Research funded was awarded to the Institute for the Study of Greek-German Relations by the German Federal Foreign Office through the Greek-German Fund for the Future

The research proposal under the title “Images of Germany in Greece during the First World War: Public Discourse, Mass Perceptions, and Propaganda, 1914-1918”, that had been submitted by the Institute for the Study of Greek-German Relations, Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, to the Greek-German Fund for the Future has been approved for funding and its implementation has begun.

The research team, supervised by the Institute’s Director, assistant professor Zinovia Lialiouti, involves two post-doctoral students and three graduate students. The research project aims to reconstruct the image of Germany in Greek during the period 1914-1918, with an emphasis on the implications of the National Schism, by exploring political discourse, mass perceptions and foreign propaganda. The project will be based on extensive archival research conducted at Greek and foreign collections.

The research project “Images of Germany in Greece during the First World War: Public Discourse, Mass Perceptions, and Propaganda, 1914-1918” is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office through the German-Greek Future Fund.