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.

The Department of Biomedical Research of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology – Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH-IMBB-BR) participates in the KardiaTool project funded by the European Commission within the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program with € 4.9 M for the next 3.5 years. Fourteen partners from ten different countries, including universities, research centers and enterprises, participate in the project, providing the necessary experience to ensure the success of the project in all its stages of development.

The Institute of Computer Science of FORTH (ICS/FORTH) hosts an open public event, on Wednesday 27 June, 10:30-12.30, at its campus in Heraklion Crete, entitled “Social Computing for Smart Cities”, in the context of the EC-funded project NOTRE – Network for Social Computing Research.

The Foundation of Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) in collaboration with the PRAXI network organises an info-day for the promotion of the MSC actions that are open to researchers at any stage of their career with no nationality or age restrictions. Rule for mobility of the researcher to another country applies. The info-day will focus on the 2018 MSCA Individual Fellowships call (Call for Proposals: MSCA-IF-2018) on the occasion of its launch on 12 April.

The findings of the study, published in the international scientific journal Cell Reports reveal a novel molecular mechanism underlying the beneficial effects of aspirin on healthspan.

A new Institute, the only in Greece dedicated exclusively to Astrophysics, will soon join the big family of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), becoming its 7th Institute, after a legislation voted in the Greek Parliament on February 26th 2018.