Aristotle University
Education
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...
Economy
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...
Greece
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...
Archaeology
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...
Education
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...
Economy
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...
Greece
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...
Economy
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...
events
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...