Πραγματοποιήθηκαν 4 επισκέψεις διδασκαλίας (καθηγητές: Κατσίκης Βασίλειος, Κώτσιος Στέλιος, Predrag Stanimirovic, Tasic Milan), από και προς το πανεπιστήμιο Nis της Σερβίας, στο πλαίσιο της συνεργασίας του τομέα Μαθηματικών και Πληροφορικής του τμήματος Οικονομικών Επιστημών του ΕΚΠΑ και του τμήματος Επιστημών Πληροφορικής του πανεπιστημίου Nis.

Πραγματοποιήθηκαν 4 επισκέψεις διδασκαλίας (καθηγητές: Πρωτοπαπαδάκης Ευάγγελος, Αραμπατζής Γεώργιος, Kaluderovic Zejko, Prole Dragan) καθώς και 4 μετακινήσεις φοιτητών (φοιτητές: Ντεληφιλιππίδη Μαρία Ελένη, Πάντου Δήμητρα, Mencik David, Stankovic Dusan), από και προς το πανεπιστήμιο Novi Sad της Σερβίας, στο πλαίσιο της συνεργασίας του τμήματος ΦΠΨ του ΕΚΠΑ και του τμήματος Φιλοσοφίας του Πανεπιστημίου Novi Sad. Κατά την επίσκεψη διδασκαλίας των μελών ΔΕΠ του ΕΚΠΑ, οι Σέρβοι καθηγητές διοργάνωσαν ένα συνέδριο, σε συνέχεια εκείνου που είχε διοργανωθεί από τους έλληνες καθηγητές την προηγούμενη χρονιά, στο πλαίσιο του οποίου παρουσιάστηκε εκτός των άλλων και ο πρώτος τόμος (τόσο σε έντυπη, όσο και σε ηλεκτρονική μορφή) της φιλοσοφικής σειράς HELLENIC-SERBIAN PHILOSOPHICAL DIALOGUES που έχουν ήδη ξεκινήσει (η ηλεκτρονική έκδοση είναι διαθέσιμη από το Εθνικό Κέντρο Τεκμηρίωσης στο: http://ebooks.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/aprl/catalog/series/hspd). Στο συνέδριο αυτό εκπροσωπήθηκε και η Ελληνική Πρεσβεία στην Σερβία δια της Ακολούθου κυρίας Νεφέλης Παπουτσάκη. Επίσης, προγραμματίστηκε η λειτουργία θερινού προγράμματος στο Novi Sad για μεταπτυχιακούς φοιτητές των δύο συνεργαζόμενων Τμημάτων, καθώς και υποψηφίων Διδακτόρων.

Πραγματοποιήθηκαν 4 μετακινήσεις για επισκέψεις διδασκαλίας (καθηγήτριες: Μόζερ Αμαλία, Παναρέτου Ελένη, Kamushadze Maka, Gamrekeli Tea) και 2 μετακινήσεις φοιτητών (φοιτήτριες: Manvelishvili Nani, Sepashvili Ekaterine), από και προς το Tbilisi State University της Γεωργίας, στο πλαίσιο της συνεργασίας του Τμήματος Φιλολογίας του ΕΚΠΑ με το Ινστιτούτο Βυζαντινών και Σύγχρονων Ελληνικών Σπουδών του Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. Τα δυο τμήματα έχουν πολύ στενούς δεσμούς λόγω και της πρότερης συνεργασίας τους στο πλαίσιο του προγράμματος Mundus που συντόνιζε το ΕΚΠΑ. Οι συζητήσεις με τα μέλη του Ινστιτούτου για το παρόν και το μέλλον του ήταν πολύ χρήσιμες και εποικοδομητικές. Οι καθηγητές από την Γεωργία αναφέρθηκαν στη συρρίκνωση του αριθμού των φοιτητών που εγγράφονται στο Ινστιτούτο και στα προβλήματα που αντιμετωπίζουν από την έλλειψη βιβλίων και εκπαιδευτικού υλικού. Εξέφρασαν τέλος την ελπίδα ότι η δυνατότητα παρακολούθησης μαθημάτων σε ελληνικά πανεπιστήμια που παρέχονται από το πρόγραμμα Erasmus+ θα αποτελέσουν πόλο έλξης για νέους φοιτητές.

• Key speaker at the 17th Workshop Of Environmental Archaeology held in Athens on 25th April 2017:"Routes of Neolithization in Eastern Europe"

• Lectures at the Department of History and Archaeology of the Faculty of Philosophy: "The twilight of Old Europe".

The subjects of his lectures and seminars embraced the problems of ancient history, in particular histories of the Athenian policy and history of Macedonia.

Main activities:

• Numerous discussions of research topics of mutual interest with Prof. Dimitri Frantzeskakis and his collaborators. These discussions have initiated joint work which is planned to yield no fewer than three joint publications.

• Lectures for students on the following topics:

1) "Nonlinear Dynamical Systems", for undergraduate students (3 hours, ca. 15 students)

2) "Contemporary Quantum Physics and Applications", for undergraduate students (2 hours, ca. 20 students)

3) "Nonlinear Dynamics", for graduate students (3 hours, ca. 15 students).

The students who attended the lectures belong to both Departments of Physics and Mathematics. The lectures were, generally, concentrated on basic nonlinear equations of the modern mathematical physics, basic solutions of these equations, and their physical applications in various areas of the modern-day classical and quantum physics.

Short report: The coordinators of my visit at the host institute (NKUA) were professor Nicholas Sarlis and professor Efthimios S. Skordas from physics department. During my visit I had the honor to meet with professor Panayiotis A. Varotsos, the author of the book “Thermodynamics of point defects and their relation with bulk properties”. His book is considered one of main text books about point defects in major international universities. I will discuss considering this book as a text book for solid state graduate courses at physics department of JUST with the faculty members of my department. He introduced me to the research being conducted at his laboratory in earth science. Professor Panayiotis A. Varotsos, professor Nicholas Sarlis, professor Efthimios S. Skordas and I discussed their work about estimating the compressibility of Osmium from recent measurements of Ir-Os alloys under high pressure. We discussed future collaborations regarding integrating my computational codes of calculating the elastic properties of alloys with the numerical model they used in obtaining their results. We also discussed the future collaboration on electric fields that “arrive” before the time derivative of the magnetic field prior to major earthquakes. We discussed the possible collaborations between my collaborators at university of Arkansas and university of Nebraska in USA and the researchers at physics department of NKUA. During my visit, I presented two lectures entitled: “Nano science and technology institute at Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST)” in which I talked about the facilities and research being conducted at the institute. I also talked about Jordan national initiative in nano science and nano technology. The second lecture was about “physical principles in nano science and nanotechnology”. In the second lecture I discussed the physical principles involved in nano science and nano technology. The two lectures were attended by professors, undergraduate and graduate students at Physics department of NKUA. During my visit I met with professor Nikolaos Tetradis, the chairman of physics department. During the meeting we discussed the future research projects that we can cooperate on including exchange of staff and students between the physics department at NKUA and physics department at JUST. I believe that my visit was an absolute success in connecting the researchers from physics departments at NKUA and JUST for future collaborations and exchanging of students between the two institutions.

Sending University: Philological Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia Receiving University: Faculty of Russian Language and Literature and Slavic Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens During the visit to the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens four lectures were read concerning the problems of teaching Russian phonetics and lexicology to foreigners. The themes of the lectures were:

1. Issues of teaching Russian phonology to foreign students.

2. The expression of emotions in Russian language.

3. The relation between language and culture in the process of teaching Russian phonetics to foreign students.

4. Use of verbs with prefixes (based on the verb помнить). The first and the last lecture included elements of workshop.

Furthermore, a roundtable discussion was organized by the Faculty of Russian Language and Literature with the theme «The problems of teaching Russian phonetics in the Greek audience», where the presentation was made «Methods of analysis and elimination of accent in the Russian pronunciation of Greek students».

More than a hundred of undergraduate students of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens participated in the teaching program.

There was finally, an exchange of experience of teaching Russian in the Lomonosov MSU and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and an exchange of literature in Russian language and culture.

Short report: The academic exchange realized by virtue of ERASMUS + Program between Kapodistrian University of Athens and University of Novi Sad turns out to be exceptionally fruitful and successful. Given that relatively short duration (one weak) of the Program, its outcomes can be described exclusively in superlative adjectives.

First of all I have to accentuate the kindness of our hosts, prof. Protopapadakis and prof. Arabatzis who did their best to provide us both academical and personal guidelines in the city in which they work and live in. Their friendly and competent support on an everyday basis exceeds every expectation and made my stay in Athens the most pleasant one I’ve ever had!

I believe that something similar could be said about the students, whose outstanding interest in lectured subject matter was equally worth mentioning. The spirit of communication and mutual exchange characterized our week at the Department of Philosophy from the beginning till the end. Bearing in mind the positive experiences I had with the books on deadly sins I edited in last three years (pride, greed and sloth were published so far) in my county of birth, I decided to present their findings in order to discuss with the students the current issues related to complex ethical facets of our common contemporary world.

In addition to that, our hosts have organized the suitable and highly appreciable philosophical encounter, entitled HELENIC-SERBIAN PHILOSOPHICAL DIALOGUE, during which we had excellent possibility to get to know each other much better through presenting our papers and discussing about them. We have developed several proposals on our further long term collaboration, including the common Greek-Serbian Sumer School which should start next year.

Short report: The academic exchange realized between The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and University of Novi Sad in terms of ERASMUS + Programme was a great success. The exchange was realized within seven days, therefore it was relatively short in duration, but it turned out to be more than fruitful and significant for both parties. Its outcomes overreached any expectations one could have had in advance.

The main activity of the exchange, lectures for the students of philosophy at the host University, was more than satisfying. Given the opportunity to work with young students of philosophy, I was very pleased to introduce some of the problems and topics that are the main field of my personal research, such are philosophy of Martin Heidegger, contemporary aesthetics and philosophy of language. Student's response to these lectures and topics was very warm, and I was pleased to hear from them that they found my lectures interesting and provocative.

Apart from lectures, the most gratifying aspect of this exchange was prolonged contact with our hosts, prof. Protopapadakis and prof. Arabatzis, who were very kind, more than enthusiastic with regard to our visit, and truly friendly. They made every effort possible to make our staying in Athens as pleasant as it could be, and to introduce us to every aspect of Athens philosophy society they could. Their warm and professional relationship toward us should be example for any similar situation. We have developed several ideas which would further develop our collaboration, among which is the common Greek-Serbian Summer School for Philosophy - the possibility to present our students with some new perspectives and possibilities. Finally, our hosts have organized philosophical encounter, entitled HELENICSERBIAN PHILOSOPHICAL DIALOGUE, which was more that welcomed by the students and all involved institutions. This was a great opportunity for us to present our research in philosophy to wider audience, and by doing so to present the Serbian philosophy in Athens. /