The International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC) of the International Council for Museums (ICOM) introduces and promotes documentation standards and processes of museum collections or other institutions and at the same time facilitates networking among curators, librarians and people engaged in recording, studying and managing collections.

A Program Agreement was signed on Monday 24 September by Prof. Nektarios Tavernarakis, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH) and Prof. Udo Helmbrecht, Executive Director of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), at the Historical Museum of Crete, in the presence of the Secretary General of Telecommunications and Post Offices, Dr. Vassilis Maglaras.

The European Researchers’ Night is organized by the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) in its premises at Vassilika Vouton, Heraklion, on Friday September 28, 2018, 17:00-23:00.

George A. Garinis, Professor of Genetics at the department of Biology, the University of Crete will coordinate two large international research networks on ageing and DNA damage at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB) at the Foundation of Research and Technology (FORTH).

Spiros H. Anastasiadis, Professor of the Department of Chemistry of the University of Crete and Director of the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL) of the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), has been elected the Mary Shepard B. Upson Visiting Professor in Engineering at Cornell University for the 2018-2019 Academic Year. Prof. Anastasiadis was elected by the School of Engineering after being nominated by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and approved by the Board of Trustees of the University.

The first Climathon in Crete will take place on Friday October 26, 2018 at the Cultural Center of Heraklion.

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).