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PhD students Aliki Christodoulou (Energy, Environment & Atmospheric Sciences program), PhD student George Polykratis (Computational Sciences program) and Master’s student Christoforos Skourides (Environmental Sciences program) were awarded the CyI 2022 Innovation Awards and will each receive 5,000 euros to use for their proposed projects’ development. The CyI 2022 Innovation Awards are offered by the Institute’s …

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The Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility Centre (CSRC) of the University of Nicosia announces the training programme “Business Sustainability and Governance” in order to support businesses to take the right approach to integrating sustainability into their strategy and the necessary transformation of their business model. The training programme is offered for the first time in Cyprus …

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On the 7th and 8th of February 2023, CyI’s Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Center (STARC) researchers Assoc. Prof. Sorin Hermon (in presence) and Valentina Vassallo (online), participated in the launch of the ANCHISE Project, a research and innovation project funded under the Horizon Europe Programme (2023 – 2026). The event was …

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The Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) is organising the closing conference of the European project “EDUCABILITY: Developing Information Literacy Skills for Teachers and Librarians”, coordinated by the University Library. The conference will take place on Wednesday, 22 February 2023, between 8:00 – 16:00, at the “Pefkos City Hotel”, in Limassol. The conference marks the end …

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On Tuesday 14 February 2023, the YERUN Open Science Awards ceremony was held online. Almost 60 participants took part in this joyful event aimed at celebrating Open Science and highlighting the need to foster it in universities. As highlighted by Ms. Silvia Gomez Recio, YERUN Secretary General in her welcome speech, Open Science has been …

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A new innovative partnership, consisting of 7 partners including Neapolis University Pafos from 4 European Countries (France, Greece, Bulgaria and Cyprus) and creating strong synergies between Higher Education Institutes (HEI) and Vocational Education and Training (VET) centers has been selected for funding in the framework of Erasmus+2021-2027 EU Programme. The “Powering up former energy sector workers …

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EU-CONEXUS in a Europe-wide consortium of six university alliances has secured the European Commission’s support for ED-AFFICHE, their joint proposal to pilot the European Degree label funded by the Erasmus+ programme. This unprecedented collaboration among European University Alliances will enable Una Europa, 4EU+, CHARM-EU, EC2U, EU-CONEXUS and Unite! to make bold steps towards realising the transformative …

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A recent study of 3,200-year-old trees in Turkey suggests that the mysterious collapse of several important empires in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean region – amongst them the powerful Hittite Empire – in the Late Bronze Age, from around 1200 to 1150 BC, coincided with a severe multi-year drought in central Anatolia. Prof. Sturt …

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Elder abuse is a global phenomenon that causes long-term physical and psychological effects on the victim. Although there are no exact prevalence rates, it is estimated that a percentage greater than 20% of the elderly may be victims of emotional, physical, sexual and financial abuse, neglect and violation of their human rights. Despite high prevalence rates, …

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Leading academic institutions and organisations together with the Society and Urban Form Research Lab of the University of Cyprus to address urban challenges and support sustainable urban development. The University of Cyprus (UCY) announced the official launch of the programme Twinning towards Research Excellence in Evidence-Based Urban Planning and Design with the acronym TWIN2EXPAND, an …

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