[3] In 1988, the General Secretariat of Research and Technology (secretary Prof. Eleftherios Economou at the University of Crete) assigned a new management for Programme Ariadne to be Prof. Costantine Halatsis, Institute director at the "Demokritos".
All facilities (equipment, communication lines, offices) were relocated to the campus of Demokritos (Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications[4]) at Agia Paraskevi, Attica from downtown Athens.
In 1990 Ariadne with the encouragement and support of Tony Bates, the approval of Peter Kirstein and James Hutton of the UK NREN JANET[5] acquired internet NSFNET connectivity via a 64 kbit/s X.25 from IXI-COSINE,[6] this took place before the EuropaNET IP service was established.
[7] In 1991 Ariadne participated in CHEOPS[8] an advanced network experiment (8 Mbit/s) with CERN via Olympus satellite and an SRI International report requested a contributing text.
[clarification needed] The project registered in DNS as "EPMHS dot GR", the pattern "MHS" signifying the main application being messaging and gateways based on RFC 987 that required both technologies OSI and IP.