The 17th Festival of Audiovisual Arts celebrates this year the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts (AVARTS) of the Ionian University, presenting an extroverted, dynamic, and rich program of artistic, scientific, and educational events that fills the city of Corfu with images and sounds. The opening of the festival is the central anniversary event and will take place on Thursday (23/05) at 19:30 in the People's Garden.

The PhD Candidate of the Humanistic and Social Informatics Laboratory, Georgios Drakopoulos, won the Nikolaos Bourbakis Award for 2022 in the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, for the article "Higher Order Trust Ranking of LinkedIn Accounts with Iterative Matrix Methods".

The scientific project Irschen took place from March 2021 to March 2023 in the context of Erasmus+ and specifically of the KA2 Action that promotes cooperation between Institutions and Organizations.

The kick-off meeting of the DIN-ECO research project (Boosting Digital Innovation & Transformation Capacity of HEIs in an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem), with Scientific Coordinator Prof. Adamantia Pateli from the Department of Informatics of the Ionian University, was held on September 26 at the Ionian Academy, Corfu. The meeting was attended by representatives of cooperating institutions from Denmark, Italy, Cyprus, Poland, Serbia, as well as Greece.