May 2023
Extending collaboration with Japanese entities
Following the visit to the CUT premises, an official request was sent to the Ambassador of Japan, Mr. YAMAWAKI Yoshio, for further enhancing the collaboration between Cyprus and Japan. Synergies between interested Japanese entities (including universities, research institutions and space agencies) can be explored through the provision and access to Japanese Earth Observation programs and joint research activities towards cultural heritage and monitoring purposes. The collaboration can be extended by sharing best practices and know-how for processing and interpreting optical and...
Promotion Activities: Visit of Ambassador of Japan, Mr. YAMAWAKI Yoshio
On Thursday, March 30, 2023, the Ambassador of Japan, Mr. Yoshio Yamawaki, and a delegation of the Embassy paid an important visit to the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) on the occasion of the “READ JAPAN PROJECT book donation”. As part of Ambassador Yamawaki’s visit, the Ambassador and his entourage visited the Digital Heritage Research Laboratory (Digital Heritage Research Laboratory / UNESCO Headquarters “Mnemosyne”) which is based at the University. The Director of the UNESCO Chair Dr. Marinos Ioannides, the holder...
Department of Antiquities of Cyprus part of the CONNECTING Infrastructure Proposal
The Department of Antiquities participates in the CONNECTING Infrastructure Proposal, submitted to “Small Scale Research Infrastructures” call. The Department of Antiquities of Cyprus is a supporter of the ENGINEER project.
UNESCO Chair on Digital Heritage supports CONNECTING Infrastructure Proposal
The UNESCO Chair for Digital Cultural Heritage supports the CONNECTING Infrastructure Proposal, submitted to “Small Scale Research Infrastructures” call. The UNESCO Chair is a supporter of the ENGINEER project.
UAVEIRO/UCL/POLIMI supports CONNECTING Infrastructure Proposal
The advance partners of the ENGINEER project, namely the UAVEIRO, UCL and POLIMI have provided a Letter of Support for the “Small Scale Research Infrastructures” proposal.Submission of Infrastructure proposal, supported by ENGINEER consortium, part of actions for acquiring relevant infrastructure
Following the discussions from the kick-off meeting as well as suggestions made by the advance partners, and reported in the Deliverables of WP1, the CUT laboratories participated in the ENGINEER project have joint forces for a new local call entitled as “Small Scale Research Infrastructures”. The Call “Small Scale Research Infrastructures” concerns the funding of projects aims to create new or upgrading small-scale research infrastructures that will be used for the implementation of a high-level cutting-edge research project by the Consortium. The...Deliverables uploaded!
Another four deliverables have been successfully and on-time uploaded to the participant portal. These deliverables include the following: Evaluation report including local institution existing capacities, baseline assessment Report of the GAP analysis Risk management and contingency planning Dissemination, exploitation and communication plan
High School visits CUT (A’ Technical School), presentations from A. Agapiou and N. Kyriakides
Dr. Athos Agapiou and Dr Nicholas Kyriakides had the opportunity to demonstrate to high school graduate students of the A’ Technical school of Limassol, the facilities of the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics and informed them about research activities of the Department.
