The Award Ceremony for 2012 was held on 29 October 2012 in Athens. The prize was awarded to the following papers : “An Arctic CCN-limited cloud-aerosol regime” by T. Mauritsen, J. Sedlar, M. Tjernström, C. Leck, M. Martin, M. Shupe, S. Sjogren, B. Sierau, P.O.G. Persson, I.M. Brooks and E. Swietlicki, published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (VOL.… Read More »
The Mariolopoulos – Kanaginis Foundation in collaboration with the Academy of Athens coorganized a scientific colloquium on October 29th 2012 entitled “The greenhouse effect and related topics in our planetary system”. At the colloquium were invited distinguished speakers and renown scientists were attended the presentations. The colloquium was addressed by the President of the Academy of Athens, Professor… Read More »
The Mariolopoulos – Kanaginis Foundation for the Environmental Sciences with the National Technical University of Athens, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the National Observatory of Athens co-organized the 26th International Laser Radar Conference (I LRC 26), which was held at Porto Heli, Peloponnesus, on June 25-29, 2012. The President of the Mariolopoulos – Kanaginis Foundation, Professor Christos… Read More »
For the third year the MK Foundation co-organised the Festival “Les Rencontres de la Terre” with the Ministry of Education and the Municipality of Athens. The Festival activities took place between January and June 2012. The scientific director for the events was Dr Sylvie Grutzow. The central theme of the Festival was : “Our city tomorrow…the city where… Read More »
The MKF co-organized with the Hellenic Meteorological Society and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens the 11th International Conference on Meteorological, Climatology and Atmospheric Physics, COMECAP 2012. The Conference was held at the University of Athens, Main Building, from 29 May to 1 June 2012. The Conference aims were to present state of the art in topics… Read More »
The Board of Directors of Mariolopoulos – Kanaginis Foundation awarded the Primary School of the Center for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind, with a 2.000,00 € award for their efforts in Environmental Education.
The MK Foundation co-organized with the Union of Greek Physicists the 14th Panhellenique Conference on Physics which took place at Kamena Vourla between 29 March and 1st April 2012. The Conference was attended by 1000 participants from Greece and Cyprus of which 150 addressed scientific lectures on emerging new topics in Physics with applications.