The Network Economics and Services Group won the Future Internet Award in Poznan, Poland for their contribution to the TRILOGY: Architecting the Future Internet project.
Read more...The schools of Thessaloniki’s Old Town municipalities have been saving their cooking oil for some time now, and are now ready for depositing.
Read more...Starting on December 15, the 2011 Festival of Science and Technology invites students, academics and science lovers of all ages to celebrate scientific thought and its everyday applications.
Read more...Climate change and sustainability are not just technical problems or problems in applied ethics: they require a new political imagination, according to a recently published book by Melissa Lane, titled Eco-Republic. Ancient Thinking for a Green Age.
Read more...The World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders' Ocean Project and the European Institute of Law, Science and Technology present a special screening of the Secrets of the Mediterranean documentary.
Read more...What kind of footwear did Ancient Greeks use? A stroll around Greece’s museums gives us detailed information on the ancient art of shoemaking.
Read more...An old pasta factory in Lavrion has been successfully transformed into the first 100% zero-energy building based on RES and hydrogen consumption in Greece.
Read more...The Cloud Computing Association is organizing the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing –CloudCom in Athens.
Read more...Physicist, Dimitris Nanopoulos, and linguist, George Babiniotis, explore the relationship between Science and the principles and values of contemporary humanism.
Read more...The development of a newimaging system by a team of researchers headed by Vasilis Ntziachristos, gives hope to women suffering from ovarian cancer.
Read more...If you are either a casual dinosaur fan or even a fully fledged geologist, wait no more and visit the Museum of Paleontology and Geology of the University of Athens.
Read more...A team of Greek researchers, led by Professor Philippos Patsalis of the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING) have developed and tested a non-invasive prenatal diagnostic blood test for Trisomy 21 or Down Syndrome.
Read more...In 2009, the Public Power Corporation in cooperation with farmers from Kozani took a bold step towards producing agricultural biofuel. Research had shown that burning wild artichokes was a suitable solution to many issues.
Read more...The MONET project is a network of two 1.2m telescopes operated by the German Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, the American McDonald Observatory, and the South African Astronomical Observatory.
Read more...In 2009, Anthony Bartam from "BBC News" and Helena Smith from The Guardian daily reported on a fascinating underwater antiquity project in the Peloponnese, Southern Greece (BBC News: Sea gives up secrets to experts).
Read more...The event is coordinated by Birdlife International, the world’s largest partnership of conservation organisations, aiming at highlighting the vital role that birds play in the equilibrium of ecosystems, as well as their relationships with people.
Read more...Two prehistoric tusks, measuring approximately 2.5 meters in length, have been unearthed in Isioma, near Megalopolis in the Peloponnese, on September 8.
Read more...American physicist and former NASA astronaut Dr. James Newman was invited by the Eugenides Foundation to deliver a speech on September 19, at the Foundation’s premises,
Read more...Recent archaeological finds provide strong evidence that seafaring existed in the Aegean Sea before the end of the last ice age.
Read more...The Olympiad was held in July 2011, but Vlachos had already won another bronze medal during the Balkan Mathematical Olympiad the year before.
Read more...Greek students won two bronze medals, and three honorary distinctions at the 5th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics held in Poland (August 25-September 3).
Read more...Queen Elizabeth II of England has given the green light to power Windsor Castle by hydroelectricity, using turbines based on principles developed by Archimedes.
Read more...Michael Vassiliadis, president of the German Chemistry Trade Union IG-BCE, was designated president of the European Mine, Chemical and Energy Worker’s Federation (EMCEF).
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Zagori is an area of great natural beauty and unique architecture in the Pindus Mountains in Epirus in Northwestern Greece. The area is of about 1.000 square kilometers and contains 46 villages. Zagoria villages is called by Greeks “Zagorochoria” meaning the villages behind the mountain.
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In 1989, Professor of Byzantine Studies, Helen Ahrweiler is appointed Chairman of the Cultural Centre Pompidou in Paris