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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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With the aim of identifying problems and sustainable solutions for the restoration of Agro-ecosystems for the Mediterranean, a workshop was successfully held on Wednesday, February 1, 2023 in Agros village by researchers from the water and ecosystems division of the Energy Environment and Water Research Center (EEWRC) of The Cyprus Institute. The workshop is the …

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In another success for The Cyprus Institute, Prof. Salvatore Carlucci, Director of the Environmental Sensing Laboratory and leader of CyI’s Sustainable Built Environment Group, is a co-author on two of the four papers that received the 2022 Best Paper Awards from the prestigious journal Building and Environment. The “Best Paper Awards” were established in 2007 to encourage publishing …

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The European Rechance Programme held the multiplier event at the European University Cyprus in collaboration with the Center for Social Innovation (CSI). The Conference was successfully held by the Nursing Programme of the Department of Health Sciences of the European University of Cyprus and the opening of the conference was held by the President of the …

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The Pact4Skills project is funded by the European Union under the Erasmus+ Programme. It started in 2022 and is expected to be completed in 2024. It aims to provide skills to students who are called to respond to the new needs regarding the management of cultural issues in the context of modern digital culture. These special skills concern interculturality , the digital …

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The UNESCO Chair in Digital Cultural Heritage and the European Remembrance project (H2020 ERA CHAIR) of the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) are organising the final event of the European Erasmus+ project “The GLAMers”, which will take place at the Poseidonia Beach Hotel, in Limassol , on Monday 13/02/2023 and time 10:30-17:00. The opening of …

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