The 1st Cypriot Research Centre focusing on
Scientific Excellence & Technology Transfer

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The RISE Centre will be hosted
at Nicosia's creative quarter

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Transforming Cyprus into a
Technology & Innovation Hub

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RISE stands for Research centre on Interactive media, Smart systems and Emerging technologies.

About RISE

The proposed Research centre on Interactive media, Smart systems and Emerging Technologies (RISE) aims to become a Centre of Excellence and a hub across the three continents bordering Cyprus, facilitating thus the local scientific, technological, and economic growth of the region. It identifies the potential of Interactive Media to bring together several scientific areas, yielding applications in the priority areas of the Smart Specialisation Strategy of Cyprus. Therefore, research in RISE integrates the Visual Sciences, Human Factors and Design, and Communications and Artificial Intelligence, in a tight synergy that provides a unique interdisciplinary research perspective that emphasizes an “Inspired by Humans, Designed for Humans” philosophy.

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OUR VISION


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THE TEAM


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Latest News

Horizon 2020 - EU Research and Innovation programme
02 Jun. 2016

Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation program...


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RISE Final Workshop at the A.G. Leventis Gallery Video
01 Jun. 2016

RISE Final Workshop at the A.G. Leventis Gallery Video


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RISE Workshop at the A.G. Leventis Gallery in Nicosia
14 Apr. 2016

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Medicon 2016: XIV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and...
04 Apr. 2016

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CONTRIBUTE

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EVENTS

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Partners

The partnership for the creation of RISE is composed of the public universities, the University of Cyprus, the Cyprus University of Technology and Open University Cyprus, the advanced partners Max Planck Instiute for Informatics (Germany) and University College London (UK) and the Municipality of Nicosia (Project Coordinator).

Nicosia Municipality

www.nicosia.org.cy

Max Planck Institut Informatik

www.mpi-inf.mpg.de

University College London

www.ucl.ac.uk

University of Cyprus

www.ucy.ac.cy

Cyprus University of Technology

www.cut.ac.cy

Open University of Cyprus

www.ouc.ac.cy

What Partners Say

Read what our key people have to say about the project.


  • RISE will be a flagship project and a major driving force in developing an ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship. Situated in the core of the inner walled city of Nicosia it will also act as a key pillar of the city’s integrated development strategy. In partnership with world class institutions and high caliber national institutions, we are harnessing the significant comparative advantages and resources of the Capital of Cyprus to foster research and innovation excellence. We aim to thrust Nicosia onto the competitive world stage as a regional hub of technological innovation and Cyprus as an economy of knowledge.

    Constantinos Yiorkadjis (Mayor of Nicosia)
  • We are delighted to be part of the RISE consortium and hope that our experiences will help forming the new RISE center, a Cypriot Center of excellence on Interactive media, Smart systems and Emerging Technologies. We strongly believe in the concept of fostering both, cutting edge research and technology transfer under one umbrella. Together we aim to make the RISE center both, a highly visible place for cutting edge computer science research and a well known innovation accelerator for researchers from all over the world.

    Dr. Kristina Scherbaum (Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing & Interaction)
  • Our participation on the RISE consortium to create a new Cypriot Centre of excellence in Interactive media, Smart systems and Emerging Technologies, is a step of major significance in the advancement of our existing collaborations with Cyprus. On the basis of our extensive experience at UCL, in leading world class research and several innovative knowledge exchange and entrepreneurship activities, we are contributing to shaping RISE and its successful long-term operation.

    Prof. Anthony Steed (University College London, UK)


This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.


This project has received funding from the Government of the Republic of Cyprus through the Directorate General for the European Programmes, Coordination and Development.

RISE | Research centre on Interactive media, Smart systems and Emerging technologies