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Cyprus Rowers need your help to go and make our island proud
Four rowers (Alexandros Zisimides, Christos Aristidou, Omiros Antoniou and Michalis Christodoulou) are on a mission to change rowing in Cyprus by taking part in the U23 World Championships in Italy in July. Unfortunately, given the current economic climate and the current allocations of budgets for sporting teams on the island (Cyprus Rugby faces similar issues), […]
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Ektagon aims to help island’s unemployed get noticed
Last night Hector from Ektagon (the company behind projects like the website you’re reading) announced that in order to help unemployed individuals get noticed in the current job market, free annual memberships for seevi.co are to available immediately. The job market is so tough that candidates find it increasingly difficult to stand out when supplying […]
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Cyprus National Rugby Team need your help!
Received from our friends at the Cyprus Rugby Federation: Receiving an international call up is a huge honour for any rugby player. We as a Federation are so proud of all our boys who are able to produce superb performances on the field which have led us to a current World Record of 22 consecutive […]
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Desk&Co launches #LetsGoCyprus competition
It’s been almost a year since we launched RentADeskCyprus as an OnThisIsland.com project to help get talented people in Cyprus, back to work. Since then the project has continued to grow from strength to strength, evolving to make the end vision more understandable: to build an international marketplace that gives, and keeps giving, entrepreneurs a […]
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Crowdfunding campaign to buy a Motomed for Special Needs Childrens’ School
Two brothers, Alexis and Andreas Economides, are running a crowd-funding campaign to raise €4,300. The money will be put towards getting a Motomed machine for the school. (It’s specialist exercise equipment that will greatly enhance the quality of life for the children.) To see more about this campaign and to make a small donation, head […]
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About the sewers in Limassol: there’s good news and bad news.
So, as you may have gathered there’s good news and bad news regarding the sewers in Limassol’s Old Town. Seeing as it’s a Friday night, we’ll start with the good then head over to the bad. The Good News: They’re finally doing work and upgrading the drainage system below old town. The Bad News: It appears they’ve […]
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Eat. Sleep. Code.
The Cypriot Enterprise Link (CEL) are the young group of volunteers behind great things like Hack{Cyprus} (and it’s hackathon, and it’s insights conference and it’s tech talks) are back at it again! On the 12th of April they organised their first ever Hack{Cyprus} Code School at the English School in Nicosia. The event focusses on teaching young people […]
