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The second CMMI – MaRITeC-X Consortium meeting to take place tomorrow Thursday & Friday, 05-06/03/2020 at the House of Arts and Literature in Larnaka. A detailed press release will follow next week with the outcomes of the meeting and a full schedule of our activities for the first year of our project.

The official kick-off for our project CMMI / MaRITeC-X was launched last Thursday, October 10 at 10:00 with a press conference at the Radisson Blue Hotel in Larnaca. CMMI / MaRITeC-X which is co-funded by the Cyprus Government and the European Union with € 30 million, aims to establish a Center for Excellence in Maritime and Maritime Research, Innovation and Technology, the Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute. This Center will provide practical solutions to the global challenges facing the marine and maritime socioeconomic stakeholders. Speakers at the event included the Mayor of Larnaca, Andreas Vyras, the Deputy Minister of Maritime, Natasa Pilides, the Head of Research and Innovation Scientist, Kyriakos Kokkinos, as well as the representative of the European Commission Head of Unit the at Research Executive Agency Ms. Federica…

A social event was successfully organized by the Municipality of Larnaca on the 16th of July in Ancient Kition in Larnaca under the auspices of the Shipping Deputy Minister, aiming at officially announcing the winning of the MaRITeC-X/CMMI project proposal and at providing more information to the public on the Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute (CMMI). The CMMI which will be based in Larnaca will be an independent, international, scientific and business Centre of Excellence for Marine and Maritime activities. It will carry out research, technological development, and innovation activities (RTDI) to provide practical solutions to the challenges that the marine and maritime industry, and society, face or will face in the future.The proposal for the creation of the CMMI was submitted to the European Commission in November 2018 under…

MaRITeC-X project team and Municipality of Larnaca organised a meeting at the Zenon Coordination Centre between Dr. Nicholas C. Makris, Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering and Director of the Center for Ocean Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and major political and economic stakeholders in marine and maritime issues. During the meeting, which took place in the presence of Larnaca Mayor Andreas Vyras, Deputy Minister of Shipping Natasa Pilides and Constantinos Christophides, Rector of the University of Cyprus, the participants were informed about the creation of the Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute (CMMI), as well as other projects concerning the implementation of the strategic plan for Blue Growth of Larnaca city. Members of the Cyprus Shipping Chamber (CSC) and the newly established Cyprus Foundation for the Sea…

Larnaca Mayor Mr. Andreas Vyras and members of the MaRITeC-X Teaming project met on Tuesday, August 21, 2018, with the Rector of the University of Cyprus Mr. Constantinos Christofides. The meeting focused on issues related to the cooperation of the University of Cyprus with the Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute (CMMI) that will be built under the MaRITeC-X project, as well as the next steps and procedures to be followed for the creation of the Faculty of Marine Technologies by the University of Cyprus that will be established in Larnaca. Fostering synergies with the University of Cyprus on various challenging issues of marine and maritime science and technology will create great opportunities for students, researchers and young entrepreneurs to put their knowledge and ideas into practice and contributing further to…

The MaRITeC-X Consortium presented the plan for the establishment of the Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute in an extraordinary ceremony that took place on Friday 13th of July, in the evening, at the Visitors’ Centre of the Ancient Kition archaeological area in Larnaka. More than 100 invited guests attended the event entitled “Our Ocean Space Odyssey”, including government officials, members of the parliament, ambassadors, academics and representatives of the marine and maritime industry. Opening the event, the Mayor of Larnaka, Andreas Vyras, welcomed the participants and described the city’s vision, to transform Larnaka into a regional Centre for Blue Economy, Education, Training and Research and to promote the EU’s integrated maritime policy in the region. “Our ambition is for CMMI  to become a regional, institutional, scientific and economic point of…

MaRITeC-X project launches the event “Our Ocean Space Odyssey” and presents the plan for the establishment of the Cyprus Marine & Maritime Institute (CMMI). Friday, 13th of July, at 19:30, in the Visitors’ Centre of the Ancient Kition archaeological area in Larnaka. MaRITeC-X project sets in motion our efforts to build in Cyprus a Centre of Excellence, the Cyprus Marine & Maritime Institute (CMMI). By August 2018, the business plan of the Centre will be submitted to the EU. This will be followed in November 2018 by a Phase 2 project proposal. Successful proposals will receive up to 15 million euros from European funds as well as an equal amount of matching funds from national sources. If our Phase 2 proposal is successful, MaRITeC-X will have 7 years to set…

Project team members are joining one of the biggest maritime events in the world  linking international shipping industry, research and industrial innovation stakeholders with the Greek shipowners, who operate the largest fleet globally. MaRITeC-X project representatives from MaRINeM, partner of our project, will promote the project's objectives and our 2030 vision and forge collaborations with important stakeholders worldwide bringing them onboard Teaming Phase 2. More information about this networking event will follow soon. More information on POSIDONIA 2018 event can be found here.  

The 2nd knowledge transfer workshop of MaRITeC-X successfully took place on the 16th and 17th of May at the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute (SMMI), where all the MaRITeC-X partners participated along with the Co-Chair of the MaRITeC-X Advisory Board and the representative of the Deputy Ministry of Shipping. It is worth noting that the participation of the head of the Advisory Board was sponsored by the British High Commission in Nicosia, Cyprus, which has strongly supported the MaRITeC-X project from the beginning. During the first day of the workshop, the SMMI partners welcomed the MaRITeC-X team members and presented the operations of SMMI, as well as technologies and research activities that the Institute has developed. They also gave to the participants a tour to the state-of-the art-facilities of the…