The conference is organised in the framework of the project LACRIMALit, IMS/FORTH, with the collaboration of the Postgraduate Programme in Classical Studies of the University of Crete and it will be held at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (Nikiforou Foka 130 & Melissinou, Rethymnon) from 14th to 15th of November.

On Wednesday, November 13, 2024, the FORTH’s Friends Association is organizing an event titled “Artificial Intelligence; Blessing or Curse?” at the Heraklion Chamber of Commerce & Industry, on the occasion of the “Miltiadis Karatzis” Award ceremony, which is given to a PhD candidate of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, in memory of late Miltiadis Karatzis. This year’s awardee, Ms. Ioanna Pandi, a PhD Candidate at the Biology Department of UoC, who carries out her PhD in the laboratory of Dr. Panayiota Poirazi at FORTH, was unanimously selected by the designated committee.

The Institute of Chemical Engineering & High Temperature Chemical Processes of FORTH (today, Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences) was founded in 1984 and operates in Patras. Τhe "40^th Anniversary Event of ICE-HT", was held on Friday, November 8^th 2024, at the Auditorium of the ICE-HT Conference Centre.

The Seminar will take place at the Auditorium of the Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (FORTH/ICE-HT) Conference Centre (Stadiou str.-Platani Patras), on Wednesday, November 6, 2024 (12.00).

Speaker: Athanasios Nenes, Professor of Atmospheric Processes and heads the Laboratory of Atmospheric Processes and their Impacts (LAPI) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

For those who wish to attend the seminar remotely, please check the monitoring link: https://iceht-forth.webex.com/meet/Seminar

The Seminar will be in English.

In the framework of the World Space Week celebration, the Institute of Astrophysics of FORTH in collaboration with the Department of Physics of the University of Crete are organizing an event (in Greek) at the Department of Physics, on Friday 25 October 2024 (18:00-21:00).

The 14th Scientific Retreat of FORTH took place with great success, on October 11-13 at the Conference Center of the International Olympic Academy (IOA) in Ancient Olympia, under the patronage of H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Ms. Katerina Sakellaropoulou. The location of this year’s Retreat, which coincides with an Olympic year, was selected to highlight the close link between research and culture and their mutual contribution to human progress.

The seminar will take place at the Amphitheater of the Conference Hall of the Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (Stadiou str., Platani Patras), on Wednesday, October 23rd, at 12.00.

The lecture will take place at the premises of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies in Rethymnon (Nikiforou Foka 130 & Melissinou), on Monday, October 21st, at 19.30.

Speakers: Oleksandr Pronkevich, professor at Ukrainian Catholic University and a researcher of Spanish literature and culture and theater critic John Freedman, curator of the Ukrainian component of Ukrainian Drama Translations web-site.

Thursday, October 10th, at 19.30

The Lecture will take place at the premises of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies in Rethymnon (Nikiforou Foka 130 & Melissinou)

The Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, is organizing the 2024 Researchers’ Night at its premises (Vassilika Vouton, Heraklion), on Friday September 27, 2024, 17:00-23:00.