PM Tsipras visits 'Lefkippos' Attica Technology Park
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday toured the Attica Technology Park "Lefkippos" - the so-called "Greek Silicon Valley" - and other facilities at the National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos".
Accompanied by Education Minister Costas Gavroglou and Alternate Minister for Research and Innovation Costas Fotakis, with the director and president of Demokritos Giorgos Nounessis as their guide, the prime minister was given a tour of the various company laboratories on the site and talked with the scientists.
At the technology park, Tsipras visited the laboratories of the companies FASMATECH, PROTATONCE, PLINIOS and FUTUREINTELLIGENCE and afterwards the facilities of Tesla Greece, where most of the employees are Greeks that have returned from abroad and the rest are students at the National Technical University of Athens (Metsovio Polytechnic).
The prime minister will deliver a speech at the Library and afterwards he will talk with new researchers and scientists.