Institute for Mediterranean Studies

Academy of Athens Awards for 2016

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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Postdoc Researcher of GeoSat ReSeArch Lab of F.O.R.T.H. earned a Fellowship from the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation

Gianluca Cantoro, Postdoc Researcher of GeoSat ReSeArch Lab (Lab of Geophysical Satellite Remote Sensing and Archaeoenviroment) of F.O.R.T.H. earned a Fellowship from the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation for the project "CRETE-FROM-ABOVE, Fossil Built Landscapes on Cretan Mountains and Satellite Islands Investigated from the Sky".

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Research Grant from the Research Center for the Humanities

Gianluca Cantoro, Postdoc Researcher of GeoSat ReSeArch Lab (Lab of Geophysical Satellite Remote Sensing and Archaeoenviroment) of F.O.R.T.H., together with Cristina Tsigonaki (Assistant professor at the Univ. of Crete) and Stefania Michalopoulou (PhD candidate at the University of Athens), earned a research grant from the Research Center for the Humanities (John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation and Stavros Niarchos Foundation funding) for the project "HIGH-ABOVE-THE-MOUNTAINS, Fossil Built Landscapes on Mountainous Uplands from the Sky".

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