This year, we celebrated 40 years of the Groupe International de Recherche sur l’Infenitésimal (GIRI). GIRI was born during the Entretiens Internationaux de Monaco as a result of an initiative of Professor Madeleine Bastide. It was officially founded in 1986 as a non-profit scientific society registered in France under the "Association 1901" law. Since then, annual meetings have been held on a rotating basis. Beginning in 2022, these meetings adopted a hybrid format, which has significantly increased the participation by aspiring members and students, as travel costs are no longer a barrier to engagement.
In 2025, HRI and HDScience co-hosted the XXXVIII GIRI meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece - a location of symbolic significance, as it marked 40 years of GIRI in the land of Hippocrates. This meeting served as a satellite event to the 2025 HRI Conference, a major international forum dedicated to the dissemination of cutting-edge scientific results in high dilutions and homeopathy.
More than a commemorative event, the XXVIII GIRI meeting represented a convergence of past and future – an opportunity to deepen discussions on the results of basic research, both in physical-chemical and biological domains, and to build bridges with findings from clinical studies. Above all, it provided a scientific environment to honor Hahnemann’s legacy by bringing contemporary relevance to studies related to his original discoveries.
