European University Cyprus: CERIDES Co-organises 1st Planning Conference of DG-ECHO FSX Project Hope in Armenia 2022

CERIDES is happy to announce the successful implementation of the 1st Planning Conference of DG-ECHO Full-Scale Exercise project HOPE, which took place in Yerevan, Armenia, during the 6th and the 9th of September 2022. The CERIDES team which co-organised the Conference consisted of Mr. Evangelos Katsaros, CERIDES Research Associate and Manager of the project, Dr. Christos Dimopoulos, CERIDES co-Director and Scientific Manager of the project, and Dr. Georgia Solomonidou, Dissemination and Communication Manager of the project. The main objective of HOPE’s …

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University of Cyprus: SInnoPSis Inaugural: Workshop

The project “SInnoPSis – ERA Chair in Science and Innovation Policy & Studies”, has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The ERA Chair aims to bring together excellent academics from the linked scientific departments and consolidate all related research activities at the University of Cyprus (UCY). More information about …

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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens: The Rectors’ Synod of CIVIS European University in Athens under the Presidency of the University

The meeting of the Rectors’ Synod of the European University of CIVIS was successfully held on Wednesday, September 7, 2022, at 10.00 a.m.-13.00 p.m., at the Kostis Palamas building of the UoA, under the Presidency of the University. The EPCU has held the Presidency of the Council of Rectors from 1 April 2022 until September …

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The Cyprus Institute (CyI): Large Economic Benefits from Regional Energy Cooperation in the EMME region Identified by CyI’s Energy Modellers FEATURE

On the road to this year’s global climate change conference (COP27) to be held on 6-18 November 2022 in Egypt, the UK’s Climate Compatible Growth programme is publishing policy briefs related to the decarbonization of energy systems, targeted to policymakers who will be present at COP27. One of these policy briefs has been prepared by a team of the …

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University of Cyprus: KIOS Center of Excellence organises a Graduate Training School on Intelligent Systems and Control

The school aims at providing intensive training to young professionals, graduate students and researchers on topics related to Machine Learning, Control Theory, and Network Science. The KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence (KIOS CoE) at the University of Cyprus in collaboration with Imperial College London, organizes the “4th KIOS Graduate Training School” on intelligent …

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University of Central Lancashire Cyprus (UCLan Cyprus): UCLan Cyprus coordinates the Erasmus+ Sports project ‘ePhyLi’

The need for promoting Physical Literacy (PL) in the public and across all ages is extremely important for holistic health and for encouraging healthy lifestyles for all, especially in an early stage of life, and through Physical Education (PE) courses at school. This need is imperative, in light of distressing results from the Special Eurobarometer …

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University of Cyprus: Another European grant for research excellence to an academic of the University of Cyprus from the European Research Council

The innovative proposal of Dr Triantafyllos Stylianopoulos for effective immunotherapy in breast and colorectal cancers has secured an ERC Proof of Concept grant from the European Research Council. One more funding from the European Research Council,(ERC) has been awarded to the Cancer Biophysics Laboratory of the University of Cyprus, headed by Dr Triantafyllos Stylianopoulos, Asssociate …

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The Cyprus Institute: The 2022 Cyprus Institute Summer School on Archaeological Science: The aftermath

The Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Centre (STARC) and the Graduate School of the Cyprus Institute successfully organised for the third time an intensive one-week Archaeological Science Summer School “Promoting Archaeological Science in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East: Current work on Organic and Inorganic Materials” (17th-23rd July 2022), led by Dr Evi Margaritis. …

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Αthens University of Economics and Business (AUEB): The AUEB Erasmus programme: a major success in extroversion throughout the years.

AUEB has been participating in the Erasmus Programme since 1987, promoting cooperation with universities, businesses, and international organisations of the EU. It is a major outreach success for the institution as: 1.AUEB has the largest number of Erasmus students as a percentage of its total student population than any higher education institution in the country. …

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The Cyprus Institute: Algorithms for Large-scale Simulations Developed by Researchers in Cyprus Recognised for their International Importance

A research group at the Computation-based Science and Technology Research Centre (CaSToRC) of The Cyprus Institute, led by Prof. Constantia Alexandrou, has been developing scalable algorithms enabling large-scale simulations, using some of the world’s largest supercomputers. The main contributors in recent developments of such algorithms are the researchers Dr Jacob Finkenrath and Dr Simone Bacchio, …

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