The Onassis Foundation and the Alexander S. Onassis  Foundation Cultural  Center  non­ profit  organization (AMKE) welcome to Athens 190 students from Greece, the European Union, the USA, Australia and Asia in order to participate in the summer schools within the framework of the project entitled The Academy of Plato:  Knowledge and  pioneering ideas  development”.
 
The pilot project started in the summer 2012 and was completed successfully. The program will be continued during the summer of 2013 where 70 students and their escort teachers from the High School of Rodolivos, Serres (Greece), the Institut du Sacré-Coeur from Mons (Belgium), the Frederick Douglass Academy from New York (USA), the Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden from Leiden (Netherlands) and the National High School for Ancient Languages and Cultures “St. Constantine Cyril the Philosopher” from Sophia (Bulgaria) will visit Athens.
 
Summer Schools will be offering a variety of interesting topics and will enable high school students to meet their peers from  Greek  schools and  from  other schools abroad. They  will  be  able  to  approach and  to  constructively  deal  with  various fields/ topics within  the scope of the rationale of the Academy of Plato and  to familiarize with  the developments in various fields that  take place i n Greece.
 
The guest students will get  a taste of Greek  history, literature, philosophy and  culture from  the  ancient times until  today,  through contemporary and  attractive  methods of approaching specific topics;  these include  team  work  and  workshops, visit  to sites  of particular cultural, archeological or  architectural  interest, sports, lectures offered   by University and  high school teachers, open  discussions with museum directors, restorers of works of art, writers, theater and film directors, photographers, etc.

The project of Summer Schools is being implemented in frame of the project Academy of Plato: Development of Knowledge and Innovative Ideas which is co-financed from National and European Funds through the operational program Education and Lifelong Learning.

Click here here to download the program of the Summer Schools 2013.