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Iconic Navagio Shipwreck of Zakynthos in Danger of Disappearing

The team of scientists involved in preservation work at the iconic shipwreck of Zakynthos whose bow rises from Navagio Bay say it is in danger of total disintegration. Thirty-six years after becoming the island's top tourist attraction, the wreck...

Technical Colleges Walk Out of Education Talks

Technical colleges (TEIs) announced that they will no longer take part in the so-called “dialogue for education,” between the government, opposition parties and representatives of the tertiary education system. The technical colleges said they are quitting the process because they...

Food to Address Vitamin D Deficiency from the TEI in Thessaly

An international research team led by Greek professor of biochemistry; Dimitris Moulas received high honors in a leading international conference. Moulas, professor at the Department of Biochemistry of the Technological Institute in Thessaly, and his team participated in the...

Fourth Industrial Informatics Fest- i2fest 2013

The Centre of Technological Research (CTR), the Region of Eastern Macedonia; the Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology and the Department of Business Administration, are going to hold the fourth festival of Industrial Informatics (www.i2fest.gr) which is going...

Greek Ecological Salami Wins Award

The first-ever ecologically-made salami, has been manufactured by the Department of Food Technology, TEI of Thessaly, in collaboration with the Food and Biosystems Engineering Laboratory, Department of Biosystems Engineering of Tei Larissa. This innovative product ranked 3rd (and received the...

TEI Patras Brouhaha Over Athena Project

Students at the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Patras engaged in scuffles over disagreements concerning the government's so-called Athena project to consolidate colleges. It reportedly began when some assembly members refused to resign their positions. A large group of students...

Big Students' Protest Against Athena

There was tension at the students' demonstration outside the Parliament, in protest of the changes the Athena project will implement to Universities. Students burned the EU flag and the police made use of tear gas. A little after 4...

The Final Athena Plan

The Ministry of Education announced the school departments that will continue to receive students next year as well as those departments which will start preparing to close down. The application of the education restructuring plan Athena will reduce departments and...

Greek Students Protest University Reforms

Thousands of Greek students from across the country marched through downtown Athens on March 14, outside the Education Ministry to demand the government scrap a plan that would overhaul the country's universities that are lagging in progress and rated...

Papandreou Says AEI and TEi Have Dispensed with State Control

Papandreou has announced that he is giving in to society foundations, and dispensed with state control over them. In this way, the institutions can work for their own good and not as means of satisfying the interest of a...