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On March 6, 2026, Professor Patrina Paraskevopoulou, Department of Chemistry, NKUA, delivered an invited online seminar at NASA Glenn Research Center on “X-biopolymer aerogels: Extending NASA-GRC X-aerogel technology to renewable biomaterials for environmental, biomedical, and energy applications”.

She presented her group’s work on…

On Friday, 20 March 2026, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Enterprise Greece – Invest and Trade signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Athens, in the presence of Rector Professor Gerasimos Siasos and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Haris Theoharis.

Svante Twetman, Professor Emeritus of Paediatric Dentistry at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, has been awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Department of Dentistry at the School of Health Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

The award ceremony was held on Tuesday, 17 March 2026, in the…

Health misinformation is widely recognised as one of the most pressing challenges of the digital age. Within the framework of CIVIS – Europe’s Civic University Alliance, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens leads the CIVIS Open Lab ‘Combating Health Misinformation’, an interdisciplinary initiative examining how misleading health…

From 2 to 6 March 2026, the Department of Digital Industry Technologies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens successfully hosted the DIGITRANS Student Training School, organized within the framework of the Erasmus+ DIGITRANS project.

The five-day training event was delivered online via the Webex platform and brought together…

Professor Gerassimos D. Pagratis of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Department of Italian Language and Literature) has been elected Visiting Professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, following a decision by the institution’s Academic Assembly. During his stay, he will be based at the…

On Tuesday, 10 March 2026, the Great Hall of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens hosted a concert by the University of Central Missouri Choral Union, directed by Dr Jackson Thomas—conductor, composer, and tenor—as part of the ‘NKUA in the City’ series curated by Achilleas Chaldaeakes.

The concert programme, aptly titled Our…

New analytics reveal that the Communication Hub of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (https://hub.uoa.gr) is reaching an increasingly broad international audience, further strengthening its role as the University’s central digital platform for sharing news, research, and institutional developments.

Strong growth in users

Be…

From 3 to 6 February 2026, Havana, Cuba, hosted the International Congress on Comparative and Constitutional Law ‘Cuba CON-PARA’ (https://cubaconpara.com/es/).

Organised by the Faculty of Law of the University of Havana, Cuba CON-PARA took place at the historic Hotel Nacional, with the support of prominent academic associations from across…

Christos Rachiotis, Professor of Operative Dentistry at the University of Athens, actively contributes to the European Association for Sports Dentistry (EA4SD), where he serves as a member and has been elected Chair of the Scientific and Education Committee.

The Committee’s primary goal is to advance scientific knowledge and evidence-based…