Participants in this year’s THYESPA programme received their Certificates of Attendance at a closing ceremony held in the University’s Great Hall on Thursday, 9 July 2026.

The event opened with welcoming remarks from Professor Sophia Papaioannou, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, International Relations and Extroversion.

Professor of Government and holder of the Lloyd M Bentsen Jr Chair in Government/Business Relations at the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, USA, James K Galbraith, has been awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Department of Economics, School of Economics and Political Science, National and…

The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens launched ‘NKUA in the City’, a programme of educational, cultural, and artistic activities conceived by the author, on 21 March 2024. Since February 2025, the initiative has been jointly organised with the Municipality of Athens under a Memorandum of Understanding between the University and…

Professor Gerasimos Siasos, Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, has been elected President of the Rectors’ Conference of Greek Public Universities, following a decision of the Conference’s Plenary Assembly at its meeting held on the island of Samos on 2–3 July 2026.