Within the framework of the collaboration between the Chios Mastic Producers’ Association (CMPA) and the Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics (LEI/NTUA) and collaborating Professors and researchers from NTUA, with the aim of designing and implementing interventions to improve the value chain of mastic production, processing and distribution, Professor Yiannis Kalogirou, Asst. Professor Angelos Tsakanikas, Professor Glykeria Kakali and Postdoctoral Researcher Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos, conducted an organized visit to the facilities of EMX and its subsidiary company Mediterra SA, on June 20 and 21, 2018.

The agenda of the visit included the following:

• Inaugural Working Meeting between EMX and the NTUA Team
• Discussion with Mastic Producers at the EMX offices
• Working visit to the EMX Factory
• Press interview to inform the local community about the goals of the collaboration
• Working visit to the Mediterra Factory
• Visiting the Mastic Museum
• Visit Overview (Next Steps)

We are pleased to announce the launch of the 1st Innovation Competition “NOYNOY Idea Challenge”, which is an initiative of the company FrieslandCampina Hellas and the Industrial and Energy Economics Laboratory (IEEL) of the National Technical University of Athens, in collaboration with the company Break-Even.

The “NOYNOY Idea Challenge” Competition aims to contribute to strengthening the cooperation between academia and industry and the exploitation of research results and ideas. It seeks to highlight the innovative potential of student and research teams involved in the dairy sector in Greece, with the main academic starting point – but not exclusively – the National Technical University of Athens, in thematic units that cover all links in the food industry value chain: from livestock farming methods to product placement on the shelf or e-commerce.

The ultimate goal is to highlight potentially exploitable case studies for application in the food industry, with specific and measurable results, and to reward original ideas in the dairy sector that improve efficiency in the value chain, integrate the environmental dimension into the design of products and services, assist in the effort to spread the use of new information and communication technologies, and adopt good practices and standards stemming from the circular economy. Candidates are invited to submit their proposals in the following thematic areas:

• Livestock
• Sustainability, Quality & Safety
• Production & Processes
• Product Design
• End-user Engagement Technologies

The innovation competition “NOYNOY Idea Challenge” is aimed at:
·  Young researchers, PhD candidates, PhD holders with potentially commercially exploitable research results,
·  Teams that have creative ideas and wish to transform them into sustainable production processes or products,
·  Students and recent graduates of higher education

The prizes of the competition are the following:

1.    A six-month paid internship at FrieshlandCampina Hellas,
2.    Provision of a six-month work space at the company’s facilities company FrieslandCampina Hellas,
3. Granting a cash prize of €2000 for the business maturation of the idea,
4. Personalized consulting support and guidance (Business Coaching) from the incubator EPI.noo NTUA.

More detailed information about the competition can be found on the competition website https://noynoyideachallenge.gr.

Interested parties are invited to submit their proposal to the specially designed platform (here) by Thursday, May 30, 2018.

The Invent ICT team invites you to the open event for the completion of the 1st cycle, which will take place on Thursday, March 29, 2018 at 6:00 PM at the EPI.noo hub facilities, Vlachava 6-8, Monastiraki.

On Sunday, March 18, 2018, the presentation of the Business Game of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) was successfully completed as part of the side activities of the Job Fair Athens 2018.

The Business Game of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) was an initiative of Associate Professor G. Mavrotas, who in collaboration with his scientific team built the market software and the interactive environment of the game. The Business Game takes place within the framework of the course Business Organization and Management for Engineers, which is taught at the School of Chemical Engineering of NTUA by Professor G. Kalogirou and Assistant Professor A. Tsakanikas. The coordinator of the support team (coaches) of the students who participate in the game every year is Dr. E. Siokas and the support team consists of Dr. N. Kanellos and PhD Candidates G. Siokas and P. Dimas, members of the research team of the National Technical University of Athens.

The presentation took place at the premises of the Research & Entrepreneurship Interconnection Structure EPI.noo, which is coordinated by the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Unit (IU) and the Research University Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) of the National Technical University of Athens.

During the presentation, the students were introduced to basic concepts of Business Organization and Management, and mainly the functions of a business, as well as an introduction to the business game environment, the decisions that one can make within the game and the way in which the market software that “runs” behind the game works.

This year, for the first time in the context of the side events of Job Fair Athens 2018, registered students had the opportunity to form teams and compete against each other in the game’s virtual market environment. After the end of the presentation, the students formed 10 teams of 3-4 people and are now invited to compete against each other in business within the context of a virtual computer market and in 7 decision periods until the final winner is declared.

The full text of the presentation can be found here (pdf file).

More information about the theory behind the game and the subject of Business Administration can be found in the electronic book of the National Technical University of Greece entitled “Business Organization and Management for Engineers”, which you can find in electronic form here.

For the participants:

The contact details of the responsible persons are:

Petros Dimas: petrdimas@chemeng.ntua.gr

Georgos Siokas: geosiok@chemeng.ntua.gr