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.
The Mariolopoulos – Kanaginis Foundation for the Environmental Sciences co-organized the 9th International Congress of Hydrology and the 4th MEM Workshop on Fissured Rocks Hydrology which was organized by the Hellenic Committee of Hydrogeology in collaboration with the Cyprus Association of Geologists and Mining Engineers. The Congress was held at Kalavrita NW Peloponnese on the 5-8 October 2011.… Read More »
At the meeting distinguished Architects, scientists and scholars arrived at important conclusions concerning the revitalization of Vitruvio trilogy : “firmitas, utilitas, venustas” in the 21st century build environment in coherence to nature. A Manifesto which included ten key actions to achieve harmony between architectural structure, grammar and syntax and the environment, was signed by all invited speakers at… Read More »
MKF is very sensitive for the area of Nafpaktos because of the late Colonel Botzaris distinguished member of the administrative Board of the MKF Foundation and the also late professor of climatology in the university of Athens Ioannis Zambakas who were born and grown up in the area of Nafpaktos. For this reason the MKF has organized a… Read More »
Dr Deon Terblanche, representing the Secretary General of WMO made a brief introduction to the award and the young awardees. The ceremony was attended by H. E. the Commissioner for Education and Culture of EU, Mrs Androula Vassiliou, the former President of the Republic of Cyprus, Mr G. Vassiliou, the former Prime Minister of Greece, Mr. I. Grivas,… Read More »
The Mariolopoulos-Kanaginis Foundation for the Environmental Sciences in collaboration with the Ministry of Education announced awards to high school students from the Prefecture of the historic Nafpactos which is located in the mainland of South-Western Greece where the heroic family of Botsaris greatly contributed to the liberation of Greece in the early 19th century. The competition was dedicated… Read More »
Collaboration with the Academy of Athens, Institut fuer Chemie and Dynamik der Geosphaere, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany and Laboratoire d’Aerologie, UMR 5560, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France. The aim of this project is the study of the physical and chemical mechanisms leading to high summertime surface ozone levels in the Mediterranean basin and especially in its Eastern part, which… Read More »
European Program in collaboration with the Laboratory of Atmospheric of Physics of the University of Thessaloniki and other European Research Centers. Scientific Director: Christos Zerefos