The graduate students of ECE Konstantinos Makris, Ioannis Skevakis, Valia kalokyri were awardwed the Best Student Paper Award in the 7th Metadata Semantics and Research Conference (MTSR) 2013 19-22 November, Thessaloniki, for the publication Federating Natural History Museums in Natural Europe by Makris K., Skevakis G., Kalokyri V., Arapi P., Christodoulakis S., Stoitsis J., Manolis N., Rojas S. The conference presentation of the paper was done by Konstantinos Makris.