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Develops “smart” materials that transform our everyday life

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[:el] Athanassia Athanassiou is a Senior Researcher, responsible for the Smart Materials Group, in the Nanophysics Department of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genoa. In September 2014 she became Tenured Scientist. In her lab, she tries to develop “smart” materials that will have a...
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Designed and built a humanoid robot in record time

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[:el] Nikos Tsagarakis is a Researcher in the Department of Advanced Robotics in the Italian Institute of Technology. He is also the lead Researcher on a humanoid robot project “Walk-Man”. Since 2013 he is serving as a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Robotics Research...
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Greek scientist behind the development of biodegradable robots

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[:el] Scientists from the Italian Institute of Technology are developing ‘smart materials’ that could lead to robots that will decompose like a human body once they’ve reached the end of their life-span. Robots are getting ever more life-like, but underneath their synthetic skin it’s a...
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2 Greek researchers discovered new material for mopping up oil spills

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[:el] An interconnected structure, which water can easily flow through, is key to creating a highly effective mechanical sponge for cleaning oil spills. The team consists of researchers Athanassia Athanassiou, Despina Fragouli and Javier Pinto. These are the findings from scientists at the Istituto Italiano di Technologia...
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Greek island among the 10 best walking tours for 2016

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[:el] The british newspaper Telegraph published the list with the best escorted and self-guided walking holidays for 2016, including coastal rambles and challenging hikes, in destinations such as France, Italy, Greece, and Costa Rica. Walking holidays are the antidote to the pressures of modern life. There...
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Florence: Exhibition about the bronze sculptures of the Hellenistic period

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Palazzo Strozzi in Florence is hosting a major exhibition entitled Power and Pathos. Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World, devised and produced in conjunction with the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Soprintendenza per i Beni...
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Exhibition for the common destiny of Greece and Italy

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The exhibition «Classicism and Europe: The European destiny of Greece and Italy” aspires to illustrate the significance of the Greek and the Roman world in shaping European civilization and Europe’s contemporary cultural identity.  This exhibition of major cultural and political importance, a proof of the...
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Greek photographer’s exhibition in Venice

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The photographic exhibition ‘Ethiopia, Spiritual Imprints‘ by the Greek artist Lizy Manola will open on August 30, 2014 at 6 PM at the Officina dell’Arte Spirituale on Venice’s San Giorgio Maggiore island. The exhibition consists of 70 photos of places, people and things, which were shot by the photographer on...

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