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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 07-12-07
CONTENTS
[01] MARKOULLIS - SUMMIT
[02] RECTOR - UNIVERSITY
[01] MARKOULLIS - SUMMIT
Cypriot Minister of Foreign Affairs Erato Kozakou Markoullis flies from
Brussels to Lisbon on Friday, to represent President of the Republic
Tassos Papadopoulos at the EU-Africa summit, to take place on December
8 and 9.
The summit will deal with the EU-Africa Common Strategy, which will be
implemented through various action plans, the first of which will be
adopted by the summit and implemented during the period 2008-2010.
Furthermore, the summit will focus on peace and security, good
administration and human rights, trade and development, energy and
climate changes, and immigration. The Cypriot delegation will speak on
the immigration topic.
[02] RECTOR - UNIVERSITY
Cyprus has submitted the largest number of proposals for research to
the European Research Institute, in relation to the number of
researchers, according to statistics. The majority of proposals came
from young academics of the University of Cyprus (UCY).
The Rector of the University of Cyprus Stavros Zenios said in an
interview with CNA that there are currently more than 300 research
projects, with a total budget of 25.9 million Cyprus pound. All these
projects are financed by external funds.
There are objective indicators on the basis of which the research
productivity of a University is assessed, Zenios said, noting that
external independent evaluators such as the Carnegie Foundation for
Higher Education assessed the University of Cyprus as eligible to be
included in the list of research universities since 2003 as the UCY
completely satisfied the criteria.
Zenios described the research productivity of the University of Cyprus
as notable, adding that this demonstrates a rising trend. The average
research production per year, in terms of the number of publications
per member of academic staff during the period 2002-2004, was 3.53
compared to 3.11 during the period 1999-2001, indicating that the
production will be even higher during the next reporting period.
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