Associate Professor Anastasia Parianou published a paper entitled "Risikokommunikation und Translation leicht gemacht – oder: von der Pythia zur Risikoempathie" (Risk communication and translation made easy – or: from Pythia to risk empathy) in an edited volume by M. Calderón Tichy, R. Heuberger & E. Chamson (Eds.) (2017), Gesundheit & Sprache / Health & Language, Series: InnTrans. Innsbrucker Beiträge zu Sprache, Kultur und Translation. New York; Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

Dr Anastasia Parianou, Professor at DFLTI, and Dr Sigmund Kvam, Professor at the Østfold University College in Norway, led a seminar entitled 'Textanalyse und Translation' (Text analysis and Translation).The seminar was held between the 3rd and 6th April 2017 at DFLTI, in which the German-speaking students of the DFLTI took part.

​The first International Conference on Tourism and Crime (Yellow Tourism) ​is taking place at the Ionian University (Ionian Academy) from April27 ​th to April 29th2017.

Panayotis Kelandrias and Anastasia Parianou, Associate Professors of DFLTI, took part in the works of the Procés d'Adquisició de la Competència Traductora i Avaluació group (PACTE) which was held on March 16th, 2017 in the Faculty of Translation & Interpreting of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) as part of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages Programme (CEFR).

• Assistant Professor Ioannis Karras delivered an open lecture (invited speaker) at the University of Macedonia entitled "Developing Intercultural Communication Skills in Business and Management" (5 December, 2016).

On 02/12/2016 DFLTI organised a one-day workshop entitled "Audio-Visual Translation (AVT) and access for people with disabilities" in collaboration with European Commission’s Directorate-General for the Translation (DGT) Office of Athens.

On 03/12/2016 the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting (DFLTI) organised in association with the Hellenic Society of Translation Studies the 1st "Young Researchers day conference" on the subject of "Translation and Translation Studies in the Hellenic Community".

Assistant Professor Ioannis Karras delivered a series of lectures entitled “Intercultural approaches to the teaching of EFL” within the framework of Erasmus+ mobility at the University of Cyprus (English Studies Department). The lectures were given to the Undergraduate and Postgraduate program (8-11 November, 2016).

In October 21st-27th, 2016, Anastasia Parianou, Associate Professor of DFLTI, in cooperation with Østfold University College organised the international conference "Spielräume der Übersetzung" in Rome, in which she presented her paper.

Assistant Professors Maria Tsigou and Sotirios Livas participated in the 38th International Conference of Functional Linguistics (Université de La Rochelle, France, 17-21 October 2016). They presented a paper entitled "La Charte Européenne pour les langues régionales et minoritaires d’un point de vue linguistique et juridique" (The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages from a linguistic and legal point of view).