ABOUT WISE

WISE is a research project commencing 01 September 2025 and will be running for 24 months. The project name, WISE, is a shortened form of the project title: “Digital transportation twin for Wireless charging Infrastructure of Smart city public Electric buses”.

SUMMARY

Driven by the European Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy for developing climate-neutral smart cities, the WISE project emerges as a testament of research, technological, development and innovation (RTDI) excellence shared by a consortium of visionary Cypriot teams committed to provide novel sustainable and efficient public transportation services for smart cities. WISE aims to advance the field of smart city applications, by addressing sustainability and mobility challenges associated with the decarbonization of the transportation sector, through a novel solar powered wireless charging infrastructure and control platform for smart public bus fleets. The proposed project is an interdisciplinary cooperation that primarily foresees the integrated RTDI intervention, in the Priority Sector Digital Technologies, by addressing the challenges for zero-emission mobility and implementing smart cities, that will play a crucial role in driving the decarbonization agenda and combating climate change. To achieve its ambitious objectives, the project builds on a prior successful project between the UCY and CPT (i.e., the EMS4PVBEV research in enterprises RIF project, that targets the development of a solar-powered battery integrated EV charging station controlled by an energy management system) and fuses clean-tech innovations with smart city mobility intelligence.

FUNDING

The WISE project is co-funded by the Republic of Cyprus and the Cohesion Policy Programme “THALIA 2021-2027” by the European Union, through the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation (CODEVELOP/0824/0305).