2016

A EUROPEAN CENTER OF EXCELLENCE FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION WILL BE ESTABLISHED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS Flagship research and innovation center of excellence —the first such Center in Cyprus The University of Cyprus announces that the KIOS Research Center has been selected to receive funding from the European Union to advance into a Center […]

The KIOS Research Center and Imperial College London have recently submitted an ambitious proposal for a significant upgrade of the KIOS Research Center to a world-class Center of Excellence. The proposal was submitted within the framework of HORIZON 2020 under the TEAMING Phase 2 call, which is part of EU’s strategic program “Spreading Excellence and

Tailored Research, Innovation and Exploitation The KIOS Research Center has cultivated positive working relations with international companies and public service authorities responsible for the management of critical infrastructures and related services. These collaborations have concentrated on specific research needs of various critical infrastructure sectors, as well as towards emerging related research fields. To this end

Professor Marios Polycarpou, Director of the KIOS Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Networks at the University of Cyprus, chaired a 15-member evaluation panel which met twice in 2015 and 2016 in Brussels to select the recipients of this year’s ERC Advanced Grants in the area of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The Evaluation Panel consisted

Amongst the European Union funding programmes are specialist programmes that are designed to support key strategic priorities of the Union. One such programme focuses on supporting efforts of EU member states and other partner countries in the areas of prevention and preparedness in civil protection and marine pollution, as well as in encouraging a common

The KIOS Research Center at the University of Cyprus is coordinating two new projects, 3D-Mgrid and COM-MED, funded by the programme ERANETMED. The ERANETMED programme aims to build “sustainable” Euro-Mediterranean cooperation to help tackle common socio-economic challenges faced by the region. The two projects coordinated by KIOS focus on energy efficiency and involve the development of new smart

A new project, “Advancing the state of the art of MIMO: The key to the successful evolution of wireless networks” (ATOM), has begun at the KIOS Research Center offering unique opportunities for researchers to participate in short-term exchanges in order to help them achieve scientific excellence through exposure to other countries and sectors. The project

The “ProximAid” smart phone application developed by researchers at the KIOS Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Networks has been tagged as communication technology that can change the world. The technology ProximAid was ranked among the top 9 projects from a total of 50 submitted to the IEEE ComSoc International Student Competition “Communications Technology Changing

A team from the KIOS Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Networks has won 2nd place at the international competition organized by the Autonomic Road Transport Support Systems COST Action, aiming at increasing the resilience of road traffic support systems by the use of autonomics. The competition, which was co-located with the 22nd ITS (Intelligent