<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><b class="">Research Centre on Interactive Media, Smart System and</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><b class="">Emerging Technologies (RISE): Research Vacancies</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;" class=""><b class=""></b><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><b class="">(H2020 TEAMING Project)</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;" class=""><b class=""></b><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><b class=""><a href="http://www.rise.org.cy/en-gb/vacancies/" class="">http://www.rise.org.cy/en-gb/vacancies/</a></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">Research Positions:</span> Research Associates </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">No. of Positions:</span> Twenty (20) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">Positions Category:</span> Employment contract</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">Location:</span> RISE, Nicosia, Cyprus</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">The Research Centre on Interactive Media, Smart System and Emerging</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Technologies (RISE), announces twenty (20) positions for junior researchers</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">under various Multidisciplinary Research Groups. RISE is a newly founded</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">research centre in Cyprus aiming to become a centre of excellence</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">empowering knowledge and technology transfer in the region. It is a joint</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">venture between the Municipality of Nicosia, the Max Planck Institute for</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Informatics (Germany), the University College London (UK) and the three</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">public universities of Cyprus - University of Cyprus, Cyprus University of</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Technology, and Open University of Cyprus. The centre has received funding</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">from the European Unionâs Horizon 2020 research and innovation</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">programme H2020-WIDESPREAD-01-2016-2017 (Teaming Phase 2) under</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">grant agreement No. 739578, as well as from the Cypriot Government, local</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">and international partners and other sponsors.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">The research focus of RISE is on interactive media and it integrates the Visual</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Sciences, Human Factors & Design, and Communications & Artificial</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Intelligence, in a tight synergy that provides a unique interdisciplinary</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">research perspective that emphasizes an âInspired by Humans, Designed for</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Humansâ philosophy. RISE is designed to act as an integrator of academic</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">research and industrial innovation, towards the sustainable fuelling of the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">scientific, technological, and economic growth of Cyprus and Europe.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; color: rgb(87, 157, 255);" class=""><span style="color: #000000" class="">For more details please visit: </span><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><a href="http://www.rise.org.cy/en-gb/vacancies/" class="">http://www.rise.org.cy/en-gb/vacancies/</a></span></div><div class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><br class=""></span></div></body></html>