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Since 2008, the John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation has included among its activities the funding of one-year research projects. The main purpose of the Foundation’s initiative is to advance research activities in a wide range of scientific fields in Greece and to promote collaborations between Greek and foreign universities and research foundations. In this context, the Foundation issues an annual open call, which outlines the terms and conditions for participation.

Proposal Submission Opens for 2011 One-Year Research Projects
Proposals may be submitted electronically from June 15th until June 30th 2010 via the Online Submission System.

Results of the Open Call for 2010 Research Projects

Following the Foundation's June 1, 2009 open call for grant requests for 12-month research projects for the year 2010, 604 proposals were submitted, and the following 21 research projects were selected for funding, listed by field:


Social Sciences and Humanities

Title Coordinator / Institution
1. Clinical, Biochemical, and Genetic Factors of Cognitive Dysfunction in Schizophrenia

Summary »		 Coordinator: Kontis Dimitrios
Institution: Psychiatric Hospital of Attica
2. Corruption and Tax Evasion in Economies with Public and Private Education

Summary » 		Coordinator: Palivos Theodoros
Institution: University of Macedonia - Research Institute of Applied Financial and Social Sciences
3. The Clandestine Press 1936-1974: Digitization and theoretical study

Summary » 		Coordinator: Papathanasiou Ioanna
Institution: Scientific Society «Contemporary Social History Archives»
4. Documentation of Urum, the language of a Greek population in the Caucasus

Summary » 		Coordinator: Skopeteas Stavros
Institutions: University of Potsdam / National & Kapodistrian University of Athens / University of Bremen
5. Non-material Cultural Heritage and Biodiversity: Ethnobiological study in the region of Kissamos in Crete

Summary » 		Coordinator: Skoula Melpomeni
Institutions: Park for the Protection of the Flora and Fauna, Technical University of Crete/Natural History Museum of Crete, University of Crete
6. The transformation of the Centre of Athens: What could be the contribution of the Arts?

Summary » 		Coordinator: Girgilaki Helen
Institution: Network Nomadic Architecture
7. Urban Collective Memory through Time and Space

Summary » 		Coordinator: Hristopoulou Helen
Institution: Ionian University
 


Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Engineering, Information and Communication, Universe and Earth Sciences

Title Coordinator / Institution
8. Effective Use of Low-Enthalpy Geothermal Fields for Heating and Energy Production by Using Optimal Thermal-Transfer Fluids and Energy-Producing Systems

Summary »		 Coordinator: Voutetakis Spyrus
Institution: Centre for Research & Technology Hellas
9. Efficient Algorithms for Reachability and Path-Selection Problems with Applications

Summary »		 Coordinator: Georgiadis Loukas
Institution: University of Western Macedonia
10. Ash as a Material of Passive Cooling of Buildings and Open-Air Areas

Summary » 		Coordinator: Karamanis Dimitrios
Institution: University of Ioannina
11. Structural health monitoring of glass fiber reinforced composites using embedded carbon nanotube (CNT) fibers

Summary » 		Coordinator: Kourkoulis Stavros
Institutions: National Technical University of Athens / University of the Aegean / Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal-CNRS, Université de Bordeaux
12. Geophysical and Mineralogical Investigations on the twin-meteorite impact craters in Thessaly (Central Greece) of Holocene age

Summary » 		Coordinator: Lagios Evaggelos
Institutions: National & Kapodistrian University of Athens/Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography, ETH Zürich
13. Prototype Database of High-Quality Digital Mammography Images and its Portal-based Public Dissemination to the Scientific Community

Summary » 		Coordinator: Mavroforakis Michael
Institutions: University of Houston, Texas / National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
14. Disk-shaped Graphene Liquid Crystals: Self-Organization and Dynamics

Summary » 		Coordinator: Floudas Georgios
Institutions: University of Ioannina / Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) 


 


Life Sciences

Title Coordinator / Institution
15. The Role of Mechanical Load in Treating Osteoporosis: Designing a Mechanical Osteoblast Stimulation Model to Investigate Curative Applications

Summary » 		Coordinator: Basdra Efthimia
Institution: National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
16. The Creation and Analysis of a New Genetic Model of Osteoporosis in Transgenic Mice Overexpressing the RANKL Cytokine

Summary » 		Coordinator: Douni Helen
Institution: Alexander Fleming Biomedical Sciences Research Center
17. The Genetic Differentiation of the Mitochondrial Genome and Its Co-evolution with the Nuclear Genome as a Speciation Mechanism in the Terrestrial Snails of Greece

Summary » 		Coordinator: Parmakelis Aristeidis
Institutions: National & Kapodistrian University of Athens / University of Patras
18. What Lies Behind a Giant: the Case of the Skyros Lizard

Summary » 		Coordinator: Pafilis Panagiotis
Institutions: University of Michigan / National & Kapodistrian University of Athens / Imperial College
19. Development of a Diagnostic Drug for Alzheimer’s Disease

Summary » 		Coordinator: Pelekanou Maria
Institution: National Centre of Scientific Research "Demokritos"
20. Automatic Detection of Heart Murmurs in Children’s Phonocardiograms and Development of Paediatric Auscultation Training Software
Summary » 		Coordinator: Stilianou Ioannis
Institutions: Foundation for Research &Technology (FORTH) / University of Crete
21. The Genetic and Molecular Role of the AIF (Apoptosis Inducing Factor) Proteins in Activating the Innate Immune System of Plants

Summary » 		Coordinator: Tsitsigiannis Dimitrios
Institution: Agricultural University of Athens

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