This Sunday, 1 February, the University of Athens will release the sixth issue of its newspaper in collaboration with To Vima tis Kyriakis, titled ‘The University of Athens: A Newspaper of Science, Education, and Culture’. The front page features an exclusive interview with the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides, under the headline: […]
From January 19 to 22, 2026, the University of Athens – Cyprus Branch brought a taste of university life to high schools across Cyprus. Targeting final-year students in the Economics stream, the sessions showcased the School of Economics and Political Sciences’ three Departments — Economics, Business Administration, and Port Management & Shipping — giving students […]
The Department of Psychology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) – Cyprus Branch invites prospective students to submit an expression of interest for entry to its Greek-taught Undergraduate Programme in Psychology. The programme has a standard duration of eight (8) semesters and leads to the award of a Bachelor’s degree, in accordance […]
The “Resilience Economics and Sustainable Transitions” Centre at the Department of Economics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) has been officially designated as a new International Centre of Excellence (ICoE) of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) Programme cosponsored by the International Science Council and the United Nations Office for Disaster […]
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens has taken a major step in advancing its academic programmes at its Cyprus Branch with the official opening of new, state-of-the-art laboratories in Nicosia. These facilities, located in the heart of the city, significantly expand the University’s physical and educational presence on the island. The new laboratories include […]
It has become an established feature of the MSc in Journalism and New Media (Department of Communication and Media Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) for postgraduate students to take on the role of political correspondent in a briefing simulation with Government Spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis, now for the fifth year in a row. We […]
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.
