Collaborations with Universities

In the context of joint research and educational activities, the Institutes of the National Hellenic Research Foundation collaborate with renowned academic institutions abroad on a regular basis.

HIE researchers participate in the preparation and supervision of doctoral theses, in the training of postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers and as invited speakers in postgraduate courses (Master’s Degree).

Among the institutions that have collaborated with researchers of the Institute of Chemical Biology of the NHRF are the University of Vienna (Austria), Universiteit Leuven and University of Namur (Belgium), University of Rio and University of Maringa (Brazil), Université de Montréal (Canada), Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie, de Biologie et de Physique-ENSCBP, Institut National Polytechnique Bordeaux (France), Leibniz-Institut für katalyse in Rostock, University of Leipzig, University of Tuebingen, and Martin-Luther-Universitaet, Halle (Germany), National Institute of Environmental Health in Budapest and University of Szeged (Hungary), University of Negev, Beer-Sheva (Israel), University of Padova, University of Torino and University of Milano (Italy), University of Cyprus (Cyprus), University of Leiden and University of Maastricht (The Netherlands), Örebro University (Sweden), University of Geneva, University of Basel and University of Zurich (Switzerland), Ecole Superieure des Industries Alimentaires de Tunis and Centre de Biotechnologie de Sfax (Tunisia), Favorsky Institute of Chemistry, Irkutsk and University of Aege (Turkey), University of Aberdeen, University of Bradford, University of Bradford, University of Dundee, University of London, University of Oxford and University of Surrey (UK).

The researchers of the Institute of Historical Research of the NHRF have developed collaborations with universities abroad for the writing of articles (Open University of Cyprus – Thematic Unit Greek Culture – History of Art), the preparation and supervision of doctoral theses (Université de Paris I Panthéon, Sorbonne and Universidad de Valladolid, University of Örebro, Sweden, Harvard University, North Eastern University etc.etc.), and internships for postgraduate students (University of Münster).

Research at TPCI has a strong international dimension, as manifested by active collaborations with more than 70 academic and research institutions abroad, with a large number of joint publications as a direct result of these collaborations. Representative collaborations of TPCI researchers involve the following institutions abroad: University of North Texas, and Northwestern University (USA), Osaka University, Nagoya University (Japan), Harbin University of Science and Technology, South China University of Technology, and Southwest Jiaotong University (China), Justus-Liebig Universitat, Friedrich-Alexander Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, Technical University of Munich, and Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (Germany), University of Sussex, Durham University, and University of Southampton (United Kingdom), CSIC Zaragoza, and Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Elche (Spain), CNRS Nantes, (France), Utrecht University (The Netherlands), University of Cyprus, and Cyprus University of Technology (Cyprus), Jozef-Stefan Institute (Slovenia), Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgaria), Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland), “Petru Poni” Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry (Romania).

At the same time, the current collaborations of the NHRF include indicative agreements with the following foreign universities:

• German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany (2018- )
• Őrebro University, Sweden (2018- )
• Northeastern University, Boston, USA (2015 – )
• The University of Science and Technology of China, USTC China (2022 -)
• University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Croatia (2023 – )
• The Institute for Byzantine Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Serbia (2022 -)
• University of Nicosia, Cyprus (2019 -)
• Tel Aviv University, Israel (2021-)
• Ecole Des Hautes Etudes En Sciences Sociales (2023-)
• University of Rome TOR Vergata with IIE (2022-)
• Centre for Modern Greece (CeMoG) of Freie Universitat, Berlin(2021-)
• Roman-Germanic Central Museum – Research Institute for Archaeology, Mainz, Germany (2014 -)

Indicatively, in the framework of the collaboration of the Institute of Chemical Biology with the School of Health and Medical Sciences and School of Science and Technology, The Life Science Centre, Örebro University, Sweden https://www.oru.se/English/, joint research activities are implemented as well as and training and mobility activities for postgraduate students, postdoctoral associates and regular members of both parties.  In this context, a Greek-Swedish Conference is organized annually (in October) in Athens at the NHRF premises. To date, 10 conferences have already been successfully organised, which have strengthened the cooperation between the two centres.