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 took part in the 111th Hellenic Universities Rectors’ Conference, hosted by the University of Piraeus. At the conference, the Rector, Professor Gerasimos Siasos, joined by the Vice-Rectors and the Executive Director, underscored the urgent need to strengthen university funding through the National Development Plan. Increased investment is essential […]
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens participated in Greece’s first oceanographic and scientific diving expedition to Antarctica. The mission formed part of the Second Greek Scientific Expedition, organised by the Hellenic Polar Zones Society, and was conducted in the coastal waters of Livingston Island. Representing the University’s Department of Biology, PhD candidate Dionysia Rigatou joined […]
On 29 March 2026, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens published, in partnership with ‘To Vima’ (Sunday edition), the seventh issue of ‘The University of Athens: A Newspaper for Science, Education, and Culture’. The front page features a leading article titled ‘The Third Gulf War–The Fault Line of a New Era’. Six faculty members […]
On Monday, 30 March at 13:20 (Greek time), Greece and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens marked a milestone in aerospace history. Three ERMIS CubeSats, proudly ‘Made in Greece’ and developed by the University’s Department of Aerospace Science, were successfully deployed into low Earth orbit at an altitude of 500 kilometres following a short […]
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.
