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The Greek Water Polo Youth Team became World Champion
The National Youth Water Polo Team of Greece was crowned World Champion in Kuwait on the 20th of December 2019, with our internationals defeating Serbia 6-4 in the final of the 20th World Championship and celebrating yet another gold medal in this category. Source:...
A Christmas fruit
The forests around the eastern Olympus settlements in Pieria, (Agios Panteleimonas, Paleoi Pori, Platamonas, Skotina) keep the heavy and mature fruits of the spectacularly beautiful arbutus trees that adorn both the trees and the festive days of the Greeks. At Christmas time, the...
Second place at Galileo & Copernicus Innovation Challenge
Students of the department of Information and CommunicationSystems,members of the EL community / LAC University Aegean and Microsoft Student Partners community participated and excelled in second place in European competition «Galileo & Copernicus Innovation Challenge» which was held on December 1-3 in Helsinki, Finland, as...
The Greek creator of a subway campaign in UK
Greek origin Panagiotis Balalas “runs” the WLM (West London Mission) advertising campaign – one of UK’s largest charities – in the London subway, from the position of WLM Communications & Marketing Manager. The campaign is aimed at raising social awareness and wakening of Londoners about...
Aiming at the return of the Greek Diaspora to its home country’s labor market
The “ReΒrain Greece – The Technological Transformation of the Labor Market” initiative, created and developed by the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, in particular by the Directorate-General for Labor Relations Konstantinos Agrapidas, with the help of executives from public agencies, universities and research institutes,...
First place at the European Broadband Awards
One of the five European Broadband Awards has been awarded to the Sarantapos Wireless Community Network in Elassona. Sarantaporo.gr’s team was awarded for its exciting journey by creating a small website to build a broadband network that connects 15 villages in the region, as well...
Yorgos Mavropsaridis the best European film editor
This year’s Award Best European Editor has a Greek name and this is none other than George Mavrosaridis. The Greek filmmaker who was nominated for an Oscar for Best Editing with’s “Favorite ” George Lanthimos receives the award he deserves from the European Film Academy, as...
Greece stands out in the World Robot Olympiad 2019
The Greek delegation returned with four medals and three awards from the World Robot Olympiad 2019 Finals in Gori, Hungary, with the theme of rebuilding the cities of the future. The Greek teams scored the best of this year’s event – along with Russia –...
Gold medal for Aristotle University students at MIT World Competition
The gold medal was awarded to the student team of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki at the MIT World iGEM Competition in Boston. Greek students competed among 5,000 research teams from top universities (such as MIT, Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, etc.) from 40 countries, won the...
Gold medal at MIT’s competition for the research team of the University of Thessaly
The University of Thessaly’s research team, iGEM Thessaly, was awarded the gold medal at the international synthetic biology competition organized by MIT University in Boston. It is the largest synthetic biology competition that attracts more than 6,000 students each year. In its first competition, the...