CARE-C’s Dr Michael Pikridas delivers school presentation for Earth Day

Members of the Cyprus Atmospheric Observatory (CAO) team at CARE-C of the Cyprus Institute, joined the effort of the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation – RIF, on the occasion of Earth Day 2025, to raise awareness about climate change and its impacts, by delivering a presentation on this topic to high school students.

Dr Michael Pikridas, Associate Research Scientist at CARE-C, gave a presentation on “Climate change, air pollution, health impacts and other tales from the natural World”, which was prepared in collaboration with Senior Technical Research Specialist Dr Rima Baalbaki and Senior Research Affiliate Mr Filippos Tymvios, to students of the American Academy of Nicosia, on 2 May, 2025.

The presentation was part of the programme ‘Researchers at Schools’ (“Ερευνητές και Ερευνήτριες στα Σχολεία”), which aimed to increase contact and interaction of primary and secondary students and educators with researchers from all research fields in Cyprus, enhancing students’ interest in the fields of science, research and innovation.

At the same time, the programme aimed to raise awareness on climate change issues and what the students as individuals can do about it.