Events

2024, the chinese year of the Dragon Teaching the Chinese Language at I.U. The teaching of the Chinese language is offered to the students of the Ionian University without tuition fees based on the relevant agreement signed between the Ionian University, the Department of Foreign Languages Translation and Interpreting and the UNESCO Chair of the Ionian University with the Chinese Center (...)

The graduation days at the Ionian University's Departments on 7th-8th December 2023 offer the opportunity to share a small but important part of our university's and island's intangible heritage: a publication on the first graduation ceremony of the Ionian University in April 1989; the first graduates were students of the Department of Foreign Languages and Interpreting.  

The National Section of the International Council of Organizations of Folklore Festivals and Folk Arts CIOFF®, official partner of UNESCO, the IONIAN UNIVERSITY and the Educational & Cultural Association of Sinies – Corfu,  organize the International CIOFF® Festival of Mediterranean Cultures, in Corfu, 6-10 September 2023.

The Department of History, Politics and International Studies and Strategy International in collaboration with the UNESCO Chair "On threats to Cultural Heritage and its relatedactivities" and the Geocultural Analysis Laboratory of the Ionian University invite you to the public on line lecture of Professor Alexis Papadopoulos on the topic: "Vincentian Praxis in French State Formation From (...)

As part of the two-day conference "Exploring the world of translation", which is held by the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation, and Interpreting, Friday, April 28th, will be dedicated to preparing for a successful career.

This online workshop, co-organized by the Oslo Metropolitan University and the Ionian University, attempts to shed some light on the degree of professionalization of PSI in two countries, namely Norway and Greece, where perceptions of the role and function of public services, multilingualism among users of public services and interpreters providing specialized services for multilingual/multiethnic users differ considerably, thus affecting the extent of professionalization, the corresponding legal framework, and the prevailing administrative culture.

The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Faculty of Education and International Studies of OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University and the DFLTI of the Ionian University opens new paths for the two institutions.

The UNESCO Chair on Threats to Cultural Heritage, the Laboratory for Geocultural Analyses (GEOLab), Department F.L.T.I. and the Laboratory for the Documentation of Cultural & Historic Heritage, Department ALMS of the Ionian University organised on 15th March 2023 18:00-20:30 a hybrid Workshop "Threats to Cultural Heritage: normative and ethical approaches and contradictions".

On August 11, 2022, the inaugural workshop took place in the framework of the collaboration between the UNESCO Chair of the Ionian University with the Institute of Studies on the Mediterranean Rim of China's Zhejiang University of International Studies.

Upon an invitation of UNESCO to the Chair on Cultural Heritage and Cultural Heritage related Activities the Ionian University is participating to the UNESCO virtual Campus conference-debate on "How to fight against illicit trafficking of Cultural Objects?"