The European COST Workshop “Final TU402: Quantifying the Value of Structural Health Monitoring” was organized at CUT on the 18th and 19th of October. During the workshop the results of the various actions and studies of the specific COST network of collaborators were presented and discussed. These relate to the development and application of methods…
Initiation and coordination (Coordinator – Toula Onoufriou) of the development of a National Energy Centre of Excellence with emphasis on oil and gas, the “EMERGE – East Med Energy Research for Growth and Education” with initial funding from the Cyprus Ministry of Energy. The aim of EMERGE is to support the emerging energy sector, provide…
The project OCEAN (Coordinator – Paul Christodoulides) was funded by the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation. The major theme of this project was that of extreme water waves, namely tsunamis, storm surges, and rogue waves. Scientists have been studying water waves for more than 150 years. The aims of the project were to: (1) Improve the…
The STM Validation Project will demonstrate the STM concept in large-scale test beds in both the Nordic and Mediterranean Seas, encompassing around 300 vessels, 13 ports (among them the Port of Limassol) and 5 shore-based service centres, as well as using the European Maritime Simulator Network. STM connects and updates the maritime world in real…
ENGINITE programme (Coordinator- Andri Ioannou) focuses on Engineering and Industry Innovative Training for Engineers via PBL under the scheme ERASMUS+ KA2. This project proposes a new industrial-oriented postgraduate vocational training programme which is based on PBL pedagogy and combines advanced applied academic topics with hands-on aspects, in order to endorse the knowledge and skills of…
The AQUABOT programme (Coordinator – Savvas Loizou) funded by the Research Promotion Foundation aims to develop an autonomous underwater robotic visual inspection system for the Cyprus offshore aquaculture industry. Under this project a robotic system was developed that automates the tasks of visual inspection of fish farm nets and mooring systems by using an underwater…
EXPOSOGAS Twinning Grant (Coordinator – Konstantinos Makris) funded by the EC on ‘The Exposome Paradigm and its Applications in Health and Safety Aspects of Hydrocarbons Operations in the Eastern Mediterranean’. The project will substantially increase the capacity of the widening institution in Cyprus in advancing its research capacity in health sciences applied to oil/gas activities using…
Participation (MC-Constantine Michailides) in the European Union funded project WECANet and in its Management Committee. WECANet is the first pan-European Network on an interdisciplinary marine wave energy approach, with networking tools and activities that are fully based on the COST Mission and Policies. It will provide platform and forum for efficient cross-border networking, exchange of information and…
Participation (Post Doctoral Fellow – Constantine Michailides) in the European Union funded project (FP-7 Energy) MARINA Platform. MARINA is a European project dedicated to bringing offshore renewable energy applications closer to the market by creating new infrastructures for both offshore wind and ocean energy converters. It addresses the need for creating a cost-efficient technology development basis to…
The STEAM Project (Coordinator – Michalis Michaelides, Scientific Coordinator – Herodotos Herodotou) is a three-year project expected to start on January 2019 with a budget of approximately 1 million EUR financed by the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation. The general objective of the STEAM project is to develop Port of Limassol to become a world-class transshipment…