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Conatus – Journal of Philosophy, an international journal of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, has entered the first quartile (Q1) of the SCImago Journal & Country Rank. Conatus is published by the Applied Philosophy Research Laboratory of the Department of Philosophy in collaboration with the Greek National Documentation Centre. The ranking reflects the […]
In a deeply moving ceremony on Friday, 17 April 2026, at the Greek Orthodox Patriarchal Monastery of St George in Old Cairo, Theodore II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, invested Professor Gerasimos Siasos, Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, as an Archon of the Patriarchate of Alexandria. The Rector […]
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens took part in commemorations in Missolonghi marking the bicentenary of the Exodus, one of the defining episodes of the Greek War of Independence. The anniversary brought together public figures, academics, and visitors from across the country to honour the city’s defenders, whose stand has come to symbolise the […]
His All-Holiness, Bartholomew I, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, has accepted an invitation from Gerasimos Siasos, Professor of Cardiology and Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, to support the establishment of the University’s Alumni and Friends Association. The Patriarch signed the founding charter on Holy Tuesday, 7 April 2026, […]
Call for Expressions of Interest for the Undergraduate Programmes of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – Cyprus Branch Call for Expressions of Interest for the Undergraduate Programme of the Department of Medicine, University of Athens – Cyprus Branch The School of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) – Cyprus […]
Clinicians at the University of Athens have performed Greece’s first successful TAVI-in-TAVI procedure to address the degeneration of a 31 mm self-expanding CoreValve aortic bioprosthesis implanted 15 years earlier. Given the high risk of coronary obstruction, the team deployed the BASILICA technique, enabling the safe implantation of a 24.5 mm Myval valve. The patient, a […]
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.
