Jos Lelieveld, a professor at the Cyprus Institutes Research Center in Energy, Environment and Water (EEWRC), has won a research grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The advanced grant of 2.2 mln euros is for the project ‘Consistent Computation of the Chemistry-Cloud Continuum and Climate Change in Cyprus,’ an investigation into the relationship between
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The European Commission has accepted the designation of Stavros Malas to the post of special adviser to EU Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou. Malas is entrusted with the mandate to explore ways on how to set and run EU Networks of Centres of reference in public health, in particular in the treatment of rare diseases. He has
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Cyprus forecasts need to be revised down DR. JIM LEONTIADES The CIIM Business School Every financial crisis brings with it its own surprises. This one is no different. Its impact has brought about not only economic disruption but unexpected shifts of economic power as different countries have been effected and reacted differently. Russia: Prime Minister
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How long can Cyprus remain “safe”? Gone are the days when the International Monetary Fund would be a lender of last resort for the world’s poorest states, most of them dogged by problems of free rule and hampered by spending on arms, ignoring the need for national development and prosperity. Nowadays, with the IMF having
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Smart Technologies has announced that the one millionth Smart Board interactive whiteboard has rolled off the company’s production line in Canada, selling approximately three times as many interactive whiteboards than its closest competitor. The Middle East market has also made a notable contribution towards this success over the last five years with more than 7,000
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OneCard, the Arab World's largest multi-function secured e-payment services, has embarked on an aggressive marketing campaign in the Middle East to capitalise on the strong growth potential of the region's online gaming industry, which is predicted to grow in the EMEA electronic gaming industry from USD 11.1 bln to USD 15.4 bln by 2011, according
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Fujitsu and Nokia Siemens Networks have agreed to cooperate on jointly developing the Service Architecture Evolution (SAE) Gateway for the Super 3G project’s Long Term Evolution (LTE) core. Thus, NTT DOCOMO is on track to be among the world’s first operators to introduce the groundbreaking LTE technology for wireless online experience comparable to today’s fixed
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President of the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources Yiannakis Thoma and Committee members Andreas Fakontis, George Tassou and Antonis Antoniou depart on Sunday for Brussels to participate in the joint parliamentary meeting entitled ''The future of European Agriculture and its global role''. The meeting is organised by the European Parliament, the French Assembly
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The Central Bank of Cyprus announced the issue of a silver collector coin, in proof condition, with a nominal value of EUR5 and year of issue 2008. This is the first Cyprus collector coin in euro issue to commemorate the accession of Cyprus to the euro area in January this year. The coin depicts Cyprus
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The 8th Technical Seminar of the Union of European Olympic Committees (EOC), organised by the Cyprus Olympic Committee (COE) in cooperation with the EOC Technical Committee for Cooperation and Development of Sports, started on Friday in the southern coastal town of Larnaca, with the participation of 75 delegates from 38 countries. COE President Ouranios Ioannides
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