Prof. Savvas Christoforidis, Research Director at the Biomedical Research Institute of FORTH, was elected Director of the Institute on June 18^th, 2022 by a seven-member Evaluation Committee appointed by the Ministry of Development and Investments, chaired by Professor Efthimios Kaxiras, Department of Physics, University of Harvard.

The aim of the MoU is to create and run a new Business Incubator of the Science & Technology Park of Crete (STEPC) in the city of Chania, with the objective of supporting start-up entrepreneurship, exploiting research and innovation actions and promoting collaboration and networking.

The Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (IACM-FORTH), in collaboration with the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) and with the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) organized a Summer Graduate School on Geometric Flows.

Professor Christos (Kitsos) Louis, IMBB researcher, was honored for his significant contributions to the understanding of the biology of the malaria mosquito on July 27 at the Mosquito Kolymbari Conference 2022, held at the Orthodox Academy of Crete.

Together with Ole Kiehl (President elect) and Aniko Korosi (treasurer elect), Dr. Panayiota Poirazi, a Research Director at IMBB-FORTH, will be responsible for the management and administration of FENS as its Secretary General.

The goal is to deepen cooperation and systematically support the commercial and business exploitation of research results and scientific knowledge.