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BENEVOLENCE

dation decided to make another donation to know. The 95 newcomers and another 7,408 inhab-
the Hellenic Navy, this time for the upgrade itants of the City of Tomorrow will be taking steps
and renovation of the Athens Naval Hospital. In forward and changing society for the better.
this context, on Tuesday, 26 July, an agreement For the academic year 2022-23, the Onassis
was signed by the President of the Aikaterini Foundation has a total of 95 scholarships: 81 for
Laskaridis Foundation, Honorary Rear Admiral international studies (45 for postgraduate and
Panagiotis Laskaridis, and the Chief of the Hel- 36 for doctoral degrees) and 14 for postgraduate
lenic Navy, Vice Admiral Stylianos Petrakis HN. studies in Greece. The selection, whose criterion
The upgrade of the Athens Naval Hospital will was academic excellence, was made by leading
include the creation of a Cardiology Clinic, a Greek and international scientists, university pro-
Short-Term Hospitalization Ward, and the mod- fessors, and academics within the framework of a
ernisation of Ward 3B facilities. The agreement merit-based evaluation. This year, emphasis was
was signed in the presence of the Minister of placed on academic fields that have emerged
National Defense, Nikos Panagiotopoulos, the to meet the needs of the present day, such as
Deputy Minister of National Defense, Nikos Har- Earthquake Engineering, Machine Learning &
dalias, and the Chief of the Hellenic National Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Special and
Defence General Staff, General Konstantinos Inclusive Education, Computational Archaeol-
Floros. ogy and Transplantation Research. The selected
fields and specialisations are all connected to
THE ONASSIS FOUNDATION HAS the Onassis Foundation action areas, which focus
ANNOUNCED THE BENEFICIARIES OF on innovation and breakthrough technologies.
ITS 2022-23 SCHOLARSHIPS FOR THE In its announcement, the Foundation said, “We
UPCOMING ACADEMIC YEAR hope that the City of Tomorrow will grow with
The Onassis Foundation “City of Tomorrow” has each passing year, filling with innovative new
once again opened its doors to welcome young ideas and beautiful minds”
people with innovative ideas and bright minds
to inhabit it. This year, as every other year since STAVROS NIARCHOS FOUNDATION:
1978, the Onassis Foundation welcomes the 95 PARTNERSHIP TO EXPAND QUALITY
new scholars that will be the City of Tomorrow’s CANCER TREATMENT FOR CHILDREN
new inhabitants. The Foundation will support them ACROSS BORDERS
throughout their journey so they feel free to open The Stavros Niarchos Foundation’s (SNF) more
up new avenues with their ideas – to expand the than $750 million Health Initiative represents a
sciences we know and the ones we will come to global effort to enhance access to quality pub-

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