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The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Grants Hellenic Studies in Canada

Simon Fraser University

The Simon Fraser University of Canada (SFU, www.sfu.ca) announced yesterday the establishment of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies after receiving a series of exclusive grants from The Stavros Niarchos Foundation since 2003.

The Centre will be offering courses in Greek and Byzantine History, Greek language and Culture and will render the SFU one of the top study abroad destinations on this particular object of study.

Additionally, the Centre aims at significantly broadening the already existing Greek language tutoring programs used mainly by Chinese students, which have been established with the help of a previous grant from The Stavros Niarchos Foundation. The core of these tutoring programs is “The Odysseas Online Language Tutor”, an e-learning platform offering various levels of Greek language, that is recognized as a pioneer of online Greek language instruction and is being used around the world, most notably in 15 universities in China.

The new Centre will also focus on further developing its corporate university bilateral relationships with Chinese academic institutions in order to support the induction of Hellenic Studies in China. The post-graduate program offered by the Centre will seek to teach Greek History to Chinese scholars and educate Chinese professors, in order for them to be able to teach the Greek language and several other courses connected to Greece and its civilization back in their own country’s universities.

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