During the last week of September 2025, the summer school “SuProRec’ 25: Advanced Technologies for the Surveillance, Protection, and Restoration of Critical and Strategic Infrastructure” was organized under the auspices of the Institute of Natural Hazards Engineering at the University Research and Innovation Center of the Ionian University in Lixouri.
The Deputy Regional Governor of Kefalonia, Mr. Sotiris Kouris, and the Municipal Councilor for Education of the Municipality of Lixouri, Mr. Konstantinos Lazaratos, delivered opening remarks at the summer school.
The summer school was honored by lectures from distinguished professors from universities and research centers across Greece. Notably, Dr. Efthymios Lekkas (Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Dr. Nikos Voulgaris (Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Dr. Vasileios Karastathis (Director of the Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens), Dr. George Drakatos (Emeritus Researcher at the Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens), Dr. N. G. Bardis (Professor at the Hellenic Military Academy), Dr. D. Mouzakis (Professor at the Hellenic Army Academy), Dr. D. Sakellariou (Director of Research in Structural/Marine Geology and Marine Geoarchaeology, Institute of Oceanography, ELKETHE), Dr. C. Tsamparis (Researcher, Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Center for Marine Research), and the professors of the Ionian University K. Kermanidou, N. Korfiatis, the associate professors I. Karydis, D. Katerelos, and A. Sgora; Associate Professors A. Vrachatis, I. Polenakis, N. Aravantinos-Zafeiris, and M. Anagnostou; as well as postdoctoral researcher S. Karagiannis.
In addition to the lectures, each day concluded with practical demonstrations of natural hazard monitoring equipment, and students had the opportunity to see field-deployed equipment, drones, and seismographs.
