NEWS

• 13 April 2009 / Veria Central Public Library Inaugurates ”The Magic Boxes”
  His Excellency the President of the Hellenic Republic, Mr. K. Papoulias, will inaugurate The Magic Boxes, the renovated children/s section in Veria/s Central Public Library, on Sunday, April 26th, at 18.30.
• 10 April 2009 / Mimis Papaioannou Ethos Cup” welcomes the first Girls' Soccer Tournament Academy
  The Children/s Soccer Training program will host the first Girls’ Soccer Tournament Academy for participants aged up to 21 years old. The ”Mimis Papaioannou Ethos Cup,” organized within the context of the Soccer Tournament Academy, will take place in the Municipality of Ano Liosia, Attica, from April 13th to 15th, 2009 from 13.00 to 18.00, with the participation of 8 teams comprising 160 young athletes.
• 08 April 2009 / 2008 Architecture Awards Ceremony and Exhibition
  On April 14th, the Hellenic Institute of Architecture will present the winners of the 2008 Architecture Awards and inaugurate the opening of an exhibition of the contestant works. The award ceremony will be held at the Benaki Museum at 19.00. The Stavros Niarchos Foundation is the exclusive donor for the Awards ceremony and the exhibition, which will be on view from April 15th to June 7th, 2009.
• 20 March 2009 / March 22nd - World Water Day
  March 22 is ”World Water Day,” a day intended to draw international attention to the critical lack of clean, safe drinking water worldwide. The UN General Assembly designated the day in 1992.
• 11 March 2009 / Ecoweek’s Tree Planting Initiative in the Municipality of Zacharo
  A tree planting event will take place on Saturday, March 14th in the fire-stricken Municipality of Zacharo in the Peloponnese. The tree planting initiative is part of an environmental program designed and implemented by the not-for-profit organization Ecoweek.
• 27 January 2009 / Renzo Piano's Environmentally Progressive Concept Design for the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC)
  
• 24 January 2009 / Renzo Piano's Environmentally Progressive Concept Design for Athens' Modern Urban Icon, The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC)
  The Board of Directors of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and the Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW), a world-renowned architectural firm, revealed the concept design today for the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), housing the National Library of Greece and the Greek National Opera, both set within the Stavros Niarchos Park.
• 08 January 2009 / Grant in honor of the late Chairman of the Board, Sir Dennis Weatherstone
  The Stavros Niarchos Foundation recently made a grant to Autism Speaks in honor of its late Chairman of the Board, Sir Dennis Weatherstone.
• 05 January 2009 / The HeartSongs Project develops a worldwide network
  The Stavros Niarchos Foundation/s support of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics/ HeartSongs Project has resulted in more, farther-reaching international research.