Almost a decade ago, the idea of CEL was conceived by 3 friends that felt Cyprus was lacking the drive to participate in a Global conversation about technology and entrepreneurship. Michael Tyrimos, Angelos Perdios and Michael Hadjijosef got together, put their time and vision into action by recruiting other like-minded individuals in order to build what eventually became a driving force for fostering an entrepreneurial ecosystem in Cyprus.
The CEL founding family as it was referred to grew to 12 members by Summer 2012. Since then countless members/volunteers joined its ranks and created some amazing initiatives and projects to this day.
March 2012
July 2012
hack{cyprus} community was born.
September 2012
It took place in CUT with 80 participants.
December 2012
Beer, Burgers and Networking happened at ESOGBA in Nicosia. More than 100 people rated our super grillman burgers.
March 2013
The hack{cyprus} festival announced to happen in September 2013 with multiple events taking place in University of Cyprus and other venues around the island.
March 2013
First Pink Edition introduces an all-female panel of entrepreneurs and developers from all sorts of industries.
September 2013
The hack{cyprus} festival creates unprecedented waves around the island, even scoring being included in the TechCrunch and other major publications as events to follow yearly.
October 2013
Tech Talks launch aiming to keep the discussion about technology alive until a following Hackathon.
November 2013
Aiming to lobby for more investment and VC money in order to grow the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
June 2014
August 2014
CEL Education forms inspired by the invitation of UNDP.
October 2014
CEL Education classes take place in Deryneia and Famagusta every second week for a 6-week course in entrepreneurship.
May 2014
March 2015
Insights Conference taking place in Filoxenia Conference Hall in Nicosia.
June 2015
October/November 2015
Entrepreneurial Bootcamps in collaboration with UNDP.
November 2015
May 2016
June 2016
November 2016
January 2017
CEL Education Entrepreneurial Bootcamps kick off again with British High Commission under the project name: The Entrepreneurship Series 2.0
November 2017
hack{cyprus} summit is that year's major tech event hosted at the University of Cyprus.
September 2018
hack{cyprus} Hackathon introduces and organizes an open data Hackathon.
January 2019
March 2019
Jump on the Bus the south-west and north-east routes.
July 2019
The week kicks off on the 15th of July with parallel events in every city.
July 2019
Taking place in all 6 cities in Cyprus in a virtual way.
April 2020
Hack the Crisis Hackathon kicks off virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic aiming to create solutions on tangible pandemic problems.
May 2020
CEL team undertakes the task to facilitate a pan-European Hackathon.
January 2021
The project kicks off as a 2-year mapping project of the audience of Cyprus.
The Cypriot Enterprise Link is a grassroot-led organization, owing its foundation and development to the tireless efforts of its volunteers. All of our work is carried out on a pro-bono basis and we are proud to have accomplished all of our milestones in that manner.
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