The Swedish Institute and the Swedish School at Athens participated in the Multilingual Festival for the celebration of the European Day of Languages, at Technopolis, Athens, Saturday 24 September 2016, 10.00 to 15.00.

The multilingual festival and its programme that was full of events and happenings was organized jointly with twelve other countries represented by their institutes and embassies, all members of EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture) with the aim to promote language learning.

Attached files: Poster

The Swedish Institute at Athens and Aegeus-Society for Aegean Prehistory are very pleased to announce the Aegean lectures for autumn 2016. All lectures will take place at the Swedish Institute (Mitseon 9, Athens), at 19:00 on the following dates:

De Svenska Medelhavsinstituten – i Athen, Istanbul, Rom och San Michele – finns i år representerade med en monter (B03:64) på Bokmässan i Göteborg (21-25 september).

Swedish award-winning writer and journalist Jan Guillou visited Athens for two exciting events. Mr Guillou talked about his life and work, which has been translated into more than 20 languages and revolves about themes concerning world history, international political relations and the law.

Friday September 16, at 8.30 pm, IANOS bookstore (Stadiou 24, Athens)

Saturday September 17, at 12.00-16.00, Stoa tou Vivliou (Book Arcade, Pesmazoglou 5 & Stadiou, Athens)

Welcome to the Autumn 2016 series of Athens Greek Religion Seminars.

Programme

In the context of the 17th Papaioanou Festival organized by the Municipality of Kavala, the Swedish House in Kavala hosts a dance and music performance on Monday, September 5, at 20:30.

Take part in this year’s online competition and win a free language course in Swedish, English, French, German, Polish, Czech or Italian!

To participate, visit the European Day of Languages’ online competition site. The winners will be announced at the European Day of Languages event held at Klafthmonos Square on 24 September.

Closing date for entries: Sunday 18 September 2016

BACKGROUND

A two week long trip in 2015 united 11 young archaeologists focussed on the LBA / EIA in the Northern Aegean and Southern Balkans and brought them on the traces of late prehistoric pottery from Central and Western Macedonia to Epirus, Albania, F.Y.R.O.M., Kosovo and SW Bulgaria.

PROGRAMME 2016