On April 24th, 2026, the Hellenic Sinology Center received a high-level delegation from the government of Shandong Province, one of the most economically dynamic and culturally important provinces of the PR China. The head of the delegation was Mr. Lin Haibin, Deputy Director General of the Office of Foreign Affairs, accompanied by Mr. Cao (...)

The Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University is pleased to announce the 19th Audiovisual Arts Festival, which will take place in Corfu from Thursday, May 7 to Sunday, May 17.

          Upon the invitation of the director of the UNESCO Chair in Film Art and Cultural Diversity of the Beijing Film Academy, Ms. Zhou Zhijun, the director of the UNESCO Chair on Threats to Cultural Heritage and to Cultural Heritage-Related Activities at the Ionian University, Professor Katsios Stavros, visited Beijing and Qingdao in (...)

The event “Career Day 2026”, organized by the Department of Tourism of Ionian University, was successfully held on Wednesday, April 1, 2026. The main objective of the event was to connect students and graduates with the labour market and to strengthen the Department’s collaboration with tourism stakeholders and businesses.

On Monday, 16 March 2026, the Department of Tourism of the Ionian University welcomed 90 students from Potamos Primary School and the 4th Experimental Primary School of Corfu “Athenagoreio”, accompanied by their teachers.

The Ionian University Research Day was successfully held on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, at the exhibition space of the Corfu Port Authority, as an open celebration of scientific knowledge, creativity, and innovation, aiming to showcase the rich and multidimensional research output of the University and strengthen its connection with society.

Organized by the Political Philosophy and Digital Technologies Laboratory, Department of History and Digital Humanities, Ionian University, Greece, and the Research Project “A(I)nthropology during the Anthropocene: Hybrid research and creative pedagogy at the limits of the human”, funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (2025-2028). Corfu, 22-23 October 2026

The Rector of Ionian University, Professor Andreas Floros, has the honour of inviting you to the Ceremony for the Conferral of Emeritus Status Credentials upon the Emeritus Professors of Ionian University and to the Ceremony for the Proclamation of “Friends of Ionian University”.

           

The Ionian University is organizing Research Day on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, with the aim of promoting and disseminating the research activity that has been carried out or is currently underway at the Institution to the public.

The Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University and Labattoir (Old Slaughterhouses of Thessaloniki) invite you to the opening of Martha Gogakou’s exhibition titled A psychographic map, presented as part of the completion of her doctoral dissertation entitled: “On the abstract in art: Spiritual threads and subconscious weaving, or a psychogeographic map.”

ICONA FESTIVAL 2025 is organized and promoted by the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University. ICONA 2025 is taking place online from November 13th to November 16th 2025. The Festival culminates on Sunday, November 16, 2025, at 17.00 CET, with the award ceremony for the winning films. 

  On October 24th 2025, the "World Sinologists' China Night", a grand event and closing ceremony, concluded the Second "World Sinology Month" at the Center for World Sinology at Beijing Language and Culture University. Nearly 100 sinologists and China studies experts from over 30 countries attended the event, honoring outstanding (...)

The successive extensions of the exhibition "...about the Desired University - The Ionian Academy and Lord Guilford" reflect the great success of this initiative.

The 3rd Sino-Balkanica Conference, organized by the Hellenic Sinology Center of the Ionian University and the World Sinology Center of Beijing Language and Culture University, aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and cooperation among scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and students engaged in Sinology and Chinese studies across Southeastern Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, and beyond.

  UNESCO Chair on Threats to Cultural Heritage as a years-long supporter of Corfu Literary Festival is delighted to invite you to the eighth Corfu Literary Festival from Monday 8th to Sunday 14th September 2025. Corfu inspires the arts in all its forms and lives by the ethos of philoxenia (hospitality). In September, the island is a riot of wildflowers and sunshine, and we cannot imagine a (...)

The statement is now online. Call to Europe to champion academic freedom and protect academics at risk - SAR Europe This has been sent to the European Commission President and is being sent to European Commissioners.  PAUSE colleagues have sent it President Macron and other key officials.

May16th and May 17th, 2025, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece (Hybrid Format)