UCLan Cyprus: Erasmus+ incoming and outgoing international mobilities

During the months of February and March 2024, UCLan Cyprus was very happy to implement both outgoing and incoming higher education staff mobilities under the Erasmus+ programme Inter-Institutional Agreement Key Action1 between UCLan Cyprus and the American University in the Emirates, located in Dubai. In February 2024, Prof. Stéphanie Laulhé Shaelou, Professor of European Law …

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Nicosia Chamber of Commerce & European Office of Cyprus: Empowering Culture: Launch of the e-Learning Platform

The partners of the Erasmus+ funded project, “Empowering Culture through Business”, launched an e-Learning Platform as part of the activities of the project. The e-Learning Platform is an e-community platform and an e-learning tool, where the training course for young creative professionals is available for everyone to access. The training course included in the e-Learning …

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Cyprus University of Technology: Shattering the glass ceiling in Clean Energy Transition

The Clean Energy sector is a traditionally male-dominated field but the EU-funded project FemPower (2021-1-EL01-KA220-HED-000030178) has been inspiring change by helping scientists in seven countries to better understand how gender equality can benefit the field. Τhe Clean Energy Transition (CET) has been recognised both on an EU and an international level as a strategy of …

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University of Cyprus: New countries join the European genomic data infrastructure project Participation of biobank.cy, Centre of Excellence for Biobanking and Biomedical Research of the University of Cyprus

The European Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI) consortium is expanding with the participation of organisations from four new EU countries, including biobank.cy, the University of Cyprus’ Centre of Excellence for Biobanking and Biomedical Research. The GDI project, co-funded by the European Digital Europe Programme (Digital), aims to implement the 1+ million genomes (1+MG) initiative to promote …

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University of Cyprus: New surgical platform for pancreatic and bile duct cancer

The University of Cyprus announces the launch of the European project for research in the field of computational mechanics, plasma physics and cancer therapy research, entitled “A minimally Invasive surgical platform aGainst paNcreatIc and biliary Tract cancErs using cold atmospheric PLASMA” – IgnitePLASMA. The research project is funded for four years by the European Innovation …

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The Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works announces the Agreement between the Department of Electrical and Mechanical Services and the Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence “KIOS” for the implementation of an electromobility information system

The Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works (Department of Electrical and Mechanical Services (DEMS)) has signed an agreement with the Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence “KIOS” of the University of Cyprus on 2 April 2024. The aim of the agreement is the joint cooperation for the development and implementation of an information system, which …

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Next Postdoctoral Fellowships call opening soon: 6 steps to prepare your application

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships support researchers holding a PhD who wish to carry out their research activities abroad, get new skills and develop their careers in all fields of research. They give outstanding postdoctoral researchers the possibility to work on their own projects while receiving training and supervision to enhance their skills and boost their careers. …

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Next COFUND call opening soon: 6 steps to prepare your application

Get started with this funding scheme and learn how to prepare a successful proposal. The MSCA Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND) action supports doctoral and postdoctoral fellowship programmes for the training, career development and mobility of researchers. The EU’s co-funding allows organisations in EU and Horizon Europe associated countries, which contribute with their own …

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MSCA awards € 443 million for doctoral programmes

The European Commission will support 128 doctoral programmes to train and develop the skills of 1,900 doctoral candidates. The European Commission has announced the results of the 2023 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) call for Doctoral Networks. The Commission will fund a total of 128 excellent doctoral programmes with € 443 million to train over 1,900 doctoral candidates in and outside academia. € …

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Recovery fund: Council approves conclusions on the mid-term evaluation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility

The Council approved conclusions on the mid-term evaluation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). In its conclusions the Council recognises the positive contribution of the RRF to the green and digital transitions and other EU priorities, and notes the incentive to implement the country-specific recommendations (CSRs), notably through an acceleration of structural reforms. The …

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