HELLENIC REPUBLIC
UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA
RECTORSHIP

PRESS RELEASE
The Colloquium on «The European Dimension in Education: A collaboration between educational institutions in Greece and Belgium», held by the Foreign Languages Centre of the University of Ioannina, was successfully completed on Thursday, March 2nd 2017.
In the conference, the innovative program 'FLC DUTCH' was presented to the public, which concerns a technology-enhanced Dutch language learning program for the students of the University of Ioannina. Greetings to the audience were addressed by the Deputy Rector Prof. Andreas Fotopoulos and the Honorary Consul of Belgium in Ioannina, Mr. George Papageorgiou. The keynote speaker was the ambassador Mr. Marc Van den Reeck who gave an inspiring talk on: «Cultural and educational exchange: top down or bottom up; or both? ». The Colloquium was organized by Ms Theodora Tseligka, Senior Teaching Fellow in EAP/ESP at the University of Ioannina and Ms Lefkothea – Vassiliki Andreou, English Language teacher in Secondary Education, currently serving at the University of Ioannina. Furthermore, the ambassador and the Honorary Consul had an extensive meeting with the Rector of University of Ioannina, Professor George Kapsalis, and discussed the possibilities of a further collaboration between the University of Ioannina and the educational institutions of Belgium.
The students’ as well as the Colloquium participants’ enthusiastic response to the program stresses the need for the organisation of similar actions in the future, which the University of Ioannina intends to implement and further promote.
Ioannina, March 6th 2017
From the Rectorship