2008, nobody has been injured because of "glassing" and the local NHS has saved £7.2m in eye surgery costs.

Research presented tomorrow at a conference in London on safety shows young people are happy to drink from plastic containers, whereas older drinkers prefer glass. "It's much easier to eliminate glass than knives. Young people don't mind plastic, but people over 40 prefer glass because, they say, it keeps the drink cooler, which is nonsense," said Alasdair Forsyth of the centre for study of violence at Glasgow Caledonian University.

John Heyworth, president of the College of Emergency Medicine, representing casualty doctors, said: "It would be a good first step to put these shatter-proof glasses into pubs and clubs which are known tobe associated with alcohol-related violence, and then move to allenvironment

Energy efficiency and energy saving

Energy efficient buildings

Energy Policy and Energy economics

Education and awareness work on sustainable energy matters and promotion of active involvement of consumers in local energy production using RES

In the FOSS significant research expertise from the University of Cyprus as well as from industry has been assembled that spans a host of fields: Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Environmental, Chemical engineering, to Physics, Chemistry, Economics, Finance, as well as Architecture. The FOSS team aims, with the development of the necessary synergies, to create the impetus for the advancement of the field of energy. Members of the Centre represent Cyprus in European Energy Committees such as the Energy Committee for the FP7, the Horizon 2020, the SET Plan, the Solar Energy Industrial Initiative, the European Smart Grid Technology Platform,