The project aims to fight the unemployment among young scientists through further development of their research potential. This will create new opportunities for young researchers, thus, aiming at reducing or even reversing the so-called brain drain or, even better, at promoting brain circulation. The implementation of the project ARCHERS aims to support young doctoral students as well as post-doctoral researchers in the early stages of their career through training in the cutting-edge technologies in which the Institutes of FORTH excel both nationally and internationally. More specifically, the areas of interest in this project are the preservation of cultural heritage and the tackling of societal challenges such as environment, clean energy and health, i.e., interdisciplinary research fields within the high-quality competitive research activities of FORTH.

Young postdoctoral researchers (for 72 person-years) and young Ph.D. students (for 72 person-years) will receive Stavros Niarchos Foundation – FORTH Fellowships following open calls in the respective scientific fields. An International Conference at the end of the project will demonstrate the results achieved through the project highlighting the contribution of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

• INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER [2]
• INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY [3]
• INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE [4]
• INSTITUTE OF APPLIED & COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS [5]
• INSTITUTE FOR MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES [6]
• INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES [7]