This project, resulting from a postdoctoral fellowship granted by the Cyprus Ministry of Education, has contributed to the development of a basic knowledge on different building types prevailing in Cyprus, and to the assessment of their energy performance for various locations of the island reflecting different climatic conditions.

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The Cyprus University of Technology through its Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy Research Group (3EP-CUT) is updating and further developing an energy demand forecast model in order to provide support to the German ORganisation for International Cooperation (GIZ) for the formulation of a comprehensive medium and long-term energy efficiency strategy for Cyprus up to the year 2050. 

• CALL/ROLE: Coordinator

 The aim of this Action is to bring together laboratory and theoretical gas phase and surface chemistry as well as large facilities based experiments with the aim of rationalizing the molecular evolution. Specific markers, such as isotopic fractionation, ices composition, and abundance ratios of isomers, must be used and understood, in order to draw a coherent picture of our chemical origins.

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This Action  addresses new and improved capabilities from concurrent developments in both the GNSS and meteorological communities. For the first time, the synergy of the three GNSS systems (GPS, GLONASS and Galileo) will be used to develop new, advanced tropospheric products, exploiting the full potential of multi-GNSS water vapour estimates on a wide range of temporal and spatial scales, from real-time monitoring and forecasting of severe weather, to climate research. 

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As part of its work programme on ‘Island Energy Transitions’, the International  Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has funded the University for the partial development of an energy roadmap for the Republic of Cyprus. The study had three main components: i) development of a detailed national energy balance for the latest year with available data, with some more emphasis on energy demand in buildings and the tourism sector; ii) forecasts of final energy demand up to the year 2040 for a number of scenarios reflecting different sets of assumptions as regards the country’s economic and energy system; iii) delivery of the software developed and data collected under items i) and ii) above to IRENA, and training of the staff of the Ministry of Energy, Commerce, Industry and Tourism of Cyprus so that they can make use of the energy forecast model in the future.

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This short project involved the extension and update of a national energy forecast model, to assist national energy authorities for the preparation of the 2nd National Energy Efficiency Action Plan of the Republic of Cyprus that was submitted to the European Commission in spring 2014. These forecats were also used by authprities for an update of the country's National Renewable Energy Action Plan.

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Crop production in Cyprus is constrained by a highly variable climate, limited precipitation and high temperatures. In addition, global climate change and water management policies that support the sustainable use of water resources are also reducing irrigation water supply. The main aims of this study were (i) to assess trends in climate parameters during the past 30 years; (ii) to assess the effect of climate variability on changes in agricultural land use, production and irrigation water demand; and (iii) to assess the effect of possible climate change scenarios and reduced irrigation water supply on crop production for the last seven seasons of this decade (2013/14-2019/20).

• CALL/ROLE: Coordinator