Stavros Niarchos Foundation

SNFCC to host Green Deal Greece conference

The Lighthouse venue at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens will host the Green Deal Greece conference on November 2.

Organized by the Technical Chamber of Greece and the economix.gr website, the event is titled "The Resilience of Infrastructures and Regions, Today and Tomorrow: Challenges, threats and opportunities toward the green reform."

Car overturns near SNFCC

A traffic accident led to a car overturning near the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in southern Athens on Monday afternoon. The accident, that occurred at approximately 3 p.m., has led to disruptions in traffic.

EU firefighters join Greek colleagues

It's midday on Friday, July 7, and the phone rings on the desk of Vasileios Bikas, the coordinator for foreign detachments at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Hellenic Fire Corps Training Center. The call is about a blaze in brushland in the East Attica town of Keratea that may not be threatening houses but has the fire service on alert.

Children beat the heat in Athens

Children play in a water fountain during a heat wave, at Stavros Niarchos foundation Cultural Center in Athens, Thursday. Temperatures were starting to creep up in Greece, where a heatwave was forecast to reach up to 44 degrees Celsius in some parts of the country over the weekend. [AP]

California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom on promoting youth mental health

Documentary filmmaker and actor Jennifer Siebel Newsom made the mental health of children and teenagers her number one priority when her husband, Gavin Newsom, became governor of the US state of California in 2019, and it was also the subject that brought her to Greece recently, to speak at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation's Nostos conference.

Fighting the stigma of mental illness

Up close, Glenn Close exudes on the one hand the stately air of a big screen star and on the other that unique simplicity that characterizes most of her American colleagues. The award-winning actress was in Athens recently to take part in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation's SNF Nostos conference, which this year was dedicated to mental health.

Obama: Democratic ethos under threat but continues to inspire

Seven years after his last speech in Greece, former US president Barack Obama returned to the stage of the Greek National Opera's Stavros Niarchos Hall in southern Athens on Thursday for a conversation with Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Co-President Andreas Dracopoulos as part of the annual Nostos conference.

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