Seventy students and ten teachers from Athens College High School conducted a trip to Marseille where they examined Greek roots in Marseilles, the "Greekness" of contemporary Marseilles, the Mediterranean and its environmental problems, common data of Mediterranean ports and cities etc.

Greek-Cypriot singer-songwriter, Alkinoos Ioannidis will give a concert for the omogeneia on Sunday May 17th at 8.30 pm in Luxembourg at the Niederanven Cultural Center.

The modern and archaeological industrial heritage of Lavrion will be presented this year by the Greek branches of ICOMOS and TICCIH in an event celebrating World Day of Monuments, in cooperation with TEE and the National Metsovio Polytechnic Institute. Event sbeing on April 11th.

Among the five award recipients of the 2009 Florida Folk Heritage Award is master sponge boat builder George Saroukos of Tarpon Springs.

Thessaloniki Prefect Panagiotis Psomiadis received Metropolitan Demetrios of Irinoupolis and Seychelles Islands at his office with whom he discussed issues concerning the Orthodox Mission and the urgent need for support.