Ivan Sotiriadis 
For the 14th consecutive year, the University of Cyprus hosted the Erasmus+ Staff Training Week, from 26 to 30 May 2025, with the participation of 36 members of administrative and academic staff from 24 universities from within and outside Europe. The aim of the event was to enhance internationalisation, create new partnerships and further develop …
Despo Fatta-Kassinos, Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Cyprus, has been appointed as one of the seven members of the Committee of the new Engineering Section of the Academy of Europe. The establishment of the Commission marks the separation of the former Physics and Engineering Section into two …
The 2025 call for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Networks is open for submissions as of 28 May 2025 with a deadline to apply by 25 November 2025. This call will dedicate €597.8 million to fund over 150 projects in all scientific fields and the training and skills development of more than 2000 doctoral candidates. MSCA Doctoral Networks implement doctoral programmes through …
The European Commission has launched the EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy, ‘Choose Europe to Start and Scale’, to make Europe a great place to start and grow global technology-driven companies. The Strategy aligns with the broader ‘Choose Europe’ initiative, launched by President von der Leyen. This initiative focused first on the science component promoting a unified European approach to attract and retain …
With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The main novelties for 2026, as well as the longer-term goal to extend the eligibility of applicants for Starting and Consolidator Grants from …
The European Commission launched an online public consultation on joint clinical assessments of medical devices and in vitro diagnostic medical devices at Union level under the HTA Regulation. This online consultation will be open for responses until 25 June 2025. This public consultation is focussed on the last implementing act for adoption under the HTA Regulation, which will complete the …
The Council has adopted a regulation setting up the Security Action for Europe (SAFE) instrument. SAFE is a new EU financial instrument that will support those member states that wish to invest in defence industrial production through common procurement, focusing on priority capabilities. SAFE will finance urgent and large-scale investments in the European defence technological and industrial base (EDTIB). The aim is to boost production …
EU Member States have significantly closed the gap to achieving the 2030 energy and climate targets, according to the European Commission’s assessment of the National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs). EU countries have substantially improved their plans following Commission recommendations in December 2023. As a result, the EU is closing in collectively on a 55% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as committed …
The Commission launched a public consultation on a new methodology to calculate the quality of service of 5G connectivity. The features offered by this new methodology enable the calculation of the estimated (theoretical) quality of service of 5G, as opposed to the measured (sample tests) quality of service of 5G. It proposes a common approach …
The Commission has launched a targeted consultation to gather feedback in view of the European Union’s decision on the future use of the 1980-2010 MHz and 2170-2200 MHz frequency bands for Mobile Satellite Services (‘the EU 2 GHz MSS band’). In 2009, following a procedure carried out at EU level, the Commission selected two operators, …