Dr Marinos Sariyannis has earned a European Research Council Consolidator Grant (H2020-ERC-COG-2017) with the project GHOST - Geographies and Histories of the Ottoman Supernatural Tradition: Exploring Magic, the Marvelous, and the Strange in Ottoman Mentalities.
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As part of the Academy of Athens Awards for 2016, at the Foundation's Annual Session on Thursday, December 22, the Academy Award, was awarded to Panagiotis Ioannou, Assistant professor at the University of Crete and a member of the Institute of Mediterranean Studies , for his book "Leonardo da Vinci, Leon Battista Alberti, Andrea Potso, on painting. The first translations of art texts by Panagiotis Doxaras "Crete University Publications, Institute of Mediterranean Studies 2015).
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Dr Apostolos Delis, Researcher at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS), earned a prestigious ERC starting grant
Dr Apostolos Delis has earned a prestigious Horizon 2020 European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant 2016. The program entitled Seafaring Lives in Transition. Mediterranean Maritime Labour and Shipping during Globalization, 1850s-1920s’ explores the transition from sail to steam navigation and the effects of this technological innovation on seafaring populations in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, between the 1850s and the 1920s, whose lives were drastically changed by the advent of the steam.
On 4 July 2014, Dr Panayotis Ioannou, Assistant Professor at the University of Crete and Collaborating Researcher at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies in the context of its El Greco Centre, was awarded an honorary diploma of merit (‘diploma di benemerenza’) at the Palazzo Firenze in Rome in recognition of his contribution in the study of Italian art from Renaissance to Baroque.
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Congratulations to Dr Dimitris Alexakis (Postdoc Researcher in the Laboratory of Geophysical Satellite Remote Sensing & Archaeoenvironment - GeoSat ReSeArch of the IMS/FORTH) who was awarded the 'Best Poster Prize' at the RSCy2014 with the poster 'Geodiametris: an integrated geoinformatic approach for monitoring land pollution from the disposal of olive oil mill wastes'. The RSCy2014 'Second International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of Environmentʼ was held in Paphos between the 7-10 April 2014. The lab contributed to the conference with three posters and two oral presentations.
Read moreMs. Maria Vakondiou, collaborator with the project "Western Art in Crete during the Venetian period" and a doctoral candidate at the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete with the PhD subject: "Building crafts in Crete during the Venetian Period (13th-17th centuries)", got a one-year fellowship (2012-2013) with the programme "Art, Space and Mobility in Early Ages of Globalization," sponsored by the Getty Foundation and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut.
Read moreMr. Yiannis Spyropoulos, doctoral candidate in the Programme of Post-Graduate Turkish Studies, which is run by the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete jointly with the Institute of Mediterranean Studies, got a three-year fellowship (2010-2013) with the Programme "Heraklitus II - Enhancing Human Research Potential through Doctoral Research". Mr. Spyropoulos (PhD subject: "The Crete Janissaries as a Military Body and as a Lobby, from the second half of the 18th century till the abolition of the janissaries (1826)") was the 71st from among 97 successful proposals in the thematic action "Humanities, Education Sciences, Cultural Sciences and Arts" with final point 9.19.
Read moreΒραβείο Αριστείας που απονεμήθηκε από το Επιχειρησιακό Πρόγραµµα-Κοινωνία της Πληροφορίας (ΕΠ-ΚτΠ) - Γ 'ΚΠΣ 2000-2006 στο ΙΜΣ για την εκτέλεση του επιστημονικού προγράμματος "Ψηφιακή Κρήτη".
Read moreOn Friday, May 5 th 2006, at 11 a.m., in the Great Hall of Ceremonies of the University of Vienna, the Herder Prize for 2006 was awarded by the Rector of the University of Vienna to Nicos Hadjinicolaou , Professor Emeritus of the University of Crete, honorary Consul of Spain in Crete and research scholar at the "El Greco Centre" of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (FORTH).
Read moreOn Friday, May 5 th 2006, at 11 a.m., in the Great Hall of Ceremonies of the University of Vienna, the Herder Prize for 2006 was awarded by the Rector of the University of Vienna to Nicos Hadjinicolaou , Professor Emeritus of the University of Crete, honorary Consul of Spain in Crete and research scholar at the "El Greco Centre" of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (FORTH).
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