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Innovation Stories | Innovation in the agrοfood sector by the Mediterranean Agrofood Competence Center (MACC)

Mediterranean Agrofood Competence Center (MACC) is an organisation that gathers 48 partners from various sectors of the Greek economy, including academia, industry, public authorities and society. All MACC partners are directly or indirectly related to the agri-food sector, with expertise in areas such as primary sector, food production and distribution, procurement, plastics, IoT systems and sensors. The aim of the organisation is to support agri-food businesses by providing them with a range of services such as technology transfer, support for

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Innovation stories | ORamaVR : Accelerating the global transition to medical education through virtual reality

ORamaVR is accelerating the worldwide transition to virtual reality medical education by offering a software platform, the MAGES™ SDK (Software Development Kit). This platform organizations and developers to massively create high-fidelity, high-fidelity medical virtual reality simulations 8 times faster and at one-eighth the cost of current industry models. These state-of-the-art simulations are available to hospitals, medical device companies, medical schools and medical training centers for training and evaluation of their physicians. The outstanding benefits of this award-winning platform have been

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Innovation Stories | Code BGP: Contributing to a safer internet

Code BGP, a spin-off of the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), was founded in 2021 with the main objective of providing SaaS solutions in relation to automation, visibility and security on the Internet. Code BGP’s approach offers a network administrator a practical way to detect and counter, in real-time, malicious attacks and works complementary to RPKI – a service that provides security for Internet routing. Combined, the two approaches can provide more comprehensive

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Oxygen Pelatologio: A unified cloud platform for business organization and e-invoicing

Oxygen allows entrepreneurs to create their company’s “source of truth”. The innovation is about Oxygen’s services, through which entrepreneurs can efficiently manage their daily operations, their business, physical stores, eshop, their team and charge cards through a Payment Link in as little as 1 minute, using only one platform. The Oxygen platform is one of the first 5 Licensed Electronic Invoicing Providers by AADE for compliance with myData requirements and is ISO 27001:2013 certified for the management and transfer of

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Cisco acquires Code BGP, FORTH’s technology incubator.

Excellent news for Code BGP, FORTH’s technology incubator, which is located at the STEP-C and was acquired by Cisco. According to the issued announcement, CodeBGP’s technology will be integrated into Cisco’s ThousandEyes web analytics software in order to expand its services and create a better and safer Internet. Code BGP was launched two years ago to help automate the processes that network administrators perform on BGP every day to increase control over their networks and achieve lower operating costs and

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Participation of STEP-C in the 8th EUSAIR POPRI youth in Bosnia-Herzegovina

On 24 and 25 May 2023 the action “EUSAIR POPRI youth-EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region – EUSAIR” was organised in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, through which groups of students were given the opportunity to take part in a European entrepreneurship competition by presenting their ideas. The participating countries were Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, San Marino, Serbia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia, and together with the Greek participation, they presented their ideas to the

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Virtual Webinar 2nd May 2023: How to secure distributed IoT apps | Sunlight.io

2nd May 2023, Virtual10.00-10.40 EST | 15.00-15.40 BST | 16.00-16.40 CET The integration of AI Edgelabs’s edge security solutions with Sunlight’s edge infrastructure platform offers a scalable, secure, and efficient solution for organizations looking to harness the benefits of edge computing. The demo webinar will seek to answer the questions: What are the risks that pose the highest threat for the organizations operating at the edge? How can AI-powered cybersecurity coupled with a robust and highly available edge infrastructure address these?

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Sunlight.io expands in Europe’s tech hub of Crete, invests in female talent

Sunlight.io is increasing investment in Crete, Europe’s ‘Silicon Island’, with plans to grow the Heraklion-based team by 20% by the end of the first half of 2023. This total already includes a doubling of female talent, according to the company. Dr. George Papamichail, the director of STEP-C, welcomes Sunlight.io’s partnership: “The Science and Technology Park of Crete promotes an ideal environment in which research and business initiatives are jointly designed and undertaken to boost innovation and support startup entrepreneurship. We are delighted

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Sunlight.io ups investment in Europe’s Silicon Island of Crete

Heraklion, Crete (April 12th, 2023) — Sunlight.io, the thinnest, fastest HyperConverged Infrastructure platform built for applications that run at the edge, today announced it is increasing investment in Europe’s Silicon Island of Crete. By the end of the first half of 2023, the Heraklion-based team will have grown by 20%, which already includes a doubling of its female talent. The Greek Island of Crete has been nicknamed Silicon Island because of its fast-growing tech community, research and innovation. Sunlight attributes

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