Technology
Education
STEM Stars Greece Winners Prepare for International Student Competition
STEM Stars Greece, the competition aimed at supporting, highlighting and rewarding teenage students with a special talent in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, announced the winners selected through its final event that took place on March 27, 2021, during...
Environment
Greek Engineer Invents 4-Wheeled Electric Bicycle “For Cleaner Cities”
A Greek engineer built a 4-wheeled electric bicycle, to help the environment and make Greek cities “greener and cleaner.”
Business
Greek Scientist Develops Pioneering 6G Technology
A Greek scientist is developing 6G technology after receiving a 2 million euro grant to pursue the project at Queen’s University, Belfast.
Greek News
Greek Boy’s TikTok Video Causes Police Response
An 11-year-old Greek boy in Rhodes caused a police alert after he published on TikTok a video in which he claimed he had been abducted.
Greek News
Impressed by Greece, Amazon Expands Further in Athens
Impressed by the entrepreneurial environment in Greece, US giant Amazon announced that they will soon open their first office in Athens.
Business
PM Mitsotakis Calls for Vaccine Equity, Green Development in Conference
Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis discussed coronavirus vaccine equity and his commitment to the continual modernization of the Greek economy in an online conference called "Europe 2021" on Thursday. The conference, which was organized by the German newspapers Der Tagesspiegel, Die...
Business
Amazon in Athens Ushers New Era of Innovation in Greece
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that they will soon open their first office in Athens as part of the conglomerate’s ongoing investment in Greece. The firm had previously opened a CloudFront location in the capital city and the addition of...
Business
Greek Female Startup Founders Aim at Closing Gender Gap
A new private initiative, the Greek Female Startup Founders' Cluster of ICC Women Hellas, has embarked on a mission to promote female-led Greek startup companies, with the support of the domestic and international network of the International Chamber of...
Greek News
The Greek Who Brought Medical Animation to the Country
Greece's budding medical animation field owes its existence to Manolis Babatsikos. At a time when many Greeks were leaving the country for more opportunities, the 33-year-old left his job abroad at entertainment giant Warner Bros. and moved back home in...
Business
Amazon Web Services Opens Office in Greece
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that they will soon open their first office in Athens as part of the conglomerate's ongoing investment in Greece.
The firm had previously opened a CloudFront location in the capital city and the addition of...
Culture
Free Internet at Museums, Archaeological Sites in Greece
Access to high-speed internet at museums and archaeological sites in Greece will soon become a reality, thanks to a collaboration between the Greek Ministry of Culture and COSMOTE, the Greek telecommunications giant.
This move will push the country firmly into...
Education
Greece Wins Gold at Robotics Olympiad for Youngsters
Greece won gold at the International Robot Olympiad for youngsters which took place digitally earlier this month.
Irida Aggelopoulou, Vasiliki Iliadi, Christos Rentzis, and Alkiviadis Kotsikopoulos from the PlaisioBots team won the top prize by creating a "smart" white cane for...
Greece
New 5G Service to Make Greece a "Great Destination to Work and Retire in"
Greece has awarded 5G spectrum internet service to three operators, OTE Group, Vodafone and Wind Hellas in an auction on Wednesday that raised 372.26 million euros ($453.78 million).
Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday that the 5G service will...
Culture
Mushroom Museum of Meteora Wins Award for Virtual Reality Display
The unique Mushroom Museum of Meteora, part of the Greek town's Natural History Museum, took the bronze medal in the "Cultural" category in the 2020 Greek Lighting Awards. The museum's latest wing, developed along with the Greek company Interactive Light...
Business
Hundreds of Greek Scientists Abroad Apply to Join Pfizer in Thessaloniki
The US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has received over 3,500 applications for the 200 spots that are open at its digital hub in Thessaloniki. A substantial portion of the applicants, representing twenty percent, are from Greeks living abroad. Thessaloniki's digital hub, which...