The Inter-institutional Sports Meeting between the University of Cyprus and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) took place on Monday, 10 November 2025, with Football, Futsal, and Tennis fixtures capturing the excitement of both participants and spectators. Teams competed at the Near East Municipal Football Ground and the Ilioupoli Tennis Club Courts, demonstrating […]
On Sunday, 23 November, NKUA released the latest edition of ‘The University of Athens, a Newspaper of Science, Education and Culture’, distributed with the Greek Sunday newspaper ‘To Vima tis Kyriakis’. The front page of this fifth issue features, as its main story, an interview with Greece’s central banker and Professor Emeritus at the University […]
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, the French School of Athens, and the National Hellenic Research Foundation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding aiming to establish the Hellenic Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, under the name HESTIA. The four partners seek to […]
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, in collaboration with Google, offers all its students 12 months of free access to Google AI Pro. The subscription includes: –Gemini 2.5 Pro – Unlimited access to the most advanced AI model. –Deep Research & NotebookLM – Tools for in-depth research and knowledge organization. –2 TB of cloud […]
The Collaborative Surveillance Network (CSN) project aims to address the urgent need for the development of robust, interconnected, and collaborative surveillance systems that enable timely detection, monitoring, and response to emerging global health threats. The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) participates in the CSN project through the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications and […]
Over 100 women, mostly of Greek Australian background, attended a public talk by Professor Liza Tsaliki from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens on Thursday, 6 November, at RMIT University. Professor Tsaliki’s lecture, Still Seen, Still Desired: Women Over 45 in Western Society and the Role of Media and Culture, examined how women over […]
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.
