THELOGICALINDIAN - PRESS RELEASE The affiliation aims to abutment advance and affect changeable leads in the blockchain amplitude alms anniversary able studentships to the University of Nicosias arch MSc in Blockchain and Digital Currency
NICOSIA, CYPRUS— December 2021. The Institute For the Future (IFF) – University of Nicosia (UNIC) and the Internet of Services Foundation (IOST) are captivated to advertise a scholarship programme to empower Women in Blockchain, through which an anniversary accomplice of talented, and motivated candidates will accept the befalling to accompany the University’s arch Masters programme in the field. The affiliation bliss off with two (2) able studentships over a two (2) year period, with the advantage to access the cardinal of acceptance sponsored per year as of the abutting assimilation to UNIC’s MSc in Blockchain and Digital Currency, in Spring 2022.
The agitative affiliation is aimed at adopting the abutting bearing of leaders in the space, with a declared accent on acknowledging and announcement changeable leads focused on blockchain technology. This aim is in band with IFF’s mission to brainwash leaders, advance knowledge, and body communities to advice association adapt for a approaching shaped by transformative technologies. At the aforementioned time, it aligns with IOST’s abiding efforts in announcement the apprenticeship and acceptance of blockchain technology.
As allotment of the agreement, both parties accessible up the abeyant to coact in added domains of alternate interest, including, but not bound to, the development of educational tech courses and analysis and development in the acreage of Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT).
“The cardinal accord with the University of Nicosia allows us to added appoint in blockchain apprenticeship and research, which we accept are acute accomplish appear added acceptance of blockchain technology. We accept that acknowledging such initiatives will advice allure added accomplished individuals, who are activity to advice advance a countless of absorbing solutions and use cases”, said Kudakwashe Samkange, Director of Business Development at the Internet of Services Foundation. “The scholarship programme will accord to a added across-the-board blockchain space, in which there is about actual low representation of women. We would like to be allotment of absolute that”, assured Mr. Samkange.
UNIC ahead fabricated account back it became the aboriginal university in the apple to acquire cryptocurrency (Bitcoin) for charge payment. Indeed, UNIC is a apple baton in crypto and blockchain apprenticeship and research, accepting been the aboriginal university in the apple to action a amount in the field, as able-bodied as the world’s aboriginal massive accessible online advance (MOOC) focused on blockchain, which to date has apparent about 65,000 acceptance accept from over 110 countries. UNIC was additionally the aboriginal university to action a MOOC on Decentralized Finance (DeFi) in 2021. Most recently, the University launched the UNIC Accessible Metaverse Initiative, focused on the academic, analysis and action issues apropos to the metaverse, with a accurate accent on accessible accessible systems and standards. This ties in with UNIC’s barrage beforehand this year of a able-bodied and condonable alignment for artful Non-Fungible Token (NFT) bazaar capitalizations on an ecosystem base with the angle of NFTValuations.
“We accept proudly been at the beginning of blockchain analysis and education, as accurate to by our assurance and offering”, underlined Dr. Klitos Christodoulou, Analysis Manager at IFF. “An intricate allotment of that is abutting with likeminded leaders in the amplitude to aggrandize accessibility and affect engagement. The affiliation with IOST represents aloof that, especially absorption our commitment, via anniversary able studentships, to support, promote, and affect changeable leads in the blockchain space”, concluded Dr. Christodoulou.
About the Institute For the Future (IFF) of the University of Nicosia (UNIC)
The Institute For the Approaching (IFF) is a arch all-around provider of apprenticeship and analysis in blockchain and agenda currencies. It is an interdisciplinary analysis centermost at the University of Nicosia (UNIC), aimed at advancing arising technologies and accidental to their able appliance in industry, government, and education, as able-bodied as evaluating their appulse on employment, abundance asperity and our lives and societies in general. Its all-embracing mission is to brainwash leaders, advance ability and body communities to advice association adapt for a approaching shaped by transformative technologies. The Broadcast Ledgers Analysis Centre (DLRC) hosted at IFF, is the Institute’s activated analysis class on blockchain protocols and broadcast balance technology.
IFF: www.unic.ac.cy/iff
DLRC: www.unic.ac.cy/iff/dlrc/
E-mail: [email protected]
Twitter: @IFFunic
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/institute-for-the-future-iff/
About Internet of Services Foundation (IOST)
IOST is a high-speed, decentralized blockchain arrangement that is based on the Proof of Believability (PoB) accord algorithm. It is a next-generation blockchain technology that offers arrangement basement to abutment a service-oriented ecosystem that meets the aegis and scalability needs of the decentralized economy. Smart affairs with post-deployment modifications, JavaScript programming accent support, and always low development costs accomplish the IOST blockchain a awful applicable action solution.
Being one of the accessible alternation leaders in agreement of adoption, performance, and utility, IOST charcoal committed to our mission to absolve the ability of blockchain. IOST currently has the ever-expanding 500,000 association associates in over 20 countries, over 400 nodes, a top staking economy, accommodating relationships with corporations dotted worldwide.
Contact & Application Process
Step1: Register your interest for the MSc in Blockchain and Digital Currency program
Step2: Complete your appliance to the MSc – UNIC acceptance aggregation will ability out and adviser you on the appropriate abstracts and process.
Step3: Complete the IOST scholarship application, baddest “IOST Women in Blockchain Scholars”
Important Notes:
For added advice on enrollments and/or any queries apropos the UNIC-IOST Scholarship Programme, amuse contact: Hazal Aripinar, Business Development and Enrollment Manager at IFF [email protected]
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