On Tuesday, July 17th, the “Lemesos Commons” initiative began, involving 25 officials from the Municipality of Limassol, professionals from the built environment, and the EU project team “Lemesos City Cooling Challenge – LC3.” Lemesos Commons consists of a group of 25 citizens with a six-month term. The first meeting focused on the city’s green routes, …
The Dust Doctoral Network (Dust-DN), led by CARE-C of The Cyprus Institute, has been selected with full marks to contribute to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) of Horizon Europe, and will officially start operations on November 1st, 2024. A recruitment campaign for seventeen doctoral candidates within our prestigious network has now started, with a deadline …
Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Center (STARC) researchers have contributed to the recently inaugurated exhibition “Cyprus Insula: History-Memory-Reality”, which will run from 4 July 2024 – 30 June 2025 and will be open daily 10:00–19:00 at the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation. This exhibition marks the 50th anniversary of the Turkish invasion of …
CyI Research Scientist at the Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C), Dr. Jonilda Kushta, has been formally appointed as the National Contact Point for Cyprus in the Forum for Air Quality Modelling (FAIRMODE) community. This follows the formal appointment of CyI’s Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C) as the Scientific Delegate to represent the Air …
The Regional Programme Energy Security and Climate Change in Middle East and North Africa of the German Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (Konrad Adenauer Foundation; https://www.kas.de/en/) has published a new series of articles on Climate Change Mitigation in the Eastern Mediterranean. EEWRC’s Professor emeritus Manfred A. Lange, who also contributed two of the six papers in the sequence was the editor …
In an important academic achievement, CyI Associate Professor Sorin Hermon, alongside fellow authors Franco Niccolucci, Director of VAST-LAB research laboratory at PIN in Prato, Italy and Achille Felicetti, Senior Researcher at the University of Florence has been awarded the prestigious Data 2022 Best Paper Award for their paper titled “Populating the Data Space for Cultural …
A workshop dedicated to the past, present and future of the Cyprus cattle breed was successfully held on Friday, March 15, 2024 at The Cyprus Institute’s premises, organised by the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development, and Environment in collaboration with BirdLife Cyprus and with the support of The Cyprus Institute, the Ministry of Education, Culture, …
The Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C) of the Cyprus Institute and the Ministry of Environment of Egypt have recently joined forces in an effort to further enhance the established air quality network of Cairo, by enhancing the capabilities to measure specific pollutants, setting up an advanced early warning system and the ability to identify …
The new European Union Directive 2023/959 is a milestone of EU climate policy by launching a new Emissions Trading System for the fuels used in buildings, road transport, and light industry. It is expected to have a significant effect on energy use and accelerate the green transition of Europe, but its impacts, costs, and benefits …
As an important milestone leading up to the 10th World Water Forum in Bali in May 2024, the 5th Mediterranean Water Forum unfolded in Tunisia from 5th to 7th February 2024. Hosted by the Mediterranean Water Institute (IME) and the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfMs), with the backing of the Tunisian Ministry …