2024

On the 25th and 26th of June, the IDEATION (InlanD watErs in the digitAl Twin OceaN) project officially kicked-off its activities. This aspiring new Horizon Europe project, funded by the European Climate, Infrastructure, and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA), aims to provide the fundamentals for a digital twin, a real-time virtual representation of a physical system, […]

In April 2024, the successful conclusion of the GLIMPSE project (Intelligent Multi-drone Emergency Response System) led to a new era in the development of innovative autonomous multi-agent systems designed to tackle the several challenges of emergency response missions. Modern society faces immense challenges in building resilience against severe disasters such as earthquakes, wildfires, and floods.

Marios Polycarpou, Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the KIOS Center of Excellence at the University of Cyprus, was honored with the prestigious 2023 IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Technical Field Award, which is the highest-level distinction for scientists conducting groundbreaking research in the field of Artificial Intelligence. The award ceremony

The KIOS Center of Excellence is among the winners of the 2024 Water Europe Innovation Awards, receiving the “Digital Water Award” 2024 (https://watereurope.eu/) for the research, development, and demonstration in field exercises of an innovative software tool for investigating pathogen contamination events in water systems, “PathoINVEST”. The PathoINVEST tool was developed by KIOS CoE in

Nine exceptional undergraduate students are participating in the prestigious Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) at the KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence at the University of Cyprus, for the summer of 2024. This is the 16th year that the UROP program has been running at the KIOS Center of Excellence. The program is extremely

In April 2024, the conclusion of the Innovation project Smart5Grid (Demonstration of 5G solutions for SMART energy GRIDs of the future), funded by the EU Horizon 2020 program, marked the beginning of exciting new possibilities for the digitalization of the electrical and power grid sector. By leveraging the advancements in wireless communication networks, such as

According to European Commission, buildings are responsible for approximately 40% of energy consumption and 36% of greenhouse gas emissions, which mainly result from construction, usage (through lighting, heating, and cooling systems, domestic appliances), renovation and demolition. Improving energy efficiency in buildings through deploying digital technologies is critically important for achieving the EU’s ambitious goal of

A collaboration agreement was signed between the Department of Electrical and Mechanical Services (EMS) of the Ministry of Transport, Communications, and Works and the KIOS Center of Excellence at the University of Cyprus, on the 2nd of April 2024. The two parties will work together on the design and implementation of a digital system (AFIIS

The KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence at the University of Cyprus is participating in a flagship research project, entitled “TwinEU”, funded by the EU under the Horizon Europe research and innovation program. The TwinEU project aims to create a concept of a Pan-European power system Digital Twin (DT), based on the integration of

The KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence at the University of Cyprus is coordinating for the first time the EU Horizon Innovation Action (IA) research project entitled COCOON: COoperative Cyber PrOtection for MOderN Power Grids. COCOON aims to deliver a cyber-physical systems solution to address cybersecurity and resilience challenges in interconnected Electrical Power and

The KIOS Center of Excellence is recognized for its expertise in Open Science activities and therefore was selected by the University of Cyprus (UCY) to participate in the OPUS project as one of the three Research Performing Organizations to pilot the implementation of the Research Assessment Framework. OPUS (Open and Universal Science) is an EU-funded