With great success, the soiree of introduction and information on Graphic Arts, Printing and Packaging entitled "This is a Printing House!" was held. The event took place on Thursday, June 18 at the Public Tobacco Factory - in the premises of the Printing House of the Hellenic Parliament.

The event was organized by the Center for Research, Development and Education of Packaging, Printing and Graphic Communication PackPrint Science, in collaboration with the Research Laboratory of Graphic Arts and Visual Communication Technology GRAPHMEDLAB of the University of West Attica, with the support of the Directorate of Publications and Printing of the Hellenic Parliament.

The event was rightly characterized as unique and innovative since people from different sectors found themselves under one roof. Executives from the printing and packaging industry and production, entrepreneurs and researchers, scientific and professional bodies, municipalities and chambers as well as the "public printing units" were "present", with an unprecedented participation!

After a long joint effort and with an impressive participation of the public, SYSKEVASIA 2024 saw the introduction of a new body for Research, Development and Education in Packaging, Printing and Graphic Communication.

On Saturday 2 November 2024, ELSET, HELGRAMED, FESPA and GRAPHMEDLAB began their common journey under PackPrint Science.

The Presidents of ELSET (Denise Haitoglou), HELGRAMED (G. Gamprellis), FESPA HELLAS (K. Papathanasopoulos) and the Director of UNIWA’s GRAPHMEDLAB (M. Tsigonias), welcomed the initiative, declared their full support and called on bodies, businesses and all people in these industries to back this effort.

The presentation was made by one of the main contributors to this effort, Dr Anastasios Politis, President of the International Circle of Educational Institutes of Graphic-Media Technology and Management, who mentioned the difficulty in finding specialized personnel and the lack of education, training and formation programmes in printing and packaging.

This year’s SYSKEVASIA 2024 was once again full of interesting and innovative presentations and talks.

People who visited METROPOLITAN exhibition centre heard and saw forward-looking ideas and products.

As always, ELSET was present with its own booth—offered for free by the organisers, for which the Administrative Council thanks them.

The 450+ visitors of our booth learned about our work and took our recycled paper bag that contained our new leaflet with company details of our members, sample labels and advertising leaflets of members who had provided them.