FORTH honours the memory of Fotis Kafatos, almost a year since his passing, by organizing on 25 September the first in a series of annual Scientific Symposia.

The establishment of the Precision Medicine Unit of Crete was presented on Thursday September 13th, 2018 at 13:30 at an eventopen to the public.

The Foundation for Research and Technology will have a dynamic presence with four of its Research Institutes to this year’s International Fair of Thessaloniki from 8 to 16 September 2018, under the supervision of the General Secretariat for Research and Innovation (stand No 14).

A research on the thermal behavior of Heraklion city center is conducted by the Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics of FORTH (Remote Sensing Lab - http://rslab.gr) in collaboration with the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

A pioneering cross-disciplinary scientific synergy has been founded in Crete. Twelve Greek academic and research institutions under the coordination of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) have joined forces challenging the exploration of new horizons in the Economy of Knowledge; light is the key instrument in this initiative.

A Delegation from the Qingdao Bureau of Commerce, headed by Vice Mayor Mr Wang Luming and accompanied by representatives from large businesses of the city visited FORTH.

Ανοιχτή Εκδήλωση / Open Event «Η Επικοινωνία της Επιστήμης» “Science Communication” Τετάρτη, 25 Ιουλίου 2018 Wednesday, 25 July 2018 Αμφιθέατρο ΙΤΕ / FORTH Auditorium

Προσκεκλημένος ως κεντρικός Ομιλητής των Διαλέξεων Ωνάση 2018 ο Νομπελίστας Roger Kornberg, Καθηγητής στο Πανεπιστήμιο Stanford, θα δώσει το βράδυ της Τετάρτης 18 Ιουλίου στις 8 μ.μ. στο Αμφιθέατρο του ΙΤΕ ομιλία που απευθύνεται στο ευρύ κοινό και έχει σαν θέμα: “Applied and not yet applied Science – Εφαρμοσμένη και μη ακόμα εφαρμοσμένη Επιστήμη”

For the 6th consecutive year, the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser of FORTH is organizing the "OPTO-CH 2018" Summer School, entitled "Laser technologies in Cultural Heritage analysis, diagnosis and conservation". This year's Summer School focuses on issues related to the protection of Monuments against Climate Change and is being conducted within the framework of the European H2020 project HERACLES ("HEritage Resilience Against Climate Events on-site") (GA 700395).

The Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory of the Institute of Computer Science of FORTH participates in the COMnPLAY SCIENCE project that aims to help Europe better understand the new ways in which informal science learning is taking place through various coding, making, and play activities that young Europeans (children, adolescents and young adults) are nowadays increasingly engaged with, outside school and higher education science classrooms, beyond the formal boundaries of science education.