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The First International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of Environment (RSCy 2013) will be held on 8 April 2013 in Paphos, Cyprus.

Geoinformation Science is an inter-disciplinary field that involves earth science, information science, and system science. It consists in gathering and analysing information on the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and biosphere and, more specifically, their ...

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The Second International Foreign Language Instructional Technology: E-nnovative Learning (FLiT) Conference will be held from 5 to 7 December 2013 in Nicosia, Cyprus.

The importance of learning a foreign language cannot be ignored. In a world that is increasingly interdependent, we can no longer afford to speak only one language. Success, notably from a career perspective, depends on the ability of an individual ...

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The Ninth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI 2013) will take place from 26 to 28 September 2013 in Paphos, Cyprus.

Artificial Intelligence embraces a vast majority of research fields across different disciplines, from engineering sciences to economics and medicine. It is used as a means to tackle highly complicated and challenging computational and ...

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The 'EIT Stakeholders Conference - Addressing Societal Challenges through the EIT' will take place from 8 to 9 November 2012 in Larnaca, Cyprus.

Within the framework of the Cyprus Presidency and along with the Planning Bureau of Cyprus, the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation (RPF) - with the support of the European Commission Lifelong Learning Programme - invites all stakeholders to a two-day event. ...

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An event entitled 'Completing the European Research Area in the Context of the Innovation Union - Boarding Time' will take place on 14 November 2012 Nicosia, Cyprus.

Within the framework of the Cyprus Presidency and along with the Planning Bureau of Cyprus, the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation (RPF) invites all stakeholders to a one-day event featuring cross-cutting issues of the European Research ...

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July is typically characterised by long school holidays, balmy evenings and, for the lucky ones, a few days break from the daily grind. But July also signals the changing of the guard at the Council of the European Union, with a new Member State taking over the six-month rotating Presidency.

And this time it's Cyprus' turn to take the reins, leading and organising the work of the Council until the end ...

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When it comes to reducing emissions there is no more time for stalling, things must change - and fast. And a new EU-funded study from the European Geosciences Union (EGU) that reports most of the world's population will be subjected to degraded air quality in 2050 if we stick to the 'business-as-usual' model provides further evidence that time is dwindling.

Writing in the EGU's journal Atmospheric Chemistry ...

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An event entitled 'Using research to inform medical practice' will take place from 5 to 7 September 2012 in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Storage of public health data shares the same management issues as other industries. Due to the complexity and variability of public health data, modelling presents a particular challenge. The workshop will introduce attendees to some of the principles of biostatistics and study ...

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An event entitled 'East-Meets-West on innovation and entrepreneurship congress and exhibition ' will take place from 1 to 4 September 2012 in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Organised by the European Office of Cyprus, the conference is a four-day event featuring networking and partnership building. The congress will seek to harness the potential of entrepreneurship to transfer innovative ideas into products and services ...

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Results from a new EU-funded project show that extreme weather conditions cost the EU's transport system at least EUR 15 billion every year.

The EWENT ('Extreme weather impacts on European networks of transport') project, which ran from December 2009 until May 2012, was supported by the 'Transport' Theme of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) to the tune of EUR 1,478,981.

Led by researchers at ...

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