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RENEXPO 2007: A Brokerage Event on Renewable Energy
Sources will take place on 28 September 2007 in Augsburg,
Germany, within the framework of "RENEXPO –International
Trade Fair and Congresses for Renewable Energy and
Energy Efficient Construction and Renovation". The
Brokerage Event will focus on: Biomass and biofuels, Solar
energy and Energy-efficient buildings. Participants of the
Brokerage Event will have the additional opportunity to
present their innovative technologies at business meetings
and to visualize them in a parallel poster exhibition. EKT,
coordinator of the IRC Hellenic, will participate in the event.
Eurofinish 2007: A brokerage event for surface treatment will
take place on 3 October 2007 in Ghent, Belgium, within the
framework of the international exhibition Eurofinish 2007.
The exhibition covers the full spectrum of sectors, going from
petrochemical and automotive to construction parts and
high-tech consumer goods. CERECO and MIRTEC, partners of
the IRC Hellenic, will participate in the brokerage event and
promote business meetings among potential partners.
Scanautomatic 2007: The Scanautomatic Matchmaking event is
organized on 10-11 October 2007 in Göteborg, Sweden, within
the international exhibition Scanautomatic 2007. The exhibition
covers the field from industrial automation to process auto-
mation, and will focus on vision systems, assembly, robotics and
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification). The brokerage event
will enable exhibitors and visitors at Scanautomatic to find
partners in Europe for technology partnerships. EKT,
coordinator of IRC Hellenic, will support the event.
FETEC 2007: The 2nd international Exhibition "FETEC-
Factory Equipment" is to take place on 12-15 October 2007
in Athens, Greece. The Exhibition covers the following areas:
Automation systems for transportation, control, packaging,
transmission of motion, transformation of mass and energy,
protection and safety of plant and staff, Metal treatment,
cargo transporting and energy production equipment,
industrial networks, equipment, instruments, components,
technical software, tools etc. CERECO and MIRTEC, partners
of the IRC Hellenic, will present the technology transfer
services that IRC provides, free of charges, to research
centres, companies, SMEs, etc.
Ökotech 2007: A Brokerage Event on Environment will take
place on 8 November 2007 in Budapest, Hungary, at the
International Trade Fair for Environmental Protection and
Municipal Technology. The event will cover the following
topics: Water and wastewater treatment , Waste
management, Soil treatment and Bioenergy. EKT, coordinator
of the IRC Hellenic, will participate in the event.
IRC Hellenic: Forthcoming Brokerage Events
H I G H L I G H T S
Traveling through Space and Time, exploring oceans and
active volcanoes, sightseeing around the planet billions of
years ago and other interactive experiences that bring
science closer to society are available in research centres
and museums all over Greece.
"Communicating research and engaging with the public is
more than a priority, it’s an obligation", according to the
European Commissioner for Research J. Potocnik, "not only
because research and science constitute one of society’s
driving forces to achieve progress, but even more so,
because research has a dai ly impact on al l European
citizens". The initiatives for communicating research and
science are increasing lately, in number and variety, in
Greece and the other European countries. A Eurobarometer
survey has shown that 45,3% of European citizens are
interested in research and technology, but acqui re
insufficient information. Only 11,3% of the Europeans visit
science museums, with Greeks being among the lowest
percentages.
Some important scientific attractions that Greeks can enjoy
in science centres and museums are presented in this
issue: in Athens the GAIA Centre for Environmental Research
and Education at the Goulandris Natural History Museum,
the Digital Planetarium at the Eugenides Foundation,
"Tholos" the new dome-shaped Virtual Reality "Theatre" of
the Foundation of the Hellenic World, the Thessaloniki
Science Centre and Technology Museum NOESIS and the
CretAquarium Thalassocosmos in Crete.
Traveling through Science
Centres and Museums for
disseminating scientific knowledge
GAIA Centre for Environmental Research and Education
http://www.gnhm.gr
Digital Planetarium at the Eugenides Foundation
http://www.eugenfound.edu.gr
Virtual Reality theatre "Tholos"
http://www.tholos254.gr
Thessaloniki Science Centre and Technology Museum NOESIS
http://www.tmth.edu.gr
CretAquarium - Thalassocosmos
http://www.cretaquarium.gr
RENEXPO 2007
http://www.renexpo.de
Eurofinish 2007
http://www.eurofinish.be
Scanautomatic 2007
http://www.scanautomatic.se
FETEC 2007
http://www.fetec.gr
Ökotech 2007
http://www.okotech.hungexpo.hu
A European meeting for future Europe’s planetary exploration
programme was held on 15-16May 2007 in Athens, organised
by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and the European
Space Agency (ESA). 88 scientists from 11 European
countries agreed on scientific goals and provided an
ambitious roadmap to examine Mars and the Moon. The
scientists identified three target bodies to be visited by a
number of international missions in the timeframe 2013-
2035: the planet Mars, the Moon, and Near-Earth Objects,
which are asteroids orbiting the Sun within reach of the Earth.
Another important scientific meeting on the recent
discoveries of the Cassini-Huygens mission in Saturn took
place on 4-8 June 2007, in Athens. It was the meeting of
the Project Science Group (PSG) of the Cassini-Huygens
programme, the main research collaboration programme
between ESA and NASA. More than 150 leading scientists
from Europe and the US attended the conference.
Athens hosts European
meetings on Space
ESF
http://www.esf.org/home.html
ESA
http://www.esa.int
Cassini-Huygens mission
http://saturn.esa.int
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov
Project Science Group (PSG) of the Cassini-Huygens
programme, Athens
http://www.cc.uoa.gr/sunearth/cassini2007/index.htm
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