Three proposals of FORTH were shortlisted in the 2nd round of the “Greece Innovates” Applied Research and Innovation CompetitionThree proposals of FORTH were shortlisted in the 2nd round of the "Greece Innovates" Applied Research and Innovation Competition, which is jointly sponsored by SEV Hellenic Federation of Enterpises and Eurobank member of NBG Group.

The ceremony of the 2012 Award for Excellence in Academic Teaching "Vassilis XANTHOPOULOS - Stephanos PNEVMATIKOS" The ceremony of the Award for Excellence in Academic Teaching "Vassilis XANTHOPOULOS - Stephanos PNEVMATIKOS" will be held at the main Hall of old Hellenic Parliament in Athens on December 14 2012, at 19.00 p.m.

EMBO Young Investigator award at IMBB-FORTHGeorge A. Garinis, Associate Professor of Genetics at the department of Biology, University of Crete and an affiliated Researcher at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB) of FORTH- Hellas has been awarded today the prestigious EMBO Young Investigator award for his research achievements on delineating the functional role of Nucleotide Excision Repair factors in development and disease

The AKTAIA project: the first large scale research on beach erosion on the East Crete coastline.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.