Research Grants

Title: Coupling dynamic cities and climate
Acronym: Urbisphere
Funding Agency: European Union, Program: ERC
Coordinator: FORTH, Coordinator on the part of IACM: Nektarios Chrysoulakis
Duration: 2020 – 2028, Total budget: 12.720.90€4, IACM Budget: 2.892.250€
More: https://urbisphere.eu/

Title: Singularities in General Relativity
Acronym: SINGinGR
Funding Agency: ERC, Program: Horizon 2020, Coordinator: FORTH
Coordinator on the part of IACM: Grigorios Fournodavlos
Duration: 2024-2028, Total budget: 1 312 180.00€
More: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101078061

Title: Copernicus responding to EU Cities Mission
Acronym: CLMS-Cities
Funding Agency: European Union, Program: Ηorizon Europe,
Coordinator: FORTH, Coordinator on the part of IACM: Nektarios Chrysoulakis
Duration: 2025 – 2028, Total budget: 2.863.930€, IACM Budget: 647.500€
More: https://clms-cities.eu/

Title: Enhancing social well-being and economic prosperity by reinforcing the eFFECTIVEness of protection and restoration management in Mediterranean MPAs
Acronym: EFFECTIVE
Funding Agency: EC, Program: Horizon -Blue Parks,
Coordinator on the part of IACM: Michael Taroudakis
Duration: 2023 – 2027, IACM Budget: 399875€

Title: Technical support for the creation of Copernicus story maps and dashboards
Acronym: EUSPA/OP/21/21/Lot 3/SC4
Funding Agency: European Union, Program: EUSP -Lot 3-Professional applications
Coordinator on the part of IACM: Nektarios Chrysoulakis
Duration: 2025 – 2026, Total budget: 300.000€, IACM Budget: 53.100€

Title: Carbon sequestration in BLUe EcoSystems
Acronym: C-BLUES
Funding Agency: Horizon Europe, Program: HORIZON-CL5-2023-D1-02
Coordinator: NORSK INSTITUTT FOR VANNFORSKNING NO NIVA NO
Coordinator on the part of IACM: Dimitris Poursanidis
Duration: 2024-2028, Total budget: 5 000 000€, IACM Budget: 164018.75€

Title: High Arctic Ocean Observation System
Acronym: HiAOOS
Funding Agency: European Commission, Program: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
Coordinator on the part of IACM: Emmanuel Skarsoulis
Duration: 2023 – 2027, Total budget: 9.500.358€, IACM Budget: 295.000€

Title: Topological textures in Condensed Matter
Acronym: POLYTOPO
Funding Agency: COST, Program: COST Action
Coordinator: Stavros Komineas
Duration: 2024 – 2028, Total budget: ~ 650.000 €, IACM Budget: 650.000 €

Title: Copernicus responding to EU Cities Mission
Acronym: SAT4GAIA
Funding Agency: European Space Agency, Program: Greek Microsatellites
Coordinator on the part of IACM: Nektarios Chrysoulakis
Duration: 2024 – 2026, Total budget: 1.764.931€, IACM Budget: 390.000€

Title: Underwater Acoustics Conference and Exhibition 2025
Acronym: UACE 2025
Funding Agency: Office of Naval Research, Contract number: ΔΕΘ00 UACE 2025 ONR N000142512193
Coordinator: FORTH, Coordinator on the part of IACM: Michael Taroudakis
Duration: 2025-2026, Total budget: 22600€, IACM Budget: 22600€

Title: Computational Studies of Polymer-Metal Systems
Funding Agency: Industry Funding, Toyota Japan
Coordinator on the part of IACM: Vagelis Harmandaris
Duration: 2025-2026, Total budget: 120.000 €, IACM Budget: 120.000€.

Title: WHALES’25 – FORTH Mission
Acronym: WHALES’25
Funding Agency: OCEAN CARE (NGO – CH)
Coordinator: Emmanuel Skarsoulis
Duration: 2025 – 2026, Total budget: 117.120€, IACM Budget: 117.120€

Title: National Research Network for Climate Change and Its Effects
Acronym: CLIMPACT II
Funding Agency: GSRI, Program: National Public Investment Programme (PIP) – Operational Programme ‘Strengthening Research, Innovation and Technology
Coordinator on the part of IACM: Nektarios Chrysoulakis
Duration: 2023 – 2026, Total budget: 3.148.100€, IACM Budget: 31.900€ (for the current slot)

Title: Next-generation monitoring and mapping tools to assess marine ecosystems and biodiversity
Acronym: NEMO-Tools
Funding Agency: Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I. / ΕΛ.ΙΔ.Ε.Κ.)
Program: Basic Research Financing (Horizontal support for all Sciences), National Recovery and Resilience Plan (Greece 2.0) — Sub-action 2: Funding Projects in Leading-Edge Sectors
Coordinators on the part of IACM: Yannis Pantazis, Yiannis Kamarianakis
Duration: 2024-2026, Total budget: 400,000.00 €, IACM Budget: 50,000.00 €

Title: Mission Climate Change Adaptation Observatory of the Region of Crete
Acronym: ClimaCrete
Funding Agency: Region of Crete, Program: Green Fund
Coordinator on the part of IACM: Nektarios Chrysoulakis
Duration: 2025 – 2028, Total budget: 1.000.000€, IACM Budget: 89.474€

Title: Advancing Personalized Neuromodulation: Integrating NeuroAI into Real-Time Adaptive Brain Stimulation
Acronym: NEUROADAPT
Funding Agency: FORTH, Program: “Theodore Papazoglou” FORTH Synergy Grants 7th call
Coordinator: Georgia Gregoriou
Duration: 2025-2027, Total budget: 80,000€, IACM Budget: 40,000€

Title: Functional Nanoclusters for Multimodal Imaging of Atherosclerosis
Acronym: Lamia
Funding Agency: FORTH, Program: Synergy Grant
Coordinator: A. Lappas. A. Ranella, Y. Papaharilaou, Partners: IACM, IESL
Coordinator on the part of IACM: Yannis Papaharilaou
Duration: 2021-2026, Total budget: 80000€, IACM Budget: 40000€

Title: Morhogenetic Phase transitions in Living Matter
Acronym: MorPhase
Funding Agency: FORTH Synergy grants
Coordinator: Sfyris and Pavlopoulos, Partners: IACM and IMBB
Coordinator on the part of IACM: Dimitrios Sfyris
Duration: 2025-2027, Total budget: 80000€, IACM Budget: 40000€

Title: Disentangled Representation Learning via Mutual Information Optimization with Application in Speech Representation Learning
Acronym: DISENTANGLE-SPEECH
Funding Agency: Apple Inc.,
Program: Apple University Research Partnerships (direct industry funding)
Coordinator: Yannis Pantazis
Duration: 2024-2025, Total budget: $70,000 USD, IACM Budget: $70,000 USD

Title: Statistical Machine learning methods for output forecasting in grid connected and off-grid PV systems
Funding Agency: Saudi Aramco Technologies
Coordinator: Theodoros Katsaounis
Duration: Six (6) Months, Total budget: 130,000.00 $ (USD), IACM Budget: 130,000.00 $ (USD)

Title: Towards Real-Time, Enhanced Text-To-Speech Synthesis on the Device
Acronym: STOMA
Funding Agency: Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I. / ΕΛ.ΙΔ.Ε.Κ.)
Program: 2nd Call for H.F.R.I. Research Projects to support Faculty Members and Researchers
Coordinator: Yannis Pantazis
Duration: 2022-2025, Total budget: 198,000.00 €, IACM Budget: 198,000.00 €

Title: TEchnological Consortium TO develop sustaiNabIlity of underwater Cultural heritage
Acronym: TECTONIC
Funding Agency: European Commission, Program: Horizon 2020 – MSCA-RISE-2019
Coordinator: Nikolaos Kampanis
Duration: 2020-2025, Budget for IACM: 46,000€

Title: Blue Carbon Ecosystems of Amorgorama project
Acronym: Amorgorama
Funding Agency: Blue Marine Foundation
Coordinator on the part of IACM: Dimitris Poursanidis
Duration: 9 months, Total budget: 30.000,00€, IACM Budget: 15.000,00€

Title: Interfacial phenomena in stochastic reaction-diffusion systems & applications to mathematical finance
Acronym: IPMAFIN
Funding Agency: Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I. / ΕΛ.ΙΔ.Ε.Κ.)
Coordinator: Georgia Karali
Duration: 2023-2025, Total budget: 166.000€, IACM Budget: 166.000€

Title: Modeling Transcription: an integrated approach to understand cancer-specific gene expression programs
Acronym: TRANS-MOD
Funding Agency: Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I. / ΕΛ.ΙΔ.Ε.Κ.)
Program: Greece 2.0 National Recovery and Resilience Plan “Basic Research Financing”
Coordinator on the part of IACM: Theodoros Katsaounis
Duration: 2024-2025, Total budget: 400,000.00€, IACM Budget: 130,000.00€

Title: Biophysical tools FUSed via integrative computational approaches to decode protein foldING
Acronym: FUSING
Funding Agency: FORTH, Program: Theodore Papazoglou FORTH Synergy Grants (4th Cycle)
Coordinator: IMBB/FORTH; Principal Investigator: Dr. Giorgos Gouridis, Partners: IMBB/FORTH
Coordinator on the part of IACM: Yannis Pantazis
Duration: 2022 – 2025
Total budget: 80,000.00€, IACM Budget: 40,000.00€

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