After four years of planning and preparation the time has come to inaugurate the research station NEO ? Navarino Environmental Observatory. Ministers, ambassadors and other dignitaries were in attendance at the ceremonial events on the 27th of October 2012.
The solemn inauguration of the research station NEO was attended by H?kan Malmqvist, Ambassador in Greece, Temes CEO Constantakopoulos Achilles, the Greek Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni, K?re Bremer, President of Stockholm University and Barbara Cannon, president of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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Research workshops, panel discussions, lectures, networking opportunities, traditional music and other festivities were among the many activities planned when Stockholm University, Academy of Athens ? founded by Plato ? and the eco-luxury resort developer TEMES inaugurated the research station NEO in Messenia over the weekend.
- We are active in many regions, from the Arctic to the Tropics, and NEO will be an important facility for us to increase our activities in the Mediterranean region, said K?re Bremer, president of Stockholm University.
Stockholm University is known for having a strong tradition of both research and education within environmental disciplines and the NEO partnership will now bolster this even further.
A great many prominent persons from both public and private sector commended the research partnership, among them Greece?s Minister of Tourism, Olga Kefalogianni:
- NEO?s contribution to global efforts, its actions and results, can certainly become a link in the large chain of cooperations that enhance our country.
The newly erected research station is located in Messenia, with close proximity to the TEMES eco-luxury resort Costa Navarino, in South-western Greece. The strategic partnership between TEMES, Academy of Athens and Stockholm University now has its cornerstone, solidifying this already robust alliance.
- This is a very rare cooperation between science and private enterprise, and I think that it already is a success in and of itself and also that it hopefully will be a role model for others in the future, commented Stefan Claesson, vice president of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, one of the key speakers during the inauguration.
In the years prior to the station?s inauguration, numerous research projects through the NEO partnership have resulted in several published scientific articles and many field-study initiatives with both research and education in focus, all of conducted on-site in Messenia. Now research and educational initiatives ? covering air, water and land change ? can expand and deepen throughout the region, leading to increased learning regionally, nationally and internationally about the challenges we face through environmental and climate change.
- The inauguration of the NEO-station shows that the changes in the environment may not always be considered as disasters, they sometimes bring new possibilities, new opportunities to grasp development in a different way, and I can see that in the creation of the NEO-station, said Barbara Cannon, president of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Last updated: October 31, 2012
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