Greece

Greeks from Athens to Sydney celebrated Greek Independence Day and the Greek War for Independence with parades on Sunday.

The Greek national Robotics team recently won three medals in the Robotics Olympiad, held between June and September. The "First Global Challenge Team Greece" won one gold, one silver and one bronze medals. The Robotics Olympiad First Global Challenge called "Discover...

An experiment devised by one of Greece's greatest scientists, Eratosthenes, was recreated once again recently by students from 35 nations.

Through the generosity of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Greek high school students can now apply to take part in student exchanges in one of eighteen destinations across Europe, Asia, North America, and Central and South America, as part of...

The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs is in continual negotiations with authorities in Italy and Spain so that Greek nationals, who are primarily students, who wish to return to Greece will be able to do so. Greek Foreign Minister Nikos...

Students from the General and Technical High School of the American Farm School in Thessaloniki have developed a real-time marine pollution detection application for smartphones. The "ocLean AFS" (from the words "ocean clean") app is innovative software which aims to...

A beautiful story of true love, respect, inclusiveness and kindness has been taking place in a classroom in the Primary School of Embrosnero, in Chania, on the Greek island of Crete. The classmates of Evangelia, a young girl who is...

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently published its new triennial PISA report for 2018, in which it ranks scores of countries in the educational performance of their high school students in core subjects. Greek students' performances ranked...

A delegation of Greek students and teachers, comprised of ten teams, competed recently at the 2019 World Robot Olympiad (WRO), held in Gyor, Hungary, from November 8-10. And they didn't come home empty-handed. They returned to Greece last week with...

As of November 1973, it had been six and a half years since Greece had been placed under strict military rule. Opponents of the junta which took over in the April 21, 1967 coup had been tortured, jailed, exiled, or put...

A team of Greek biology students from the University of Thessaly recently won first prize in an international competition hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The ten students presented a research project entitled "Odysee," which aimed to create...

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) is now offering 50 high school students from Greece the opportunity to spend a semester abroad as part of a new international exchange program. The SNF's new "Global Citizen Scholarship Program," which is part of the...

Three Greek university students swept the medals, winning one gold and two silver, in this year's International Mathematics Competition (IMC), which took place in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria between July 28 and August 3. The team from the National and Kapodistrian University...

Three students from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece have created "Tremor FreeMe," a start-up company which focuses on reducing and even eliminating trembling symptoms in Parkinson's disease patients. Students Thomas Bikias, Roni Lassi and Angeliki Papathanasiou, all 23 years...

Greek students from Philothei High School in Athens won the global technology competition "Land Rover 4x4 in Schools" which took place in the English city of Coventry on Monday. The Land Rover 4x4 in Schools Technology Challenge is an enhancement...