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University of Cyprus: Professor Despo Fatta-Kassinou honoured with the Prince Sultan Water Specialist Event Participation Grant for her keynote speech at EMEC 2025

The Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) has approved the selection of Professor Despo Fatta-Kassinou (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) for the Prince Sultan Water Specialist Event Participation Grant, in recognition of her participation as a keynote speaker at EMEC 2025 (25th European Meeting on Environmental Chemistry, Chania, Crete, Greece). This …

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The Cyprus Institute of Neurology & Genetics: International Distinction for Cyprus and (CING): Dr Kyriaki Michaelidou honoured with the UNESCO Al Fozan Young Scientists Award

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 …

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Cyprus University of Technology: Distinction for CUT Lecturer Ariana Polyviou

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 …

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Open University of Cyprus: AI4Everyone Erasmus+ Project Kicks Off in Nicosia

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 …

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UCLan Cyprus: Preparing Universities to Cooperate with Neuroatypical Students: Second Partners’ Meeting in Riga, Latvia

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 …

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European University Cyprus: Signing of a Memorandum of Research Cooperation with the Cyprus Digital Security Authority (DSA)

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 …

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The Cyprus Institute: Attracting and Retaining Research Talent: Building Supportive Frameworks for Careers and Mobility

📢 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), …

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Frederick University: Europe’s Decarbonization and Green Hydrogen Potential: The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC)

The H₂Zero Research Unit at Frederick University has unveiled a comprehensive analysis of the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) electricity interconnection, demonstrating how a transformative 5GW HVDC transmission network can accelerate European decarbonization and enable large-scale green hydrogen production from imported renewable energy. This pioneering study employs sophisticated mathematical optimization modeling to simulate a 3,730km electricity superhighway …

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The Cyprus Institute: Round Table Discussion – Colour Matters: Colours and Colourful materials in New Kingdom Egypt

Colour is precious, and for millennia, the desire for colour has driven human ingenuity. Many of the early colour terms in the Egyptian language are related to valuable colourful materials. As early as in the 4th millennium BCE, Egypt witnessed the invention of the first synthetic colours—Egyptian blue and faience—created to satisfy a longing for …

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