TCM2012 took place in Crete in October 21-26, 2012

FORTH invites you to the lecture of Professor Michael HOFREITER entitled "Evolutionary genetics using ancient DNA or how to avoid boring research" on Tuesday, 13 November 2012 at 16:00 hrs

A workshop on Solar Energy Utilization will take place on Friday, 26th October at the University of Crete.

Researchers of the Institute of Computer Science of FORTH (FORTH-ICS) were awarded with Honorable Mention for their work entitled: "Electronic Health Record: Luxury or Need?" The paper was presented in the 14th National Conference of Healthcare Management in Athens on 12-13 October 2012, organized by the Hellenic Association of Healthcare Management.

The workshop will be held in the amphitheatre of FORTH on Thursday, October 11 at 10:00

John Pendry, David Smith and Costas Soukoulis (IESL-FORTH) won the 2013 McGroddy Prize for New Materials, awarded by the American Physical Society

FORTH invites you to the ecture of Ruth PADEL entitled “Darwin, Migration and the Restlessness of Life” on Monday, 1 October 2012 at 16:00 hrs

For the first time in Crete, a complete coastline survey is performed, using a scientific approach with new, high reliability, methods and technologies in order to investigate the beach erosion phenomenon that is evident across the island. The Eastern Crete Development Organization (OANAK) is the project coordinator and the Department of Geography and Climatology of the University of Athens, the Institute of Applied & Computational Mathematics of FORTH and the Department of Marine Sciences of The University of Aegean are active participants.

The Acropolis Museum and the Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers (IESL) of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) have been awarded the biennial Keck Award by the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC) for their common project regarding “Laser rejuvenation of Caryatids opens to the public at the Acropolis Museum: A link between ancient and modern Greece”. The award was given jointly to the team of the Acropolis Museum / the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas and for their contribution “towards the promotion of public understanding and appreciation of the accomplishments of the conservation profession”. The ceremony took place on Friday 14th of September 2012, at the closing session of the biennial IIC congress in Vienna, which attracted 350 delegates.

Research at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, published today in the premier international scientific journal Nature, reveals a novel molecular mechanism that strongly and generally defends against necrotic cell death triggered by extreme temperature and multiple other insults.