Plasma Astrophysics Group - Funding
Greek General Secretariat for Research and Technology
Our group is mainly funded by the
GSRT under the program PENED.
EU Program "INTAS"
Our group participates in a research network, under the EU program
INTAS ,
with seven other institutes and Universities
( University of Ioannina (Greece), University of Florence (Italy), Main Astronomical
Observatory of The Russain Academy of Science (Russia), Institute of
Solar Terrestrial Physics (Russia), Crimean Observatory (Ukraine), Special Astrophysical
Observatory of The Russain Academy of Science (Russia), Institute of Applied
Physics of The Russain Academy of Science (Russia) ).
EU Program "ERASMUS"
We participate in two European Networks (
European Astrophysics Doctoral Network,
Solar and Space Physics Network). Graduate students from our group frequently visit other
institutes in Europe.
TMR (Euroconferences)
Our group is funded to organize the following Euroconferences
under the European Commission's
TMR Programme :
"Solar and Heliospheric Plasma Physics" , ( May 1996 ) at
Thessaloniki, Greece.
"Summer School in
Space Solar Physics" , (September 1997) at Orsay, France, in
collaboration with Prof. J.-C. Vial.
"Solar Plasma Physics: Prospects for the Next Century" , (May
1999) at Birmingham, U.K., in collaboration with Prof. G. Simnett.
Greek National Scholarship Foundation (IKY)
Two graduate students (Mr. N. Mylonas and Mr. M. Georgoulis) hold
scholarships from IKY.