A little bit about becoming an academic in chemical engineering and wondering what would be the steps or the environment that would allow especially engineers, scientists and future entrepreneurs to pinpoint their uniqueness and individual talent and potential?

Please, leave your comments or message your feedback to Twitter @greek_global, Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/globalgreekinfluence/

or

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/panagiota-pimenidou-logos-ethos-pathos-19759318/

Music: "Epic success story" by Mario Lucian Andreano

              "Fortitude" by Lance Conrad

Source: Storyblocks

In this episode, my guest is Dr Christos Dimas, the deputy minister of Development and Investments, in charge of Research, Innovation and Technology.

Christos talks about developing an effective innovation-ecosystem and a long-term development strategy in linking development and investment with research. Pre-requisites are (i) the improvement of the regulatory and business environment and (ii) a reform of the Greek R&D system, which the current government addresses but has not been done as intensively in the past, through:

Music: "Fortitude" by Lance Conrad

Source: Storyblocks

In the second part of the episode “Geopolitics at the Eastern Mediterranean” recorded on the 27th of July 2020, Kleanthis Kyriakidis (AUE- American University of Emirates) talks about #Turkey and #Russia mixing #politics with #religion, the #delimitation of #maritime boundaries between #Greece and Turkey, the #EU and its lack of support to its member states, #Greece and #Cyprus based on #Turkey ’s provocations, #illegitimate and #unlawful actions, the role of the new government and that of France in the Geopolitics at the Eastern Mediterranean.

Music: "Reel" by Adrian Berenguer

Source: Storyblocks

I met again Kleanthis Kyriakidis, Associate Professor at the American University of Emirates #AUE, Department Chair of the BA in #Security and #Strategic Studies and recorded this episode on 27- July-2020, before the #EEZ #agreement between #Egypt and #Greece. In the first part of the episode, we talk about #Turkey ’s #revisionism at the Eastern Mediterranean, the #arabworld and the role of #Qatar, Greece and Egypt relations, #Putin and #Erdogan in #Syria and #Libya. Next Sunday, on 23-August-2020, in the second part of the episode, we talk about the #EU and its lack of support to its member states, #Greece and #Cyprus based on #Turkey ’s provocations, #illegitimate and #unlawful actions.

Music: "Reel" by Adrian Berenguer

Source: Storyblocks

Professor Greg Stephanopoulos, the Willard Henry Dow Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology in the School of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), talks about:

· biotechnology and metabolic engineering;

· sustainability and the chemical industry;

· what chemical engineers bring to biotechnology and metabolic engineering;

· weblabs in chemical engineering programmes;

· the role models and mentors;

· how academic Institutions can power economic growth;

· the academia as a stakeholder in entrepreneurship;

· sustaining personal and professional excellence and high standards;

· lessons for making Greece a technological hub.

Themistoklis Zanidis, a retired officer of the Hellenic Navy, author at hellenicdailynewsny.com, a news blog for the Hellenic Diaspora in US, Canada, and the World, now a research intern at the Institute of International Relations in Greece, studied Cultural Studies (of Hellenic Civilization) and soon to start Masters on Global Policies and UN at Rutgers University in the US, is our episode's guest.

We talk about:

the importance of culture and history in diplomacy,

the selling and Achilles heel points of the Chinese strategic culture,

the pitfalls for the African and the Middle-East countries relations with China,

the introvert EU,

the new block of China, Russia, and Turkey

and

the transition of the UN in its global role.

How Pablo Picasso and George Braque, who revolutionised modernism by developing cubism can inform collaboration in international business? Is an entrepreneur born or made? What is the key to women entrepreneurship? How risky is innovation considered for international businesses?

Professor Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki is an extrovert, internationally oriented individual, a citizen of the world who absorbs the positive aspects picking up at different locales and a visual person researching the synergy between arts and international business. She is Chair of International Business at the University of Vienna, in Austria and Visiting Professor at Leeds University Business School, in the UK.

A monologue on CO2 emissions, transportation, the oil industry, the biofuel industry, governments, the UN, the EU, the academia, research and innovation and the lack of groundbreaking technologies.

Vivian Chiona is a psychologist specialised in Child and Adolescent Psychology and Health Psychology. Vivian is the founder and CEO of the expatnest.com. We talk about:

- why it is important to have someone who trusts you and lifts you up;

- the importance of acknowledging our achievements and be equally happy for those of others;

- the significance of being appreciated professionally;

- that our time is short and precious to be wasted in a toxic work environment or a relationship;

- the steps to identify the main characteristics of the right partner (https://www.expatnest.com/love-and-the-right-match-for-you/);

- women challenges based on misconceptions by others or within themselves.

Dr Kyriaki Sonidou is a doctor specialised in Cardiology and a graduate of Law, co-founder and President of the Pontian Society of the United Kingdom, President of the Hellenic Medical Society of the UK, Goodwill Ambassador and Head of Health Diplomacy in the UK of the Hellenic Institute of Cultural Diplomacy. Dr Sonidou talks about COVID-19, the obstacles to overcome for the internationalisation of the Pontian Genocide, why women still face challenges professionally, how success comes by following the flow and if one kicks you down is a push forward.