Ivan Sotiriadis 
The European Commission has granted EU marketing authorisation for Kisunla, a medicine to treat mild cognitive impairment, including mild dementia in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Kisunla can help to slow down the progression of cognitive and functional issues associated with Alzheimer’s disease in certain patients. The authorisation is based on the positive scientific assessment …
Significant progress has been made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, but the overall state of Europe’s environment is not good, especially its nature which continues to face degradation, overexploitation and biodiversity loss. The impacts of accelerating climate change are also an urgent challenge, according to the European Environment Agency’s (EEA) most comprehensive, …
Executive Vice-President for Prosperity and Industrial Strategy, Stéphane Séjourné announced the launch of the second call for strategic projects to ensure a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials for European industry. The announcement was made from Kiruna, Sweden, and builds on the success of the first call, which selected 60 strategic projects. The …
The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING), with great honour and pride, announces that Dr Kyriaki Michaelidou, Head of the Biostatistics Unit at CING, has been awarded the UNESCO-Al Fozan International Prize for the Promotion of Young Scientists in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). The award ceremony took place on Friday, 19 September …
Lecturer Dr. Ariana Polyviou, of the Department of Management, Entrepreneurship and Digital Business at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT), has received an international distinction. The leading academic journal Journal of the Association for Information Systems (ABS 4*) has awarded Dr. Polyviou the JAIS Best Paper Honorable Mention Award 2024 for a paper co-authored with Nancy Pouloudi …
The AI4Everyone Erasmus+ Project officially launched with its kick-off meeting in Nicosia, Cyprus, on 18–19 September 2025. Coordinated by Dr. Styliani Kleanthous, Assistant Professor in Human-AI Interaction and co-director of the Cyprus Center for Trustworthy AI (CyCAT), Open University of Cyprus, the project brings together leading European institutions: the University of Trento (Italy), University of Koblenz (Germany), Aalborg University …
The second transnational meeting of the Erasmus+ Project: ‘Preparing Universities to Cooperate with Neuroatypical Students’ was successfully held at the Riga Technical University, in Riga, Latvia, on 15th and 16th September 2025. Building on the momentum of the inaugural meeting in Wroclaw, Poland, the partners gathered to review the project’s progress and discuss the next steps …
The long-standing collaboration between the Cyprus Digital Security Authority (DSA) and the European University Cyprus (EUC) was formally sealed on Friday, 5 September, with the official signing of a Memorandum of Research Cooperation. The agreement confirms the solid relationship of trust that has already delivered significant results in the field of cybersecurity and paves the …
Attracting and Retaining Research Talent: Building Supportive Frameworks for Careers and Mobility 
10 October 2025 
John Ioannides Auditorium, Fresnel Building, Athalassa Campus, The Cyprus Institute 
About the Workshop Co-Organized by the European Commission, RESAVER, and The Cyprus Institute (with the support of the Deputy Ministry for Research, Innovation and Digital Transformation), …
As part of the GEMS project, universities and organisations from across Europe will collaborate to strengthen gender equality in digital education and encourage more girls to pursue studies in the STEM fields. The aims of the project, in which Frederick University is participating, are twofold: on the one hand, to empower academic staff in higher …