Achievements
Achievements of Greeks leave their mark, influence developments, determine the future of Greece, Hellenism and whole world.
Panorea (Penny) Panagiosoulis, became famous for establishing her mother language, greek, as the only foreign language to be taught in Harlem KAPPA IV public school. Penny Panagiosoulis decided from day one that she would introduce greek to the school, as an opportunity to open the...
Kostas Koukoulis – The Greek of Tanzania who’s saving Africa’s nature
Born in Burundi to parents from Samos, Kostas Koukoulis lived in Greece for only four years, the duration of his studies. A nature-loving entrepreneur, he launched the luxurious Saadani resort along the Indian Ocean coastline, offering visitors the challenge of a unique safari experience in...
Ioanna Tourkochoriti: “Greece needs to evaluate its potential”
Ioanna Tourkochoriti chose to study Law because of her interest in the structure of the modern state. During her studies, she discovered that, although the focus on social institutions did satisfy her curiosity, she was more interested in uncovering the reasons these institutions exist. Upon...
Kyriakos Kalaitzidis: “Music is the roof of dreams”
With family origins from Pontus and Cappadocia, as a child Kyriakos Kalaitzidis spent much of his time behind the psaltery. He completed his studies in Byzantine music, earned a degree in chant and a diploma as a music teacher, and from the age of 18...
Chrysa Panousiadou: The photographer who captures emotions in the human gaze
Chrysa Panousiadou is a qualified photographer with an MA in Documentary Production from the University of the Arts, London, while she continues her studies in Philosophy and the Arts at the Open University of Britain. Born in Greece, she started her career in 1999. Since...
Babis Bizas: “The Greeks of the diaspora are the acritics of the world”
In 1977, student Babis Bizas set out to realize his dream of traveling all around the world, carrying nothing more than his backpack. Within five months, he had walked in the streets of Asia, crossing Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, he entered India, continued to...
Andreas Persidis: The human brain is hard to imitate
Andreas Persidis holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Strathclyde, UK. In the 25 years since graduating, Dr. Persidis has established and led technology development departments in European companies in the fields of engineering, software development and mobile telephony. He is a...
Yannis Kouros: The Modern Pheidippides
Yannis Kouros was born in 1956, in Tripoli and since 1990 he has been living in Australia where he became an Australian citizen. From a young age he seemed to have a special artistic inclination as from the age of twelve he started writing poems...
The Greeks of CERN – Michalis Karatzinos, Parris Sfikas and Konstantinos Kordas
They are the Greeks who live and work in the “scientific centre of the world”, when it comes to research to find the “beginning of everything”. Scientists, physicists, theoreticians and experimentalists, engineers, technologists, programmers, students. A community of about 180 Greeks, of whom at least...
National Youth Football Team: The boys became men and made Greece proud
Among the millions of sayings that can be found on the internet and in thousands of publications, there is one that fits the occasion perfectly. “It’s the participation that counts, not the victory”, a saying belonging to Pierre de Coubertin, the Olympic Games revivalist. This...