AG Leventis Foundation helps Cyprus Institute open Paris office

The Cyprus Institute is opening an office in Paris with funding from the A. G. Leventis Foundation.
The office on Avenue Foch will be directed by Dr. Bruno Rostand, Associate Vice-President for International Affairs. It will support the activities of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Prof. Edouard Brézin, former President of the French Academy of Sciences, and will help intensify the relations of the Cyprus Institute with a number of international bodies, most notably the European Commission and the Union for the Mediterranean. It will also contribute to assessing and monitoring the growing number of research funding opportunities that exist within various international programmes, principally those of the European Union.
The office will also facilitate the Cyprus Institute’s extensive collaboration with French institutions, notably C2RMF (Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France, for scientific and technological applications to archaeology and cultural heritage), IPSL (Institut Pierre-Simon de Laplace, for climate research), and the Sophia Antipolis Foundation for the promotion of innovation in the Mediterranean region. It will also provide a convenient venue in support of the activities of several international committees and expert groups that contribute to the development of the Institute, such as its scientific advisory bodies and the search committees that are formed for the international recruitment of senior academic staff.