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Cooperation Between Greek and Palestinian Universities

The rector of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Yiannis Mylopoulos and the new ambassador of Palestine in Greece, Marwan Toubassi, announced a collaboration between the University of Thessaloniki and Palestinian institutions. The two men met on Tuesday and agreed to...

Greek University Workers Keep On Striking

Despite warnings from Prime Minister Antonis Samaras that he would issue a civil mobilization order to force them back to work under the threat of arrest or being fired - neither of which happened - striking administrative staff at...

Greek Digital Artist Awarded with the Lumen Prize

Katerina Athanasopoulou, a Greek filmmaker and animation and digital artist, is this year’s winner of the prestigious Lumen Prize, worth 3,000 euros, for her Athens-based film “Apodemy,” ekathimerini reports. “Apodemy” is an experimental piece in emigration, which was created in...

Paleontology Award to Tsoukala, Mol

The Paleontology Award Greece-Netherlands was given to Geology-Biology Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Evangelia Tsoukala, and Dutch paleontologist, Dick Mol, for their important work and discoveries, as announced by the Greek Secretariat of the International Giuseppe...

Greece Gets 5 Colleges In Top 200

The National Technical University of Athens ranks 25th among the top Civil and Structural Engineering universities worldwide, according to one of the most authoritative international measurements. Apart from the University of Athens, the results for some other Greek universities were...

Greek Austerity Is Killing People

There's new evidence that austerity measures being imposed by the government on the orders of international lenders to write down the country's crushing debt is adding to the toll of suicides, murder and other health problems in Greece. A study...

Medical Students Help Vulnerable Groups

The medical students of the Aristotle University are standing by Alzheimer patients and vulnerable groups through the programs D.I.ANOIA and N.I.K.I of the Scientific Association of Medical Students (E.E.F.I.E )-Thessaloniki Branch. The program D.I.ANOIA (Active Doctors for Dementia), which was...

Greek Students Attacked for Clearing Trash

A professor and group of students at Thessaloniki’s Aristotle University trying to pick up rubbish accumulating during a two-month work stoppage by municipal workers were jeered and then attacked by protesters who accused them of trying to interfere with...

Greek Students Excel at Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics

The Greek government may be having trouble dealing with the staggering numbers of a crushing economic crisis, but Greek students are showing they are among the tops in the world solving theoretical, analytical and observational problems in astronomy and...