Tatjana Taraszow

Tatjana Taraszow

With FWC	since February 2007-today
Title	Project Coordinator & Research Associate
Key Project(s)	Civil Society Dialogue Project Educational Hypermedia MAPS EU Kids Online SteLLLa SteLLLa2.0 MobLang CARDIAC IdentifEYE

Degree(s)	MSc
Filed(s) of study	Psychology (major): Educational Psychology, Media Psychology, Organizational Psychology, Testing & Evaluation, Clinical Psychology, Diagnostic & Intervention International Relations (elective)
University(ies)	Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany McGill University, Canada
Specialization(s)	Project Management SDD Facilitation Mediation
Notable Achievements	Scholarship "Baden-Würtemberg-Stipendium"

Relation to Future Worlds Center

Tatjana Taraszow has been with FWC since 2007. In 2006, after having completed her MSc degree she came to FWC as a visiting scientist from KMRC (Knowledge Media Research Center). During her 3-months visit to Cyprus together with her colleague Julia Wahl she worked on the Educational Hypermedia scientific project, e.g. preparation of theoretical background, coordination of translations, management of graphic designers, coordination of audio recordings. Tatjana returned to FWC in February 2007 as the co-coordinator of the UNDP-funded project Civil Society Dialogue, the coordinator of the research-based Educational Hypermedia project as well as a team member of the research project MAPS. Between 2007 and 2009, she coordinated the 1001 Action of the Anna Lindh Foundation Dialogue through Sports: Play for Peace plus worked on several EU-funded projects related to the Internet: CyberEthics, EU Kids Online, SteLLLa. From 2009 on, she coordinated the EU-funded project MobLang besides working on newly funded projects such as SteLLLa2.0, CARDIAC, IdentifEYE, eCom4s2p. Throughout the years, Tatjana has been involved in writing grant applications for the organization.

Biography

Tatjana completed her MSc (Master of Science) in Psychology with an emphasis on Educational & Media Psychology as well as Organizational Psychology with International Relations as an elective subject in 2006 at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany. She received the scholarship Baden-Würtemberg-Stipendium that allowed her to study one year at McGill University, Canada. During her studies she supported herself working as Research Assistant at various research groups at the Department of Psychology to the University of Tübingen. Her work involved the development of questionnaires, conducting literature reviews and presenting their results to the team, carrying out scientific studies, overseeing literature and participants' databases. While studying she was member of the Psychology student association where she gathered experience with the organization of events as well as financial management. She has also accumulated experience working with terres des hommes organizing activities with the Tübingen group. Moreover, she volunteered as a DaF instructor to teach German as a foreign language to international students at the university.

Trained Facilitator & Mediator

Tatjana is a trained Facilitator in SDD (Structured Dialogic Design) and has conducted co-laboratories using the SDD Process at a wide spectrum of topics ranging from peace reconciliation over possible risks to a project as well as technology transfer in accessible and assistive ICT products and services to cooperation between civil society and local authorities in many projects including Civil Society Dialogue, CyberEthics, MobLang, CARDIAC and MeDevNet.
Tatjana is also a trained mediator enabling parties to a conflict to solve their conflict based on a win-win-solution. Moreover, she is in the process of being trained in NVC (Non Violent Communication).

List of SDDs facilitated and co-facilitated

Publications & Presentations

Publications:
- Laouris, Y., Erel, A., Michaelides, M., Damdelen, M., Taraszow, T., Dagli, I., Laouri, R., & Christakis, A. (2009). Exploring Options for Enhancement of Social Dialogue between the Turkish and Greek Communities in Cyprus Using the Structured Dialogic Design Process. Syst Pract Action Res, 22, 361–381.
- Taraszow, T., Aristodemou, E., Shitta, G., Laouris, Y., & Arsoy, A. (2010). Disclosure of personal and contact information by young people in social networking sites: An analysis using Facebook™ profiles as an example. International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 6(1), 81-102.
- Taraszow, T., Damdelen, M., Dagli, I., Beyatli, D., Christakis, A. and Laouris, Y. (2008) Exploring options for enhancement of social dialogue between the Turkish and Greek communities in Cyprus using the Structured Dialogic Design Process, Civil Society Dialogue Convention, Nicosia, Cyprus, 12 April 2007.

Presentations:
- Aristodemou, E., Taraszow, T., & Laouris, Y. (2008, May). Young Cypriot Internet users: A quantitative survey in the context of EU Kids Online. Paper presented at the Conference Child and Youth Research in the 21st Century: A Critical Appraisal, Nicosia, Cyprus.
- Aristodemou, E., Taraszow, T., Laouris, Y., Papadopoulos, T., & Makris, P. (2008, November). Prediction of Reading Performance Using the MAPS (Mental Attributes Profiling System) Multimodal Interactive ICT Application. Paper presented at the 7th European Conference on e-Learning (ECEL), Ayia Napa, Cyprus.
- Shitta, G., & Taraszow, T. (2008, May). Safer Internet Forum: A youth-driven initiative for safer cyberspace. Paper presented at the Conference Child and Youth Research in the 21st Century: A Critical Appraisal, Nicosia, Cyprus.
- Taraszow, T., Aristodemou, E., & Laouris, Y. (2008, May). E-Learning adapted to the learning profiles of young learners. Paper presented at the Conference Child and Youth Research in the 21st Century: A Critical Appraisal, Nicosia, Cyprus.
- Taraszow, T., Arsoy, A., Shitta, G., & Laouris, Y. (2008, November). How much Personal and Sensitive Information do Cypriot Teenagers Reveal in Facebook? Paper presented at the 7th European Conference on e-Learning (ECEL), Ayia Napa, Cyprus.
- Taraszow, T., Laouris,Y., Wahl, J., Scheiter, K., & Gerjets, P. (2008, November). A Matter of Modality: Do Multimedia Learning Environments really Support Students with Reading Difficulties? Paper presented at the 7th European Conference on e-Learning (ECEL), Ayia Napa, Cyprus.
- Taraszow, T. & Laouris, Y. (2007, August). The development of the categorization ability in children age 8 to 12. Paper presented at the 12th Biennial Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), Budapest, Hungary.
- Taraszow, T., Wahl, J., Laouris, Y., Scheiter, K., & Gerjets, P. (2007, August). Using dynamic visualization with written explanation to by-pass information processing deficits in children with reading difficulties. Poster presented at the 12th Biennial Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), Budapest, Hungary.
- Zottmann, J., Dieckmann, P., Rall, M., Fischer, F., & Taraszow, T. (2006, June). Fostering simulation based learning in medical education with collaboration scripts. Paper presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine (SESAM), Porto, Portugal.
- Zottmann, J., Dieckmann, P., Rall, M., Fischer, F., & Taraszow, T. (2006, September). Kooperationsskripts zur Förderung Simulations-basierten Lernens in der Medizin: Ergebnisse einer Pilotstudie im Tübinger Patienten-Sicherheits- und Simulations-Zentrum. Vortrag gehalten auf der 68. Tagung der Arbeitsgruppe für Empirische Pädagogische Forschung (AEPF), München.

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