How can a small island in Greece contribute to the global effort to tackle climate change? Learn more from SNF Program Officer Aristi Stathakopoulou about the Athens Observatory's PANGEA project on Antikythera, and its significant impact on research about climate change and its implications.
"In the passage between mainland Greece and Crete, where the Aegean Sea meets the Ionian, lies Antikythera, a small island with very few inhabitants.
Barren, but possessed of astonishing natural beauty, Antikythera is known for the famous Antikythera Mechanism, “the oldest computer in the world,” discovered in 1900 in a shipwreck off the island that continues to captivate scientists to this day..."
Read more: https://www.snf.org/en/newsroom/news/2020/09/how-a-tiny-greek-island-aspires-to-become-a-pioneer-in-global-climate-change-research/?fbclid=IwAR2-iZGXa_DEVDYx6OqzgONYh6GwwQWZVESGLzwy_7ohxQqHMltWqWyAcKg