November signals the beginning of the olive harvest season which lasts until mid-January. Very few products are so linked with a place’s history and culture as olive oil and olive trees are regarding Greece’s cultural heritage. Endowed w…
A number of big technology investments have been announced lately in Greece placing the country on the map of intriguing digital developments. Infrastructure investments and acquisitions by big US and European tech companies along with a dynamic star…
Greek Shipping is not just a remarkable economic activity, making Greece nowadays the world’s largest shipowing nation, but it is rather an integral part of the country’s cultural heritage. The geographical position of the country -locate…
Recognizing the significant contribution of the audiovisual sector to a country’s economy Greece introduced in the recent years an investment mechanism in order to support audiovisual and film productions. Through a “cash rebate” sy…
Usually politicians inaugurate buildings or development projects after they are completed and when they are ready for use. But this time things were different. The Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis chose to inaugurate last Friday the start of…
Cities are socio-economic entities playing a significant role in the development of urban areas and the prosperity of its populations. Generating wealth, employment and economic growth cities and urban areas can go beyond their administrative role e…
“In Greece you are modest. You have excellent startups getting matured and getting copied outside of Greece, but you don’t communicate them”. These were the words, back in 2014, of Neelie Kroes– the then Vice-President of the…
Greece was a pleasant surprise at the third place of the European Design Awards 2020, an annual awards program for outstanding work in the communication design field. It is worth noting that more than 1500 participants coming from 35 different Europe…
Almost everyone is nowadays familiar with the notion of recycling. However, not everybody is acquainted with the idea of Circular Economy (CE). While recycling has to do with the recovery and reprocessing of waste materials such as glass, paper, pla…
Wishing to contribute to the global effort to combat and contain the COVID-19 pandemic, the Greek scientific and research community have already been working hard to this end. Improving understanding of the newly identified virus and its possible fu…
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