DFLTI and the Educational Centre of the Embassy of Iran have signed a memorandum of scientific and cultural cooperation.

The prominent French Professor, Political Scientist and Arabologist, Gilles Kepel, paid a visit to the Rector of Ionian University, Professor Andreas Floros with the aim of coming closer to the activities of our University.

On 25 February 2020, Themistocles Mourtzanos' (church minister) lecture on “The Language of the Church” constituted an important event organised by POLICO.

On 10 March 2020, Dr Ioannis Economou, the person speaking the most languages in EU, official Translator and Interpreter at the Directorate-General for Translation and member of MENSA, gave two lectures.

On 3 March 2020, Dr Maria Aslanidi (Teaching Assistant at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University) gave a speech on “Academic-style writing, research and code of conduct” and shared her knowledge with all participants on research procedure(s) along with the aims, techniques and scientific methodology relating to scientific productions.

On 11 February 2020, Kyriakos Kolessis (Head of the School for Second-chance Education at the Corfu Prison facility) presented an interesting and unique lecture on “The Language of Prison”. The originality of the speech content triggered a truly fruitful dialogue with the audience that included also undergraduate students and non-students.

On 8/3/2016, Assistant Professors Maria Tsigou and Sotirios Livas gave a lecture titled “Linguistic pluralism and human rights in crisis-ridden Europe” at the Solomos Museum, Corfu, within the framework of collaboration between the Laboratory for Language and Politics of DFLTI and the Society for Corfiot Studies.