CYENS Center of Excellence is the first Research Centre in Cyprus on Smart systems and Emerging technologies, empowering knowledge and technology transfer in the region. CYENS is looking for partners to tackle this challenge, having the capacity to run pilots all around Cyprus in various aspects of agro-ecology, investigating threats, stressors, best practices and challenges. We offer a range of monitoring technologies, both in-situ and remote (drones with hyperspectral cameras and LIDAR), as well as satellite imagery analytics. Furthermore, as we offer and maintain a country-scale digital twin, we can perform biodiversity monitoring and explore climate change adaptation actions.

CYENS is the first Research Centre in Cyprus focusing on Interactive media, Smart systems and Emerging technologies aiming to become a centre of excellence empowering knowledge and technology transfer in the region. It is a joint venture between the three public universities of Cyprus (University of Cyprus, Cyprus University of Technology, Open University of Cyprus), the Municipality of Nicosia, and two renowned international partners, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Germany) and University College London (UK). CYENS is designed to act as an integrator of academic research and industrial innovation, towards the sustainable fuelling of the scientific, technological, and economic growth of Cyprus and Europe. It sets out to meet the challenge with a total potential funding of more than 40 million Euros for the first 7 years, from the Horizon 2020 Teaming Action, the Cyprus Government through the Directorate General for European Programmes, Coordination and Development, the European Structural and Investment Funds, the project partners and multiple other sources. The business plan of CYENS is specifically tailored for long term sustainability and growth. CYENS will operate by embracing the motto “Inspired by Humans. Designed for Humans producing technologies to work “in the wild” as its guiding philosophy. Such a focus, geared towards applications and going beyond the traditional academic confines, is expected to bring direct tangible benefits to the local society, but also to ensure the prospects of an economically viable operation of the Centre.