RESTART 2016-2020 - NURTURING AN RTDI CULTURE - Cyprus Award – Commercial Exploitation of Research Results 2025

Code: 38037 | Identifier Code: CULTURE / AWARD-EXPLOITATION / 0725 | Programme name: Research and Innovation Programme | Sub-program: i. “RESTART 2016-2020” Programmes | Start submission calls: 04/07/2025 | End submission calls: 19/09/2025

The Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF), in the frame of its activities to develop a culture of knowledge transfer and commercial exploitation of research results, announces for the first time the “Cyprus Award for the Commercial Exploitation of Research Results”.

Knowledge Transfer activity at national level makes a significant contribution to enhancing competitiveness, creating new jobs and contributing to the diversification, sustainability and vitality of national economies.

This Award will provide a reward for a scientist or a group of scientists who have demonstrated successful commercial exploitation of research results and seeks to motivate and encourage further development of knowledge transfer activities in the Cypriot ecosystem.

Enhancing Cybersecurity for Small and Medium Enterprises in the Republic of Cyprus 2025 - Tourism

Code: 38025 | Identifier Code: NCC-CY-ENTERPRISES/TOURISM/0925 | Programme name: Research and Innovation Programme | Start submission calls: 12/09/2025 | End submission calls: 18/11/2025

The Programme aims to ensure that SMEs reach a basic level of cybersecurity in order to protect their infrastructures, systems and information. This will be achieved through the purchase of solutions and services to maintain and strengthen the level of security and resilience of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) operating in the Tourism industry, as well as through the evaluation and identification of challenges and weaknesses.

Additionally, the Programme seeks to achieve their compliance of SMES with European and internationally accepted measures and standards through a certification scheme, the Cyber-Hygiene Framework for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) of the NCC-CY.

Enhancing Cybersecurity for Small and Medium Enterprises in the Republic of Cyprus 2025

Code: 38023 | Identifier Code: NCC-CY-ENTERPRISES/0925 | Programme name: Research and Innovation Programme | Start submission calls: 12/09/2025 | End submission calls: 18/11/2025

The Programme aims to ensure that SMEs reach a basic level of cybersecurity in order to protect their infrastructures, systems and information. This will be achieved through the purchase of solutions and services to maintain and strengthen the level of security and resilience of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), as well as through the evaluation and identification of challenges and weaknesses.

Additionally, the Programme seeks to achieve their compliance of SMES with European and internationally accepted measures and standards through a certification scheme, the Cyber-Hygiene Framework for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) of the NCC-CY.

Call for Proposals “European Initiatives – National Development (PRIMA)” P2P/PRIMA/0123

Code: 27538 | Identifier Code: P2P/PRIMA/0123 | Programme name: Research and Innovation Programme | Start submission calls: 26/01/2023 | End submission calls: 29/03/2023

The “European Initiatives – National Development” Programme aims at enhancing the extroversion of the national Research, Technological Development and Innovation (RTDI) system which is one of the horizontal priorities of the Smart Specialisation strategy for Cyprus (S3Cy).

Cyprus, through the RIF, participates in a series of European Initiatives (Joint Programming Initiatives, ERA-NET COFUND and Programmes under the Article 185 of the EU Treaty), which aim at coordinating the funding of research activity and the establishment of research priorities at a pan-European level, through the design and implementation of Joint Research

Programmes.

The “European Initiatives – National Development” Programme is the institutional framework

for announcing the Transnational Calls for Proposals, in which the RIF participates and their content being relevant to the S3Cy Priority Sectors.