The Makridakis Open Forecasting Center at the University of Nicosia’s Institute for the Future (IFF) announces the successful conclusion of both the M6 Financial Forecasting Competition and the “Future of Forecasting and the M6 Competition” Conference. Conducted from February 2022 to February 2023, this year’s competition marked the sixth edition of the renowned Makridakis (or …
More than 1,000 participants from all over Cyprus participated in the festival With the participation of hundreds of students’ teachers and their parents, the Youth Tech Fest 2023 took place on November 18, at the premises of the University of Nicosia. With the motto “Together we can inspire the generation of the future”, the festival …
The study published in Physics of Fluids suggests that simply higher ventilation rates do not result in safer cabin conditions for passengers and crew UNIC researchers published a recent paper on cruise ship ventilation in the prestigious Journal of Physics of Fluids of the American Institute of Physics. The study sheds light on how viruses …
A Highly Cited Researcher is an individual who has demonstrated significant and broad influence in their field(s) of research Professor Spyros Makridakis, Director of the University of Nicosia (UNIC) Institute for the Future (IFF) is among the most Highly Cited Researchers in the world, according to the list Highly Cited Researchers™. Correspondingly, Professor Makridakis, who …
The Department of Computer Science of the University of Nicosia supports the hackathon Artificial Intelligence for the Common Good hackathon on the theme of Green Cities. The hackathon will take place at KEEAED in Nicosia between 17-19 November in English. The hackathon is organised by the British Council, in collaboration with hack{cyprus} and the Nicosia …
Project members discussed Resilience and the Path Forward during a transformative event and visit to the Control Center of the Smart City of Nicosia During a Multiplier Event that took place on 5 October, 2023 at the University of Nicosia, visionaries and experts were brought together to discuss critical topics with respect to smart city …
On the 6th – 8th of September 2023, Gnosis | Mediterranean Institute for Management Science participated in the 2nd Transnational Project Meeting for the Erasmus+ Project “Creative learning for boosting bio-economy within HEIs’ curricula – CL4BIO”, that look place in Aveiro, Portugal. The overarching objective of the CL4BIO project is to equip teaching academics with advanced and creative skills, fostering excellence …
The Erasmus Office of the University of Nicosia (UNIC) had the pleasure of organising and hosting the annual Information Day for the Erasmus+ Programme. This year’s event took place at the UNIC Open Amphitheatre, on October 11, 2023. The main aim of UNIC’s Erasmus Office is to provide the best possible information, to students, administrative …
UNIC’s Dr. Alexia Zalaf a member of the team which created the winning project ‘Kids in Court Psychoeducational Tool (KiCPsy-Tool)’ Dr. Alexia Zalaf, Assistant Professor at the UNIC School of Humanities and Social Sciences (Department of Social Sciences), along with her team from Sheffield Hallam University (UK), and Hope for Children CRC Policy Centre has …
In the last decade, machine learning, recognized as a subset of artificial intelligence, has gained prominence for its capacity to discern significant patterns from training data. This advancement has extended to predicting the perceptual patterns in non-native language speech, a domain often guided by the implicit assumption that phonetic similarities between one’s first language (L1) …