The person that handles the Northeastern-Greece Initiative on behalf of Northeastern University Professor Graham Jones visited Greece last week during the Innovation week activities at PSP. He had the opportunity to visit Greek Universities in both Athens and in Patras, Research Institutes and private Corporations. During these visits, he was exposed to the capabilities of Greek knowledge producing Institutions and had meetings with senior members of the Administration in these institutions, such as with Prof. S. Koumpias, the Rector of the University in Patras and with the Vice Rector Prof. D. Asimakopoulos from the University of Athens.

ADVENT TECHNOLOGIES S.A. is engaged in research, development and commercialization of new materials and systems for renewable energy sources such as fuel cells and photovoltaic systems. The major effort of the Company focuses on a high temperature PEM fuel cell system based on its proprietary technology. The Company, founded by
researchers from the Foundation for Research & Technology-Hellas (FORTH-ICEHT) and the University of Patras in February 2005, is a spin-off operation from these two academic institutions and is funded by industrial partners (Germanos – Sunlight S.A., Velti S.A, ILPRA S.A.), private investors, and the Greek Ministry of Development under the PRAXE B program for matching capital. Advent Technologies is headquartered in Athens, Greece and occupies research, development and manufacturing space in the Patras Science Park (PSP) and in its US location in Boston