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.

Researchers at the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) received the First Award in the "Gesture Recognition Challenge" contest with their work titled "Giving a hand to Kinect"

George 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

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