Το παρακάτω άρθρο, που δημοσιεύθηκε από το Αθηναϊκό–Μακεδονικό Πρακτορείο Ειδήσεων (ΑΠΕ–ΜΠΕ), παρουσιάζει βασικά ευρήματα του ευρωπαϊκού έργου ONCODIR, το οποίο εξετάζει πώς οι αλλαγές στον τρόπο ζωής —ιδίως η τακτική άσκηση και η υγιεινή διατροφή— μπορούν να μειώσουν σημαντικά τον κίνδυνο εμφάνισης καρκίνου του παχέος εντέρου. Το έργο ONCODIR συντονίζει η Ομάδα M4D του Ινστιτούτου Τεχνολογιών Πληροφορικής (ΙΠΤΗΛ) του ΕΚΕΤΑ στην Ελλάδα με επιστημονικά υπεύθυνο τον Δρ. Στέφανο Βροχίδη. Καθοριστική συμμετοχή στο έργο έχει μεταξύ άλλων, ο μεταδιδακτορικός ερευνητής Θανάσης Μαυρόπουλος.

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Public-facing professionals (PFPs) form the backbone of modern democratic institutions. Yet in recent years, the erosion of democratic values has exposed journalists, judges, elected officials, and others who operate in the public eye, to growing levels of hostility and risk. The visible nature of their work makes them vulnerable to online harms, understood as behaviours in digital environments that may inflict physical, emotional, or reputational damage. With the rapid expansion of AI-driven content generation and manipulation, these threats now extend not only to PFPs themselves but also to their families, whose personal lives can be targeted, amplified, or fabricated at scale.

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) have become essential assets for situational awareness and tactical support in modern defence operations. The current generation of UAS relies heavily on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) for positioning and mission execution. However, in contested environments, adversaries try to take advantage of such vulnerability by employing electronic warfare tactics, including jamming and spoofing, to deny satellite access. Such "non-permissive environments" can render standard remotely piloted systems ineffective, limiting the operational capability of defence forces to locate targets or surveil areas of interest safely.

ECHO is a three-year EU-funded project that builds a pan-European, multi-level Resilience Ecosystem to help cities and regions anticipate, withstand, and recover from complex, interconnected threats. It focuses on safeguarding both legally defined critical infrastructures and often-overlooked essential service providers that keep urban and peri-urban communities functioning. The project brings together critical infrastructure operators, emergency and essential service providers, and local and regional authorities to move from fragmented, top-down, and asset-centric approaches toward inclusive, integrated, and service-focused resilience management.

VOLABIOS aims to transform the early detection and clinical management of schizophrenia (SZ) by leveraging innovative and real-time spectrograph technology to certify that volatile organic compounds (VOCs) can be utilized as non-invasive and cost-effective biomarkers for the early detection of the disease. Underscoring the urgent need for accurate, accessible diagnostic tools, VOLABIOS will conduct large-scale prospective clinical studies involving 3,692 participants across six European centres and a blind validation cohort of 1,000 subjects.

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I. Sasilioglou, C. Maga-Nteve, T. Mavropoulos, S. Vrochidis, “Enhancing colorectal cancer prevention in Europe: Country-level data fusion and subgroup analysis for evidence-based policy making”, in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (ICCBB 2025), Tokyo, Japan, December 21–23, 2025, pp. 1–6, doi: 10.1145/3789938.3789971.