Greece

Arezu, a young Afghan refugee living on the island of Lesvos, Greece, was awarded a scholarship to study in Boston recently. The 12-year-old girl fled Afghanistan with her family when she was just seven years old. Her mother, Mariam, was...

Greece's State Scholarships Foundation (ΙΚΥ) announced last week that it will offer up to fifty scholarships to foreign nationals (non-Greek Nationals or non-Greek Nationals of Greek descent) from countries worldwide, to enable students to attend courses and seminars in...

The ''HOME Project,'' a nonprofit organization which offers shelter and employment for children and young refugees in Greece, recently announced the granting of 18 full-time scholarships for the American Community Schools (ACS Athens) for the academic year 2019-2020. The scholarships...

The U.S. Embassy in Athens announced on Wednesday the launch of a new program which will give the chance to ten Greek students to travel to the United States. The students will receive a one-year scholarship to study at...

Young refugees in Athens are getting the chance of a free education at the city's American Community School (ACS) through a scholarship project being run by the HOME Project NGO. Eighteen scholarships have been made available through support from the Shapiro...

Seventy-eight refugees who are eligible for a higher education, have been enrolled in three different American colleges in Greece, as part of the "Education Unites: From Camp to Campus" scholarship program, an initiative organized by the U.S. embassy in...

The U.S. embassy in Athens is offering 200 education scholarships to 200 refugees in Athens and Thessaloniki (100 from each city), in an effort to provide opportunities to displaced students and allow them to continue their education. The program, titled...

Scholarships by the Greek Ministry of Education utilize funds from the National Strategic Reference Framework. The scholarship funds for 2016-2017 are valued at 2 million euros and will need to be shared out among the top-ranking tertiary students. Until now,...

Philippos-Ilarion Sytilidis, a student from Thessaloniki, northern Greece has received a full scholarship to attend Harvard University, amounting to 69,000 dollars per year for four years. Philippos, who is currently in his last year of high school, will major...

The State Scholarships Foundation (I.K.Y.) celebrates its 61 years of granting scholarships to excelling Greek postgraduate or postdoctoral students as well as for studies in Greece to all foreigners and their matriculation in Modern Greek Language and Culture. During its...

The American Community School of Athens announced its annual program of the Academic-Athletic Scholarships for basketball players for the 2012-2013 school year. These scholarships ("Hasib Sabbagh & Diana Tamari Sabbagh") are intended for new ACS Athens students entering 10th Grade...

State Scholarships Doundation of Greece IKY organizes seminars and courses of Greek language and culture which will be held on January 9 until June 8, 2012 in one of the Universities of Greece. The participants should not be over 40...

Between the 14th and 15th centuries, a wave of Greek scholars left their beleaguered homeland in the Byzantine Empire for the Italian Peninsula, where their work would play an important role in the flowering of the Renaissance. The Renaissance, which...

The skull of a crowned athlete with a gold wreath in the shape of a laurel branch still attached to it is perhaps one of the most impressive exhibits in Greece. The flesh disintegrated after 2,500 years, but the wreath...

If not for the incredible determination and talent of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely remain a mystery today. While many linguists and archaeologists contributed to the decipherment of the script,...