The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH) Prof. Nektarios Tavernarakis and the Chairman of Heraklion Chamber of Commerce and Industry (EBEH) Mr. Manolis Alifierakis signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Friday, December 28, 2018.

Dr. Spiros H. Anastasiadis, Professor of Polymer Science & Engineering at the Dept. of Chemistry of the University of Crete, was re-elected Director of the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL) of FORTH on November 12, 2018 for a second term.

Στο πλαίσιο της υλοποίησης των πράξεων "GoBrand - Στήριξη της ικανότητας των ΜΜΕ να αναπτύσσονται σε περιφέρειακές, εθνικές και διεθνείς αγορές και να συμμετέχουν σε διαδικασίες καινοτομίας", που εντάσσεται στον άξονα προτεραιότητας 1, ειδικό στόχο 2 και χρηματοδοτείται από το Πρόγραμμα Συνεργασίας Interreg V-A Ελλάδα-Κύπρος και "SMEInnoBoost - SME Innovation Capacity Boost" που εντάσσεται στον άξονα προτεραιότητας 1, ειδικό στόχο 1.2 ...

The 7th International Conference on “Transparent Conductive Materials, IS-TCM 2018” took place in Minoa Palace Hotel, Platanias, Chania, October 14-19, 2018. The conference was organized by Transparent and oxides group of IESL-FORTH.

The 67th meeting of the governing body of the European Research Council (ERC), the ERC Scientific Council, held at FORTH’s premises 15-18 October 2018, was completed with great success.

The 1st Interdisciplinary International Conference on Nanotechnology and Bionanoscience “NanoBio 2018”, was successfully organized in Atlantis Aquila hotel, Heraklion, September 24-28 2018. The Conference was co-organized by Research Director Dr Emmanuel Stratakis, head of the Ultrafast Laser Micro- and Nano- Processing Laboratory of the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, FORTH and Prof. Emmanuel Kymakis, Department of Electrical Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Crete.

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 InSilc project funded by the European Commission within the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program with € 5.8 M for the next 3 years.

Research at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, published in the international scientific journal Cell Reports reveals a novel molecular mechanism that modulates protein synthesis to preserve protein homeostasis during ageing.

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.