Our Ocean Greece 2024
This year, Greece hosts the 9th Our Ocean Conference. The Conference takes place in Athens, at the...
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Angelos Rallis on his film “Mighty Afrin: in the Time of Floods”
Mighty Afrin: in the Time of Floods is a coming-of-age story unfolding against the backdrop of...
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ARCTUROS : The Greek NGO that has been protecting the brown bear and its habitat for 30 years
ARCTUROS, one of the most recognizable Greek environmental NGOs, was founded in 1992, with a focus on the protection of wildlife fauna and its natural habitat, and specifically on the preservation of the large wild carnivores that live in the Greek countryside such as the bear and the wolf.
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Eleni Myrivili: the Greek anthropologist and heat resilience expert appointed as first-ever UN Global Chief Heat Officer
Eleni “Lenio” Myrivili is Global Chief Heat Officer UN Habitat and the Arsht Rock Resilience Center, working to build heat resilience in cities around the world.
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GR-eco Islands: Smart and Sustainable Greek Islands
In the battle against climate change, Greece has formed an ambitious plan to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Towards this goal, in 2019, the Greek government launched the GR-eco islands initiative, with the aim to transform the Greek islands into innovation hubs and models of green economy, energy autonomy, digital innovation and ecological mobility.
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The Hadrian Aqueduct of Athens | An marvel of ancient Roman engineering springs back to life
Hadrian’s Aqueduct in Athens is the only Roman aqueduct of this type and size that has been constructed in Europe and that still carries water. This monumental technical construction of the ancient world does not only have great cultural value, but it can also be utilized to reduce the city’s environmental footprint.
The Greek government is supporting a multi-dimensional plan to put this ancient aqueduct back into use, in order both to cover current needs for irrigation water, and to develop new places of cultural and environmental interest.
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Environmental physiologist Andreas Flouris makes 2023 Time100 Next list
Andreas Flouris has been included in Time Magazine’s #Time100 Next list for 2023, gaining...
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A trip around the world with Greek 3rd generation photovoltaics
Panagiotis Zafeiriadis has set out on a bike ride around the world; since he is usually camping in the wild, securing energy self-sufficiency in a sustainable way is of great importance – and an ideal way to do that is to use third-generation photovoltaics. These have been furnished by a Greek company with innovative products.
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🏛️ The Delphi Economic Forum will hold its 9th Annual Meeting from 10 April to 13 April 2024 in the ancient town of Delphi, in Greece. During four days, the forum will gather global stakeholders from the fields of politics, business, diplomacy, and civil society.![]()
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🔎This year's main theme is "𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧,” as the forum will focus on the multifaceted transitions the world is experiencing in geopolitics, climate and technology.![]()
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📣 Over 1,000 speakers from 70 countries are expected to attend, with world leaders including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and officials including OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann and European commissioners, among others.![]()
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📝The six central thematic pillars of the forum are geopolitics, the planet, sustainable economy and finance, the future, people and education.![]()
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🔗read more 👉 delphiforum.gr/events/annual-conference
The Los Angeles Greek Film Festival (LAGFF) announced three new board members who will help support the nonprofit festival’s work. Television Director/Producer & Showrunner Greg Yaitanes, TV Executive & Producer Kary Antholis and Marketing Executive & Academy Member Christina Kounelias joined the Global Greek Film Initiative (GGFI) and Los Angeles Greek Film Festival (LAGFF) Board of Directors effective January 2024.
📚📚On the occasion of the publication of his fourth poetry collection 'Perimeter' (Smili, 2023), essayist and poet Yannis Stroumbas spoke to Reading Greece about literature and its surrounding reality, the poetic language and the binding thread between different forms of writing.![]()
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"The fascination of literature bonds all forms of writing. Αt times the ordeal takes place through personal journeys or through the journeys of other writers, both older or contemporary; at times through fiction while at others within the existing reality; it may be condensed or analyzed; through personal or collective events. Poetry constitutes the common ground even for seemingly strictly logically organized essays".![]()
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Reading Greece: Yannis Stroumbas – “The Fascination of Literature Bonds all Forms of Writing”
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Yannis Stroumbas (1973) is a philologist and teaches in secondary education. He writes poetry, essays and criticism. His collaborations are featured in printed and online literary magazines such as Ap...