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Giorgos Lianis was a prominent personality of this country. He made a profound impact on fields like scientific research, university teaching, social struggle, politics and government. He was born in Naoussa in 1926.

The Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, presents the newly established "A.G. Leventis Electrophysiology Unit", the existence of which became possible with the generous contribution of the Leventis Foundation.

A memorandum of cooperation was signed by the Chairman of the Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Mrs. Chara Athanasaki-Michaelidou and the Director of the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser of FORTH, Mr. C. Fotakis.

The 8th Symposium of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) will take place on Friday, October 11 and Saturday, October 12 in Rethimnon.

On Friday 05/10, the chairman of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Mr. Alkviades C. Payatakes and a contractor, selected after public tender, signed the contracting agreement for the project "FORTH/ Restoration of the old building of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies" at the premises of FORTH

The Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) establishes, as of the academic year 2007-2008, the award of distinguished undergraduate scholarships to the five (5) students that will be admitted to the Computer Science Department of the University of Crete having received the highest grades at the national university-entrance exams.

The Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics (IACM) of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH) organizes a 10-day summer school in Underwater Acoustics at FORTH (Heraklion, Crete) from 18 to 27 June 2008, in the framework of the Damocles project.

The opinion of the Conference of Chairmen is that the GTSI study constitutes an excellent base for National R&D Policy planning. The CCRC plans to organize an open conference at the end of September, which will offer to the organizations involved (GSRT, R.C., UNIVERSITIES, TECHNICAL UNIVERSITIES, ENTERPRISES, etc) the opportunity for a public discussion.

The NanoMemCourse organizing committee invites applications from young researchers and engineers to attend the EC-funded Marie Curie Training Course "EF2: Nanostructured material and membrane modelling and simulation" that will take place from 18 to 27 June 2008 in Patras, Greece. The lectures will be delivered by international experts in the field.