Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia

About: Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Catalysis & Symplectic geometry. The organization has 291 authors who have published 522 publications receiving 7682 citations. The organization is also known as: TEI of West Macedonia & TEI of Western Macedonia.

Credit Scoring and Rating

Abstract: Credit scoring usually refers to models and systems that provide a numerical credit score for each borrower, mostly for internal use by financial institutions and corporate clients. Credit ratings provide risk classifications for corporate loans, bond issues, and countries (e.g., sovereign credit ratings). This chapter describes the basic characteristics of both schemes. The presentation begins with a discussion of the different contexts of scoring and rating (through the cycle and point in time assessments, issuer ratings and issue-specific ratings, behavioral—profit scoring and social lending). Then, the main modeling requirements are outlined, and the model development process is explained. The chapter closes with a brief discussion of the credit rating industry, focusing on the major credit rating agencies (CRAs), who play a crucial role due to the globalization of the financial markets and the wide range of debt issues, which pose challenges to their monitoring and risk assessment for investors, financial institutions, supervisors, and other stakeholders.

Meeting of energy skills: An educational framework for energy professionals in NZEB

Abstract: A novel education framework targeting energy professionals that work or aim to work in the Nearly-Zero Energy Building (NZEB) sector has been conceived under the Meeting of Energy Skills (MEnS) Horizon 2020 project. The main goal is to upgrade the NZEB skills and qualifications of building professionals (engineers and architects) that have already finished their bachelor degrees. The framework comprises three pylons. The first pylon is the national educational courses at level-7 European Qualifications Framework, implemented in 10 EU countries, using a common structure and awarding 10 ECTS upon successful completion. The second pylon is the Front Meeting of Skills educational experience, which is a short-duration course using more practical and hands-on educational methods, allowing for participants to work on real case studies of NZEB retrofit and encouraging them to propose their own strategies and measures. The third pylon is the e-learning platform, where all activities of the other two pylons from all countries are included, but also it acts as a meeting place where professionals can learn from each other as well and benefit from usual distant learning approaches. This paper describes in detail the adopted educational framework and analyzes the first conclusions and lessons learnt from the first round of educational courses held in the participating countries.

Social Media Adoption and Popularity of Members of the European Parliament

Abstract: The present study 1 examines the usage of social media (i.e., Facebook and Twitter) by Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) of the current legislative term. Specifically, it tests the impact of several predictors on MEPs' social media adoption and popularity as measured by the number of social media supporters. Differences in social media usage of MEPs were found to be explained by variables such as parliamentarians' gender, Europarty affiliation, and country-of-origin. Moreover, results suggest that social media popularity of MEPs could be predicted by the European region form which political actors originate, the ideology of their Euro-party affiliation, and the type of committee in which MEPs are assigned. In addition, the study sheds light on how the two platforms (Facebook and Twitter) differ in regards to the factors that impact MEPs' social media popularity.