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9th Fintech Talks at the Archimedes Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

9th Fintech Talks at the Archimedes Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

The Archimedes Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship of NKUA hosted the 9th Fintech Talks, a part of the Greek Fintech Hub initiative, where Amazon presented its concept store ‘Amazon Go.’ Amazon Go is a chain of physical stores that use Just Walk Out technology to eliminate queuing at the checkout. This is made possible through the application of computer vision, sensor fusion, and deep learning technologies.

Mr Lefteris Chaniotakis, Snr Enterprise Account Manager of Amazon Web Services in Greece and Cyprus, gave a brief overview of the changes and trends in payments that are driving the innovation of the ecosystem, especially cloud computing.

Greek Fintech Hub is an initiative launched by the National Bank of Greece in collaboration with Endeavor Greece, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Athens University of Economics and Business, the Onassis Foundation, and the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels; it is also supported by Crowd Dialog Europe.

University of Athens Launches New Issue in Partnership with ‘To Vima’

University of Athens Launches New Issue in Partnership with ‘To Vima’

On Sunday, 31 May 2026, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens will release the eighth issue of ‘University of Athens: The Newspaper of Science, Education and Culture’, in partnership with the Sunday edition of To Vima. The lead story, ‘Middle East Crisis: The Energy War and the Risk at the Strait of Hormuz’, features […]

Vice-Rector Professor Sophia Papaioannou Meets Incoming Director of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, Professor Naomi Weiss

Vice-Rector Professor Sophia Papaioannou Meets Incoming Director of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, Professor Naomi Weiss

On Wednesday, 14 May 2026, Professor Sophia Papaioannou, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, International Relations and Extroversion at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, welcomed Professor Naomi Weiss, the newly appointed Director of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece (CHS Greece), during her first visit to the country since taking up the post. Professor […]

Humanities and Technology: A Creative Synergy at NKUA

Humanities and Technology: A Creative Synergy at NKUA

The online workshop “Humanities and Technology: A Creative Synergy” was successfully held on Friday, 15 May 2026, organised by the Research Institute for the Digital Humanities and the Joint MSc Programme in Digital Humanities of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The workshop highlighted the increasingly important dialogue between the humanities and contemporary digital […]

University of Athens Climbs to Record High in QS World University Rankings by Subject

University of Athens Climbs to Record High in QS World University Rankings by Subject

In the global top 100 in 4 subjects – ranked highly across 24 subjects The latest Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings by Subject, widely regarded as one of the most authoritative international ranking systems, has been released, offering a comprehensive assessment of universities across broad subject areas and more narrowly defined subjects worldwide. The 2026 […]

University of Athens Upgrades Student Halls of Residence – See the Before and After Photos

University of Athens Upgrades Student Halls of Residence – See the Before and After Photos

The University of Athens is carrying out a major upgrade programme of its student residences, aimed at improving living standards, strengthening safety measures, and enhancing students’ day-to-day experience. Working in partnership with the Youth and Lifelong Learning Foundation, the university has completed extensive refurbishment across the residences, restoring previously unused areas, carrying out major maintenance […]

University of Athens

The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, which was inaugurated on May 3, 1837, was initially housed in a renovated Ottoman building on the northeastern side of the Acropolis. This building has since been restored and now functions as the University Museum. Originally named the "Othonian University," after Otto, the first king of Greece, it consisted of four academic departments and 52 students. As the first university of the newly established Greek state, as well as of the broader Balkan and Mediterranean region, it assumed an important socio-historical role, which was pivotal in the development of specific forms of knowledge and culture within the country.

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