The first Ionian Contemporary Animation Festival ICONA 2019, organized by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University (within the framework of the CIAK Intereg program) took place in Corfu from the 29th of November until the 1st of December 2019.

Organized by the Dept. of History of the Ionian University, in the framework of the Interreg Program FISH&CHIPS

The Info Day in the framework of the CIAK ("Common Initiatives to AcKnowledge and Valorize the Tourism Potential of the Program Area through Cinema") project was held with great success on Wednesday, February 13, 2019. In the context of the event, the project actions that are being implemented were presented in detail, with emphasis on the Memory Greece – Italy Call, which aims to finance 10 short film productions, the script-writing seminar, scheduled for three weeks in Corfu, Ioannina and Bari, and the forthcoming animation festival to be held in the city of Corfu.

Accomplished visual artist and filmmaker of Eija-Liisa Ahtila was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, in a ceremony that took place in the Ionian Academy on Tuesday, June 5th, 2018.

The Department of History of the Ionian University awarded Professor Katherine E. Fleming an Honorary Doctorate, in a ceremony held at the Ionian Academy.

Within the framework of the Innovation Design Thinking Educational Program, funded by the US Embassy in Greece, and organised by Assoc. Prof. Adamantia Patelis at the American Corner of the Public Central Library of Corfu.

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.

The Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University proclaimed the Archbishop of Athens, Hieronymus II, as an Honorary Doctorate. The proclamation ceremony was hold on Monday, December 12th, 2016, at 19:00 in the Ionian Academy.

The European Multidisciplinary Research Network on the Challenges and Uses of Information and Communication Technologies (EUTIC) conducted the 12th edition of the EUTIC International Conference, co-organized by MICA (France) and the University of Athens (Greece), supported by the Ionian University, in the Technological Educational Institute of Ionian Islands, Zakynthos Island on 15-17 September 2016. http://eutic.ntlab.gr

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