The Cyprus Institute Ltd

The Cyprus Institute operates under the aegis of the Cyprus Research and Educational Foundation (CREF), which is governed by a Board of Trustees, comprised of leading personalities of the international academic, political and business world. The creation of The Cyprus Institute (CyI), a novel, internationally recognized research institution, is the tangible manifestation of the Cyprus Research and Educational Foundation’s vision to help transform Cyprus into a knowledge-based economy, and in doing so to advance the welfare of the island and the region. Today, the Institute is a world-class research and technology institution, carrying out pioneering research programs involving cutting-edge high throughput technologies, in order to address problems of regional as well as international significance. At the same time, it provides training for future researchers and scholars through its high quality doctoral programs. The CyI comprises three specialized multidisciplinary research centers, developed in partnership with leading international institutions in their respective thematic areas. - Energy, Environment and Water Research Center (EEWRC), partnered with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); - Science and Technology in Archaeology Research Center (STARC), partnered with the Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France (C2RMF); - Computation-based Science and Technology Research Center (CaSToRC), partnered with the University of Illinois. Multi-level founding partnerships with internationally prominent institutions ensure the development of the Centers in close collaboration with world leaders in their respective fields. Additional collaborations with other research and academic institutions together with local authorities further enhance the development. Having launched its first research center in late 2007, with only a few years in operation, CyI has demonstrated its keen ability to successfully conduct scientific research and to attract scientists of international repute. It is now pursuing a large number of research projects, many of them funded by the European Commission, including an ERC Advanced Grant. A Graduate School acts as the Institute’s Education arm, which trains researchers for senior posts in academia as well as industry and government bodies. It offers high quality doctoral programs grounded in the research environment of the respective research centers.