Venue and Other Useful Information

Conference Location

The conference was held at the
Hellenic American Union
Massalias 22
10680 Athens
Tel.: 2103680900  Fax: 2103633174
For telephone enquiries, please contact the ECGBL 2010 secretariat on: +30 210 368 9413, 9426

See the Googlemap here or by typing ECGBL 2011 Athens into Google Maps.

Organised with the co-operation of the



University Club of Athens


Athens University Museum


Central Athens Hotel restaurant view


The Parthenon

Images courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

University information

The University of Athens, inaugurated on 3rd May 1837, was first housed in a neoclassical residence, on the northeastern side of the Acropolis, renovated today and operating as the University Museum. Initially named "Othonian University" after Greece's first King, Othon, it consisted of 4 academic units and 52 students. Being the first university in the newly established modern Greek state, as well as in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean region, it has played a decisive role for the production of knowledge and culture.

Currently, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens is the largest state institution of higher education in Greece, and among the largest universities in Europe. As all other Greek universities, it is a self-governed legal entity of public law and all major policy issues are determined by the Ministry of Education, Life-Long Learning and Religious Affairs. Retaining its academic autonomy, it fully respects the constitutionally secured right to everyone for a free education based on state funding, benefits from its property and legacies, as well as from the funding of research projects with national and international partners. All funds are invested into the management and operation of educational, research and cultural programmes, into student and staff services and grants.

With a student body of about 80,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students, over 2,000 members of academic staff and approximately 1,300 administrative and secretarial staff and technical personnel, the University of Athens aims at excellence in both teaching and research in a broad range of disciplines.

For more information, visit the University website.

Conference Dinner venue

The conference dinner was held in the rooftop restaurant of the Central Athens Hotel.

General information

Located in the center of Greece, the capital of Athens is a modern cosmopolitan metropolis central to economic, financial, industrial, political and cultural life and rated as an alpha-world city.

Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, it is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely due to the impact of its cultural and political achievements during the 5th and 4th centuries BC on the rest of the then known European continent.

The heritage of the classical era is still evident in the city, represented by a number of ancient monuments and works of art, the most famous of all being the Parthenon, widely considered a key landmark of early Western civilization. The city also retains a vast variety of Roman and Byzantine monuments, as well as a smaller number of remaining Ottoman monuments projecting the city's long history across the centuries. Athens is home to two UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the Acropolis of Athens and the medieval Daphni Monastery. Landmarks of the modern era, dating back to the establishment of Athens as the capital of the independent Greek state in 1833, include the Hellenic Parliament (19th century) and the Athens Trilogy consisting of the National Library of Greece, the Athens University and the Academy of Athens. Athens was the host city of the first modern-day Olympic Games in 1896, and 108 years later it welcomed home the 2004 Summer Olympics. Athens is home to the National Archeological Museum, featuring the world's largest collection of ancient Greek antiquities, as well as the new Acropolis Museum. [source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens]

For more information on the city of Athens please see the other links section below.

Other useful links

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Official City website
Official website of the Greek Tourism Organisation
Athens Cultural Guide

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