Historical Milestones

The Cyprus Institute timeline

Feb 2004: The Cyprus Research and Educational Foundation (CREF) established
Jan 2005: The Cyprus Institute launched
Jan 2006: Collaboration agreement between the Cyprus Institute and the University of Cyprus
14 Jan 2006: Signing of collaboration agreement between the Cyprus Institute, the RPF, and MIT for the establishment of EEWRC
23 Jun 2007: Signing of MoU between the Cyprus Institute, C2RMF, and the Municipalities of Pafos and Geroskipou for the establishment of STARC
9 Jul 2007: Signing of MoU between the Cyprus Institute and University of Illinois for the establishment of CaSToRC
10 Dec 2007: Inauguration of ‘Guy Ourisson’ building, by President of the Republic Mr T. Papadopoulos
Jan 2008: The Cyprus Institute and Max Planck Institute for Chemistry enter into partnership
3 Jul 2008: President of the Republic of Cyprus, Mr D. Christofias becomes Honorary Chairman of CREF Board
Oct 2008: Signing of agreement between the Cyrus Institute and Planning Bureau for the Cogeneration Electricity of Desalinated Sea Water using Concentrated Solar Power project
29 Oct 2008: Signing of PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) Agreement
5 Feb 2009: Signing of collaboration agreement between the Cyprus Institute and IBM
7 Feb 2009: Research Centers, STARC and CaSToRC officially launched
9 Feb 2009: The Cyprus Institute signs cooperation agreement with Sophia Antipolis Foundation
30 Apr 2009: Signing of collaboration agreement between the Cyprus Institute and Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
5 Oct 2009: The Cyprus Institute and the U. of Illinois sign Research and Education Collaboration agreement for the development of CaSToRC
17 Nov 2009: The Cyprus Institute and the Cyprus Ministry of Health sign MoU
              24 Jul 2010: Signing of collaboration agreement between the Cyprus Institute and the New Library of Alexandria