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Staellinika, an initiative for young Greek language learners by Simon Fraser University (SFU) and the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has launched in full.

Through nonprofit Hope Runners, kids living with disabilities use specially designed wheelchairs to clock miles of racing on Greece’s roads and through its mountains.

The iMEdD Lab created and maintains an interactive application that tracks rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Greece and around the globe. Now it’s launching a new visualization to capture schools in Greece that have shut down due to COVID-19.

Parks in are once again flooded with small groups of friends, squares are filled with the sounds of children playing, and sidewalks are bustling. During a time in which public space in cities has gained new importance, the ARTWORKS exhibition “Unhappy Monuments” is taking up residence in Eleftherias Park in Athens.

They’re a human rights lawyer, an oceanographer, a multidisciplinary artist, a veterinarian, a health innovator, an engineer, and a free speech advocate.

Village life is proverbially slow. This doesn’t hold true for the Greek village of Vamvakou, where there’s something new on offer every day, even for visitors who have been before.

On the Greek islands of Agios Efstratios, Kasos and Tilos, children stand facing each other, each armed with a sword.

Confronted with entrenched and growing income inequality, deadly racial disparities, and political and economic systems that seem incapable of delivering fundamental solutions, people in the United States and elsewhere are turning with renewed interest to a very old idea: socialism.

Architecture and music, though very different in form, share more in common than they seem to at first: the primacy of structure, the importance of contrasts and textures, and the deep and immediate communication with the viewer or listener.