Energy poverty is a pressing issue across Europe, at a time when the European Union is preparing to launch the Social Climate Fund in 2026 to relieve vulnerable households and small businesses from increased energy costs. Currently, the number of applications submitted by vulnerable Cypriot households for energy upgrade grants remains low, despite the efforts …
The Cyprus Institute and the Department of Town Planning and Housing signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the aim of continuing and expanding their cooperation in areas of common and public interest. Specifically, the Memorandum of Understanding came into force on 1 September 2024 for a period of 5 years, and aims, among others, …
A team from STARC and the UCL Institute of Archaeology presented their research on medieval crucible steel making and Bronze Age copper production at the 8th International Congress of the World Society for the Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan, held from August 23-26 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. For the first time, scholars from Cyprus and CyI were …
The Cyprus Institute recently published a new paper in its Policy Brief series, entitled “Climate Policy is Good Economic and Social Policy”. In this Brief, CyI Professor Theodoros Zachariadis reports on the recent findings of scientific studies on the economic impacts of climate change. The most recent studies estimate much more adverse impacts of climate …
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 …