The GIHG was created by the vision of internationally recognized researchers and it aspires to enrich the scientific environment of Greece and to become a world leader in research on genetic diversity and its connection with various monogenic and multifactorial diseases.

The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy entered into two important strategic partnerships with FORTH, signing a program agreement and a special memorandum of cooperation, on Monday, September 5, at FORTH’s headquarters, in Heraklion, Crete.

Prof. Savvas Christoforidis, Research Director at the Biomedical Research Institute of FORTH, was elected Director of the Institute on June 18^th, 2022 by a seven-member Evaluation Committee appointed by the Ministry of Development and Investments, chaired by Professor Efthimios Kaxiras, Department of Physics, University of Harvard.

A European consortium of scientists, led by the FORTH Institute of Astrophysics, has succeeded in securing €3 million in European funding, to design a new state-of-the-art radio telescope and to develop cutting-edge technologies for the analysis of astronomical data.

The aim of the MoU is to create and run a new Business Incubator of the Science & Technology Park of Crete (STEPC) in the city of Chania, with the objective of supporting start-up entrepreneurship, exploiting research and innovation actions and promoting collaboration and networking.

The new research program "ClepsYdra" will be coordinated by the Lab of Geophysical Satellite Remote Sensing and Archaeoenvironment of the Inst. for Mediterranean Studies. The core of the project lies on the establishment of new methods and protocols for the documentation and valorization of Cultural Heritage in shallow water contexts.

The Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (IACM-FORTH), in collaboration with the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) and with the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) organized a Summer Graduate School on Geometric Flows.

Professor Christos (Kitsos) Louis, IMBB researcher, was honored for his significant contributions to the understanding of the biology of the malaria mosquito on July 27 at the Mosquito Kolymbari Conference 2022, held at the Orthodox Academy of Crete.

The Institute of Computer Science is excited to announce that Dr. Jean-Luc Starck of CEA/Saclay, with a major financial support by the European Commission of an ERA Chair, will be leading the efforts on the establishment of a new science direction at FORTH in the emerging field of Astro-Informatics.

This year’s Onassis lectures were dedicated to a broad review of the new field “Gravitational-wave science” and its prospects for the future. The individual presentations contained theoretical and experimental reviews of the field, with particular emphasis on future plans, challenges and opportunities.