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On-line Conference on Reinforcing bridges between Greek Universities and the Greek Diaspora

January 20, 2021 Business | Innovation | Education

Greek Universities are ranking high on the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2020. What does being a Greek University graduate mean in a globalized environment and, more specifically, what does that mean for a member of the Greek Diaspora? What do Greek…

FORTH, the Foundation for Research and Technology in the island of Crete

January 20, 2021 Business | Innovation | Education

The Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), founded in 1983, is a top-level research institution with worldwide reputation, based in the island of Crete. Equipped with well-organized facilities and highly qualified personnel, FORTH is…

Byzantine and Christian Virtual Museum

January 19, 2021 Culture | Society

The Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens, Greece, founded in 1914, is one of the most important Byzantine Art museums in the world, featuring over 30,000 exhibits including rare icons, mosaics, frescoes, ceramics, textiles and manuscripts spanning from…

Arts in Greece | Yannis Pappas, the sculptor of Greece’s historical figures

Jan 18, 2021 Culture | Society
DIGITAL EXHIBITION OF DISTINCTIVE WORKS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL PAINTING COMPETITION "NEAR OR FAR, WE ARE ALL ONE"

Jan 15, 2021 Culture | Society
Reading Greece: Aris Maragkopoulos on Literary Writing and Literary Critique as Two Streams Pouring into the Same River of Creation

Jan 15, 2021 Reading Greece
Early Christian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessaloniki

Jan 14, 2021 Culture | Society
The Digital Transformation “bible” of Greece (2020-2025)

Jan 13, 2021 Business | Innovation | Education
Athos Digital Heritage: Discovering the Cultural Treasures of Mt Athos in the Digital Age

Jan 12, 2021 Business | Innovation | Education
Filming Greece | Being Christos Nikou: Interview with the director of the Greek Oscar nomination

Jan 10, 2021 Filming Greece
Reading Greece: Elena Pallantza on Greek Literature in Germany and Translation as a Means to Foster Understanding Between Languages and Cultures

Jan 07, 2021 Reading Greece
“Greece 2021” | The celebrations for the 200th anniversary of the country’s Independence War

Jan 06, 2021 Culture | Society
POEM OF THE MONTH: ‘Christmas 1948’ by Miltos Sachtouris

Dec 30, 2020 Reading Greece
GNA’s most popular interviews & articles for 2020

Dec 29, 2020 Opinion | Analysis
BOOK OF THE MONTH: “Christmas Short Stories" by Alexandros Papadiamantis

Dec 24, 2020 Reading Greece
Greek and Roman origins of Christmas traditions

Dec 22, 2020 Culture | Society
Arts in Greece | Nikephoros Lytras, the Artist behind Greek Christmas’ Most Celebrated Painting

Dec 22, 2020 Culture | Society
Chestnuts: One of Greece’s Winter Delicacies

Dec 21, 2020 Culture | Society
The Economics Olympiad organized by the Secretariat General of Public Diplomacy and Greeks Abroad and KEFiM

Dec 18, 2020 Business | Innovation | Education
Filming Greece | Stavros Psillakis, the psychoanalyst engineer

Dec 18, 2020 Filming Greece
Katina Paxinou, a Greek stage legend

Dec 16, 2020 Culture | Society
Reading Greece: Dimitra Kolliakou on Writing as a Means to Explore Unknown Territory and Experiment with Language

Dec 16, 2020 Reading Greece
The Chapel of Agios Nikolaos Thon repaired to its former glory

Dec 15, 2020 Culture | Society
Professor Spyridon Vlachopoulos on the coronavirus pandemic and the impact on human rights

Dec 14, 2020 Rethinking Greece
Arts in Greece | Intl Mountain Day: Paying Tribute to Mt Olympus & Vassilis Ithakissios, the Olympian Artist

Dec 11, 2020 Culture | Society
Patras World Poetry Festival: A International Celebration of Poetry

Dec 10, 2020 Reading Greece
Patras Science Park, one of the first and leading science parks in Greece

Dec 09, 2020 Business | Innovation | Education
Reading Greece: Minos Efstathiadis on Crime Fiction as a Means to Describe the Human Condition

Dec 08, 2020 Reading Greece
Colonel Mordechai Frizis, the first Greek senior officer to die in WWII

Dec 06, 2020 Culture | Society
Filming Greece | Sonia Liza Kenterman on life and films made to measure

Dec 04, 2020 Filming Greece
Reading Greece: Nikolas Evantinos on Poetry as the Deepest Music of Language

Dec 03, 2020 Reading Greece
Arts in Greece | Sophia Laskaridou, the first woman at the Athens School of Fine Arts

Dec 01, 2020 Culture | Society
The Athens War Museum

Nov 30, 2020 Culture | Society
The fascinating world of Nanotechnology & the LTFN Lab of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Nov 30, 2020 Business | Innovation | Education
Reading Greece: Antigone Vlavianou on Comparative Analysis as a Means to Approach Literature

Nov 27, 2020 Reading Greece
23rd Olympia International Film Festival: Films you can’t afford to miss

Nov 26, 2020 Culture | Society
Operation Harling – Gorgopotamos and the Greek Resistance

Nov 24, 2020 Culture | Society
POEM OF THE MONTH: “Bolivar” by Nikos Engonopoulos

Nov 24, 2020 Reading Greece
Arts in Greece | The First Cemetery of Athens, an open-air "museum"

Nov 22, 2020 Culture | Society
The ending of the Greek Chairmanship, the first e-Chairmanship, of the Council of Europe

Nov 20, 2020 Politics | Polity
Beyond Socrates - Greek philosophers you might not know

Nov 19, 2020 Culture | Society
The 17th Thessaloniki Book Fair Goes Digital

Nov 18, 2020 Reading Greece
Athens Polytechnic Uprising 47th anniversary

Nov 17, 2020 Politics | Polity
The 3rd edition of the Athens International Children's Film Festival is here for free!

Nov 16, 2020 Culture | Society
Reading Greece: Lenia Safiropoulou on Poetry and Music as Communicating Vessels

Nov 13, 2020 Reading Greece
Filming Greece | Iris Baglanea on the Liberating Power of Trauma

Nov 12, 2020 Filming Greece
The “Smart Green Island” of Astypalea

Nov 11, 2020 Business | Innovation | Education
Greek yogurt: tradition exported

Nov 09, 2020 Business | Innovation | Education
Arts in Greece | Fotis Kontoglou, The Greatest Icon-Painter of Modern Greece

Nov 09, 2020 Culture | Society
Reading Greece: Christopher Merrill on Poetry, Translation and the Role of Cultural Diplomacy in an Increasingly Globalized World

Nov 06, 2020 Reading Greece
61st Thessaloniki International Film Festival: Cinema, No Matter What!

Nov 05, 2020 Culture | Society
Greece officially nominates strong candidate for OECD SecGen, former EU Commissioner Anna Diamantopoulou

Nov 04, 2020 Politics | Polity
Greek olive oil: the history and the future of a multifaceted product

Nov 04, 2020 Business | Innovation | Education
The Monastery of Daphni: retracing the city's Byzantine past

Nov 02, 2020 Culture | Society
Arts in Greece | The Evzones, Greece’s symbol of heroism, through the eyes of contemporary Greek artists

Nov 02, 2020 Culture | Society
Cyprus - History and Culture

Oct 29, 2020 Culture | Society
Arts in Greece | Takis: A World-Renowned Pioneer Of Kinetic Art

Oct 29, 2020 Culture | Society
Museum of the victims of Nazism in Distomo

Oct 27, 2020 Culture | Society
The Greek films of the 61st Thessaloniki International Film Festival

Oct 26, 2020 Culture | Society
BOOK OF THE MONTH: ‘Invalids and Wayfarers’ by George Theotokas

Oct 23, 2020 Reading Greece
Filming Greece | Alexis Koukias - Pantelis on Difficult Goodbyes

Oct 22, 2020 Filming Greece
HELIOS project for the integration of refugees in Greece and the EU

Oct 21, 2020 Politics | Polity
Athens Photo Festival 2020

Oct 19, 2020 Culture | Society
Arts in Greece | Art Athina 2020 Goes Virtual - Creative Athens Perseveres Through the COVID-19 pandemic

Oct 19, 2020 Culture | Society
Kerameikos, the necropolis of Athens

Oct 16, 2020 Culture | Society
Reading Greece: Eva Karaitidi on the History of Hestia Editions and the Greek Publishing Landscape

Oct 15, 2020 Reading Greece
Big technology investments to improve Greece’s innovation and digital footprint

Oct 14, 2020 Business | Innovation | Education
Filming Greece | Despina Kourti on Giving Voice to the "Ordinary People"

Oct 13, 2020 Filming Greece
Philippi: a "small Rome" in Macedonia

Oct 12, 2020 Culture | Society
Arts in Greece | A Tribute to Greek sculptor Yannoulis Chalepas on the occasion of World Mental Health Day

Oct 09, 2020 Culture | Society
Guilty verdict for Golden Dawn met with unanimous approval

Oct 08, 2020 Politics | Polity
Reading Greece: Mihalis Makropoulos on Literature as a Means to Narrate Human Adventures and Personal Quests

Oct 08, 2020 Reading Greece
Greek Shipping: An important global actor in line with the Greek maritime spirit

Oct 07, 2020 Business | Innovation | Education
The Greek language around the world! staellinika.com

Oct 06, 2020 Culture | Society
Filming Greece | LAGFF Director Aris Katopodis on Modern Greek Cinema and the adventures of Going Online

Oct 06, 2020 Filming Greece
Lesbos - An island of culture and history

Oct 04, 2020 Culture | Society
Reading Greece: Thanassis Hatzopoulos on Poetry and Psychoanalysis as Communicating Vessels

Oct 02, 2020 Reading Greece
Arts in Greece | Stephen Antonakos: The Greek-American Sculptor of Neon

Sep 30, 2020 Culture | Society
14th Los Angeles Greek Film Festival: The online edition

Sep 30, 2020 Culture | Society
Vasilis Michaelides: A Tribute to the National Poet of Cyprus

Sep 29, 2020 Reading Greece
Vravron and the cult of Artemis

Sep 27, 2020 Culture | Society
BOOK OF THE MONTH: ‘Mission Box’ by Aris Alexandrou

Sep 25, 2020 Reading Greece
Arts in Greece | Greece and Writing Codes: A Farewell to Constantin Xenakis

Sep 24, 2020 Culture | Society
The fascinating history of the island of Samos

Sep 23, 2020 Culture | Society
Hydra: a haven for international artists

Sep 22, 2020 Culture | Society
6th Athens World Poetry Festival: Poetry Against All Odds

Sep 21, 2020 Reading Greece
43rd Short Film Festival in Drama: Turning a new page

Sep 17, 2020 Culture | Society
Reading Greece: Dimitris Leontzakos on the Meeting Point between Poetry and Music

Sep 17, 2020 Reading Greece
The Acropolis and the Parthenon in Modern Greek art as symbols of national and world heritage

Sep 15, 2020 Arts in Greece
The nameless island of Ioannina

Sep 15, 2020 Culture | Society
Education Otherwise: Τhe School of Athens heritage

Sep 14, 2020 Culture | Society
Reading Greece: Thodoris Rakopoulos on Poetry as a Travelling Toolkit

Sep 11, 2020 Reading Greece
POEM OF THE MONTH: "The Greek language" by Nikiforos Vrettakos

Sep 10, 2020 Reading Greece
Art + Docs: In The Mind Of The Artist (10-16 September 2020)

Sep 09, 2020 Culture | Society
The Epigraphic Museum of Athens: the largest of its kind in the world

Sep 07, 2020 Culture | Society
Arts in Greece | Art meets Tourism in Santorini

Sep 07, 2020 Culture | Society
The Istanbul Riots of 1955

Sep 03, 2020 Culture | Society
The Awards of the 5th "BEYOND BORDERS" Kastellorizo International Documentary Festival

Sep 03, 2020 Culture | Society
Reading Greece: Elena Maroutsou on the Synergy of Text and Image in Literature and the Role of Art as a Reflection Reality

Sep 02, 2020 Reading Greece
8th Syros International Film Festival (3–6 September 2020, Syros): Off Season

Sep 01, 2020 Culture | Society
History of the Greek Diaspora in Australia

Aug 28, 2020 Culture | Society
The Greek Winners at 26th Sarajevo International Film Festival

Aug 26, 2020 Culture | Society
Reading Greece: Sakis Serefas on Poetry as an Invented Interpretation of Life and Language as a Way of Existence

Aug 26, 2020 Reading Greece

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