The Hellenic Industrial Property Organisation (OBI), the Innovation Agency and the Hellenic Industrial Property Academy (HIPA), addressing the scientific community of the Region of Western Macedonia, are co-organising with the University of Western Macedonia a Workshop on: “Industrial Property & the Role of the Hellenic Industrial Property Academy (HIPA) in the Ecosystem”, on Tuesday, 2 December 2025.
This scientific event is aimed at students at the Polytechnic Schools of the University of Western Macedonia, who seek to develop their skills in the business sector and to acquire tools that will support them in creating and promoting business proposals, with the ultimate goal of encouraging innovation and enhancing their academic journey and professional development.
The workshop is implemented within the framework of the “Universities of Excellence” Programme – Project “Upgrade of Research and Educational Infrastructures – Development of the Innovation / Entrepreneurship Centre of the University of Western Macedonia” and will take place in the Small Amphitheatre at the University Campus in Koila, from 13:00 to 16:15.
Workshop Programme
13:00 – 13:30: Arrival – Registration
13:30 – 13:40: Workshop Introduction by Coordinator, Georgios Topalidis, Responsible for OBI’s Regional Office in Kozani.
13:40 – 14:00: Presentation of the Hellenic Industrial Property Organisation – Innovation Agency
Uioulli Papapostolou, Director of Technological Information & Head of the Innovation Agency
14:00 – 14:45: Hellenic Industrial Property Academy (HIPA)
Anastasios Thomopoulos, Executive Director, HIPA
14:45 – 15:30: Industrial Property Rights – Procedures – Tools Ioannis Stasinopoulos, Head of Quality & Innovation Promotion at OBI
15:30 – 15:45: Questions
15:45 – 16:00: Presentation of the “Universities of Excellence” Programme – Action “Upgrade of Research and Educational Infrastructures – Development of the Innovation / Entrepreneurship Centre of the University of Macedonia”, Entrepreneurship Development Actions of UoWM
Electra Andaraki, Representative of the “Excellence” Programme
16:00 – 16:15: Questions
