Purpose and Vision:
The center cooperates with domestic and international institutions and industry, to carry out
basic and applied research on the environment at the undergraduate and graduate level at the
university. Activities related to the development of the country, nationwide or wherever the
service is required are carried out within the university by using science and technology.
The main objective of the center is to determine environmental and life-threatening
environmental problem in the TRNC, investigate and develop solution methods in accordance
with the philosophy of sustainability through multi-component (interdisciplinary)
approaches, and to ensure their implementation in local, national and international scale.
The center carries out various activities in order to promote and coordinate basic and
applied research in environmental sciences and cooperate with similar institutions in Turkey
and abroad. In addition to making scientific publications, and improving environmental
awareness in society, the Center organizes various symposiums, congresses, conferences,
seminars, summer schools and courses.
The Environmental Research Center works to transfer the results of scientific research to
technology, in order to benefit the country and humanity. For this purpose, the center
provides cooperation with other institutions and organizations and also provides consultancy
services on environmental issues. In addition, it promotes the environment and environmental
health of the society through activities they organize so that people living in the society
play an active role in the work done by the center.
The scientific studies at the Environmental Research Center are carried out in the
environmental laboratories equipped with all the necessary equipment within the faculty of
Engineering, at Cyprus International University.
Many pollutant ratios are determined in soil, water and gas samples obtained from
environmental laboratories and efficient methods are developed for the removal of these
pollutants.