Projects KIOS

HVDC-WISE: Acceleration of integration of renewables into the European transmission system

The innovative research project entitled “HVDC-WISE” (High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) technology), funded by the EU’s Horizon Europe program and the UK Research and Innovation Horizon Europe Guarantee scheme, aims to design reliable and resilient power transmission grids to accelerate the integration of renewables across Europe and UK. The European Commission has defined plans for the …

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TRANSIT: Transition to a Sustainable Future through Training and Education

TRANSIT (TRANSITion to sustainable future through training and education) is a project funded by the European Union under the program Horizon Europe and UK Research and Innovation Horizon Europe Guarantee scheme that aims to provide sustainable training and re-skilling programmes for current and future generations on a multidisciplinary approach in renewable energy. Through support measures …

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ACTING project: Advanced Cybersecurity training

The ACTING (Advanced European platform and network of Cybersecurity training and exercises centres) research project aims to strengthen proactive cyber defense operators training exercises of the European Union through effective and efficient multi-domain collaboration and the development of advanced technologies. This includes developing a network of advanced interconnected (federated) domain-oriented cyber ranges for training and …

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COLLARIS Network: COLLaborative network on unmanned AeRIal Systems

COLLARIS (COLLaborative network on unmanned AeRIal Systems) is a capacity-building initiative to develop a sustainable European network of scientific, engineering, and end-user expertise related to unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in civil protection and disaster response. COLLARIS covers the following thematic focus areas: identification and sharing of operational procedures, lessons learnt, and best practices using UAS …

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LEMUR: Innovative research and training to shape next generation AI technologies

LEMUR is an MSCA (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) Doctoral Network (DN) program, which offers innovative training and research to shape key Artificial Intelligent (AI) technologies of the present and the future with strong technological, scientific, economical, and societal impact. The objective of Doctoral Networks is to implement doctoral programs by partnerships of organizations from different sectors …

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SIEQUA-CERT: Intelligent Decision Support System for Sustainable Indoor Environment

The SIEQUA-CERT (Real-time monitoring and actionable decision support for Sustainable Indoor Environment Quality Certification) project aims to develop a web-based actionable decision support system, that combines real-time monitoring of Indoor Environment Quality (IEQ) and a quantifiable impact metric on occupants’ health. These solutions will improve the health of occupants in the indoor spaces. One of …

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CARAMEL: Artificial Intelligence-based Cybersecurity for Connected and Automated Vehicles

The KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence (CoE) at the University of Cyprus is participating in an Innovation Action project funded by the EU under the Horizon 2020 programme. The project is titled “CARAMEL” and brings together 15 organizations from 8 European countries with complementary expertise and skills. It addresses the cybersecurity challenge of …

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CUREX: Innovative solutions for the protection and security of health data

The health sector’s increasing dependence on digital information and communication infrastructures renders it vulnerable to threats to privacy and cybersecurity, especially as the theft of health data has become particularly lucrative for cyber criminals. At the same time, a breach of integrity of health data can have dramatic consequences for the patients affected. The KIOS …

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CERETAB: Pioneering technologies for border monitoring and security

Greece and Cyprus, over the recent years, have been dealing with heavy irregular migration attempts via the Mediterranean Sea and cross-border crime. Their unique geographical position in the South Eastern end borders of the European Union renders them as significant targets for smuggling groups, using small maritime vessels. In these instances, timely effective and secure …

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FAULT-LEARNING: Artificial Intelligence-based fault diagnosis of critical infrastructure systems

Dr. Kleanthis Malialis, a Post-Doc researcher at the KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence of the University of Cyprus was awarded a prestigious Marie Skłodowska Curie (MSCA) Widening Fellowship to work with Professors Marios Polycarpou and Christos Panayiotou on the project “FAULT-LEARNING”. Moreover, the Fellow will work with Professor Cesare Alippi, as the Fellowship …

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ELECTRON: rEsilient and seLf-healed EleCTRical pOwer Nanogrid

The ELECTRON research project aims at delivering a new-generation platform for Electrical Power and Energy Systems (EPES), capable of empowering the resilience of energy systems against cyber, privacy, and data attacks through four main pillars: risk assessment and certification, anomaly detection and prevention, failure mitigation and energy restoration, and addressing internal threats and gaps through …

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WaterAnalytics: Improving efficiency of water distribution networks

Water scarcity is an increasingly frequent and widespread phenomenon in the European Union and affects at least 10% of the European population. Around 10-40% of Europe’s available water is being wasted because of leakages in the supply system or lack of water-saving technologies. In Cyprus, 20-30% of water is lost due to leakages, which corresponds …

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CovTracer-EN: The official contact tracing mobile app of the Republic of Cyprus

The CovTracer – Exposure Notification (CovTracer-EN) project aims at developing the contact tracing mobile app for Cyprus, thus supporting the efforts of the Epidemiological Surveillance and Control Unit of the Cyprus Ministry of Health to limit the spread of COVID-19 in the Cypriot community. The CovTracer-EN project is part of a wider European effort, which …

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3DMicroGrid: Innovative Technologies for smart energy management and control of a micro-grid

The KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence (CoE) is participating in an important EU research and innovation project entitled “3DMicroGrid”. The main objective of this project is to capitalize on the availability of local and large renewable energy resources and adapt them for solutions to sustainability in terms of electric power demand and supply. …

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