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Professor Emeritus George Stergiou of the NKUA’s School of Medicine contributed to the development of the 2025 World Health Organization (WHO) Global report on hypertension https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240115569). 2025 WHO facts on hypertension 1. The worldwide prevalence of hypertension is about 30%, whereas in Eastern Mediterranean Region and in Greece it is 40%. 2. In 2024, it […]
On Tuesday, October 22, 2025, Professor Gerasimos Siasos, Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, welcomed a delegation from the University of Balamand, Lebanon, to the Rector’s Office. The delegation was headed by Dr Elias Warrak, President of the Institution. Also in attendance, on behalf of the University of Athens, was Professor Christos […]
In May 2024, Georgetown University-The Earth Commons Institute launched its first summer course in Greece. Did you know, however, that Fulbright Greece since 2022, has offered a unique opportunity to a Greek graduate student for a double scholarship to study at Georgetown University | The Earth Commons—Georgetown’s Institute for Environment & Sustainability? Candidates can select from […]
The new ‘Athina I. Martinou’ University Oncology Centre was officially opened at Attikon General University Hospital. The facility is part of the 2nd Clinical Department of Propaedeutic Internal Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. It was created thanks to the generous donation of Athanasios Martinos and Marina Martinou, who fully funded the […]
The Cabinet of the Republic of Cyprus has approved the listing of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), as a Cyprus branch located in Nicosia, in the Register of Universities of Cyprus. ‘Consequently, all substantive and formal procedures have been completed so that we now have the branch of the National and Kapodistrian […]
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens is actively involved in the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI), with Professor Chronis Kynigos serving as Greece’s national representative. ICMI was established in 1908 at the Fourth International Congress of Mathematicians in Rome (see ICMI History) with the initial mandate of analyzing the similarities and differences in […]
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.
