With very great success the "EUROPEAN RESEARCHERS’ NIGHT 2015" was held on Friday, September 25 at the Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH) in Heraklion, Crete.

Title: International Patent Protection
Date: 29.6.2015
Place: Seminar room Alkiviades Pagiatakis / FORTH
Presenter: Alexandros Lioumbis
European Patent Attorney
Electrical Engineer, MSc
ZBM Patents & Trademarks

The call has now opened for the 25th Award for Excellence in Academic Teaching in memory of Vassilis Xanthopoulos and Stephanos Pnevmatikos, both professors at the University of Crete and members of the Foundation for Research & Technology (FORTH).

IESL proudly announces that Prof. Dimitris Vlassopoulos (IESL Affiliated Faculty Member and Professor of the Materials Science and Technology Department of the University of Crete) was selected to win the Weissenberg Award of the European Society of Rheology for 2015.

The paper entitled «Modeling susceptibility to periodontitis» was awarded the «IADR/AADR William J. Gies Award» for 2014

The European Commission has published new calls for proposals for Energy Efficiency under H2020.

Giannis Zacharakis, Researcher of the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL) of FORTH, has been elected member of the council of European Society of Molecular Imaging (ESMI).

Panayiota Poirazi, a Research Director and Head of the Computational Biology Lab (www.dendrites.gr) at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (IMBB-FORTH) has been selected, together with three other ERC grantees, to represent the European Research Council at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions to be held from 10-12 September in Tianjin, China.

In the context of the Greek Presidency of the E.U. Council, the Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH) will host on the 20th of May the meeting of GenderSTE: Gender, Science, Technology and the Environment COST – European Cooperation in Science and Technology (Action TA 1201) in Heraklion.