American Center at UNIC

The American Center at the University of Nicosia (UNIC) is a collaborative initiative with the US Embassy in Cyprus, inaugurated on campus on 18 October 2018. It is intended as a long-term initiative that will build on the last 40 years of ties between our academic institution and the USA.

The University of Nicosia maintains the strongest ties to American academia in Cyprus, and some of the strongest in the Mediterranean region. More specifically:

• In any given year, over 200 American students study at UNIC on a full-time basis, either at the University’s Medical School or on UNIC’s pioneering online MSc focused on cryptocurrency and blockchain technology
• UNIC maintains significant operations in the United States, including clinical partner hospitals in Chicago, New York, Boston, and Baltimore
• On an individual basis, over 100 UNIC faculty have completed at least one degree in the United States
• UNIC has also hosted thousands of American exchange students from over 700 US universities, as part of our study abroad or exchange programmes in the past 20+ years

Mission

Its mission is to foster academic, cultural and professional collaboration between the United States and Cyprus, drawing on the academic institution’s longstanding ties to American academia, at the institutional, faculty and student level.

Objectives

The American Center’s primary objectives include:

• Further strengthening and enriching ties through a series of events aimed at improving academic, cultural and professional collaboration between the United States and Cyprus more broadly.
• Outreach to American universities for joint initiatives in the areas of teaching and research, cultural events open to the public at large, and various joint activities with the Embassy within Cyprus
• Knowledge-transfer between Cyprus and the US, so the former can benefit from the latter’s expertise in technology, innovation and entrepreneurship