🔬 Fieldwork has kicked off in the 📍 Kythira Strait, led by the Institute of Applied & Computational Mathematics of @forth-ite.bsky.social & the Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute.

Fieldwork will continue through the end of August

#SAvEWhales #biodiversity #marineconservation #shipstrikes

🎉 The MAYA Project has officially launched!
🎯Empower adolescents & young adults who survived cancer,by using smart mirror technology & AI-powered tools to improve cardiovascular health & quality of life
✔️Project Coordinator:University of Ioannina
✔️ 16 partners-11 countries
ℹ️ forth.gr/en/news/show...

Call for Applications: CHAngeing Entrepreneurial Programme | News | Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas The CHAngeing project invites students, researchers, healthcare professionals, and early-stage entrepreneurs to apply for the CHAngeing Entrepreneurial Programme, a fully online, 4-week (October 6–31,...

📢 Applications open for the #CHAngeing Entrepreneurial Programme!

Boost your #healthtech startup with top EU mentors

⏳ Deadline: Aug 31
💻 Online | October-November 2025

🔗 forms.office.com/e/1GCw41iPrD

#institutopedronunes #FORTH #befmuc #icbrfmuc #ucoimbra #HealthInnovation

👉 bit.ly/4m0PuWI

Greece to Establish Semiconductor Center - tovima.com The initiative is a partnership between the Hellenic Emerging Technologies Industry Association (HETiA) and the Ministry of Development.

🔹The initiative is supported by the European Chips Joint Undertaking (JU) under the “Microchips for Europe” initiative. 🔹HETiA has set up a non-profit consortium for the project, including leading research institutions such as Demokritos,@forth-ite.bsky.social & CERTH.

➡️ bit.ly/4f0lKqO

👩‍🔬🔬On Wednesday, July 9, in the framework of the Onassis Lectures 2025, Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold delivered a compelling–open to the public-speech on harnessing the power of evolution to engineer enzymes and proteins with new or improved functions.
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➡️ bit.ly/3UgEQ21

🔸The Onassis Foundation Science Lecture Series 2025
🔸Prof. Frances Arnold (2018 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry) will give a public speech entitled “Innovation by Evolution”, on Wednesday,July 9 🕗20:00
📍G.Lianis Auditorium of FORTH, Heraklion Crete
👉 bit.ly/onassis_lect...

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We had the honor to welcome at FORTH today, a delegation from the National Innovation Center Par Excellence (NICE) and the Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute (JITRI), headed by Prof. Qing Liu, President of NICE/JITRI. The visit included presentations by Prof. Qing Liu and Prof. Dimitris Plexousakis, FORTH’s Vice President and ICS Director, focusing on the mission, research activities, and strategic priorities of both organizations, followed by a fruitful discussion on possible areas of collaboration, and a guided lab tour at the Institute of Computer Science and the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, visiting the Distributed Computing Systems and Cybersecurity lab, the Ambient Intelligence Program, the Photonics for Heritage Science Group and the Ultrafast laser Micro and Nano-processing group. This visit builds upon a Memorandum of Understanding signed between FORTH and NICE/JITRI in 2019, which set the framework for bilateral cooperation in high technology and industrial research, including joint projects in informatics, biotechnology, energy, materials, lasers, and other cutting-edge fields. We would like to warmly thank the NICE/JITRI Delegation members: Prof. Qing Liu, President of NICE/JITRI, Dr. Paul Burrows, Former Vice President of JITRI and Secretary General of the WAITRO, Ms. Xin Yao, Assistant Director of the Overseas Cooperation Department and Representative in the Netherlands, Mr. Cheng Xu, Representative in Northern Europe and Ms. Lilly Liu, Senior Manager of the Overseas Cooperation Department, for their visit and strong interest in fostering long-term scientific collaboration. On behalf of FORTH, Dr. Emmanuel Stratakis, Acting Director of the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Prof. Electra Gizeli, Vice-Director of the Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology and Prof. Vasiliki Pavlidou, Acting Director of the Institute of Astrophysics, participated in the meeting.

🤝We had the honor to welcome at FORTH today,a delegation from the National Innovation Center Par Excellence (NICE) & the Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute (JITRI), headed by Prof.Qing Liu, President of NICE/JITRI.
More info: www.facebook.com/FORTH.ITE/po...

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🌊🔉 Sound travels better in water than light – and that’s what makes underwater acoustics so powerful!

At FORTH’s Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics (IACM),our Underwater Acoustics Group has been listening to the ocean since 1985 🎧

bit.ly/3Hzhodn

#WorldOceansDay #OurOceanOurFuture

🌱FORTH for Environment & Climate Protection🌏

✔️Waste registration in the Electronic Waste Register
✔️High-efficiency, low-energy units
✔️LED lighting, inverter motors, centralized energy management systems
✔️2 photovoltaic plants, electric vehicles+EV charging stations, Nearly Zero Energy🏠

📌 Thursday 5/6/2025

German Ambassador Kindl visits FORTH in Crete

The Ambassador of Germany Mr. Andrea Kindl, accompanied by the Honorary Consul of Germany in Heraklion Mr. George Kaloutsakis, visited @forth-ite.bsky.social, on May 26, 2025.

👉More info: www.forth.gr/el/news/show...

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📢 Now open for applications! The 2025 ERC Advanced Grant call for proposals‼️
Apply by 28 August 2025 👉 buff.ly/f6FEXHk

💎 Prof. Gelina Harlaftis, Director of @imsforth.bsky.social received the John R. Lyman Award in Maritime History of the North American Society for Oceanic History, in May 2025, for her book "Onassis Business History, 1924–1975", Brill 2024.

Today, the ERC formally adopted a decision to increase its support for researchers moving to Europe.

On top of its normal grants, the ERC offers 'start-up' funding to help PIs establish laboratories / research teams in Europe.

This extra funding is now x2 (up to €2 million!)

europa.eu/!6Vdgmp

🟣@imbb-forth.bsky.social is a member of EU-LIFE @eu-life.bsky.social, an alliance of leading European research institutes in the life sciences with a mission to promote excellence in research by implementing & disseminating best practices in the organization & operation of scientific establishments.

📸𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨

@embo.org @imbb-forth.bsky.social

NASA's IXPE Solves Mystery of X-Ray Creation in Black Holes | News | Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas Recent publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters: New findings by an international team of astrophysicists, based on data collected by IXPE, have revealed the mechanism that creates the bright X-ra...

🛰 Recent Publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters:NASA's IXPE Solves Mystery of X-Ray Creation in Black Holes
👉One of the lead authors of this study is Dr. Ioannis Liodakis, researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics of @forth-ite.bsky.social

@ioppublishing.bsky.social

Crete hosts a prestigious International Neurosciences Conference of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) | News | Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas Τhe International Neurosciences Conference of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), entitled 'Cell biology of the nervous system”, is held at the Fodele Beach Hotel in Crete, 5-8 May 202...

🔶Τhe International Neurosciences Conference of
@embo.org is held with the active participation & co-organisation of @imbb-forth.bsky.social, with the aim to present recent scientific developments in the field of Molecular Neurobiology related to the nervous system development, function & health.

🏅 @forth-ite.bsky.social accepts proposals for the Award for Excellence in Academic Teaching in memory of B.Xanthopoulos-St.Pnevmatikos 2025

📚 Thematic cycle: Social Sciences and Humanities
⌛️ Closing date for the proposals Friday 18/7/2025

🔗 bit.ly/FORTH_Award

#UniversityExcellence #FORTHAward

✔️Thirty-two ERC grantees have been selected and nominated as Ambassadors for the ERC.
✔️ Dr. Themis Alissafi from Greece is one of the Ambassadors. aerg.eu/ambassadors#...

A new project aims to enhance the support that our National Contact Points (NCPs) offer to researchers who are applying for ERC grants.

Find out more 👉 europa.eu/!DTwpkB

🎉 #GirlsinICT Day
🗓 24th of April
🌍 A Global Day of Inspiration for Girls & Young Women in Tech!
Since 2011, the ITU has established Girls in ICT Day to promote female participation in STEM & ICT fields,with the goal to inspire the next generation of innovators, researchers, and digital creators!

🟣@imbb-forth.bsky.social is a member of EU-LIFE, an alliance of leading European research institutes in the life sciences with a mission to promote excellence in research by implementing and disseminating best practices in the organization and operation of scientific establishments.

👏Congrats to Dr Spyros Artavanis Tsakonas, chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee of IMBB @forth-ite.bsky.social, for receiving the 2025 Gairdner International Prize, together with Iva Greenwald and Gary Struhl @columbiauniversity.bsky.social for pioneering work on #Notch Signalling.

🟡Prof. Spyros Yannopoulos, Research Director at the Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences of FORTH (www.iceht.forth.gr/en/), is the GRAPHERGIA project Coordinator.

📹Watch his interview to discover how FORTH is involved in GRAPHERGIA 👇

🌺Warm wishes for a Happy Easter!

#Easter2025 #EasterWishes #Easterholidays

🗓️ 10 April 16.30

Livestream & in-person: europa.eu/!WQn96Y

DEFEA 2025: Business Opportunities for International Collaborations in Defense & Security | News | Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas PRAXI Network, a member of the Enterprise Europe Network and coordinator of Enterprise Europe Network Hellas, in collaboration with DEFEA 2025, is organizing a matchmaking event within the framework o...

📅 7-8 May
PRAXI Network of @forth-ite.bsky.social, a member of the Enterprise Europe Network & coordinator of Enterprise Europe Network Hellas, in collaboration with DEFEA 2025, is organizing a matchmaking event within the framework of the international defense and security exhibition DEFEA 2025.

Congrats!!👏

🌟𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐦 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐒𝐀 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞🌟

📅 7-9 October 2025
📍 Location: @forth-ite.bsky.social, Heraklion, Crete

🌐 Learn more & register now: 👉 nikal.eventsair.com/7th-quantum-...
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