An international team of researchers carried out a detailed investigation of 36 European endemic plant species classified as "extinct", discovering that 17 were not extinct at all. Of these, three species have actually been rediscovered as a result of field research and two have been found preserved in European botanic gardens and seed banks.

Research Seminar Series in Economic Sciences, 2020-2021
Department of Economics
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 19:00-20:30
Aristeidis Samitas, Professor of Finance, College of Business, Zayed University & Department of Business Administration, Business School, University of the Aegean
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Horizon Europe, the world’s largest multinational research and innovation programme, has issued its first call for grant applications. Over the next 7 years, the European Union’s giant research-spending scheme will distribute a record €95.5 billion (US$116 billion) — including €5.4 billion from a COVID-19 recovery fund — to basic-science...

The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens becomes the first Greek University to enter the 200 best universities in the world, meeting more than one criterion.

More specifically, the N.K.U.A. is ranked 180th worldwide among 12,000 universities according to Webometrics Ranking(2021, 1^st semester).  In addition, it is ranked 49th...

There is an invisible city that appears on no map, and yet is everywhere. This city, whose foundations were laid in 1978, continues to be built. But in place of buildings, it has restless ideas, words and algorithms. And in place of roads, it has the sciences we know – medicine, law, biology, and the like – and the sciences we will come to...

Evangelos Bakeas, Associate Professor of Environmental Analysis, has been appointed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) as Member of the Laboratory Expert Advisory Group for a two years term.
The Laboratory Expert Advisory Group provides the overall management of the accreditation and re-accreditation of anti-doping laboratories around the...

Erasmus Orientation 8.2.2021 - Rector's welcoming address

With great pleasure I welcome today a hundred and twenty four (124) students from sixty seven (67) Universities and forty eight (48) countries worldwide! The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens is the oldest higher education institution in Greece and the first University of...

The Kolumbo (Santorini) submarine volcanic ecosystem, a natural biotechnology resource in Greece, features a ‘hidden pearl’ locality of added value to global biomedical research. A working geobiology  research group from the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, and the  National and Kapodistrian University of Athens has found new clues in ...