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The Stavros Niarchos Foundation announces that the Silver Cup awarded to Spyros Louis, the first Marathon Winner at the inaugural Modern Olympic Games, has been moved temporarily to Switzerland, in order to be exhibited at the Olympic Museum, in Lausanne, in view also of the international marathon to be held in the Swiss city on October 26.

In an interview to the Sunday edition of “Kathimerini”, the Co-President of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation’s Board of Directors, Mr. Andreas Dracopoulos, talks about the need to energize the social welfare state; contemporary philanthropy; the Foundation’s grantmaking activities; and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center.

One of the main reasons the SNFCC Visitors Center was created was to give future visitors, young and old, a first taste of what they experience, to guide them, to let them explore and play.

The National Herald hosts an op-ed by A. H. Diamataris regarding his experience from a recent visit to Greece.

On Tuesday August 5th, the Swiss Secretary of State, Mr. Walter Steinmann, accompanied by the Deputy Head of Mission of the Swiss Embassy in Athens, Mr. Philipp Stalder, the Embassy’s Commercial Attaché, Mrs Joanna Thanasis, visited the SNFCC Visitors Center and the SNFCC construction site where they were informed by the progress of the construction works, the environmental rules governing the construction site as well as the innovative techniques implemented in the development of this complex project.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) is proud to announce that, after 10 months of intensive work following the achievement of the first construction milestone in September 2013, and with strict adherence to the project’s construction schedule, the second important part of the construction was completed successfully and on time. This second milestone concerns the loadbearing structure, supporting the buildings that will be hosted within the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation proudly supports the Syros International Film Festival taking place from July 26th till August 1st in the island of Syros.

On Sunday, July 27th the 16th Symposium Aristotelicum is taking place in Delphi, organized by the European Cultural Center of Delphi, with the SNF’s support. The Symposium, an internationally acclaimed event, includes the participation of the most prominent specialists on the study of the philosophy of Aristotle. The Symposium is taking place in Greece for the first time and will focus on Aristotle’s Physics, one of the basic texts of his philosophy.

On July 17, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is hosting a journalist roundtable called “Iraq, Syria, and ISIS: A New Middle East” as part of the SNF grant “The CSIS-Schieffer Series Dialogues”.