Cyprus University of Technology: Participation in the project “COOLTOUR – Millennials for Cultural Heritage

How can the development and understanding of cultural heritage sites be promoted to new generations as a direct expression of the complexity of historical, social, and cultural contexts, and as part of a wider and more complex relationship with the built and natural environment? How can dialogue and interaction between young people and professionals managing …

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The Cyprus Institute: The Climate & Atmosphere Research Centre of Excellence of the Cyprus Institute to lead European Excellence Initiative Network for Climate & Atmospheric Sciences

The Cyprus Institute’s (CyI) Climate and Atmosphere Research Centre (CARE-C) successfully led a strategic proposal for the establishment of a European Higher Education Institutions Network for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences through the Edu4Climate project. Edu4Climate received funding of €2 million from the European Commission’s Horizon Europe “European Excellence Initiative” (EEI) programme, to lead capacity-building actions …

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Open University of Cyprus: The WaSec research project aiming to enhance Water Security and socio-economic development in the Eastern Mediterranean under Climate Change comes to an end

WaSec (Innovations in Water Education: Enhancing Water Security and Socio-economic Development in the Eastern Mediterranean under Climate Change) is an Erasmus+ project that aims to teach new technologies and methods to students that will incorporate them in water resources management plans and that eventually will be adopted in the water relevant organisations and businesses. The …

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European University Cyprus: CERIDES Participates in 4th Training Event of Horizon Project RESPOND-A

CERIDES / EUC is happy to announce its participation in the 4th training event of the Horizon 2020 project RESPOND-A, which took place from the 7th until the 9th of June 2022 in University Hospital St George, Plovdiv, Bulgaria. CERIDES, acting as the coordinating organisation of the RESPOND-A project, was represented in the training by Dr. Cleo Varianou – Mikellidou, CERIDES Research Fellow and Assistant Project Manager. The event gathered 50 participants including …

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Meet the 10 European start-ups selected for Rocket Up 2022

The EIT Community Supernovas welcomes its 2022 cohort for its Rocket Up programme. This first year’s selection will bring pioneering ideas and business to different markets over Europe as they expand through the continent and become the leaders and role models of the future. In the coming months, the chosen start-ups will benefit from top …

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The Scale-up programme has selected its 13 participating start-ups

Out of 100 applications, the Scale-up Programme has identified the 13 most promising start-ups with solutions for sustainable urban mobility. These companies will now take part in one of the two programme paths.  Path A will focus on providing visibility. Path B is oriented towards the performance of a pilot within a European city which …

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European Social Innovation Competition: meet the 21 finalists of the challenge prize!

On 10 August, the European Commission is announcing the 21 finalists in this year’s European Social Innovation Competition – the challenge prize. The shortlisted finalists are all social innovation projects with exciting visions of how to tackle this year’s challenge: “the future of living innovation for affordable and sustainable housing districts”. The theme fulfils the objectives …

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The EIC awards 160 Seals of Excellence to help innovative companies find funding

The EIC awarded Seals of Excellence to 160 companies who submitted their applications for the EIC Accelerator March 2022 cut-off. These companies’ proposals were judged by independent experts to meet all the EIC’s highly quality standards and deserve funding, but did not get it only due to budget limits. Seal of Excellence, the now well-known quality …

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Open Call: New business opportunities for the EIC Community

The European Innovation Council (EIC) Business Acceleration Services welcomes all EIC-funded beneficiaries to apply to new open calls that currently have applications open: EIC x REPowerEU, EIC Innovation Bootcamp 4.0 and EIC Corporate Day with Lonza. The EIC aims to support innovators via key matchmaking initiatives. Therefore, beneficiaries are invited to apply to the following open calls: …

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