Interview with Prof. Tavernarakis, new Vice President of ERC
Prof. Tavernarakis narrates his ambitions and challenges in his new role as Vice-President ERC and the perspectives for research in Europe. Read more [...]
All posts by Vasiliki Michopoulou
The COVID-19 pandemic as research driving force
This article shows how COVID19 triggered changes in research culture and how science and technology helped to improve our quality of life. Read more [...]
Fostering basics with Nobel Laureates
Many of the most impactful advancements laid in basic science decades or even centuries earlier and reveal the need for fundamental research. But the benefit of supporting basic research has been increasingly questioned in recent years while the concept of fundamental research seems to be undervalued. Read more [...]
Turning Thessaloniki into a Living lab
Next September (from 3rd to 5th) Thessaloniki turns to a big ecosystem of “Ideas labs” by hosting, for the first time, the famous OpenLivingLab Days 2019. Read more [...]
Is Greece ready for the Industry 4.0?
Roughly one-fifth of the global workforce will be impacted by the adoption of AI and automation, with the most significant impact in developed nations. Read more [...]
Is Science the antidote to racism?
Although science constantly proves that people are more alike than different, racism continues to exist at every level and to increase sharply. Read more [...]
New era of Science Diplomacy, especially Nuclear Diplomacy
What nuclear science has to do with diplomacy? In November 2018 twenty historians of science and technology joined for the first time a workshop in Japan in order to answer the question. As modern foreign policy and international relations encompass Read more [...]
Bureaucracy undermines research in Greece
A new legislation put into force on January 2019 obliges hundreds of researchers in Greece to draft detailed budgets months or even one year in advance. Read more [...]
Co-design and co-creation research in Greece
Stories of scientific discovery and success tend to focus on individuals and their achievements; but success in science is a "team sport". Read more [...]
“Metaphysical” persistence of degradation of Natural Sciences in the Greek educational system
Greek educational system is downgrading Natural Sciences as a whole against any scientific and pedagogical argumentation and international practice. Read more [...]
Greek media still turn their back to Science
The rise of fake news in addition to the world of politics seem to dominate the world of science also. But what’s the worry about it if there is no science in the daily news?
Fake news is produced using false information, with the goal of sharing Read more [...]
In Greece there is a unique in its kind Laboratory in whole Europe
Foreign students come especially for postgraduate studies at this Department which hosts one of the most modern equipped Laboratory of Archaeometry, which trains the archaeologists in the use of new techniques for the analysis, characterisation, origin and dating of the ancient materials. Read more [...]
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