{"id":12186,"date":"2018-10-09T10:32:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T07:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eci-org.eu\/?page_id=12186"},"modified":"2022-01-26T19:06:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T17:06:14","slug":"athena-research-center","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eci-org.eu\/?page_id=12186&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Athena&#8217; Research Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;11289&#8243; img_size=&#8221;900X600&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.athenarc.gr\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8216;Athena&#8217; Research Center<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is the <\/span>only Research Center in the country with an exclusive focus on information technology and <b>applications<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in all its manifestations. It operates as a private entity, under the supervision of the General Secretariat for Research and Innovation of the Ministry of Development &amp; Investments. <\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It serves the Knowledge Triangle (Research &#8211; Innovation &#8211; Education) in the fields of Informatics, Communications, Digital Technologies and Computational Sciences. A wide range of areas defines the EK &#8220;Athena&#8221; framework for action: Data science and digital repositories, Machine learning and knowledge management, Digital natural language and text processing, Artificial Intelligence and decision-making systems, Cybersecurity and digital systems protection, Virtual reality and image processing, Robotics and automation, Information and distributed systems, Industrial systems and autonomous vehicles, Embedded systems, Processing and editing of digital content from different areas of human activity.<\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The coexistence of Research Institutes and Units, Spin-offs, Clusters of Technology Enterprises and a Competence Center creates a fertile ecosystem for the <\/span>transfer of <b>know-how <\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and research results to society.<\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Centre has unique elements of Excellence to demonstrate:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over 300 R&amp;D projects in the last 5 years. The funding from these projects is annually 5-8 times greater than the state grant of the Centre.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Successes in highly competitive European programs such as <\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/erc.europa.eu\/funding\/synergy-grants\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ERC Synergy<\/span><\/a> and <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">FET Flagship.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">4 active spin-offs and the largest spin-off acquisition that came from the country&#8217;s research fabric.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Key participation in the 4 major international research infrastructures<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.eu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(CLARIN,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dariah.eu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">DARIAH,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ELIXIR,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/instruct-eric.eu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">INSTRUCT).<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A leading role in key issues such as Knowledge Management and Open Science, achieving the establishment of the first European legal entity for Open Access issues based in Greece.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Participation in the agenda on the hot issues of the climate crisis and the environment as coordinator of the <\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.athenarc.gr\/el\/eit-climate-kic-hub-greece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">EIT Climate-KIC Hub<\/span><\/a> for <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Greece.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Three knowledge-intensive clusters and international recognition of excellence in their management.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;11289&#8243; img_size=&#8221;900X600&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text] &nbsp; The &#8216;Athena&#8217; Research Center is the only Research Center in the country with an exclusive focus on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eci-org.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eci-org.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eci-org.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eci-org.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eci-org.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eci-org.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12189,"href":"https:\/\/eci-org.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12186\/revisions\/12189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eci-org.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}