Author: Athanasios Koutoupas
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The Hellenic Centre for Marine Research: mission and achievements
Sea research has been carried out in Greece for more than 100 years. Nowadays, it is conducted under the auspices of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR). HCMR can trace its origins to the founding of the first Greek Marine Research Institute, the Marine Hydrobiological Station, established in 1914. HCMR mission is to research, develop and implement…
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University of Athens 180th Anniversary: History, Celebrations and Social Solidarity
The oldest University of Greece, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), turns 180 in 2017. To mark this anniversary, a series of events have been programmed. The International Conference on “Hellene, Greek, Romios: Collective Identifications and Identities”, that took place in Athens from 19 to 21 January 2017 was the main celebratory event of that month. Greek News…
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Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden attends feting of Lesbos Mayor with the Olof Palme Prize
The mayors of Lesbos, Greece Mr. Spyridon Galinos and Lampedusa, Italy Ms. Giusi Nicolini were honored with the 2016 Olof Palme Prize at a ceremony held at Sweden’s national legislature, the Riksdag. In attendance were the ambassadors of Greece and Cyprus, Dimitrios Touloupas and Andreas Kakouris, Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia, the widow…
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“GR80s”: get to know the Greece of the’80s through an exhibition!
The first major participatory exhibition in Greece is a fact, and it is about the 1980s. Besides, it is bilingual and, therefore, particularly friendly to foreign visitors of the city too. Photos, clothes, all kinds of souvenirs and memorabilia, toys, pieces of furniture, audiovisual records and anything you can imagine will be among the exhibits on…