Niarchos family

Asimina Arvanitaki wants to explain the universe.

An ancient necropolis was discovered at the Falirikon Delta, in Attica during works for the building of the ‘Stavros Niarchos Cultural Centre over the past 20 days.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation announced that its Board decided to allocate 100 million euros to help combat the adverse effects of the Greek economic crisis. Chairman of the Board Andreas Drakopoulos announced that this amount had been benchmarked for Greece’s impoverished groups at the opening of the 4th Conference on Welfare Action in Athens.

Patrick and Serena

Tennis coach Patrick Mouratoglou claims to have coached the winners of six Grand Slams, a Golden Slam and an Olympic Gold medal. What he is best-known for is being Serena Williams’ boyfriend.

Paris and Paris

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation is renewing its sponsorship that gives visitors free access to all the buildings and exhibitions of the Benaki Museum each Thursday. This is the second year of the program, and kicks off on March 5. The only condition to the grant is that the museum collect an equal amount through a matching sponsorship by another party.

Infrastructure Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis on Monday played down calls by the European Commission for two EU-subsidized regeneration projects for the broader Athens area to be postponed, noting that the EC had simply expressed “reservations” and that the works would go ahead.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) on Monday announced that it is donating another 26.8 million euros toward 88 culture, education, health, social welfare and sports related projects.

Part of this benefaction is included in the 100 million euros that the SNF announced three years ago it would be contributing to alleviate the social impact of the crisis.

Twenty buildings have been slated for renovation in the area stretching from the Peace and Friendship Stadium (SEF) to Anavyssos, paving the way for a revamp of the southern Athens coast to enter its first leg.

The silver cup given to marathon winner Spyros Louis at the first Modern Olympic Games, held in Athens in 1896, has been temporarily moved to Switzerland in order to be exhibited at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) said on Thursday.

The cup will remain there for six months before returning to the Acropolis Museum in Athens.

A government official insisted Tuesday that the planned revamp of a 60-hectare stretch of Athens’s southern coast, the Faliro Delta, would not be delayed, noting that European Union structural funding had been secured for the project.