The EU cyber security Agency; ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) and the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (ICS-FORTH) organise their 2nd Summer School on Network and Information Security (NIS'09). This year's theme is "Privacy and Trust in a Networked World". It will take place in Crete, Greece, 14th-18th September 2009.

PRAXI HELP-FORWARD Network (Δϊκτυο ΠΡΑΞΗ) and the Hellenic Bio Cluster (HBio) are organising a Greek industry - academia partnering event in Athens, on 16 July 2009.

A network of scientists led by the Foundation of Research & Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Greece, have been awarded a grant from the European Commission Seventh Framework Program, aiming to increase our understanding of how chronic inflammation in the body can lead to cancer. It is anticipated that this research program, code-named INFLA-CARE, for Inflammation and Cancer Research in Europe, will also lead to the development of novel approaches for the treatment and improved management of inflammation-associated malignancies, such as liver and colon cancer.

TECHNART 2009 is co-organized by the Institute of Nuclear Physics at NCSR "Demokritos" and IESL-FORTH and its goal to provide a scientific forum to present and promote the use of analytical spectroscopy techniques in the field of Cultural Heritage.

Research at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, published in the international scientific journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, revealed a novel molecular mechanism that modulates mitochondria biogenesis.

Crete University Press (CUP) invites you to a book presentation-event: "Brain & Neuroscience" on Wednesday February 18, 2009 at 19hrs.

Forth Photonics, a spin-off company of the Foundation for Research & Technology Hellas (FORTH), raised £ 6.1m in order to intensify the marketing of DySIS in the UK and Europe.

The Programme of Turkish Studies of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas announces its 7th International Symposium. The topic of the Symposium will be Political initiatives "From the Bottom Up" in the Ottoman Empire. The sessions are scheduled for January 9 - 11, 2009 and will take place at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (Melissinou and Nikiforou Foka 130, Rethymno.)

On Tuesday, December 2 at 7pm at the residence of the Spanish ambassador to Greece, Mr. Miguel de Fuertes and his spouse's, Ms. Aurora de Fuertes, the latter a professor at the University of Oviedo, Mr. Nikos Hadjinicolaou was awarded the Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, a Spanish civil order granted in recognition of services that benefit the country. Mr. Hadjinicolaou received this honor for his extensive service to the study and promotion of the works of Dominikos Theotokopoulos as well as of modern spanish art.

Research at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, published today in the international scientific periodical EMBO Journal, reveals an important molecular mechanism that facilitates learning and the formation of memories by the nervous system.