Academia

The US Mission to Greece is offering 10 work experience scholarships to Greek university students through the Ambassadors Fund for Summer Work (SWT), so that they can travel to the US next summer and obtain professional experience for up to four months. Applications are open until November 15.

Two hundred and thirty-nine scholarships for undergraduate and postgraduate studies are awarded by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens through the Legacies and Endowments, which it administers for this purpose.

Among the many assignments for college students, one of the most popular is an academic paper. A college paper aims to test and consolidate knowledge on a given topic. Despite this, many students have questions about how to write college papers correctly, what structure they should have, and what requirements they should follow when preparing them.

The Greek government's choices for the new leadership of the armed forces are excellent.

We are at a very critical point, where interdisciplinary cooperation and teamwork, serious management and a radical redesign of Greece's defense plan are required.

The Athens Observatory's Meteo unit, the Institute for Environmental Research and Sustainable Development and San Jose State University's Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center (WIRC) on Thursday signed a memorandum of cooperation to share know-how and engage in joint research on studying wildfires.

The Turkish Educational Foundation (TEV) and the Turkish Education Association (TED) are launching a massive fundraiser campaign in collaboration with the National Education Ministry to give scholarships to thousands of quake survivor students.

A Council of State ruling has altered the criteria governing the professional recognition of qualifications from Greek colleges that serve as branches of European universities. 

Although not yet a trend, some young people are seeking a change from urban life, and moving to mountainous regions to start up a life. 

The effort is being supported through the European program PEAK, to encourage mountain entrepreneurship.

Ljubljana – President Borut Pahor has agreed to organise an international conference on tolerance in the spring in cooperation with the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU) and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts EASA.

Bogazici University students hold placards and shout slogans against the government during a demonstration against their new rector, Melih Bulu, in Istanbul, Turkey. Photo: EPA-EFE/TOLGA BOZOGLU