COSMOS BUSINESS SYSTEMS S.A.

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CBS Group is one of the largest IT and Telecommunications technology groups in Greece and Cyprus. The group consists of Cosmos Business Systems S.A.E., Cosmos Consulting S.A.E. (a consulting and software development company) and CBS IT Systems (Cyprus) LTD, headquartered in Nicosia, Cyprus. The group has offices in Athens, Thessaloniki and Nicosia, Cyprus. The parent company was founded in 1988.

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HELLENIC CENTRE FOR MARINE RESEARCH (HCMR)

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The Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR) is a state research organization operating under the supervision of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT) of the Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs. HCMR consists of three research institutes: the Institute of Marine Biology, the Institute of Biotechnology and Aquaculture, the Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters and the Institute of Oceanography.

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"ATHENA" RESEARCH CENTER

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The EK “Athena” is the only Research Center in the country with an exclusive orientation to the technologies and applications of Informatics. It conducts high-quality Research, develops Technologies and contributes to the production of Innovation in the fields of Informatics, Communications and Computer Sciences. The physical presence covers a wide geographical area, having its headquarters in Athens, with Institutes, Units and corresponding infrastructures in Athens, Patras and Xanthi.

A wide range of fields defines its scope of action:

• large networks and databases,
• embedded systems,
• data/information/language/knowledge processing,
• automation & robotics,
• artificial intelligence,
• processing, documentation and curation of digital content from all areas of human activity

Interdisciplinary Research
The EC “Athena” invests in interdisciplinarity, as it also deals with problems arising from other sciences, such as Linguistics, Archaeology, Medicine, Biology, Environment and Space, but also from social challenges, such as climate change, sustainable development, social exclusion, universal access to information, etc.

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UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS RESEARCH CENTER

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The University of Piraeus Research Center (UPRC), within the framework of the institutional framework that governs its operation, has set as its vision to become a modern and internationally renowned research center that will contribute to the emergence and recognition of the University of Piraeus as one of the leading in Europe.

This specific project is implemented by the Data Science Lab. of the University of Piraeus (Data Science Lab. – DataStories). The lab is active in research in a number of fields of Data Science, such as big data management, statistics and data analytics, machine learning, knowledge mining from databases, texts and sounds, traffic data exploration and data privacy.

The laboratory has a significant experience in European research projects, most recently H2020-ICT Track&Know (Big Data for Mobility Tracking Knowledge Extraction in Urban Areas, 2018-20), H2020-MSCA-RISE MASTER (Multiple Aspects Trajectory Management and Analysis, 2018-22), H2020-ICT DATACRON (Big Data Analytics for Time Critical Mobility Forecasting, 2016-18).

In its current composition, the laboratory includes the research activities of 9 faculty members (4 different Departments) of the University of Piraeus and supports several experienced and young researchers. More information about the Data Science Laboratory is available at http://www.datastories.org.

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