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First Ever Woman to Become Head of Greece's University of the Aegean (photos)

At an amphitheater of the University of the Aegean, located in Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, Chrisi Vigilaki became the first ever woman to be accredited the highest official position in Greece’s University; that of Prytanis (the equivalent of...

Aegean University Students Win Prestigious Award at European Science Competition

Four students from the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering of the University of Aegean recently won second place in the Europe-wide "Galileo & Copernicus Innovation Challenge" competition held in Helsinki, Finland. The prestigious competition was held within the framework...

Students of the Aegean University to Participate in Manchester Events

Students of the Museology Laboratory of the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication of the University of the Aegean, Museolab, will participate in events in the city of Manchester. In cooperation with the University of Manchester, they are participating in...

The Greek Aegean University Could Soon Enroll Refugees

With the Greek Aegean islands, having received an unprecedented number of migrants and refugees in 2015, most of them hailing from Syria, the Greek Aegean University is considering enrolling refugees in its various departments. Aegean University Dean Stefanos Gritzalis told ProtoThema...

Set Sail With University of Aegean, Greek Challenge

The University of Aegean and the Greek Challenge team are co-operating in a program to bring young people a chance to learn sailing skills from distinguished athletes from Greece and all over the world. The university said it would...

Ancient Cities Lost Under the Aegean Sea in Greece

The idea of ancient cities lost underwater for centuries might seem like something out of a movie. After all, the legend of Atlantis has inspired countless myths. However, as the discovery of the real city of Troy shocked the archaeological...

Greek PM Mitsotakis in USA to Settle Daughter at Yale University

Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be taking a three day trip to the United States to help his daughter, Dafni Mitsotakis, settle in at Yale University in Connecticut. Mitsotakis' trip was announced by the Greek government's spokesman Giannis Oikonomou. "I...

Ancient City on Remote Islet in Aegean Reveals Fascinating Secrets in New Dig

Archaeologists discovered artifacts on Vryokastraki, a small islet near the Greek island of Kythnos, once home to a significant ancient city.

Athens University to Offer Free Online Courses to Greek Islanders and Border Residents

Τhe National and Kapodistrian University of Athens has announced recently that it will offer two hundred free placements in online learning training programs for permanent residents of Greek islands and remote border regions of Greece. The islands and the border...

Erdogan is Photographed in Front of Divided Aegean Map

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues his provocative, expansionist rhetoric against Greece and Cyprus, this time by being photographed in front of a map depicting half of the Aegean Sea all the way to Crete as belonging to Turkey. The map...

92 Year Old Pensioner Donates $600,000 to University on Lesbos

92 year old Thanasis Paleologos, a pensioner from Napi, Lesbos who says he never had the opportunity to get education, donated the amount of $600,000 to the University of the Aegean. The elderly's donationis to go towards improving the...

Certain Aegean Sea Fish on the Brink of Extinction, Experts Warn

Experts from Aegean University warned on Monday that many of the species which live in the waters of the Aegean Sea are in danger of extinction, mainly due to human activity. Speaking with Greece's Kathimerini daily, Stelios Katsanevakis, associate professor...

Greek Population Drops by 355,000 in Last Decade Warns University Professor

The Greek population dropped by 355,000 between 2008 and 2017, an expert said on Monday, attributing the change mostly to the declining birthrate following the economic crisis. Giorgos Rachiotis, Epidemiology professor from the University of Thessaly, pointed out that the...

Thessaloniki Displays Rare 17th-Century Aegean Maps (photos)

An exhibition of a previously unseen map collection of the Aegean archipelago has opened in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki. The rare 333-year-old maps commissioned by Louis XIV of France were found in the Thessaloniki University Library in 2016. This...

Turkey Harasses German Research Vessel in North Aegean

The Turkish navy has asked a German vessel conducting research between the Greek islands of Samothraki and Limnos, to leave the area claiming that it had violated Turkish territorial waters. The research vessel "Meteor" conducts research on behalf of the...