Funding

The members of the Institute of Astrophysics are able to attract competitive funding from various sources in order to support their research. We are proud to host, among our six permanent researchers, two recipients of the highly competitive ERC Consolidator grands (of the 3 that have been awarded in area of Astronomy in Greece). Since 2014 the members of the Institute have been awarded a total of 5.6 MEuros of new funding. A detailed list of all grands received over the past 15 years is listed bellow.

European Commission (FP7/H2020)

Type	Title	Start (year)	Duration (years)	PI	Amount (Euros)
MSCA RISE	Astrostat-II: Development of Novel Statistical Tools for the Analysis of Astronomical Data	2020	4	Zezas	220.800€
ERC Consolidator Grant	PASIPHAE: Polar-Area Stellar-Imaging in Polarization High-Accuracy Experiment	2018	5	Tassis	1.850.000€
MSCA Individual Fellowship	ORIGAMI: The Origin of the Galactic Magnetic Field	2017	2	Ntormousi (Tassis)	150.000€
MSCA RISE	Astrostat: Development of Novel Statistical Tools for the Analysis of Astronomical Data	2016	4	Zezas	279.000€
ERC Consolidator Grant	A-BINGOS: Accreting binary populations in Nearby Galaxies: Observations and Simulations	2014	5	Zezas	1.250.000€
MSCA Reintegration Grant	JetPop: Unveiling the Physics of the Most Active of Galaxies: Using Blazars as Laboratories to Study Supermassive Black Holes and Relativistic Jets	2012	4	Pavlidou	100.000€
MSCA Reintegration Grant	SFOnset: Onset of Star Formation: Connecting Theory and Observations	2012	4	Tassis	100.000€
MCA People IRSES	EUROCAL: The Physics of the Most Luminous Galaxies	2011	4	Charmandaris	171.000€
MCA REGPOT	AstroSpace: Development of Space Astrophysics in Crete	2008	3	Kylafis	1.120.000€
MSCA Reintegration Grant	X-ray-Gal: X-ray studies of nearby galaxies	2008	4	Zezas	100.000€
eContentplus	COSMOS: An advanced scientific repository for science teaching and learning	2007	2	Papamastorakis	148.500€
MCA Transfer of Knowledge	ASTROCENTER	2006	4	Kylafis	546.500€
eTEN Programme eLearning Action	Discovery Space	2005	2	Papamastorakis	219.500€
					6.255.300€

National Structural Funds

Type	Title	Start (year)	Duration (years)	PI	Amount (Euros)
HFRI	Cosmic rays at the highest energies	2020	3	Pavlidou	199.500€
HFRI	European Pulsar Interior Composition Survey	2020	2	Antoniadis	194.440€
IKY	Galactic SNe Remnants: Exploring an unexploited treasure	2020	2	Leonidaki (Zezas)	26.400€
Interreg Greece-Cyprus	GEOSTARS	2019	3	Zezas	410.000€
Excellence II	Search for relativistic signatures in X-ray light curves of AGN	2013	2	Papadakis	134.000€
Postdoc Support	Radio-based study of LIRGs in the GOALS sample	2012	3	Vardoulaki (Charmandaris)	160.000€
Excellence I	RoboPol: Unveiling the Physics of Supermassive Black Holes and Relativistic Jets with Optical Polarization Observations of Blazars	2012	3	Pavlidou	330.000€
Thales	The invisible side of SMBH formation and evolution	2012	3	Charmandaris	100.000€
					1.554.340€

ESA

Type	Title	Start (year)	Duration (years)	PI	Amount (Euros)
ESTEC Contract	Herschel Pipeline Support	2007	3	Charmandaris	271.000€
					271.000€

Private funds

Type	Title	Start (year)	Duration (years)	PI	Amount (Euros)
FORTH Synergy	Reconstructing the Magnetic field of the Milky way via Astrophysical Techniques and Numerical Simulations	2020	2	Pavlidou	80.000€
Stavros Niarchos Foundation	The WALOP polarimeter	2017	4	Tassis	1.300.000€
					1.380.000€