The Greek Alternate Minister for Research & Innovation Costas Fotakis and the Secretary General for Research and Technology Dr. Particia Kyprianidou discussed the potential for enhancing the payoff from Greece’s annual contribution to CERN for the benefit of Greek researchers and industry sectors, at a meeting with Fabiola Gianotti, the Director-General of CERN, and CERN executives held at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) premises in Geneva.

The meeting, held on May 3, 2019, addressed the prospect of upgrading experiments scheduled for the coming years as well as the possibility of launching synergies between CERN and the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (HFRI) supporting young scientists as a bulwark against brain drain.