The Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute was founded through the initiatives of Yiannis Laouris and a team of repatriated Cypriot scientists with the support of ex-Minister of Education and Culture Dr. Chrysostomos Sofianos, District School Inspector Dr. Christodoulos Laouris, the Bishop of Paphos Chrysostomos (now Archbishop of Cyprus) and three prominent foreign academics Prof. Dr. Sc.

[1]" The Ministries of Commerce & Industry, Education & Culture, as well as Labour & Social Insurance, were collectively engaged in order to signify the economic, academic and job-creating facets of promoting innovation.

Between the late 90s and 2015, research funded by national and international grants, resulted to the development of video-game like interfaces that assess, profile and improve mental abilities of growing children.

MAPS has been validated in schools as a dyslexia screening test and later as a cognitive assessment tool that profiles and predicts abilities of children to read and learn.

The Technology for peace[5] initiative in 1997 aimed to capitalize on the proliferation of the Internet as a means to bear the communication barriers between the northern and the southern parts of divided Cyprus.