Invited expert in the workshop organized by STOA for the European Parliament and chaired by MEP “Learning to Live in the Information Society as an Older Person” (23/3/1998) Co-chairman of a session in the 3rd TIDE Congress, held in Helsinki on June 1998.

Invited expert in the workshop organized by DG V in support of the High Level Expert Group studying the Social and Societal effects of the Information Society (24/9/96).

Named recipient of the ITEA’96 award given for the ATKOSoft A_MedLine software suite that was designed and implemented under his leadership.

The award was given for “successful transformation of R&D results to innovative products for the marketplace”, by the European Academies of Sciences and Engineering (Euro-CASE) with the support of E.U. DG. III/ESPRIT program.