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Frederick University held an open discussion at the City Plaza in Nicosia on Thursday, 15th December 2021, inviting the audience to share their thoughts and views on public space.
The discussion was held in the framework of this year's Nicosia Pop Up Festival, organized by Nicosia Municipality and Nicosia Municipal Arts Center. The festival took place in the somewhat abandoned shopping mall of City Plaza in the capital's city center.
Titled "Using, Claiming, Living (in) our cities' public space", the discussion was held in collaboration with the University's Department of Architecture. Members of the Department's academic staff, Dr Byron Ioannou and Dr Lora Nicolaou, offered their views on public space in dialogue with mr Yiorgos Hadjichristou, member of the Urban Gorillas, a Nicosia-based NGO focused on sustainable urban living by enriching community building and bringing change in city spaces.
The discussion was followed by a Q&A session where members of the audience, consisting of active citizens, Frederick University students and media representatives, shared their views and vision of how the capital's public space should ideally be formed in order to be inclusive, interactive, accessible to all and offer quality of life.
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A web platform for flood forecasting in Cyprus and the region of Attica in Greece was developed by the Frederick Research Center (FRC) through the CyFFORS (Cyprus Flood Forecasting System) project. In addition to the prognostic information given to help better deal with floods, the web platform also provides additional warnings about impending flood events.
The results of the CyFFORS project were presented on Friday, September 24th at Frederick University, in the presence of Dr. Philippos Tymvios, Senior Officer at the Department of Meteorology, and Dr. Kostas Lagouvardos, Research Director at the Institute for Environmental Research and Sustainable Development of the National Observatory of Athens. The CyFFORS forecasting system operates using WRF-Hydro (Weather Research and Forecasting), a state-of-the-art hydrometeorological tool. The system in question and its results are accessible to the public and local authorities through the online platform (www.meteo.gr/CyprusFloodForecastingSystem), with the aim to better prepare to deal with floods.
"It's good when research results are published in scientific journals but it is equally important when research provides tools that can be used by the public" said Dr. Lagouvardos, referring to the CyFFORS online platform. Dr. Lagouvardos presented a review of the extreme phenomena during the 2021 summer in the Eastern Mediterranean region. He also refered to the wildfires in Greece and Cyprus and the floods expected in the affected areas. During his speech, Dr. Lagouvardos linked extreme weather events to climate change, explaining that platforms like the one developed by CyFFORS can be used by the public and public sector towards climate change management.
As part of the presentation, the film “Climate Change Happening Now?” was shown, containing excerpts from acclaimed documentaries focusing of the floods during the 2021 summer and their connection to climate change. This was followed by a tour of the Cyprus Ionospheric Research Group's The Sun and Us exhibition, which is hosted at Frederick University and is dedicated to space weather.
The event, which was open to the public, ended with an open discussion during which many shared their concern over the climate crisis our planet is faced with. Both Dr Lagouvardos and Dr Haris Haralambous, Lead Researcher of the Cyprus Ionospheric Research Group which implemented the CyFFORS project as well as Project Coordinator Dr Christiana Oikonomou, all emphasized that flood forecasting is a tool that allows us to better evaluate and better prepare for extreme weather phenomena.
During his visit to Cyprus for the event, Dr Lagouvardos gave an interview for the local Phileleftheros newspaper where he further explained how extreme wheather and climate change are connected and the measures that governmental organizations can take to combat the environmental crisis. You can read the interview (in greek) here
The CyFFORS project is funded by the Republic of Cyprus and the European Regional Development Fund. It is implemented by the Cyprus Ionospheric Research Group in collaboration with the National Observatory of Athens' Institute for Environmental Research and Sustainable Development.
