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Professor of NKUA George Papatheodoridis received the EASL Recognition Award 2023

Professor of NKUA George Papatheodoridis received the EASL Recognition Award 2023

Mr George Papatheodoridis, Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, received the EASL Recognition Award 2023, the highest European distinction for achievement in Hepatology. Professor Papatheodoridis is only the second Greek to accomplish this, the first being Professor Stephanos Hadziyiannis.

The EASL Recognition Award ceremony took place on June 23, 2023, during the Annual European Liver Congress organized by the European Association for the Study of Liver (EASL) in Vienna, Austria.

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens ranks first in Greece and Cyprus – Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings 2025 and US News Global University Rankings 2025-2026 announced

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens ranks first in Greece and Cyprus – Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings 2025 and US News Global University Rankings 2025-2026 announced

US News & World Report Media Company has recently published the results of its Best Global Universities Rankings for 2025-2026. In this 11th consecutive annual edition of the US News Best Global Universities Rankings, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens placed 1st among Greek and Cypriot Universities and 216th worldwide. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki […]

Once again, top-scoring candidates choose the University of Athens

Once again, top-scoring candidates choose the University of Athens

It is a day of joy for many candidates who have recently sat the nationwide examinations for admission to Greece’s Higher Educational Institutions. Among this year’s top achievers—those scoring over 19,000 points—a significant number have once again set their sights on enrolling in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). One of the highest […]

Prof. Dr. Xenofon Baraliakos, Medical Director of the Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Herne, and Doctor Honoris Causa of the School of Medicine of the University of Athens, is the new president of the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR)

Prof. Dr. Xenofon Baraliakos, Medical Director of the Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Herne, and Doctor Honoris Causa of the School of Medicine of the University of Athens, is the new president of the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR)

Prof. Dr. Xenofon Baraliakos, Medical Director of the Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Herne, and Professor for Internal Medicine and Rheumatology at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, is the new president of the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR). During his two-year term, he plans to implement a number of measures aimed at further improving patient care […]

NKUA achieves remarkable results at IPT 2025

NKUA achieves remarkable results at IPT 2025

A six-member team of undergraduate students from the NKUA’s Department of Physics represented Greece at the 17th International Physicists’ Tournament (IPT 2025) held in Warsaw, Poland, from 7 to 13 April 2025 (https://iptnet.info/). The members of Team Greece, listed in alphabetical order, were as follows: Undergraduate students Maria Giga (Team Captain), Giorgos Kyriopoulos, Andreas Lymperopoulos, […]

University of Athens School of Medicine participates in formulating international guidelines for orthopaedic infections

University of Athens School of Medicine participates in formulating international guidelines for orthopaedic infections

Professor Panagiotis J. Papagelopoulos, Director of the 1st Clinical Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA); Professor George Babis, Director of the 2nd Clinical Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at NKUA; and Assistant Professor Panayiotis D. Megaloikonomos, also of the 1st Clinical Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at NKUA, actively participated […]

The “MOVE AS YOU ARE” Program – Project is co-funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ program in the field of Sports

The “MOVE AS YOU ARE” Program – Project is co-funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ program in the field of Sports

Globally, the Child Eye Health organization estimates that at least 450 million children have vision conditions requiring treatment, and 90 million children live with some form of vision loss. In Europe, the European Blind Union (EBU) (https://www.euroblind.org/) estimates that 30 million people are visually impaired. These figures highlight the significant scale of the problem and […]

Renovated ‘New Chemistry Laboratory Building’ opens officially – School of Education, Library of the Department of Economics

Renovated ‘New Chemistry Laboratory Building’ opens officially – School of Education, Library of the Department of Economics

In a particularly symbolic and emotional opening ceremony, the renovated ‘New Chemistry Laboratory Building’ was officially handed over to the academic community of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. This historic building lies at the heart of Athens, surrounded on three sides by Mavromichali, Navarinou, and Charilaou Trikoupi streets. With the completion of the […]

Alpha TV: NKUA ranks among the top 100 Universities in the world

Alpha TV: NKUA ranks among the top 100 Universities in the world

Rectors and Vice-Rectors from 54 Universities in Europe met at the historic main building of the University of Athens to participate in the 35th General Assembly of the UNICA Network of Universities from the Capitals of Europe, which took place for the first time in Greece earlier this month. At the same time, the University […]

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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