Future Worlds Center Registered as: Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute.

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Future Worlds Center

Registered as:Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute

Republic of Cyprus Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία

Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti

Cyprus – Facts and Figures

Official languages: Greek & Turkish Population: 801,851 Ethnic groups: 77% Greek, 18% Turkish, 5% other

(2001 est.) First human activity 10,000 BC

Ethnographic map of Cyprus prior inter-communal violence

Our Vision

“Building inter-linked

socio-techno-cultural worlds

through science and dialogue”

Our Mission

To explore and utilize the evolution of information and communication

technologies to strengthen the process of peace-building and civic education, and to disseminate and promote the

principles of Human Rights, Tolerance and Diversity.

Our Projects

This entails that: A scientific project must have social value in

order to be approved for hosting under our umbrella; A social intervention project must have scientific

grounding and methods in order to be supported by our structures.

Our Mission

FWC concentrates its efforts in three areas of action: the role of new media and technology in bridging the

educational, economic, political and other gaps in society by facilitating learning;

the promotion of development education; engagement in humanitarian affairs by providing

practical assistance to victims of torture, asylum seekers and refugees, as well as increasing public awareness of such issues.

Our Structure

MobLang Responsibilities

Overall Project Management & Coordination – WP1 Monitoring & Evaluation – WP9 Design and Development of Mobile Phone System with

Luzia Research – WP3 Coordination of User Trials – WP10 Coordination of Dissemination & Development of

Materials – WP6 & WP7 Coordination of Exploitation – WP11 Organization of local activities in cooperation with UCY Communication with and Reporting to EC

MobLang Team