Limassol is Cyprus’s vibrant Mediterranean hub on the island’s southern coast—a seaside city that blends a walkable historic core, a lively waterfront with a modern marina, and easy island-wide access via comfortable motorways. It is a major maritime and business center anchored by Cyprus’s principal seaport and a dynamic visitor scene of restaurants, venues, and year-round cultural life, from the famed Carnival to the Wine Festival, alongside nearby beaches, vineyards, mountain excursions, and archaeological sites. Following Cyprus’s local-government reform (1/7/2024), the expanded Municipality of Limassol now counts 115,527 residents (population density 2,954 per km²). Limassol’s Climate City Contract, awarded the EU Mission Label in November 2023, serves as the city’s roadmap to climate neutrality and smart-city transformation by 2030, turning ambition into a coordinated portfolio of projects across mobility, energy, the built environment, the circular economy, coastal areas, and digital transformation.

NetZeroCities is a consortium consisting of 34 partners from 13 European countries, managing the EU Cities Mission Platform. NetZeroCities supports the 112 European cities selected to join the Mission in drastically reducing their greenhouse gas emissions to achieve climate neutrality.  ​

NetZeroCities works as a service-oriented platform supported by world-class practitioners to help cities overcome the current structural, institutional and cultural barriers they face in order to achieve climate neutrality by 2030. ​

NetZeroCities aims to enable European cities and citizens to show the way forward towards an inclusive, thriving, climate resilient and sustainable future. To do so, it tailors advanced capabilities related to systemic change, citizen engagement and democratic governance, capital and financial structuring, and social innovation, to ensure cities have access to the best expertise available anywhere in the world. ​

Multimarine Services Ltd (MMS) is a leading Cypriot engineering, fabrication, shipyard, and logistics company headquartered in Limassol, Cyprus. Founded in 2001, MMS is part of the Multimarine Group and has established itself as a trusted partner in the maritime, naval, energy, and industrial sectors across Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean.

MMS operates state-of-the-art facilities within Limassol Port, including the floating dock “Ereneos” (120m x 32.4m), fully equipped fabrication workshops, and a fleet of heavy-lift cranes, seagoing barges, tugboats, and transport vehicles.

Multimarine’s mission is to be the partner of choice by continually investing in infrastructure, technology, and human capital-delivering sustainable growth and consistent value to its clients.

The PROTEAS Facility is the largest research infrastructure in Cyprus. It is devoted to research, development and testing of Renewable Energy Sources with emphasis on Concentrating Solar Thermal (CST), Thermal Energy Storage (TES) and thermal Desalination of Sea Water (DSW) for bridging the gap between fundamental research and industrial needs.

PROTEAS is a multi-purpose facility built around a central hub of molten salt Thermal Energy Storage (TES), hybridised with batteries and other forms of storage. The facility is capable of poly-generation of heat and electricity using renewable energy technologies (CST, Wind, PV) and integration of these energy technologies with the TES, batteries, and seasonal water storage. Optimal solar radiation and environmental conditions are monitored via a state-of-the-art BSRN station. PROTEAS is complemented and enhanced by the Thermal Energy Storage Lab (TESLA) at the main Campus of CyI at Athalassa where instrumentation, controls and studies on suitable materials are also conducted.

The Sustainable Energy Laboratory (EnergyLab) of the Cyprus University of Technology conducts applied research on sustainable energy systems, entrepreneurship training, and the decarbonisation of the built environment and maritime sector. At the conference booth, the laboratory will showcase two ongoing projects addressing this transition in the construction sector. BuildSkills Academy, an Erasmus+ project,  aims to upskill the construction workforce through vocational education and training by integrating green and digital skills into construction-related programmes. CABE (Circular Approaches for the Built Environment), which is funded by the Cyprus RIF under the Driving Urban Transitions Partnership, explores circular economy solutions for construction, promoting resource efficiency, sustainable material use, and innovative practices that support the shift towards a low-carbon and circular built environment.

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