Niarchos

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.

The Stavros Niarchos Park kicks off its operation with four days and nights of events offering futuristic-styled experiences to visitors. There will be sneak peaks at future events with will offer a ‘future-like experience’ to visitors, presenting a sneak-preview of the multifaceted program of music, art, photography, architecture, sports and all-night video art screenings.

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.

Following recent complaints from teachers that some children are going to school on an empty stomach, the Prolepsis Institute of Preventive Medicine, Environmental and Occupational Health on Wednesday released data from a survey that indicates the extent of the problem.

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.