Globally, the Child Eye Health organization estimates that at least 450 million children have vision conditions requiring treatment, and 90 million children live with some form of vision loss. In Europe, the European Blind Union (EBU) (https://www.euroblind.org/) estimates that 30 million people are visually impaired. These figures highlight…

On July 16, 2025, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and Henan University. The agreement was signed in Zhengzhou, China, by Professor Sophia Papaioannou, Vice Rector for Academic, International Affairs and Extroversion, on behalf of NKUA, and Professor Zhang Ligang, Vice…

Prof. Dr. Xenofon Baraliakos, Medical Director of the Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet Ruhrgebiet Herne and Professor for Internal Medicine and Rheumatology at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, is the new president of the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR).
During his two-year term, he plans to implement a number of…

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met this morning at the Maximos Mansion with the President of Yale University, Maurie McInnis, and the Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Gerasimos Siasos, on the occasion of the dual Master’s degree to be offered by the two Universities entitled ‘Global Environmental Sciences and…