NEWS

The Director of the Veria Central Public Library and Head of the Future Library initiative talks to To Vima regarding this new project, supported through a grant from the Foundation.

With a grant to the non profit organization Future Library (www.futurelibrary.gr), the Stavros Niarchos Foundation supports a study aimed at documenting the current state of public and municipal libraries in Greece, and the preparation of a plan and proposals for actions to improve them.

LEWISBURG, PΑ – Two Bucknell University professors have been selected to lead the first joint Greek-American archaeological dig in the ancient city of Thebes, Greece – the first such excavation of the historic Ismenion Hill area in nearly a century.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) announced today that it will grant $500,000 to assist Japan relief and aid operations. The funds will be directed to the Japanese Red Cross Society (JRCS) and the Japan Society in equal grants of $250,000.

The director of the Veria Central Public Library, Ioannis Trohopoulos, talks to The National Herald about the library, the award in 2010 from the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation, and his collaboration with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

A series of articles in the Greek press on the presentation of Renzo Piano’s preliminary Master Plan for the redevelopment of the Faliron Bay coastal front.

Article in The National Herald on a panel discussion concerning Greece and the financial crisis, with the participation of economists from Yale and Penn State University.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation, in response to a grant request by the Greek State, has provided funding amounting to EURO €3 million for the carrying out of the Preliminary Master Plan intended for the regeneration of the Faliron Bay area (coastal front of Kallithea-Moshato-Paleo Faliro).

The opening of a major retrospective exhibition on the life and work of Ioannis Altamuras will take place on the 30th of March at the Pireos Annex of the Benaki Museum. The exhibition will remain open to the public until the 22nd of May 2011.