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Author: A. Antoniades

CCCI is calling out Sustainability Experts – Consultants

The EU co-funded project entitled Island Sustainable Tourism Action through Resilient SMEs (I-STARS) is all about helping tourism enterprises based on islands to take their transformation journey down the 2030 road to recovery and sustainability.

To this end, the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI), together with 5 more organisations from the islands of Greece, Ireland, Italy (Sicily) and Spain (Mallorca), partners in the I-STARS project will launch later this year an ‘Open Call for SMEs’ whereby tourism businesses can apply to receive a grant of up t o € 5,600 in the form of a voucher to be redeemed against the provision of services offered by Sustainability Experts/Service Providers. The provided vouchers shall boost tourism SMEs awareness, development, and capacity to integrate sustainable innovations in their business practice, adopting sustainability, resilience and circularity as drivers of their competitiveness in the rapidly changing global tourism market scenario.

At this stage of time, the CCCI is calling out for Experts-Consultants interested to join the I-STARS Sustainability Experts Directory, and who have the experience in assisting tourism businesses transition into sustainability, by offering a variety of services to them.

Interested parties must express their interest by filling in the online form, clicking here.

  • There are minimum requirements to apply.
  • Applications can be submitted by more than one Consultant per company.
  • Read the ‘Guide for Applicants’ here.                     
  • Applications must be received by Wednesday 21st June 2023. There is limited space to join the I-STARS Sustainability Experts Directory, while applications will be treated on a first-come-basis.

For more information, please contact CCCI tel. 22889840, c/o Demetra Palaonda (demetrap@ccci.org.cy) or Maria Klokkari (m.klokkari@ccci.org.cy).

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Call4Experts Circular

Announcement by the Minister of Labour and Social Insurance

ΑΝΑΚΟΙΝΩΣΗ Περιορισμός στην περιεκτικότητα Μολύβδου σε αντικείμενα από πολυμερή Χλωριούχου Βινυλίου (PVC) (ΚΧΠΑΥ/19)

Το Τμήμα Επιθεώρησης Εργασίας του Υπουργείου Εργασίας και Κοινωνικών Ασφαλίσεων ενημερώνει τους επηρεαζόμενους επαγγελματίες και το καταναλωτικό κοινό ότι δημοσιεύθηκε νέος περιορισμός που αφορά την περιεκτικότητα Μολύβδου σε αντικείμενα από πολυμερή Χλωριούχου Βινυλίου (Poly Vinyl Chloride – PVC). Ο περιορισμός τροποποιεί το σημείο 63 του Παραρτήματος XVII του Ευρωπαϊκού Κανονισμού REACH και σύμφωνα με αυτόν τα αντικείμενα που είναι κατασκευασμένα από PVC δεν πρέπει να χρησιμοποιούνται ή να διατίθενται στην Κυπριακή και Ευρωπαϊκή αγορά εάν η περιεκτικότητα του Μολύβδου σε αυτά είναι ίση ή μεγαλύτερη από 0,1 % κατά βάρος.

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StartUps 4 Peace – Competition & mini- acceleration programme

 

Startups4Peace (Su4P) is a competition and mini-acceleration programme co-funded by the Embassy of Finland and the European Union within the scope of the Innovative Entrepreneurship project, implemented by NI-CO. The programme is delivered in partnership with CYENS, Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce.

We aim to encourage innovative startup entrepreneurship with intercommunal vision in Cyprus, to bring together and increase contacts between Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities and support entrepreneurs in developing their businesses.

Su4P will provide much needed support to new and fledgling businesses through the delivery of;

•  Expert support in application preparation phase.
•  Opportunity for networking across Cyprus.
•  Access to the EU Incubator Hive.
•  Series of workshops as part of two residential bootcamps;
•  “One-to-one” mentoring sessions depending on the needs of the startups;
•  “Market discovery” opportunity for professional development of each startup, and;
•  A “Pitching battle” where startups will compete with their business ideas to impress an independent jury which is formed of business professionals.

The winners of the Pitching Battle get chance to attend the legendary startup event, SLUSH, in Helsinki, Finland.

  • Download the guidelines for Su4P 2023 HERE
  • Submit your application for Su4P 2023 HERE

Up to 16 startups/entrepreneurs will be given chance to participate at the programme after a competitive evaluation process.

Up to two individuals can represent a startup at the bootcamps and mentoring sessions and the representative of the startup at the pitching battle must participate at the bootcamps and be actively involved in the programme.

The language of the programme will be in English.

Applicants are requested to submit the Application form which can be accessed online by clicking on this link.

Startups4peace circular 2023

New decision by the Minister of Labour and Social Insurance

Το ΚΕΒΕ σας πληροφορεί ότι ο Υπουργός Εργασίας και Κοινωνικών Ασφαλίσεων με απόφαση του έχει τροποποιήσει το Διάταγμα που αφορά την απασχόληση Υπηκόων Τρίτων Χωρών που βρίσκονται στη Δημοκρατία με το καθεστώς του φοιτητή σε συγκεκριμένους τομείς οικονομικής δραστηριότητας και επαγγέλματα.
Συγκεκριμένα οι φοιτητές που βρίσκονται στη Δημοκρατία κατά την 31η Οκτωβρίου 2022 επιτρέπεται να απασχολούνται και στο επάγγελμα «Διανομέας έτοιμου φαγητού» της οικονομικής δραστηριότητας παροχής υπηρεσιών.

Για περισσότερες διευκρινήσεις ή πληροφορίες μπορείτε να επικοινωνείτε με το Τμήμα Εργασιακών Σχέσεων, Κοινωνικής Πολιτικής & Ανάπτυξης Ανθρώπινου Δυναμικού του ΚΕΒΕ στο τηλ. 22889880.

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