Projects

National and EU Research Projects


Title: East Med Cross-border Marine Environmental Risk Assessment through E-Platform Integrated Data Management
Funding Body: UCPM-2023-KAPP
About: EMMERA enhances Eastern Mediterranean cooperation in disaster prevention, focusing on marine pollution detection using drone technology and data integration.
Duration: 2024-present

Title: A whole-plant phenotyping platform to improve plant productivity, agricultural sustainability, and resilience to climate change
Funding Body: Research and Innovation Foundation
About: PHENOTYPOS aims to establish an advanced plant phenotyping center in Cyprus, enhancing agricultural research, sustainability, and productivity.
Duration: 2024-present

Title: MammoCheck
Funding Body: Cyprus Seeds
About: MammoCheck provides women with control over their breast health by offering a non-invasive, contactless, and painless method for performing breast cancer examinations at home.
Duration: 2023-2024

Title: Robotization of the manufacturing process of a multi-layered composite skateboard deck.
Funding Body: DIH2-European Commission
About: The purpose of the COBITT solution is to provide CAPSULE skateboards' existing production line with a fully automated and agile process, supported by FIWARE.
Duration: 2020-2022

Title: AGRILORA - Smart Agriculture using Ultra-Long-Range Wireless Data and Power Transfer
Funding Body: Research and innovation Foundation
About: AGRILORA project has set a strategic objective to invest in applied research and development for Smart Agriculture, aiming to create value and revenue from services and applications over its owned LoRaWAN infrastructure.
Duration: 2022-2024

Title: MILI - hotonics technology for in-situ, fast, accurate and costeffective milk analysis
Funding Body: Research and innovation Foundation
About: The Programme aims to contribute towards creating growth prospects for the local economy and to tackle social and other contemporary challenges.
Duration: 2022-2024

Title: Health Literacy for Disadvantaged Adults
Funding Body: Erasmus+
About: DHeLiDA project will enable citizens to better manage their health and illness, improve prevention, enable more accurate diagnosis and treatment, and facilitate communication with health professionals.
Duration: 2022-2024

Title: Boosting health LIteracy for School Students
Funding Body: Erasmus+
About: BLISS project will enable young citizens to better manage their health and illness, improve prevention, enable more accurate diagnosis and treatment and facilitate communication with health professionals.
Duration: 2022-2024

Title: Fairness in Teaching
Funding Body: Erasmus+
About: Fairness In Teaching aims at developing an advanced approach to stepping up fair teaching practices especially in STEM disciplines, given equal opportunities and access to STEM.
Duration: 2021-2024

Title: UPDating university curricula on Early InTervention
Funding Body: Erasmus+
About: The goal of this project is to create innovative practices in the digitization and ICТ of the cultural heritage and its accessibility.
Duration: 2022-2024

Title: Open Lab for the up-skilling of higher educational staff in on-line Μanagement Εducation
Funding Body: Erasmus+
About: OLMedu project aims at the creation of an open lab for the up-skilling of HES staff in online management education.
Duration: 2021-2023

Title: High level knowledge awareness of BlockChain Technology applications in SMEs (BCT4SMEs)
Funding Body: Erasmus+
About: BCT4SMEs aims at supporting managers utilizing and integrating blockchain technology, and benefit from the advantages that it comes with. In order to achieve its goal, the project will create a personalized environment.
Duration: 2020-2022

Title: GUIDed Assisted-Living and Social Interaction Platform (GUIDed)
Funding Body: EU AAL Programme and RiF Cyprus
About: GuiDed will design and develop a smart Augmented Reality (AR)-enabled platform based on existing fully customizable hardware boards to offer a set of simple, plug-and-play, assisted-living (AL) services to real users.
Duration: 2020-2022

Title: EnterCY: Enhancing Tourist Experience In Cyprus
Funding Body: Research and Innovation Foundation
About: EnterCY provides an enhanced tourist experience, before, during and after the visit, through cutting-edge technology and interactive content (Virtual, Augmented and Immersive Reality, Reconstructions and Storytelling).
Duration: 2019-2021

Title: SaveOurFood
Funding Body: Reseacrh and Innovation Foundation
About: The main aim of this project is to minimize food waste of edible food in Cyprus by offering it to people in need and minimize poverty and offer food to people that otherwise would be wasted.
Duration: 2019-2021

Title: Novel Technologies for Production Planning in Flexible Supply Chains
Funding Body: Research Promotion Foundation (ΕΠΙΧΕΙΡΗΣΕΙΣ/ΕΦΑΡΜ/0308/84), Cyprus
About: The main goal of the project is the development of a software package that will optimize production planning.
Duration: 2009-2012

Title: MPI_Liver - Optimizing the SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging under the liver activity
Funding Body: Excellence, Research Promotion Foundation Cyprus
About: Artifact Program: A software tool for creating and comparing the regional uniformity of two polar maps.
Duration: 2019-2022

Title: MOO-WMS - Multi-Objective Optimization Waste Management System
Funding Body: Research Promotion Foundation
About: In this project, MDL was responsible for the definition and formulation of the Waste Collection Vehicle Routing Problem in the context of Multi-Objective Optimization.
Duration: 2018-2019

Title: SmartMap - the go-to tool for on-field environmental surveys
Funding Body: Research Promotion Foundation
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Duration: 2018-2019

Title: SportsTraveler76
Funding Body: Research Innovation Foundation (RIF)
About: Sports traveler aims to provide innovative services that enable travelers to book and actively participate in “soft sport tourism” activities, which is not currently addressed by other platforms and websites.
Duration: 2019-2021

Title: HIT (Hate Interrupter Teams)
Funding Body: JUST Programme, European Commission
About: Hate Interrupter Teams: Youth counteracting hate speech towards migrants and minorities through participatory and creative campaigning. (#HITproject).
Duration: 2018-2021

Title: iLIFE-Troodos: Troodos National Forest Park: Promoting natural values and Ecosystem Services
Funding Body: Life Programme, European Commision
About: The project aims to increase public awareness on the natural values of Ethniko Dasiko Parko Troodous (EDPT) for which it was included in the Natura 2000 network; this includes the Ecosystem Services (ES) it provides.
Duration: 2017-2020

Title: FuelWatch
Funding Body: Ministry of Energy, Commerce Industry and Tourism, Cyprus
About: The Fuel-Watch service mainly aims at informing users whether the amount of fuel added in their car from a petrol station is the same with the amount indicated in the petrol station hose’s meter.
Duration: 2017-2020

Title: JudEx+: Towards a child-friendly justice in cases of sexual violence against children
Funding Body: JUST/2014/RCHI/AG/PROF/7036
About: Judex+ aims to support a positive judicial experience for children victims of sexual violence by improving the skills of professionals involved in representing children in judicial proceedings through trainings which consider children’s rights.
Duration: 2015-2017

Title: Investigation of Earthquake Signatures on the Ionosphere over Europe
Funding Body: Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus (ΤΠΕ/ΕΠΙΚΟΙ/0311(ΒΙΕ)/06)
About: The aim of this project is to conduct an investigation into the lithosphere-atmosphere-ionosphere interaction with respect to earthquake events by exploiting a multi-instrument approach.
Duration: 2014-2016

Title: Cyprus Ionospheric Forecasting Service over Cyprus
Funding Body: Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus (ΤΠΕ/ΕΠΙΚΟΙ/0311(ΒΙΕ)/06)
About: The primary objective of this project is to establish a High Frequency (HF) operational service for real-time specification (now-casting) and short-term forecasting of the state of the ionosphere over the eastern Mediterranean region.
Duration: 2012-2016

Title: FireWatch (G.I.S.-assisted Wireless Sensor Networks for Forest Fires)
Funding Body: National Framework Programme for RTDI 2009-2010
About: Firewatch aims to design and develop a ubiquitous fire detection and prediction system, coined FireWatch, based on technologies in WSNs, GIS, Terrain Analysis & Digital Terrain Modelling and Collaboration Systems.
Duration: 2009-2012

Staff involved External Projects


Title: Miraculous: Miraculous-Life for Elderly Independent Living
Funding Body: EU FP7
About: This project aims to design, develop and evaluate an innovative user-centric technological solution, the Virtual Support Partner (VSP), attending to the elder (65+) daily activity and safety needs, while the elder goes about his normal daily life.
Duration: 2013-2016

Industrial Projects/Public Procurements


Title: Visit Nicosia Guide Application
Funding Body: Nicosia Tourism Board
About: Through the Nicosia Pass application we aim to help users to find easily information, sightseeing about Nicosia city.
Duration: 2020-

Title: MASQ Management Platform
Funding Body: MASQ
About: The scope of the platform is to optimize the everyday operations of our company that involve the interaction with Amazon Marketplace through the integration with Amazon Marketplace and the development of several process automation tools.
Duration: 2023-

Title: CYFIT - A web platform for supporting the National Program Physical Condition Assessment of the student population "Aristotle" Secondary School.
Funding Body: Ministry of Education
About: Program to assess the physical condition of ME school-aged children and adolescents through which valid, representative and comparable data are expected to be available.
Duration: 2021-2025

Title: Recycling CY
Funding Body: GEOMATIC Technologies
About: The Recycling CY application promotes recycling in Cyprus using GreenDot’s and AFIS’ infrastructure and experience.
Duration: 2019-2020

Title: Limassol Mobility App
Funding Body: Geomatic Technologies
About: The app allows users to find the most efficient route in Limassol from one point to another using sustainable mobility modes and save time and energy, ensuring a more pleasant experience with the minimum impact to the environment.
Duration: 2019-2020

Title: NaviME
Funding Body: CNP
About: NaviMe: Indoor Navigation of people with vision impairments with Smartphone and Estimote Beacons.
Duration: 2019-2020

Title: Dream Fighters
Funding Body: Cyprus Family Planning Association (CDPA)
About: Ever had a dream that only you seemed to believe in? So have the DreamFighters app guys!Help them tackle their Dream Crushers and make their own future!Convince people close to you, about future career choices!
Duration: 2018

Title: CloudScanner
Funding Body: IBSCY
About: A web platform that allows non-IT users to automatically setup, configure and deploy their own IaaS cloud solution.
Duration: 2016-2017

Title: “CrODA-Gator”: A Crowdsourcing-based service for collecting, managing and mapping mobile data.
Funding Body:
About: “CrODA-Gator” – the Crowdsourcing Open-Data Aggregator service for crowdsourcing, managing and mapping mobile data.
Duration: 2016-2017

Title: Web platform for managing environmental legislations
Funding Body: Department of Environment (Public Procurement), Cyprus
About: The development of a web platform for managing the environmental legislations ΣΕΠΕ/ΕΠΕ to be made available to all relevant Departments and Local Authorities that authorize projects and programs, as well as interested non-governmental organizations.
Duration: 2016

Title: Thermokoitida Agapis Website
Funding Body: Microsoft, Cyprus
About: Website for Thermokoitida Agapis that raises awareness, provides support and empowers families affected by prematurity.
Duration: 2016

Title: Autonomous Research & Guard Oversea System (ARGOS)
Funding Body: CYRIC / CYTA, Cyprus
About: A.R.G.O.S. is initially developed to support coast guard in search and rescue missions during, for example, the migration crisis, its innovation and technological composition provides opportunities for several other applications.
Duration: 2016

Title: Stepfree
Funding Body: Microsoft, Cyprus
About: StepFree is an interactive-informative application to help people with disabilities. It allows admins to enter a venue with their facilities and users to search venues by location, facilities, etc. This is a project offered to the Cyprus Paraplegic Association.
Duration: 2015-2017

Title: 360 Video Mobile Viewer
Funding Body: Polar Effect - Immersive Media Lab, Netherlands
About: A branded app, allowing Pollar Effect customers to access all of your 360° content, including gigapixel panoramas, virtual tours and 360° video from any smartphone or tablet.
Duration: 2015-2017

Title: Cyprus Post
Funding Body: Powersoft, Cyprus
About: The Cyprus Post app allows users to easily access the post office services of the Republic of Cyprus.
Duration: 2015-2016

Title: Implementation of modifications on web platform
Funding Body: Cyprus Anti-Drug Council (Public procurement AAD10/2015)
About: MDL won the governmental competition for implementing necessary modifications on ASK's existing web platform and to provide technical support.
Duration: 2015-2016

Title: NETteller Smartwatch Banking
Funding Body: NetInfo Plc, Cyprus
About: NETteller Smartwatch Banking project offers a secure, password-free access to bank-account information through your smartwatch.
Duration: 2015-2016

Title: Pay by Tech Ltd Customer Relationship Management (CRM) framework
Funding Body: Pay by Tech Ltd, Cyprus
About: A CRM platform supported by smartphone applications for meeting the need of the PBT online services.
Duration: 2015-2016

Title: Smart Ecological Cultivation System (SECS)
Funding Body: Microsoft / CYTA / TNT / FXPro
About: SECS is an autonomous smart and ecological cultivation system that is developed for managing and controlling cultivation, automatically (and remotely through a smartphone application), in real time.
Duration: 2015

Title: Engino kidCAD
Funding Body: Engino, Cyprus
About: The 3D model viewer app has been created to allow easy access to new models developed by the ENGINO team and gradually the users themselves.
Duration: 2014-2016

Title: LAMDApp - Loyalty Scheme
Funding Body: Lamda Card Services, Cyprus
About: A multipurpose LAMDApp that provides instant access to ATM Locations, loyalty schemes participants and kiosks selling points at the tip of a finger.
Duration:

Title: ARShooter Wars
Funding Body:
About: ARShooter Wars is an innovative real-time augmented reality game that is based on Crowdsourcing, Location-awareness and Artificial Intelligence.
Duration: 2014-2015

Title: Transportation Organization of Nicosia District (OSEL) - Open Data
Funding Body: Open Data Grant - Microsoft
About: The Microsoft Open Data Grant Initiative aims at promoting the idea that some data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish. In this project an Azure cloud-based infrastructure is developed to "open" OSEL's data.
Duration: 2013-2015

Title: Cyprus Tourism Organization - Open Data
Funding Body: Open Data Grant - Microsoft
About: The Microsoft Open Data Grant Initiative aims at promoting the idea that some data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish. In this project an Azure cloud-based infrastructure is developed to "open" the CTO's data.
Duration: 2013-2015