combating discrimination: trends, challenges, policies (pp. 303-325). Athens, Greece: Papazisis. 

Chouris, S., Zisi, A. (2012). "Youth and Place: Constructing ways of being in the world" in K. Tsoukala, Ch. Pantelidou, CConenna, M. Daniel, youth. www. publicspace disorderly assemblies+loose crossings. Thessalonian: Epicentre, pp. 93-118.

Chtouris, S & Zissi, A 2012.'Youth and Place: Constructing Ways of Being in the World', in Kyriaki Tsoukala& Claudio Conenna & Maria Daniil & Chariklia Pantelidou, (ed.), Youth and Space, School of Architecture, AUTH, Thessaloniki: Epikentron

Chtouris, S. & Tzelepoglou, F. 2011.'Social Capital: the missing link in coping with environmental disasters', in Miller, D. & Rivera, J. (ed.), 'Comparative Emergency Management: Examining Global and Regional Responses to Disasters', CRS, Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton.

 

Chtouris, S. 2011.'Transformation of Social Capital and Voluntary Associations as a Critical Path to enhance Sustainability in deprived Areas' in Afouxenidis, A (ed.), Inequality in times of crisis: theoretical & empirical observations, Propobos Publications, Athens,, Propompos Pub, Athens.

Chtouris, S. , Zissi, A. & Rontos, K. 2011. 'Social groups with xenophobic attitudes and characteristics', Reports, June 2011, University of the Aegean, Metron Analysis, Athens.

Koniotaki,A, Paraskevopoulou Ch, Petromelidis, L & Chtouris,V 2011. 'Good Practices to tackle xenophobia and racism', (Report June 2011), University of the Aegean, Metron Analysis, Athens, Mytilini.

Chtouris, S 2011, 'Reading again Weber's Die Stadt, in the context of the Crisis of Modern Mediterranean City: the Case of Athens', in Greek Sociological Society, Max Weber Conference, Nissos Publ. , Athens.

Chtouris, S. 2010. 'Ikaria, Social and Cultural Life: An interactive presentation of the island'.  Operational Program 'Information Society'. 2008-2010, University of the Aegean, Mytilini.    (Book)

Chtouris, S and Ziogas, G 2010 (ed. ), 'Les Demoiselles d' Avignon by Pablo Picasso, one hundred years after: Art Networks and Art Schools in the early Modernity', Papazisis Publ, Athens.

Chtouris, S. & Theleritis, N. 2010. 'STUDY EVALUATING THE RESULTS OF THE OPERATIONAL PROGRAMME 3.1 "Health and Welfare 2000-2006', Report, Logotech, Athens.

Chtouris, S. 2010, 'Youth Risk Factors in Urban Settlements', Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Greek Sociological Society 2009, GSS, Athens. 

Chtouris, S. & Papageorgiou D. , (eds) 2010. 'Musical Crossroads in the Aegean - Lemnos, 19th and 20th century: Biographical Accounts and Cultural Practice'.   

   Pub. , Athens. (Book +audio CD)

 

Chtouris, S. 2009, 'Social capital and risk management - empowering and strengthening of local communities', in European Parliament, Conference, Brussels, 12 November 2009, Are we prepared? The impact of climate change on health and social services, EP, Brussels.


Chtouris, S. & Grigoriou, P. (eds), 2009. Small and Medium States and Society's in the European Union, Papazissi Athens (Book).

 

Zissi, A, Rondos, C , Papageorgiou, D. , Pierakou, C. , Chtouris, S. 2007, 'Greek employers' attitudes towards hiring people with disabilities in the workforce: the effects of disability type', Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 9, 14-25.

 

Chtouris, S, Zissi A, Papanis, E. & Rontos K 2006. 'The state of youth in contemporary Greece', Young, Vol. 14, no 4, pp. 309-322.

 

Chtouris, S. 2005.'Icons-Messages and Interpretations: Trajectories and Exercises on Sociological Theory, Research Methodology and Observation', Polytropon Publ. Athens.

 

Chtouris, S. (ed) 2005 'Employment, Mobility, Social Networks and Labour Market Segmentation in the Insular North Aegean Region, Greece', North Aegean Regional Authority, European Social Fund, Mytilini.

 

Chtouris, S. 2005, 'Strategic Plan for the Promotion of Employment in the Region of North Aegean', North Aegean Regional Authority, European Social Fund, Mytilini.

 

Chtouris, S, 2004, 'Rational symbolic networks, Global States and National Hobbits', Nissos Publ. Athens. (Book)

 

  • Sotiris Chtouris & Dimitris Papageorgiou (eds.)2010. Musical Crossroads in the Aegean.  Lemnos 19th and 20th century. Biographies and artistic practice. ION. Athens. Athens ((Book +audio CDChtourisS. 2010. 'Musical Crossroads in the Aegean - Lesvos, 19th and 20th century" Biographical Accounts and Cultural Practice', ION Publ. Athens. (Book and 5 audio CDs), 
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  •  Sotiris Chtouris (ed.)2000. Musical Crossroads in the Aegean.  Lesvos 19th and 20th century. Biographies and artistic practice. Exantas. Athens (Book +audio CD) Chtouris, S. 2000. 'Musical Crossroads in the Aegean - Lesvos, 19th and 20th century" Biographical Accounts and Cultural Practice', Exantas Publ. Athens. (Book and 5 audio CDs), 
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Chtouris, S, 1999, 'Thrace: A complex Cultural Geography', in The Friends of Music (ed.) 'Music of Thrace, An Interdisciplinary Approach': Evros (English/Greek), Lambrakis Foundation, Athens (Book and 2 audio CDs),

 

Chtouris, S, 1999, 'Muslim Minorities in Greece - From Traditional Rural Communities to Migrant Network Communities: The Emergence of a Global Underclass' in Glavanis, P (ed.) Report, 'Muslim Voices in the European Union: the Stranger Within, Community, Identity and Employment', University of Manchester. Manchester.

 

Chtouris, S, 1998.  "Social differentiation, Social groups and Social policy', in Sakelaropoulos, Th (ed.), 'Current Changes in Social Policies and the Issue of Social Exclusion', Kritiki, Athens, pp.,183-251

 

Chtouris, S. "Social and cultural change, Thrace and its Cultural Networks", in 'Documentation, Study and Presentation of Thrace's Musical and Dance Tradition' (with L. Droulia, L Liavas, M. Terzopoulou, P. Kavouras), The Friends of Music, Lambrakis foundation, Athens, 1997. 

 

Chtouris, S. 1997. 'Networks as an analytical methods and tool, in reference to the Culture and Technology', in "Communication and Cultural Networks in the Aegean", Colloquium on Culture in Samos, Demetriou Cultural Foundation, Poreia Ed., Athens, pp. 10-75.

 

Chtouris, S. 1997. Post-industrial Society and the Information Society', Ellinika Grammata editions; Athens.

 

Chtouris, S. 1995. 'The Cities of Athens', in City and Region, City Region, ed. Detlev Ipsen, GhK, Kassel, pp. 115-180.

 

Chtouris, S. 1995. 'Traditional and Modern Networks in the Aegean: Theoretical and methodological conditions for an anthropological and sociological study of the Mediterranean Culture indexes' in Guidelines and conditions for a multi-disciplinary study, Praxis, Athens, pp. 37- 62.

 

Chtouris, S. , Heidenreich E. & Detlev I 1993, 'From Wilderness to Urban Space: The Logic of Urbanization in the Periphery', Campus, Frankfurt, NY. (Book)

 

Chtouris, S. , Chtouris, G. , Amitsis, & G, Gravaris, D. 1993, 'Institutions and Regulations in Greek Social Policy', Praxis editions, Athens. (Book)

 

Chtouris, S. 1992, 'Complex Processes of Social Exclusion and the Role of the Family in Social Protection', Praxis, Athens.

 

Chtouris, S. 1993, 'The relationship between social and state regulation of urban development' in Kreibich V., et. al., Rom - Madrid - Athens: 'The new role of the urban periphery: Dortmunder Beiträge zur Raumplanung' 62. Dortmund: Institute for Spatial Planning, University of Dortmund, IFR, Dortmund pp.194-200.

 

 

Chtouris S. , Heidenreich E. & Detlev I, 1993, 'Social Regulation and Local Politics, Investigations into Peripheral Urbanisation', in Politics in European Cities, Heinelt Hubert, Mayer Margit (ed. ), Basel, Boston, Berlin, pp. 239-285.

 

Chtouris S, Heidenreich E, & , Detlev I, 1992, 'Εine Stadt baut sich selbst. Forms of self-regulation in urban development, The example of Athens', in (ed.) Ursula von Petz, Klaus M. Schmals, Metropole Weltstadt, Global City: Neue Formen der Urbanisierung. (EdIRPUD, Dortmund, pp. 217-234.

 

Chtouris, S. (1991), Positivism and Dialectics, two decades after the positivism debate between Poper and Adorno (Thetikismos ke dialektiki, Dyo dekaeties meta ti diamach gia to thetikismo. Logou Charin, Spring 1991, p.p. 191-207 

 

 

Chtouris, S. 1990, The Other Present: Tradition and Modernity of the European Periphery: The Case of Western Crete, Kassel Unversity, Kassel (Book)

 

Research projects, Research [2]

 

 

 

Head of Research or Senior Researcher of the following research projects

 

Conducted by SCDD Lab: (Position at the research project, Title of the Project, Authority, Budget, Duration)   

 

 

 
  • "e- Aegean CulTour -Art & Action Network"(1.8) 2020-2023
 
  • "REGIONAL ARISTEA" "Digital Transformation of the North Aegean in Culture and Tourism", of the Act "Interregional Digital Transformation of the Aegean Archipelago in Culture and Tourism"
 
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                Scientific officer in charge of the project: Professor, Dimitris Papageorgiou

 
  • Responsible for action 1.8.: Professor Sotiris Chtouris. Deputy A.Zisi.
 
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  • Members of the research team
 
  • Professor Manousos Maragoudakis
 
  • Professor, Anastasia Zisi
 
  • Professor Ioannis Ziogas
 
  • Professor Sotiris Chtouris 
 
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  • INNOViMENTOR. Interreg V-5. "Generating SME product and process innovation with a new tourism mobility model, stakeholder alliances and skills alliances to facilitate the market uptake of local enterprises in remote and sparsely populated areas" Starting Date: 1/11/2018 - Ending date: 30/03/2021. Budget 948.572 €, 8 Partners from Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Albania, Fyrom. 
 
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  • "Refugees and Volunteers in the Current Refugee Crisis": research in Lesvos - Piraeus - Attica - Thessaloniki and Idomeni - Border Camp Starting Date: 1/11/2015 - Ending date of first phase: 15/9/2016. [Self -financed research from SCDD Lab. Ongoing Research].
 

 

 
  • "Social and labour market integration processes of young people during a continuous economic and financial crisis" University of the Aegean, Ministry of Education, General Secretariat for Research, Aristeia / Excellence in Research with 2120 Questionnaires, and 24 Focus Groups. Budget: 250,000 €. Starting Date: 15/04/2012 - Ending date: 31/1/2015.
 

 

 
  • "Social Groups with xenophobic attitudes", SCDD Laboratory, University of the Aegean, (2011) Scientific Director, Chtouris, S., European Integration Fund for the Third Country Nationals - Annual Programme 2009, Action: 2.3/09, Priority: 2. European Integration Fund for the Third Country Nationals - Annual Programme 2009, Action: 2.3/09, Priority: 2. Ministry of Interior, Decentralization and E - government, European Commission Budget: 144,993.52 €. Starting Date: 08/04/2011 - Ending date: 30/06/2011]. [This survey was conducted by the Lab for Social Cultural & Digital Documentation (SCDD Lab) at a national scale, with 2000 Questionnaires, and 18 Focus Groups all over Greece in a period of three months in Cooperation with 'Metron Analysis' SA].
 

 

 
  • Refugees and Volunteers in the Current Refugee Crisis: research in Lesvos - Piraeus - Attica - Thessaloniki and Idomeni -Border Camp Starting Date: 1/11/2015 - Ending date of first phase : 15/9/2016.  [Ongoing Research]
 

 

 

 

 
  • From 30/09/2012 to date: Approval of funded research under the "ARISTEA" action of the ERC " Social inclusion and the integration of young people into the labour market >> Research funded under the action "ARISTEIA" of the Operational Programme "Education and Lifelong Learning" Scientific Officer Sotiris Chtouris - Budget: 250.000 Euro.
 

University of the Aegean, Ministry of Education, General Secretariat for Research, Social and labour market integration processes of young people during a continuous economic and financial crisis Aristeia / Excellence in Research Budget: 250,000 € Starting Date: 15/04/2012 - Ending date: 31/1/2015 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
  • From 01/07/2012 to 31/12/2014: training programme co-funded by the European Social Fund (ESF): "Work with Equal Opportunities E.M.I.E." Thematic Priority Axis 4 "Full integration of all human resources in an equal opportunities society" in the framework of the Sectoral Operational Programme "Human Resources Development" for the programming period 2007-2013.
 

 

 
  • From 01/03/2013 to 31/12/2014 Research member in Action 6 Polynesianity "Mapping the Cultural Landscape of the Aegean in a historical perspective" Implemented within the framework of the Operational Programme Education and Lifelong Learning and co-funded by the European Union and National Funds. Project budget: 3.000,00 Euro.  Scientific Responsible 
 

 

 
  • From 30/04/2013 to 31/12/2014: 'Local platform for youth employment and entrepreneurship in innovation and innovative entrepreneurship'. Co-funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) and national resources... Scientific Officer together with Professor Anastasia Zisi
 

 

 

 

 
  • Research for the investigation of the profile of legally residing third country nationals working as domestic workers in Greece and comparative study of the institutional management models in the EU member states.European Fund for the Integration of Third Country Nationals, Annual Programme 2010, Action 2.2/ 10, Priority 2. Total duration of the project: 05/04/2012-30/06/2012. Budget: 139.998,46. Entities: University of the Aegean / TNS ICAP / Cultural House of Albanian Immigrants in Greece.
 

 

 
  •  "Social groups with xenophobic tendencies". European Fund for the Integration of Third Country Nationals, Annual Programme 2009, Action 2.3/09, Priority 2. Entities: University of the Aegean - Metron AnalysisScientific Officer [SCDD Laboratory University of the Aegean, (2011). "Social Groups with xenophobic attitudes '' , Scientific Director Chtouris S., European Integration Fund for the Third Country Nationals - Annual Programme 2009, Action: 2.3/09, Priority: 2. European Integration Fund for the Third Country Nationals - Annual Programme 2009, Action: 2.3/09, Priority: 2. Ministry of Interior, Decentralization and E - government, European Commission. Budget: € 144,993.52 Starting Date: 08/04/2011 -Ending date: 30/06/2011] [ This survey was conducted by the Lab for Social Cultural & Digital Documentation (SCDD Lab) at a national scale, with 2000 Questionnaires, and 18 Focus Group all over Greece in a period of three months in Cooperation with 'Metron Analysis' SA. The Research results will be published at the end of 2011]
 

 

 

Coordinator: Internal Evaluation Team of the Sociology Department, University of the Aegean. 2010 (Report May 2011΄) No Budget

 

2009-2010 [ Internal University Evaluation Survey, Analysis and evaluation of official administration documents]

 

 

 

Scientific Coordinator: Study Evaluating Results of the Operational Programme 3.1 "Health and Welfare, 2000-2006" (Report2010).
Ministry of Health, 'Logotech', Athens, Budget: 50,000.  Starting Date: 08/04/2009 - ending date: 30/03/2010.

 

[ This survey was conducted in cooperation with Logotech SA (Mr. Nikos Thaleritis), 800 questionnaires, and the evaluation of official administrative documents ]

 

 

 

Scientific Director: Social and Cultural Life, Survey to create an interactive presentation and documentation system for Insular Society' 

 

Funding: Greek Authority for Information Society, European Commission Budget: € 60,000,00 - Starting Date: 01/03/2007 - Ending date: 30/06/2009
[ Field Research, participant observation, ICT documentation, in cooperation with 5 researchers -members of the Lab for Social Cultural & Digital Documentation (SCDD Lab]

 

 

 

Head of Socioeconomic Research Unit in the framework of: East Med-Net -East Mediterranean Network for the sustainable development and social cohesion of protected areas. EU COMMUNITY INITIATIVE PROGRAMME INTERREG III B ARCHIMED - PINDOS-ZIAKAS, 2006-2008.European INTERREG Programme. Budget: 120,000€ 2006-2008.

 

[ Field Research, qualitative research -expert interviews, secondary analysis of statistical data .In cooperation with 4 researchers -members of the Lab for Social Cultural & Digital Documentation (SCDD Lab]

 

 

 
  • Coordinator and Scientific Director of Research and Art Events of the Project 'Social and Cultural Networks in the Avant-garde, Paris 1907',
 

Foundation: Ioannis Costopoulos . Budget: 25,000€

 

2007-2008

 

[ Creative Networks research, participant observation, action research with artists and architects ]

 

 

 

Coordinator of the Voluntary Research Project of Greek Students for the Peloponnesus regions affected by the wild fires of 2007.

 

No Budget: voluntary participation of professors and students

 

2007-2008 [Field Research, expert interviews, 300 Questionnaires. In cooperation with the Sociology Department Undergraduate Students in the framework of the Urban Sociology Seminar. University of the Aegean.

 

 

 
  • Coordinator and Scientific Director of "Diaplous": Study and documentation of the main defence / religious monuments and paths in the North Aegean Region, University of the Aegean, National Operational Plan "Information Society' [2005--2008].       Budget:110,000€ Greek Authority for Information Society, European Commission          
 

[2005--2008]            

 

[ Field Research, participant observation, Visual Documentation, ICT documentation, in cooperation with 5 researchers -members of the Lab for Social Cultural & Digital Documentation (SCDD Lab]

 

 

 
  • > Chairman of the Sociology Department (2004-2006) University of the Aegean. Coordinator of the Reorganisation Faculty Project Greek Authority for the 3d European Framework Programme for Development (KPS), University of the Aegean.
 

 

 
  • Scientific Director and Project Manager: 'Creation of a research and digital documentation system of North Aegean's Musical Culture, Biographical Accounts and Cultural Practice, Biographical Data-Base. 
 

Greek Authority for Information Society, European Commission Budget: 193,532.19 € Starting Date: 01/03/2005 - Ending date: 30/09/2008 [Field Research, Biographical Research, Visual and Audio Documentation of Cultural Practices, ICT documentation, in cooperation with 11 researchers-members of the Lab for Social Cultural & Digital Documentation (SCDD Lab)]

 
  • Scientific Director and Project Manager: Greek Research and Documentation: "Defence Systems in the Mediterranean Countries", Euromed Heritage II - European Commission,,, EU: Training programme in new technologies offered to experts from 6 different Mediterranean countries on cultural managements and documentation, cultural networking, in relation to Mediterranean defence systems [2003-2007]. 
 

Budget: 259,206.12 € Starting Date: 01/01/2003, ending date: 31/12/2007.

 

 [Historical comparative analysis, Visual and Audio Documentation of Cultural Practices, ICT documentation, Public archives research, in cooperation with 4 researchers-members of the Lab for Social Cultural & Digital Documentation (SCDD Lab)]

 
  • Head of Social Research Team: new entrepreneurship and social cohesion in the North Aegean Region - "A new Life Perspective", 
 

European Community Initiative 2005 2007 "EQUAL": "Abolishment of inequalities and discrimination in employment and job creation concerning special needs individuals, - Facilitation of their access to the labour market", Director Dr. Dimitris Papageorgiou.                                                                                                             European Commission, EU, Ministry of Labour [2004 -2005]

 

Total-Budget:281,364.64€,Social-research-budget-120,000€ Starting Date: 24/09/2002 ending date: 31/03/2005

 

 

 
  • Director of Social Research in: ORPHEAS Programme: Local Strategy for Employment in the Sustainability Sector North Aegean Regional Authority-University of the Aegean- Local & Regional Authorities European Union, European Social Fund, Article 6 Innovative measures, Total -Budget: 360,717.72 € Starting Date: 15/11/2002, ending date: 15/11/2004 2003 -2006 
 

[The Lab for Social Cultural & Digital Documentation (SCDD Lab) conducted a survey with 600 Questionnaires, Expert Interviews all over the North Aegean Region in Greece. Employment and Social Policy analysis. Focus Groups with the Stakeholders in cooperation the Local and Regional Authorities]

 
  • Project Manager and scientific director:' Feasibility Study for the Creation of a Technological Park in the North Aegean Region
 

North Aegean Regional Authority

 

Budget: 45,000€   

 

 [2004-2005]

 

 

 
  • Scientific Director: Research on Greek Youth European Commission, Programme "Youthstart", Greek General Secretariat for Youth: Budget: 70,000 € Starting Date: 01/01/2003, ending date: 31/12/2003 Report 2004, Athens [A survey was conducted by the Lab for Social Cultural & Digital Documentation (SCDD Lab) at national scale with 300 Questionnaires.]
 

 

 

Director of the Institute for the On-going Vocational Training (ISSE). 

 

Organization of Post graduate Seminars on Culture and New Technologies, Telemedicine, Shipping Companies Management / Financial Affairs and Management, on the islands of Mytilini, Samos and Chios respectively. University of the Aegean / Ministry of National Education.

 

Budget:       

 

1998- 2000

 

 

 
  • Scientific Director: Greek research Team in the Framework of European TSER Programme, (Scientific Director: Dr. Glavanis, University of Manchester). 
 

Research Network in the framework of European Targeted Socio Economic Research (TSER). http://cordis.europa.eu/improving/socio-economic/area3.htm

 

Greek Report: Report on "Muslim Minorities in Greece - From Traditional Rural Communities to Migrant Network Communities: 

 

Budget: 5 mill. drch : 

 

1997 -1999

 

[A survey was conducted by the Lab for Social Cultural & Digital Documentation (SCDD Lab) in Athens, Attica with 500 Questionnaires and 30 Interviews with migrants from Balkan countries.]

 

 

 

> Member of the Research Team in: Project Megapoles: Promoting better health for socially disadvantaged groups across Europe (2000) 

 

Dalziel Maureen, Armstrong Danila, Hahmann Monica, McLoughlin Pat, Haldin Jan, Aerny Nicole, Petre Brigitte, Sotiris Chtouris

 

 Scientific Director and Project Manager in: European Programme Poverty III in Greece, Argyroupolis, Athens

 

1989 -1993 

 

  [A survey was conducted by the Lab for Social Cultural & Digital Documentation (SCDD Lab) in Athens, Attica, with 600 Questionnaires, Research with social and culturally excluded persons, Participant research in the framework of a local welfare system.]

 

 

 

 

 

2022 . President of Ecological Initiative Coop. DEMOUERGIA 

 

 

 

2022-2024. DEMOUERGIA Initiative for Social Economy and Ecologys, North Aegean  Regional Authority.

 

 

 

SCDD Laboratory a regional Center of excellence of Postdoctoral and PhD

 


 

  -Research Excellence Award 2000 : National Authority for the Information Society 

 

In the framework of SCDD Lab and Prof. Chtouris' research and educational activities 

 

a significant number of researchers and scholars have started or advanced their research and academic careers. 

 

 

 

 

 

Among others:   

 
  • Prof. P. KavourasUniversity of Athens, Dept.of Musicology, started as Ajjanct professor and Senior researcher at Lab(now Professor). 
 

 

 
  • D. Papageorgiou, Univ. of the Aegean, started as Senior researcher ,now Professor. 
 

 

 
  • Ch. Bakalis, started senior researcher now Adjunct Prof. Univ. of the Aegean.       
 

 

 
  • J. Papageorgiou, Univ.of Thessaloniki, started as adjunct Professor (now Assosiated Professor.
 

 

 
  • A. Zissi. Univ. of the Aegean. started as Assistant Professor A.Zissi , now Professor)
 

 

 
  • Anna Micheli started as postgraduate student , now Postdoctoral researcher 
 

 

 

 5 PhD have been completed and other two PhD are nearing their completion. in 2022

 

 

  

 

 

2000-2010 General Secretary of the Greek Sociological Society

 

 

 

The European Commission, the European Parliament, Institute of Social Research in Frankfurt, Mediterranean Studies Institute, National Centre for Social Research, University of Kassel (Germany), European Committee of the Regions, Michigan State University (Study Abroad Program) , University of Murcia (Spain), "Cultnat", Bibliotheque Alexandrine, Egypt.

 

 

 

Since 1995 S. Chtouris has established and directed the Social Cultural & Digital Documentation Laboratory in Mytilini, in the framework of the Sociology Department at the University of the Aegean. One of its main tasks is to achieve a more systematic interaction between Social Sciences, Art and Information and Communication Technology.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

Member or President of Scientific and Conference Organizing Committees - Invited speakerRecent organization of international conferences, major cultural events and scientific advanced summer schools:

 

Member of Scientific and organizational committee 

 

  • 'International Encounters/Conference Walking as Art and a Question. 2022 Member of organizational and scientific committee 2020, 2021 and forthcoming 2022.

Member of Scientific and organizational committee 'ISA Rhodes Families Amidst Global and Local Processes: economic, political and cultural change' R5-7 July 2019.

Member of Scientific and organizational committee for 'The International Encounters/Conference Walking Practices/Walking Art/Walking Bodies. Florina, Prespes, 1-7 July 2019. In cooperation with Department of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Western Macedonia.

The three layers of male's dialectics with women: theory, paintings and dramaturgical art project: Musée - Bibliothèque Tériade of Modern Art, Mytilene-Lesvos, 8-17 June 2019. Curator of the Art &Science Event and participating artist. 

Scientific director of the Summer School "Qualitative Methods in Applied Social Research & Mental Health, "LaQualAp" 2017, 2018, 2019, School of Social Sciences - Department of Sociology, 20 Aug to 26 Aug 2017, 2018, 2019.

Greek Node Leader of the Network 'Migration, Trauma in Transition. MTT Berlin, and of The Summer school "Social Trauma in Changing Societies" (20st - 27th September 2019, International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin) which is part of a research and teaching network that connects IPU with universities from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Turkey. It is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) under the East-West-Dialogue programme.

 

Youth Transitions from education to employment. Thessaloniki

Greece 28.11.2014. President of the Organizing Committee

 

 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Dedicated to the Pastoral Life. Cultural Heritage and Economic Development September 11-13, 2014 . Hellenic American Union.   Athens:  Co-organizer of the Conference.

 

"The Debt Crisis in the Eurozone: Social Impacts", International Sociological Association, Mytilini 2013

 

Coordinator of the Session 'Rethinking the Notion of Community' at the14th Biennial Conference, International Society for Theoretical Psychology
2011, Thessaloniki, Greece (June 27 - July 1st): Presentation: Networks and Network Communities. 

 

 General Secretary of the Greek Sociological Society, Member of the Organizing Committee, First International Conference under the title ΄ Risk Society, Challenges of the 21st century 5-6-7 November, 2009, Key Note Speaker: Prof. Ulrich Beck, LMU, Munich, London School of Economics, Greek Sociological Association, Chairman of the Organizing Committee:

Conference on Civil Society under duress, 22 May 2009 - Goethe Institut - Keynote speaker Emeritus Professor Peter Waldmann, University of Augsburg, on the subject of "Transformation of Violence" (conference with reference to the violent events of December 2008 in Greece).

 

Chairman of the Organizing and Scientific Committee, Conference on "Teriade and his artists - Modern Art Institutions in the 20th century".  Benaki Museum, Athens 2008.

Chairman of the Organizing and Scientific Committee, Conference on 'Modern Art Schools and Networks, 100th Anniversary of Picasso's Demoiselles d' Avignon'. 

 

 Chairman of the scientific and Organizing committee, Conference on 

 

 "Small and medium states and their societies in the European Union": Social, political and cultural identities in the smaller member states of the European Union.   

 

Organized by: The University of the Aegean, Department of Sociology 

 
  •  Greek Universities Association of European Studies   
 

 With the support of the European Commission Delegation and the European Parliament Office in Athens. 26, 27 November 2005, Mytilini .

 

 

 




2022. Ongoing artistic events of Sotiris Chtouris: exhibitions and collective actions of interventionist art 2022 with main or secondary axis the Sociology of Art.

1.Spring - Semester 2022 


TITLE.

Athens. Public space approval (House of Cyprus)

Cyprus Nicosia. Public space (under approval)

"You and I" / I and Thou"

 


TYPE (group or solo exhibition)

Group exhibition - scientific conference

TYPE OF EXHIBITION (e.g. painting,

sculpture, installations, video, mixed media, etc.):

Painting, sculpture, installations, digital art, printmaking, mixed media, etc.

ORGANISATIONAL TEAM (names

and the role/position/contribution of all participants):

Stella Christofi, visual artist-researcher ASFA

Sotiris Chtouris, Sociologist, Art Theorist, DemouErgia Administrator, Professor at the University of Athens. Aegean University.

 

  • Nomad Romance. Revive the stones

Curated by Stella Christofi, visual artist, A.S.K.T. (in progress)

Sotiris Chtouris, Sociologist, researcher, DemouErgia Manager, Professor of the University of Cyprus, Dr. Aegean Sea

Space: Fort Troupakides, Kardamyli

time: July - August 2022

Organisation-Support:

Ephorate of Antiquities of Messinia

Municipality of West Mani

Catalogue Publication: DemouErgia, Mytilene

  • Social Adoration in the Age of the Pandemic.
  • Composite: performance, exhibitions, social research. Archive art.
  • The main contributors to the project "            Social Insemination in the Age of the Pandemic" . will be Sotiris Chtouris, Sociologist, researcher and art theorist and Stella Christofi, visual artist, teacher, ASFA.
  •  The two main contributors will contribute to the project with their personal research and artistic experience but also as organizers and coordinators of the actions to be carried out: a) the organization of the events and exhibitions b) the creation of a suitable website for the reception of the works, podcasts c) proposals for educational applications and reflection with community projects to create an oral history of everyday contemporary experiences in the pandemic era and d) the publication of the proceedings and the final deliverable of the project.
  • International Encounters/Conference Walking as Art and a Question. 2022 Member of organizational and scientific committee Prespes.

Personal 

>Member of the political ecology movement and the green movement.  

    Candidate for the European Parliament of the Ecological Greens

> Ecological farmer, painter and walker of the city and life.

> Resident and cultivator in the village of Pyrgi Thermi Mytilini



 

 

[1] Chtouris Sotiris., 15-4-2017, Publication of the Research Project:  ' Visual Analysis and its contribution to the formulation of research hypotheses in Dialectical Realism. '. 

 

Research - theoretical protocol of the visit to the 'Egon Schiele Collection at the Leopold Museum in Vienna' (15 April 2017)]

 


   


[2] The List of all (59) funded projects of PI Sotiris Chtouris: in: www.culturelab.gr