The Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) was founded in 1983.
It is the premier multidisciplinary research institution in Greece with well-organized facilities, highly qualified personnel and a reputation as a top-level research institution worldwide.
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures first-ever images of asteroid collisions around nearby star
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have captured the first direct images of catastrophic asteroid collisions in another planetary system — a discovery that provides unique insight into how planets form and evolve. The new data comes from observations of the nearby star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years from Earth. The study was recently published in the prestigious journal Science.
Μosquito vectors of malaria rapidly develop resistance against new generation insecticides
The Molecular Entomology group of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB) of FORTH, led by John Vontas, Professor at the Agricultural University of Athens, has a longstanding expertise and reputation in the delineation of insecticide resistance mechanisms in malaria vectors and agricultural pests. The current study, published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications, was led by Dr. Sofia Balaska and Dr. Linda Grigoraki at IMBB-FORTH as main authors, and was carried out in close collaboration with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the UK, revealing a novel carboxylesterase-mediated mechanism of cross-resistance to insecticides in Anopheles gambiae.
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Professor Nektarios Tavernarakis Receives Honorary Doctorate from Ionian University
On Friday, November 21, 2025, the Ionian Academy in Corfu hosted a grand ceremony awarding Professor Nektarios Tavernarakis an Honorary Doctorate by the Department of Informatics of Ionian University.
Lecture by Popi Sfakianaki & Panagiotis Ioannou entitled “Two Painters from Crete”
The Municipality of Rethymnon and the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) are organizing for the year 2025 a series of lectures addressed to the general public of Rethymnon. In these talks, open to everyone, the Institute's researchers will present elements of their research work in an accessible way, followed by a discussion. The events will take place at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies in the old town, 130 Nikiforou Fokas and Melissinou. The fifth lecture titled “Two Painters from Crete”, will take place on Monday, December 1st, at 20:30, by Panagiotis Ioannou, Professor at the University of Crete & collaborating faculty member of IMS–FORTH and Popi Sfakianaki, Lecturer at the University of Crete & Postdoctoral Researcher at IMS–FORTH.
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A century of light
14th Distinguished Lecture “Alkiviades Ch. Payatakes”
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FORTH's responses to COVID-19 pandemic
The Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) and its Institutes have been made available to the State and Public Health Authorities, in order to contribute to the common effort to address the pandemic of COVID-19, with their top-level infrastructure and expertise.
