• Posted 24-Nov-2020

University of Cyprus secures its first prestigious ERC Synergy Grant

The University of Cyprus has secured a highly competitive ERC Synergy Grant for the research project “Water-Futures”, totalling 10 million euros, with Professor Marios Polycarpou, Director of KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence, as the corresponding Principal Investigator. Cyprus has had significant successes in securing competitive funding from the European Research Council (ERC) and as such has an established reputation for scientific excellence.

The University of Cyprus announced the approval of the ERC Synergy Grant “Water-Futures”, which is the first such grant for an academic institution based in Cyprus. The Water-Futures research grant has a value of 10 million euros. Among more than 440 proposals submitted to the European Research Council for a Synergy Grant, and after a highly competitive year-long evaluation procedure, 34 research projects were selected to address some of the world’s most formidable research problems spanning multiple scientific disciplines. The awarded project, entitled “Smart Water Futures: Designing the Next Generation of Urban Drinking Water Systems,” is a partnership between four internationally recognized researchers and their teams: Professor Marios Polycarpou, from the University of Cyprus, who is also the Corresponding Principal Investigator; Professor Barbara Hammer from the Bielefeld University in Germany; Professor Phoebe Koundouri from the Athens University of Economics and Business in Greece; and Professor Dragan Savić from the KWR Water Research Institute in the Netherlands.

Source: https://erc.europa.eu/news/erc-2020-synergy-grants-results

http://ucy.ac.cy/pr/documents/Press_Releases/2020/ENGLISH_2020/NOVEMBER_2020/ERC_Synergy_Grant_05.11.2020.pdf