
The Mediterranean diet emphasizes:
The diet also recognizes the importance of being physically active, and enjoying meals with family and friends.
"First of all the doctor should look at the patient’s face. If he looks his usual self this is a good sign. If not, however, the following are bad signs – sharp nose, hollow eyes, cold ears, dry skin on the forehead, strange face colour such as green, black, red or lead coloured. If the face is like this at the beginning of the illness, the doctor must ask the patient if he has lost sleep, or had diarrhoea, or not eaten."
From "On forecasting diseases".

The celebrated Tree of Hippocrates has a new life on the National Institutes of Health campus and a new place in 21st century science.
A Tree of Hippocrates clone was planted in front of the National Library of Medicine on April 25, 2014. And the first gene sequence of the tree, which can be used for scientific research, was unveiled during the dedication ceremony.

According to legend Hippocrates, regarded the father of modern medicine, taught students under a tree on the Greek island of Cos. When the library was dedicated in 1961, the Greek ambassador presented NLM with a cutting from a descendant of the Cos tree. The tree was planted the following spring. In the 1980s, NIH landscape architect Lynn Mueller detected signs of deterioration from weather and a fungal disease. He spent decades trying to restore the tree’s health while also exploring the possibility of a clone. He eventually connected with the Champion Tree Project, now the Archangel Ancient Tree Archive. Using cuttings from the gift tree, Archangel produced the clone that was planted. It replaces the gift tree which never recovered and was removed last year.
"The National Library of Medicine and this tree grew up together," said NLM Director Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD. "My thanks go to the NIH and the people who looked after this tree and anticipated the need for cloning."
TRAINING 2000 is a VET (Vocational Education and Training) centre, certified in the Marche Region-Italy, with experience in vocational training and continuous education with emphasis on socially and economically disadvantaged groups.
At EU level, since 1994, Training 2000 is involved in research and development of new tools and methodologies in education, distance learning as well as pedagogical aspects of teaching and learning in adult’s education. This Institute has been participating in several international projects with partners from all European countries in areas related to environment and sustainability, project management, teacher’s training, ICT and social media in education, LLP and continuous education for adults and disadvantaged groups.
Training 2000 is continuously promoting adult training in the region, for apprenticeship, employed, unemployed, social-economic disadvantaged groups, and immigrants. At national level, cooperates with Associations of Industries and SMEs, Universities, training providers, Associations, Public offices of the Ministry of Education and Labour.
The University of Évora is organized in 5 organic units: Schools of Arts, Sciences and Technology, Social Sciences, Nursing and a Doctoral School - the Institute of Advanced Studies and Research (IIFA). The university offers 33 undergraduate and 41 postgraduate degrees.
Research and Development (R&D) covers several scientific areas through a network of 14 Research Units, all of them submitted to international evaluation and under the overall coordination of IIFA. The Center for Advanced Studies in Management and Economics of the Universidade de Évora (CEFAGE-UE), founded in 2006 in its application achieved the highest FCT grade: "Excellent". Research activities are managed on a multi-disciplinary and inter-departmental basis and on specific programmes and projects, in order to take advantage of the synergies and articulations between different areas.
Main R&D areas are: Agronomy and Biodiversity; Geophysics, Environment and Landscaping; Materials and Surface Science; Economics and Business Studies; Computer Sciences and Software Interoperability;
Social and Political Sciences, History, History of Art, Science and Cultures; Applied Mathematics; Education; Linguistics and Literature; Elderly Healthcare.
Most of the 250 running R&D projects are developed through national and international partnerships, and are funded by the 7th Framework Program, the European Social Fund, the National Science Foundation and by private sponsorship. Furthermore, the University established two Endowed Chairs in areas of excellence: Biodiversity and Renewable Energies, which are sponsored by the private sector.
British Hellenic College was founded in 1989 and offers British higher education to students in Greece. Today it offers 7 undergraduate and 2 postgraduate courses, in cooperation with the University of Glyndwr.
BHC has participated in many international programmes, in the fields of teaching Modern Greek as foreign language (through the Hellenic Language School “Alexander the Great”) and Organic Agriculture and Agricultural Tourism (through its affiliated Company European Educational and Development Association).
Since 1989, BHC has created a modern educational institution, with laboratories, up to date library and Curricula and –most importantly – an excellent educational system and a dynamic group of teachers and staff.
Recently BHC decided to offer this experience not only to its students, but to all the adults that wish to improve their educational or professional level.
This is why it founded the Adult Vocational Centre which is prepared to offer high quality education and training, within a modern environment to anyone who wishes to learn, on the following fields: Psychology, Management, Quality, Modern Concerns, Applied Arts, Computing, Economy, Education, Architecture, Languages, Modern Greek and Modern Agriculture.
In particular, the department of Modern Agriculture has already organized three circles of seminars on organic agriculture, agricultural tourism and herbs, that all had a wide participation.BHC wishes to broaden this department, as it is considered to be one of the most dynamic and future oriented of its activities.
POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF MADRID
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM), is recognized one of the best among all Polytechnic Universities in Europe. Its High School of Agriculture develops and carries out professional training in education, tuition, research on agriculture and wide participation on European programmes."
The UPM celebrated its 25th anniversary in 1996, although the majority of its High Schools are over hundreds of years old, and they were founded in the 18th and 19th centuries. Each of them maintained its independence until being grouped together forming the actual UPM.
The Agriculture High School was founded in 1845 at Aranjuez, close to Madrid. Around two thousand students are in this School. Within this High School the Department of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences of UPM offers contemporary university programmes in areas of agriculture and economy, such as agro-economics, management, modern agricultural production and marketing, etc, as well as research and survey.
It participates in many national, European and Transnational programmes (TEMPUS, LEONARDO, SOCRATES, ATHENS, etc).
The UPM collaborates with the rural extension services. They are oriented mainly to the training and education of adult people in the countryside. They provide knowledge and skills for women to have better development of their work in the rural areas.
The important aspects of food technology and organic production and nutrition, will provide a better health for rural population, visitors from rural tourism and a much more economical and practical use of the food obtained in the agricultural areas.
AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY – PLOVDIV (Coordinator)
Ever since its establishment in 1945, the Agricultural University – Plovdiv has been spreading knowledge, treasuring and enriching the traditions of Bulgarian agriculture. It has strengthened its positions as a national centre of agricultural science and education in Bulgaria. The alumni of the Agricultural University – Plovdiv amount to over 22 000 agriculturists, engineers, ecologists and economists, more than 1900 of them being foreign citizens. The Agricultural University offers high quality European training for the Bachelor, Master and PhD degrees.
The mission:
•To provide high quality student-centered education guaranteeing competitiveness on the Bulgarian, the European and the world labour market;
•To achieve research results ensuring their rapid introduction into practice;
•To bring up citizens committed to civic virtues, capable of making policies and strategies in the agricultural sector;
•To preserve the traditional love of Bulgarian people to land and its richness, their desire for knowledge and the values of Bulgarian agricultural education and science;
•The Agricultural University should earn the social acknowledgement as a leading institution in the area of agricultural business, science and education.