On Thursday 14 April 2011, Dr. Diomidis Michalopoulos gave a lecture entitled ‘‘Cooperation in Mobile Communications and Research’’ at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. The lecture was held under the auspices of the IEEE Student Branch of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the IEEE Communications Society Greece Chapter and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, Aerospace & Electronic Society Joint Greece Chapter and took place at the Faculty of Engineering of A.U.Th. The lecture presented the main idea and the basic operational principles of the revolutionary technology of cooperative telecommunications systems and discussed the advantages of cooperation in the field of scientific research.