On May 20th, 2017, Professor Yorgos Kentrotis was honoured with the first prize of the 1st International Poetry Contest "Giorgos Seferis" for his poem entitled "Dionysios Solomos annotates and comments as he translates the Aria of Pietro Metastasio". The award ceremony took place in the Sala delle Capriate of Palazzo Steri in Piazza Marina, Palermo, Italy.

• In May 2017, the theatrical play entitled "Bloody Counter-parts", written by the Greek sketch artist Arkás and translated into French by Dimitrios Filias, Associate Professor at DFLTI, was published by Grigoris Publications. The play is the inaugural publication of the brand new book series called “Modern Greek Literature Translated”, the scientific coordinator of which is Professor Filias.

Dr Anastasia Parianou, Professor at DFLTI, and Dr Sigmund Kvam, Professor at the Østfold University College in Norway, led a seminar entitled 'Textanalyse und Translation' (Text analysis and Translation).The seminar was held between the 3rd and 6th April 2017 at DFLTI, in which the German-speaking students of the DFLTI took part.

Panayotis Kelandrias and Anastasia Parianou, Associate Professors of DFLTI, took part in the works of the Procés d'Adquisició de la Competència Traductora i Avaluació group (PACTE) which was held on March 16th, 2017 in the Faculty of Translation & Interpreting of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) as part of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages Programme (CEFR).

In September 2016 the international collective volume entitled "Language and Nation Crossroads and Connections" was published by Waxmann Publishing GmbH which has been edited by Anastasia Parianou, Associate Professor of DFLTI, along with Guri Ellen Barstad, Arnstein Hjelde, Sigmund Kvam and John Todd. Dr. Parianou has also contributed with her article "Nation, Translation und kleine Sprachen".

Lorandou Publications (Corfu) published the translation of senior European Commission official Jimmy Jamar’s work: “Letters to Byron: reflections on Greece of yesterday, of today, of tomorrow”, accomplished by Michalis Politis, Associate Professor, DFLTI.

The External Evaluation Report by the Hellenic Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency for the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting of the Ionian University has been published.

The new book of William Mallinson entitled The Same Things Return with Different Colours is already published.

The anthology entitled Narratives of Risk: Interdisciplinary Studies ‒ Narrative des Risikos. Interdisziplinäre Beiträge was co-edited by Anastasia Parianou, Associate Professor at the Ionian University, Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting (DFLTI), and academics from the Østfold University College (Norway). It was published by Waxmann (Münster/Germany) in December (...)

... by the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting of the Ionian University to celebrate its twentieth anniversary.