Menu
A+ A A-

Webinar: CySTEM ERA Chair Project Results

Event Details:

  • Date:          Monday, 14 December 2020
  • Time:         Starts: 10:00
  • Venue:       Online event - streamed live via The Cyprus Institute YouTube and Facebook channels. Also available via GoToWebinar
  • Speaker:    Various- see programme below

 banner simea cyi

 

The webinar will be in English and the live stream is open to the public.
Live streaming of the discussion will be available on The Cyprus Institute’s YouTube Channel and Facebook Channel.  Alternatively, if you want to be able to actively participate in the webinar being able to ask questions to the speaker, you can register and watch the webinar live via GoToWebinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
 
Live streaming is facilitated by the CySTEM project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program under Grant Agreement No. 667942.
Images and/or recordings of our open public events may be used by The Cyprus Institute for dissemination purposes including print and digital media such as websites, press-releases, social media, and live streaming.

 


 

The “Solar Thermal Energy Chair for the Eastern Mediterranean (CySTEM – ERA Chair)”, the EU-funded project that aims at consolidating and upgrading the already substantial activities of the Cyprus Institute (CyI) in the field of Solar Energy, principally solar-thermal and related activities, is coming to an end. On 14 December 2020, we are organizing a webinar to present its scientific outcomes and the prospects it generated for the future.

The project was funded the European Union’s Horizon 2020 European Research Area (ERA) Chair programme. It is a capability development program, designed to attract and install at CyI a cluster of outstanding researchers, led by a professor of international stature, to maximally utilize and upgrade the existing facilities of the Institute, and pursue a program of excellence in Cyprus with local and regional focus in the region of Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (EMME). The principal focus of the project was on Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) technologies for electricity production, desalination, air conditioning and heating, either in isolation or in multi-generation modes. Its relevance grew in importance as the need for decarbonization has evolved as one of the principal initiatives in Eu and worldwide.

At the webinar, the different achievements of CySTEM ERA Chair project will be presented and discussed, paying particular attention to the positive impacts that it has achieved at CyI both at the institutional and scientific levels, in relation to:

  • The enhancement of experimental capabilities in the CSP domain and the expansion of those capabilities to other renewable energy, energy storage and smart-grid technologies.
  • The consolidation of an energy modelling unit within the Solar Energy and Desalination Group of the Energy Division of CyI, and the associated development of far reaching initiatives of open source modelling tools to facilitate the modelling, analysis, design and optimization of CST components and systems.
  • The contribution to the establishment within the Energy Division of the Energy Policy and Analysis Group, and to the analysis and studies this group is undertaking in relation to the role of renewable energy sources in the Energy Transition, at large, and particularly in Cyprus.



We invite you to participate and contribute to this important webinar. You can find below the agenda of the webinar:

Start

End

Topic

Speaker

10:00

10:20

Welcome Addresses

Prof. George K. Christophides
President of the Cyprus Institute

Colombe WARIN
Project Adviser. European Commission. Research Executive Agency

10:20

10:40

General Overview of the CySTEM Project

Prof Costas N. Papanicolas
Director of the Energy Division. Principal Investigator of the ERA Chair Project

10:40

11:00

Institutional Impact

Dr. Michael Papadopoulos
Coordinator of Research and Innovation Management and Support (RIMS) Office

11:00

11:20

Scientific Impact - The ERA Chair Scientific Work Program

Prof. Manuel J. Blanco
ERA Chair in Solar Thermal Technologies for the Eastern Mediterranean

11:20

11:40

Enhancement of Experimental Capabilities

Dr. Kypros Milidonis
Associate Research Scientist

11:40

13:00

Break

13:00

13:20

Expansion of Experimental Capabilities

Dr. Marios C. Georgiou
Head of PROTEAS Operations Facility

13:20

13:40

Open Source Scientific Software Development

Dr. Victor Grigoriev
Assistant Professor

13:40

14:00

Modelling, Analysis, Design and Optimization

Prof. Manuel J. Blanco
ERA Chair in Solar Thermal Technologies for the Eastern Mediterranean

14:00

14:20

Energy System Analysis

Dr. Constantinos Taliotis 
Post-Doctoral Fellow

14:20

14:30

Closing remarks

Prof. Costas N. Papanicolas
Director of the Energy Division. Principal Investigator of the ERA Chair Project

 

 

eu small

Sponsors

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, within the context of the CySTEM ERA Chair project, under grant agreement No 667942

CySTEM logo

 



Contact:     Coordination Office

                    This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.     |     +357 22 208 706


 

View all CyI events.

 

Additional Info

  • Date: Monday, 14 December 2020
  • Time: Starts: 10:00
  • Speaker: Various - see programme