Eugenides Foundation
The Eugenides Foundation (Greek: Ίδρυμα Ευγενίδου) is Greek private educational foundation. It was established in 1956 in Athens, Greece implementing the will of the late Greek benefactor Eugenios Eugenidis, who died in April 1954.
The activity of the foundation, in accordance with its articles of association, is to contribute to the scientific and technological education of young people in Greece. The foundation is administered by a committee of three persons, which is participated by each professor which is elected as a rector of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) until the end of his term as a rector. For its multifaceted contribution to Greek society, Eugenides Foundation was honored in December 1965 with the gold medal of the Academy of Athens.
Activities
The activities and establishments of the Foundation include:
- a scholarship program granting 20 scholarships annually
- a scientific and technical library,
- a museum of science and technology,
- publishing of scientific and technical books, with over 45.000.000 copies of books published to date,
- a digital computerized planetarium, of dome diameter 25 m and a total surface of 950 m2, one of the best equipped in the world.
- lecture halls and auditoriums.
References
- ΙΔΡΥΜΑ ΕΥΓΕΝΙΔΟΥ 1954 (in Greek).
- Ομιλία του Λεωνίδα Δημητριάδη-Ευγενίδη για τις υποτροφίες του Ιδρύματος (in Greek).[permanent dead link]
External links
- Official website
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- Acropolis Museum
- Epigraphical Museum
- Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art
- Kerameikos Archaeological Museum
- Kanellopoulou Museum
- National Archaeological Museum
- Stoa of Attalos
- Archaeological Museum of Piraeus
- Old Acropolis Museum
- Pieridis Museum
- Syntagma Metro Station Archaeological Collection
- Museum of the Center for the Acropolis Studies
- Athens International Airport Archaeological Collection
- Athinais Cultural Center
- Benaki Museum
- B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation
- Deste Foundation
- Emfietzoglou Gallery Museum
- Frissiras Museum
- Goulandris Museum of Contemporary Art
- Gounaropoulos Museum
- Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum
- Marika Kotopouli Museum
- Municipal Gallery of Athens
- National Gallery (Athens)
- National Glyptotheque
- National Museum of Contemporary Art
- Nikos Chatzikyriakos-Gikas Art Gallery
- Panos Aravantinos Decor Museum
- Yannis Tsarouchis Foundation Museum
- Eugenides Foundation
- Hellenic Air Force Museum
- Hellenic Motor Museum
- Railway Museum of Athens
- Electric Railways Museum
- OTE Museum of Telecommunications
- Technopolis (Gazi)
special interests
- Athens University Museum
- Hellenic Children's Museum
- Hellenic Cosmos
- Hellenic Maritime Museum
- Mineralogy and Petrology Museum
- Museum of Anthropology of University of Athens
- Museum of Criminology
- Numismatic Museum of Athens
- Postal & Philatelic Museum of Greece
- Spathario Museum
- Tactual Museum of Athens
- Theatrical Museum of Greece
- Zoological Museum of the University of Athens
- Georgios Averof
- Velos D16
- SS Hellas Liberty
- Olympias
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