On the occasion of the organization of the 16th International Conference on Aegean Prehistory "HESPEROS: The Aegean seen from the West", and of the 30th anniversary of organizing the Aegaeum conferences, the University of Ioannina wishes to pay a special tribute to the initiator, organizer and scientific editor of the Rencontres égéennes internationales, M. Robert Laffineur, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Liège.

This honorary event will be held on Wednesday, May 18th 2016, at 19.15, in the auditorium of the "Karolos Papoulias" Conference Center after the completion of the works of the first day of the HESPEROS conference.

It is with great joy and honor that we welcome M. Robert Laffineur to the University of Ioannina and we call on the members of the academic community, the researchers, the students and our colleagues to honour with us a valuable friend of Greece and a consistent scientist, who has accomplished an academic and a publishing feat.