#Government funding

The union of municipalities on Wednesday called an urgent meeting with all mayors to assess the government’s commitment to the reform and financial sustainability of the municipalities. The union ...

Technical assistance to create an island-wide spatial development plan, to create a green and smart electricity distribution system, develop a defence industry strategy, deal with the loss of drinking waste, ...

Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment, Maria Panayiotou expressed satisfaction for the fact that Cyprus’ requests have been incorporated into the European Commission’s vision for agriculture and food ...

Cyprus’ newly formed municipalities are facing financial turmoil, with €34.3 million in unpaid water bills threatening to slash their state grants, revealed on Tuesday. Under local government reforms, former municipalities and ...

Professors at the University of Cyprus have called on the government to take immediate action towards securing funding for the new excellence centre in emerging quantum technology, so as not ...

The Audit Office has not given up its quest to have the money given to some political parties ahead of the 2021 parliamentary elections returned and re-allocated to parties that were ...

The cat sterilisation programme for municipalities, communities and registered non-governmental organisations, which was started in 2023 will continue through 2026, the Cyprus Animal Party announced on Monday. The party recalled that cabinet ...

The idea that the police, at the expense of taxpayers’ money, is under obligation to undertake the parental care of the president’s children is “a warped view”, the audit ...

The government on Tuesday announced its plan to tackle ‘the housing problem’ as it said that €77 million will be spent over the next five years. Some people will be eligible ...

Concerns about the channelling of the millions of euros secured for research programmes by the public universities of Cyprus were expressed at Wednesday’s meeting of the house education committee, ...

The cabinet on Thursday approved a subsidy plan for the installation or replacement of solar water heaters on residential homes that include the cost of tanks and solar panels. The ...

The Committee of Missing Persons (CMP) operations are not under threat, the organisation announced on Tuesday, a week after reports came out that funding from one of their donor countries ...

The University of Cyprus (UCy) will be forced to halt payments if its supplementary budget is not passed, rector Tassos Christofides said on Friday. During a visit by the house ...

The agriculture ministry on Wednesday informed the cabinet that it would be allocating funds exceeding €70 million, part of which will be used to attract young people to farming. The decision ...

ASBIS and Lanitis Group will invest €1.2 million to help fuel cancer biotech Theramir’s growth and expand its portfolio of stem cell and microRNA-based technologies Cypriot biotech company Theramir, which ...

The Cypriot fund has made a follow-up investment after having partnered with the startup in 2019 The Kinisis Ventures (KV) Fund I has made a follow-on investment of €200,000 in Threedium’s ...

Nicosia-based software developer company ASCANIO has received follow-on funding of €300,000 from Kinisis Venture Fund I, the first CySEC-registered venture capital fund focusing primarily on Cypriot startups. ASCANIO joined the portfolio ...

Presidential election campaign funding has always been shrouded in secrecy. There could have been a law forcing candidates to give detailed lists of every individual and company that contributed to ...

The funding opportunities are growing for startups with Cypriot founders or Cyprus-based tech companies. The first CySEC-registered Venture Capital fund focusing primarily on Cypriot startups Kinisis Ventures Fund has announced ...

The third Reach Incubator open call is now open for applications and looking for companies and startups who work with Big Data. Startups and SMEs from Cyprus and other European ...

Main opposition Akel-backed independent candidate Andreas Mavroyiannis has published the financing he received from the party for his campaign on Thursday as a debate brewed about special allowances given for ...

There was an amusing exchange about state funding of election campaigns during Wednesday night’s television debate that hosted seven presidential candidates. It was sparked by Giorgos Colocassides, who complained ...

Cyprus-based RSL Revolutionary Labs, a healthcare-focused biotech company offering unique skincare formulations designed to treat the unmet needs of oncology patients, has announced that it has received a €700,000 investment from ...

Switzerland will be contributing a total of over €15 million to Cyprus for cohesion projects, as part of a set of agreements between the two governments. On Monday, Finance Minister Constantinos ...