The University of Nicosia (UNic) is the largest private university in Cyprus with some 180 full time faculty and 90 part time in a variety of undergraduate and post-graduate programmes. The School of Education offers 4-year bachelor degrees in Primary and Pre-primary Education, 2-year MA degrees in Education and a 3-year PhD program in Education. The Department of Education at the University of Nicosia has extensive experience participating in EU funded projects. We are experienced coordinators and participants of projects funded by the EU with strong expertise in science education, socio-scientific issues, sustainable development, technology based learning, teacher development, qualitative and quantitative methods, and curriculum design and development. Faculty from our Department of Education have published widely in scholar journals, especially in the fields of science education and sustainable development, curriculum and teacher development that are the main areas of the proposed project. UNic participates in the NBS Teacher Academy through the InSSTE Research Center of the Department of Education.
