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The Cyprus Institute (CyI), is a non-profit research and education institution with a scientific and technological orientation. Formally established in 2005, CyI started its operations in 2007. The CyI is organized around two major complementary academic structures: the College and the Research Centers. The Research Centers are being developed first in conjunction with post-graduate studies. The undergraduate education will be implemented in a second phase. The Institute as a whole is based on this duality. The Institute operates under the aegis of the Cyprus Research and Educational Foundation (CREF), which is governed by a Board of Trustees, composed of leading personalities of the international academic, political and business world; it is currently chaired by Professor Edouard Brézin, former president of the French Academy of Sciences and Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. The principal objectives of CREF are the advancement of knowledge and its humane and benevolent application and the establishment of a new research and educational public-benefit organization which shall generally promote research and education in Cyprus and abroad and shall aim primarily at benefitting the public interest at large. The CyI is being developed by establishing research centers which address challenging problems that are important at both the regional and international levels. Its research centers are developed in partnership with leading institutions in the respective thematic areas. The Energy, Environment and Water Research Center (EEWRC) is developed in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Science and Technology in Archaeology Research Center (STARC) in partnership with the Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France (C2RMF), headquartered in the Louvre and the Computation-based Science and Technology Research Center (CaSToRC) in partnership with the University of Illinois. Multi-level founding partnerships with internationally prominent institutions ensure the development of the Centers in close collaboration with world leaders in their respective fields. Additional collaborations with other research and academic institutions together with local authorities further enhance the development.Having launched its first center in 2007, The Cyprus Institute has secured a large number of research projects, including an ERC Advanced Grant. ==The Cyprus Institute: planning and establishment == The initial planning for the establishment of the Cyprus Institute took place from 2000 to 2004 under the aegis of the Cyprus Development Bank, led at the time by J. Joannides and A. Mouskos. They, aided by A. Stamatis, the CEO of the Bank of Cyprus Oncology Center, together with a team of scholars shaped the core vision and undertook the coordination, research and planning of the project. The team of academics consisted of: * Professor Ernest J. Moniz of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has served as Under Secretary of the US Department of Energy and as Associate Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; * the late Professor Guy Ourisson of Louis Pasteur University, who served as President of the French Academy of Sciences and was the Founding President of the Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg; * Professor Costas N. Papanicolas of the University of Athens, chairman at the time of the Council of Educational Evaluation-Accreditation (CEEA); * Professor Frank H.T. Rhodes who has served as President of Cornell University; * Professor Herwig Schopper, who has served as General Director of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and as Chair of the Scientific Council of the SESAME. The planning phase was led by Prof. Costas N. Papanicolas, the current President of the Institute and CEO of CREF. The vision of this new Institution and its staged development spanning a ten-year period was presented, debated and endorsed by a convocation of international scholars held in Nicosia in June 2002. The Convocation was chaired by the late Prof. Hubert Curien, former Minister of Research of France, who accepted to become the founding chair of the CREF Board. Following the endorsement of the international community, a plan for launching the Institute was drafted, which was accepted and supported by the Cyprus Development Bank and the Government of Cyprus. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Cyprus Institute」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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