The Department of Psychology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) – Cyprus Branch invites prospective students to submit an expression of interest for entry to its Greek-taught Undergraduate Programme in Psychology. The programme has a standard duration of eight (8) semesters and leads to the award of a Bachelor’s…

Times Higher Education has just released the 2025-2026 edition of its World University Rankings (THE WUR). Alongside QS and ARWU (also known as the Shanghai Ranking), experts recognize THE WUR as one of the three most respected and influential global university rankings. This year’s list features over 2,191 institutions from 115 countries,…

The “Resilience Economics and Sustainable Transitions” Centre at the Department of Economics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) has been officially designated as a new International Centre of Excellence (ICoE) of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) Programme cosponsored by the International Science…

The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens has taken a major step in advancing its academic programmes at its Cyprus Branch with the official opening of new, state-of-the-art laboratories in Nicosia. These facilities, located in the heart of the city, significantly expand the University’s physical and educational presence on the…

Professor Vassilis Gorgoulis of the Laboratory of Histology-Embryology at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, together with his collaborators, has published a recent paper in the prestigious, high-impact journal Molecular Cancer. The study decodes for the first time the role of cellular senescence in…

A research team from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens has recently published a study entitled ‘Exploring the Dynamics of Digital and Social Media Marketing by Political Parties: Organic Posts vs. Paid Advertising on Meta Platforms’ in the Journal of Political Marketing.

https://doi.org/10.1080/15377857.2025.2599274

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It has become an established feature of the MSc in Journalism and New Media (Department of Communication and Media Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) for postgraduate students to take on the role of political correspondent in a briefing simulation with Government Spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis, now for the fifth year in a…

Professor Emmanouil Pikoulis of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens’ School of Medicine and the MSc in Global Health – Disaster Medicine coordinated an academic working meeting earlier this month in Athens. The event brought together seven Universities from Europe and Asia as part of the EU-funded LEAN project (Erasmus+,…

Film director Fotos Lambrinos was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Department of Digital Arts and Cinema of the School of Economics and Political Sciences at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

The award ceremony was held on Friday, 19 December 2025, in the University’s Great Hall.

On Thursday, January 8, 2026, a feature article was published on the BBC website about the project ‘Biodiversity and Archaeological Sites’ (BIAS). The extensive text highlights the unique role of archaeological sites as ‘harbours’ of biodiversity. These sites have remained unchanged for many decades, and their natural environment has been…