Dimitrios Koutsogiannis on teaching Modern Greek in the current global linguistic environment
Dimitrios Koutsogiannis is Professor Emeritus of Educational Linguistics at the Department of...
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Tag: GREEK LANGUAGE
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Kotsiras on International Greek Language Day 2025
Message from the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Kotsiras On the Occasion of the...
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Meltemi: The first Greek Large Language Model
‘Meltemi’ is the first Greek Large Language Model (LLM), trained by the Institute for...
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The Romeyka Project: A battle to save a millennia-old variety of Greek still spoken in Pontus
Romeyka is an endangered form of Greek that is spoken by only a few thousand people in remote...
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University of Athens E-Learning Program
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the oldest higher education institution in Greece, launched its E-Learning Program in 2001; today, its platform offers over 450 different programs in Greek and 45 programs in English, covering a vast array of interests and fields of knowledge, and has 165,000 registered students.
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Interview with Prof. Karamalengou, academic director of the first English-language university programme on classical studies in Greece
The first English-language undergraduate programme on ancient Greek culture organized by the...
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Int’l Greek Language Day – Why we learn Greek
The International Greek Language Day, observed on 9 February, aims to highlight the role that...
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USA city names of Greek origin – Part 2
There are many places worldwide bearing names of Greek origin, either because of their historical...
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The Derveni Papyrus: Europe’s Oldest Book and Its Reflection on Universal Human Values
The Executive Board of UNESCO, on April 14th, unanimously decided to approve the designation of February 9th as “World Greek Language Day”. The official proclamation will take place during the 43rd session of the UNESCO General Conference, in November 2025. The decision of the Executive Board re...
Reading Greece: Marisa De Castro – “To make history interesting, it must be written with honesty, even when it addresses traumatic issues”
Marisa De Castro is born in Athens. She studied Pedagogy at the Sorbonne and Literature for Children and Young People. She taught History and Literature to primary school students in the private sector. She writes documentary books for children in the field of history and art, and translates literat...
Kiki Kolympari: Capturing the essence of life’s delicate, ever-evolving balance
Kiki Kolympari’s work explores abstraction as a form of visual storytelling, blending geometric forms, delicate tones, and symbolic motifs to convey themes of transformation and emotional resonance. Employing a refined palette of soft patterns and recurring shapes, she constructs serene, yet dynam...