European Office Of Cyprus

EEN Cyprus, Greece & Czechia join forces to unlock innovation and business opportunities in Athens
2026-06-08 - 2026-06-09
International matchmaking event connects research, industry and SMEs to explore EU funding and build strategic partnerships
EEN Cyprus, EEN Hellas and EEN Czechia are pleased to announce the Research and Innovation Matchmaking Event 2026, a two-day international gathering to be held on 8-9 June at the Syggrou Estate in Marousi, Athens.
The event is co-organised by key members of the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN), including the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the European Office of Cyprus (EOC), the National Documentation Centre (EKT), PRAXI Network, the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Chamber of Ioannina, the Chamber of Kavala, the Association of Industries of Thessaly & Central Greece, the Federation of Enterprises and Industries of Peloponnese & Western Greece, EVETAM S.A. (Societe Anonyme of Industrial Research, Technological Development, Laboratory Testing, Certification and Quality) and the coordinator of EEN Czechia, Czechinvest .
The event brings together academics, researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, and industry representatives from Cyprus, Greece, Czechia and beyond. It aims to foster cross-border collaboration, strengthen partnerships, and support the development of competitive project consortia for major European Union funding programmes, including Horizon Europe, Digital Europe, CERV, and Creative Europe.
Designed for universities, research institutions, SMEs, start-ups and innovation multipliers, the matchmaking event offers a dynamic platform to exchange ideas, explore synergies, and initiate impactful collaborations.
The programme includes keynote addresses, success stories from participating countries, expert-led workshops on effective networking, and multiple rounds of pitching and structured networking sessions.
Participants can expect:

Pitching sessions showcasing project ideas, expertise, and technology offers
Tailored matchmaking meetings aligned with participants’ profiles and interests
Networking opportunities connecting research, industry, and innovation stakeholders
Funding-focused discussions on upcoming EU calls and strategic priorities

The event will focus on a broad range of priority topics, including:

Agriculture and Soil
Digital Health
AI, Data and Advanced Digital Technologies
New European Bauhaus Facility
Clean Energy, Storage and Climate Neutrality
Smart Cities, Sustainable Mobility and Built Environment
Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence (WIDERA)

Call for Participation
Organisations interested in participating are invited to submit an expression of interest by 29 May 2026, selecting one or more thematic areas.
Participants will also have the opportunity to compete for a place in the pitching sessions. Selected participants will present project ideas, expertise or collaboration requests related to the event’s themes and EU funding priorities.
Learn more: https://research-innovation.eu/
About the Organisers
Enterprise Europe Network Cyprus, Enterprise Europe Network Hellas and Enterprise Europe Network Czechia actively support international cooperation, innovation, and access to EU funding opportunities for research and business communities.

The Festival of the New European Bauhaus
2026-06-09 - 2026-06-13
The European Commission is organising the third edition of the New European Bauhaus Festival in Brussels (Belgium) on 9-13 June 2026, and you can be part of it!
The NEB Festival 2026 will, among other topics, address the transformative power of democratic engagement in shaping more inclusive and sustainable communities. It will highlight how empowered citizens and local authorities can play an active role in creating their environments, with a particular emphasis on affordable housing as a cornerstone of democratic participation. In line with the NEB’s core vision, the Festival will be a space to reimagine our built environment, placing first life, then spaces, and then buildings.
The Festival encompasses four key pillars:

Forum – a platform for engaging discussions and the exchange of ideas surrounding the New European Bauhaus.
Fair – a laboratory and exhibition, highlighting projects and prototypes that align with and support the core values of the New European Bauhaus.
Fest – a celebration that unites culture, art, and conviviality, serving as a moment of collective rejoicing, honouring freedom of expression and embracing radical, innovative, and disruptive ideas and visions.
Satellite events – initiatives and events organised independently in Brussels and beyond, aligned with the New European Bauhaus values.

First held in 2022, the NEB Festival is a biennial event that invites people to celebrate and take stock of the progress of the New European Bauhaus, the European Commission initiative that aims to turn the European Green Deal and Clean Industrial Deal into tangible change on the ground, improving daily lives through sustainable solutions for the built environment and lifestyles. It combines sustainability with good design, inclusivity, accessibility, and affordability, respecting Europe’s diverse places, cultural heritage, and cultures.
Get involved and help shape the next Festival!
Whether you’re a project leader, artist, designer, event organiser, or simply someone passionate about shaping a more sustainable, inclusive and beautiful future – you can now apply to be part of the next edition of the New European Bauhaus Festival:

Showcase your NEB-aligned project – apply for the Fair (deadline: 30 September 2025)
Share your artistic performance or cultural activity – apply for the Fest (deadline: 30 September 2025)
Organise a Satellite Event across Europe and beyond (deadline: 31 December 2025)
or help us to spread the word about the calls using this promo kit.

Find out more and apply now

101.CY Unconference: Freedom. Democracy. Internet: Cyprus EU Presidency edition, 2026
2026-06-15 10:30 - 18:00 UTC
This year’s 101.CY Unconference, follows the call Freedom. Democracy. Internet: Cyprus EU Presidency edition 2026, and is part of the Cyprus Open Digital Futures Week. It is the latest in a series of local unconferences (open space gatherings with an emergent agenda) aiming towards conscientious and democratically-grounded tech policy, in Cyprus and beyond.*
The Unconference is an invitation to come together in a moment of European digital policy visibility. The current policy landscape increasingly focuses on cybersecurity, AI development, and national or EU-first digital sovereingty metrics. In doing so, it risks overlooking the deeper questions that shape our collective technological futures. How do we make decisions regarding our technological future in a way that is inclusive, transparent, and human-centered rather than institutional? What kind of digital futures are we building? And how do we address the systemic pressures, lobbying, institutional inertia, and internal fragmentation, that continue to challenge the FLOSS and digital commons ecosystems from within?
On June 15th 2026, as Cyprus and Nicosia become the setting of European Digital Policy, we pull together threads and invite individuals and communities that believe in open and freedom-respecting technologies to gather and coordinate in a spirit of informal productivity, to give pulse to a week of activities hosted by the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU, and make sure that the most important and urgent digital commons and digital rights-debates are brought it into the conversation.
We seek to centre digital rights, digital sovereignty understood as public capacity rather than control, and the digital commons as a shared infrastructure of care and governance. In doing so, we challenge extractive and opaque models of technological development, and instead nurture free, fair, and participatory systems for governance, security, education, and life.
We call together people who think and work towards digital rights and the democratisation of technology; FLOSS developers, educators, researchers, creatives, and community organisers; those interested in co-creating ethical digital policy and resilient community tech; those invested in mapping the obstacles and opportunities for free/libre software in public institutions, schools, and cultural spaces; those interested in the Right to Repair, and the “Public Money? Public Code” movement; practitioners and policy-makers looking to move toward grounded, implementable strategies for digital justice; and those interested in connecting the above priorities with sound business practices. We invite all who care about the protection of digital commons and see the need and significance of to support this initiative on this day through in-person participation.
Locally we call on Ubuntu.cy, ELLAK Cyprus, hack66, Hackerspace Limassol, the Cyprus Pirate movement, 101.cy, NeMe.org, UCY, CUT and local universities, local NGOs with budding interest in tech policy, and the Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Tech Policy, […]
and internationally, we invite Freedom not Fear (BE), EDRi (BE), homo digitalis (GR); digital courage (DE);
What to expect

A fluid, minimally guided, participant-led networking, brainstorming, and co-working atmosphere, following the principles of Open Space Technology: sessions are proposed and shaped by attendees themselves, allowing for spontaneity, relevance, and co-ownership of the agenda.
Space for panels, co-writing labs, workshops, and policy roundtables.
Emphasis on dialogue, transparency, and co-creation.

As part of our commitment towards a community-conscious and low-waste event, we kindly ask participants to a reusable cup or bottle. Let’s care for the commons: online and offline.
What Open Space can look like
– The Basics – https://youtu.be/XCPZ5iQLlnA?si=8q3l7NRx6_06FR3_
– The potential – https://youtu.be/WQj12jmLGr4?si=AM660pl2L7BUAZVX
When: 15/6/20
Official webpage here.
Find the latest updates here.
Source: https://ellak.org.cy/en/2026/05/05/unconference26/

OFE Capital Series, Nicosia, Cyprus
2026-06-16 12:00 - 18:00
Sign up now to join OpenForum Europe and partners for the next edition of the Capital Series events, taking place in Nicosia on 16 June 2026.
Marking the eight instalment of our cyclical events, Capital Series Cyprus will bring Brussels-level discussions of open source policy directly to Nicosia. This event will provide a unique opportunity for the local open source community to directly engage with EU and national policymakers to better understand policies that impact the Cypriot market.
The event will explore how open source and open technologies support Europe’s digital ambitions, from cybersecurity and digital public infrastructure to innovation and competitiveness. Together with policymakers, industry representatives, researchers and members of the open source community, we will discuss how European digital policies translate into national opportunities and challenges for the Cypriot ecosystem. The event will also create space for dialogue between EU institutions and local actors working with open technologies.
Capital Series events are single-day, high-level policy gatherings dedicated to advancing open source policy priorities in alignment with the objectives of the member states holding the Presidency of the Council of the EU. The Series builds on the OFE’s annual EU Open Source Policy Summit in Brussels to further connect the dots between the EU and national policy cycles.
Where?
The Cyprus Institute, 20 Konstantinou Kavafi St., Nicosia
More info: https://openforumeurope.org/events/open-source-and-the-european-union-cyprus-ofe-capital-series/
