On Tuesday, 9 December 2025, in Brussels, Aggelos Tsakanikas, Director of the Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics (LIEE), presented the chapter he co-authored with Dr. Petros Dimas on the impact of previous HorizonEU programmes on SMEs in Southern Europe, with an emphasis on their digital footprint. The report also includes policy recommendations for the tools currently under development.

On Wednesday, November 19, 2025, the first workshop was successfully held, focusing on the concepts of innovation and innovative entrepreneurship and their role in the wider region of Western Macedonia

The Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics (LIEE) of the School of Chemical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens invites you to the Validation Workshop of the research project: "Leveraging Global Value Chains for Innovation and Competitiveness: The Case of Greece (GRinGVCs)" (Scientific coordinator: Emilia Protogerou, Associate Professor, NTUA). The project was funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (ELIDEK). The Workshop will take place on Tuesday, November 11, 2025, at 16:00 in the "Koumoutsou" Hall of the School of Chemical Engineering of the NTUA, Zografou Campus (Level 3, Wing H).

As part of the activities of the PromethEUs network, the Elcano Royal Institute organized a workshop in Madrid on Wednesday, October 22, 2025, entitled “Making the EU’s 2028–2034 Multiannual Financial Framework Work for Southern Europe.”

The Open Up Future Sales Program is a dynamic 18-month program that offers a multi-level and enriched experience in the Sales department, exceeding the usual expectations of a graduate trainee

The "Researcher's Night," organized for the twelfth consecutive year by the National Technical University of Athens, was successfully completed on Friday, September 26, 2025, with broad public participation.For the first time, the event was organized and held at the facilities of National Technical University of Athens in Zografou, with the aim of attracting even more citizens and young people in order to highlight the innovative efforts of researchers from all institutions in Attica and to involve them in research projects and scientific and technological innovation.

We are delighted to announce the successful completion of the 37th Annual Conference of the EAEPE – European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy, which took place from September 24 to 26, 2025, in Athens, at the facilities of the National Center for Scientific Research "DEMOKRITOS."

20 YEARS OF THE LIEE-NTUA ERMOUPOLIS SEMINAR: AN INSTITUTION THAT STANDS THE TEST OF TIME! The Seminar has been held for one three-day period every July since 2006 as part of the Annual Seminars of Hermoupolis organised by the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (IHU/EIE) since 1984.

On 2 July 2025, the Laboratory of Industrial & Energy Economics - LIEE of NTUA successfully hosted an online workshop to present and gather feedback on the “Train-the-Trainer” programme, developed under the AI-THOS project.

On July 2, 2025, PromethEUs convened a closed event in Brussels at the European Parliament offices, bringing together policymakers, experts and stakeholders for the conference "SIMPLIFICATION FOR COMPETITIVENESS: Redefining EU legislation for a digital future."