The Visual Arts Group of FORTH will open their 3rd exhibition on the 17th of May 2012 at the Saint George Gate, which is located next to the Freedom’s Square, Heraklion.

Greek-Norwegian photo exhibition tells about life along the Nile: From a Medieval cathedral and an Ottoman fortress of the past to Islamic monuments and controversial dams in the present

Researchers of the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) have been awarded two grants, from the Action "ARISTEIA" of the Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs/General Secretariat for Research and Technology, in the field of Mathematics, Statistics, Informatics and Computer Sciences.

The Signal Processing Laboratory of the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) organized the international Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing for Immersive Environments and Future Interfaces of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (IEEE SPS Winter School on SAIE 2012, http://www.s3p-saie.eu/), which took place from January 16th to 20th 2012, at FORTH, in Heraklion Crete, Greece.

The call has now opened for the 22nd 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).

Wednesday, 8th February 2012, FORTH's amphitheatre "Georgios Lianis"

A wine tasting session took place at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser of FORTH, on Wednesday, the 21st of December, with the generous support of Domaine Paterianakis Winery.

Eurecca tackles three key questions for the IT industry: Today's multicore processors are not being utilized in a sufficiently intelligent way. They get too hot and run slowly because they are used inefficiently. At the same time, transistors are becoming so small that they will ultimately become unreliable. Major European research organizations are now attempting to create a revolution in computer architecture.

Nursing and Medical Applications (under the product name ICS-M), which are part of the software suite "Integrated Care Solutions" developed by the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), have been certified with the Seal of Quality Electronic Health Record (EHR) Level 2 (EuroRec EHR Quality Seal Level 2) by the European Institute for Health Records EuroRec (http://www.eurorec.org/).

Convened by genSET, ESF, COST and STOA, The European Gender Summit is held under the patronage of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.