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Τhe Platonic Academy was founded by Plato himself in 428/427 BC in Athens, and is considered to be the world's first university.

The President of Columbia University in New York, Lee Bollinger, announced the foundation of an International Education Center in Athens on Sunday, November 6. The news came as part of a delegation of 30 leading US Universities currently visiting Greece. The...

Researchers at Yale University in the US will conduct new research on the health benefits associated with daily consumption of table olives. The research will be conducted by the Yale School of Public Health and the Department of Cardiology at Yale...

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...

Professor John Kazazis, the Head of the Center for Greek Language at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, has committed suicide by hanging at the age of 74. Kazazis' body was discovered on Tuesday in an office basement in Kalamaria, Thessaloniki....

A Greek student did extremely well in his Panhellenic exams despite losing both of his parents to the coronavirus earlier this year. 

The University of Sheffield's Archaeology department, facing the threat of permanent closure, received a huge show of support from Greece.

The University of York in the United Kingdom announced on Wednesday the opening of a new European campus in Thessaloniki, Greece. University of York Vice-Chancellor Charlie Jeffery has announced that the university has formed a partnership with CITY College, one...

Columbia University is planning to open a Global Center in Greece as an addition to its worldwide network of such centers that support remote learning and help students connect with the global community. Currently there are Columbia Global Centers in...

The newly established University of West Attica (UNIWA), headquartered near the iconic archaeological site of Plato's Academy in Athens, is setting early post-pandemic goals with an emphasis on extroversy, research and innovation as it plans to attract more students...

Greece's Ministry of Citizen Protection has announced a 100.000 euro reward against members of the anarchist group "Fighting Solidarity Initiative" who assaulted the Rector of the Athens University of Economics and Business in his office on Thursday. A group of...

The photograph of a Greek rector being abused and humiliated by anarchists inside his own office in Athens University on Thursday has caused outrage in Greece. The image shows the rector of the Athens University of Economics and Business, Dimitris...

An 82-year-old granddad from Corfu has successfully passed the university entry exams and is now preparing to enroll in the Physics department of the Thessaloniki Aristotle University, it emerged on Sunday. Nikos Karydis, who studied at an evening school since...

The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki will participate in an international pioneering program for building Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs or drones) called Project Lotus. Kyriakos Yakinthos, professor at the AUTH Department of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Fluid and Turbine...

A National Technical University of Athens team was awarded in a European Commission competition for creating a platform that uses sewer surveillance for early COVID-19 detection. The Greek team collaborated with students from the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom...