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The Michael and Kitty Dukakis Center for Public and Humanitarian Service and Southeast European Studies at Oxford invite you to attend an interactive discussion on “The Future of Democracy in Europe and Beyond”
Keynote speaker: Dr. Erhard Busek, Coordinator, Southeast European Cooperative Initiative
Tuesday, July 1, 6:00 p.m., Municipal Council of Thessaloniki
 

Την Τετάρτη 25 Ιουνίου 2014, στο Κέντρο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης του Κρατικού Μουσείου Σύγχρονης Τέχνης πραγματοποιήθηκε η απονομή των βραβείων στους νικητές και στους φιναλίστ του Διαγωνισμού Επιχειρηματικών Ιδεών «John & Mary Pappajohn Business Plan Awards». Τον Διαγωνισμό διοργάνωσε το Anatolia School of Business του American College of Thessaloniki (ACT), μέλους του Κολλεγίου Ανατόλια. Στη διοργάνωση κατατέθηκαν 141 ιδέες από 240 άτομα.

The American University, based in Washington D.C., in collaboration with ACT is developing a new pre-freshman summer program for the summer of 2014, which it hopes to expand in the future. A small group of 10 students will be arriving in Thessaloniki on June 27th and staying for three full weeks. These students will be chaperoned by their Philosophy professor, Dr. Andrea Tchemplik, from the Department of Philosophy and Religion at A.U. Dr.

On Monday the 12th of May, 2014 the lecture “Israel's Miracle in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Start-ups” took place at the Audio Visual room in the New Building at ACT campus. The two speakers Mr. Noam Band, CEO of Algomizer Ltd., and Ms. Ayla Matalon, Executive Director of the MIT Enterprise Forum, spoke to the audience about entrepreneurship in Israel sharing personal experiences.

It is a lucky gal after all the one who gets the chance to revisit ACT this summer and relive her fondest memories on campus. 

And that lucky gal is our study abroad alumna Carly Loutos, whose video on YouTube managed to pull in more than 5,000 views.

Check out our "Bring Me Back" contest announcement video and don't forget to watch Carly's inspired entry here as well.

Ανακοίνωση Διαγωνισμού Επιχειρηματικών Ιδεών
του Anatolia School of Business
Τετάρτη 12 Μαρτίου 2014, 18:30
Δημαρχείο Θεσσαλονίκης, Αίθουσα Πολλαπλών Χρήσεων

On the 4th and 5th of February, the Anatolia School of Business in its mission to support the entrepreneurship, hosted in Bissell Library, the CampusBus training initiative.  The Campus Bus is an actual bus with a group of trainers that travels around Greece providing workshops regarding entrepreneurship.  Thessaloniki and the Anatolia School of Business was its last station.  Participants had the opportunity to attend 6 workshops which educated, energized and inspired them regarding entrepreneurship and business success. 

Professor Stamos Karamouzis was appointed, on January 2014, as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the American College of Thessaloniki.

The Dukakis Center will celebrate fifteen years of public service initiatives during the spring 2014 semester. Several events are planned, including the annual Diplomatic Academy, three round tables on various topics, a conference on threats to democracy in the EU, and residencies on campus by Andreas Akaras and Alan Cafruny (Hamilton College). Students at ACT, IB, and Anatolia will have opportunities to undertake long- and short term internships throughout the semester.
 

On Nov, 14-17, a number of ACT students participated in "EUROROMA 2013", a sports tournament in Rome. The tournament was probably the largest that ACT had ever participated in, with more than 60 universities and Colleges from 24 countries and more than 1500 participants. In Tennis there were 16 universities and Colleges and ACT was 2nd in its group. In the Quarterfinals we lost to University of Pula, Spain. ACT was represented by Katerina Kosmidou and Petar Przuljevic with coach Vangelis Pensos (ACT '07). In Table Tennis there were more than 50 participants.