National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Unknown assailants storm campus amid protests against private university scheme
A group of hooded assailants stormed into the administration building of the National Technical University of Athens' Zografou campus on Tuesday morning, frightening staff as they hurled abuse and smashed windows and furniture, and prompting the academic authorities to call for police reinforcements.
Even wars have rules
How can human rights be safeguarded in the midst of war? Dr Photini Pazartzis, the Constantine G. Karamanlis Chair in Hellenic and European Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and former vice chair of the UN Human Rights Committee ICCPR, emphasizes that international law establishes clear rules in cases of armed conflicts.
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The great AI debate: What does the future hold?
The Greek scientific elite of artificial intelligence gathered north of the capital in the suburb of Agia Paraskevi on Monday to discuss how this emerging technology can be harnessed and the transformative changes it brings to everyday life and across scientific fields.
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Athens U among global top 400 universities
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens remains in the 1.3% of the best universities worldwide according to the results of the Academic Ranking of World Universities, also known as the Shanghai Ranking (ARWU - "Shanghai Ranking")
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Fofi Gennimata has passed away
The president of KINAL, Fofi Gennimata, died at noon on Monday, at the Evangelismos hospital, where she had been hospitalized since October 12 after the recurrence of her basic disease.
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Postgrad in science and technology, in English
Students from Germany and the Netherlands have already signed up for the University of Athens' newly launched Science and Technology Studies postgraduate program in the English language, exploring a diversity of cutting-edge issues.
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Value of stolen university equipment estimated at 200,000
The value of the equipment stolen from the laboratories and offices of professors at the National Technical University of Athens and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens by two Albanian nationals with a prior criminal record has been estimated at 200,000 euros, according to police.
Equipment worth more than 100,000 euros stolen from university in Athens
More than 100,000 euros' worth of equipment has been stolen from the National Technical University of Athens, it emerged on Friday.
According to reports, the incident occurred on Wednesday in the chemical engineering wing on the university campus in Zografou.
Zakynthos mayor under pressure to reopen iconic beach ahead of tourist season
Local businesspeople on Zakynthos are putting pressure on mayor Pavlos Kolokotsas to allow full access to the famous Navagio (shipwreck) beach on the island's northwestern coast, where a landslide in September last year injured one tourist.
Lawlessness on the rise at Greek universities
In the latest incident in a Greek university campus, unknown persons caused extensive damage at the Athens University campus at the eastern suburb of Zografou on Saturday and hit with a knife a guard who tried to stop them. The guard was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries
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