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Workshop on Optimizing Waste Management in the Cypriot Shipping Industry

This Wednesday, October 5th, we are implementing a participatory workshop with the Cyprus Shipping Industry to set an Action Plan for Waste Management Optimization. We are honoured that our “Blue Shipping Workshop” has been selected as a side event to the 9th Environment for Europe Ministerial Conference, taking place in Nicosia 5-7 October 2021. The […]

ISOTECH’s work on ghost nets presented at Littoral 2020 Conference

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ISOTECH’s director, Dr. Xenia I. Loizidou, participated in the Littoral 2022 conference, and presented the work that ISOTECH is doing within the SEALIVE project to bridge the gap between end-users and scientific knowledge and research to combat ghost nets, through the development and testing of alternative, more sustainable fishing nets. Dr. Loizidou presented the methodology […]

“Sustainability & Investments: Opportunities & Challenges for Businesses and Investors” Conference

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The Money Conference ’21, which will take place on Friday 10 December,  is taking a sustainable turn this year, as it’s theme is “Sustainability & Investments: Opportunities & Challenges for Businesses and Investors”. The conference’s second panel will be all about the how Cypriot businesses can incorporate sustainability and circularity practices, and why it makes […]

Join us for the “Mediterranean Islands: Lands of Solutions against Plastic Pollution” event

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ISOTECH will present its project “Cruise Ships Against Plastic Pollution in the Mediterranean“, which is funded by the Beyond Plastic Med Foundation (BeMed), during the event “Mediterranean Islands: Lands of Solutions against Plastic Pollution”, held virtually on Thursday, 9 September 2021, between 15:00 and 17:00 CY local time. Registration is free and open to all […]

Our Director, Xenia I. Loizidou met with and the Deputy Ministry of Shipping, Mr Vassilios Demetriades, for a Mediterranean without plastics!

On Monday, 02 August 2021, Dr. Xenia Loizidou, head of ISOTECH’s team that implements the BeMed funded project “Cruise Ships Against Plastic Pollution in the Mediterranean”, met with the Cypriot Deputy Minister of Shipping, Mr. Demetriades, to exchange views on how to further cooperate in the framework of the implementation of the project’s objectives. The Deputy Ministry […]

Our Director, Dr. Michael I. Loizides, on Green Urban Entrepreneurship

As part of the Closing Event of the Urban Entrepreneurship Workshop organised by the Centre4Entrepreneurship of the University of Cyprus and the NGO Urban Gorillas, Dr. Loizides will give a talk today, Monday 5 July 2021 at 14:30 on “Green Urban Entrepreneurship: A solution oriented approach”. To register for the open to the public lectures […]

No more haunting by ‘ghost nets’: bio-based and biodegradable nets could be the solution.

To celebrate European Maritime Day 2021, ISOTECH, together with the NGO AKTI Project and Research Centre, organised a clean-up operation to collect ghost fishing nets and derelict fishing gear from the Paphos seabed. The event was organised within the framework of the EU-funded SEALIVE project, in which ISOTECH and AKTI are partners. Researchers from the two […]

InnovOleum: A Driving Force towards a Sustainable Future

Collection and Recycling of Domestic Used Cooking Oil through a Social, Reverse Logistics System. InnovOleum which is developed by the Cypriot SME Isotech Ltd and run by the non-governmental organisation, AKTI Project and Research Centre, is a solution to the management of UCO that propagates knowledge, raises awareness on renewable energy from advanced and sustainable […]

Dr. Michael I. Loizides discusses water scarcity with the U.S. Ambassador in Cyprus, Ms. Judith Garber, and the UN Special Envoy to Cyprus, Ms. Elizabeth Spehar

On the occasion of World Water Day, the Ambassador of the U.S.A. to Cyprus, Judith G. Garber, together with the Special Representative and Deputy Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General on Cyprus and Head of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus, Elizabeth Spehar, held a discussion with the two chairs of the Bi-communal Technical Committee […]