The Archimedes Technology Transfer and Innovation Unit of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens invite you to the event titled «From Ancient Wisdom to Future Innovation: The Role of the University of Athens», organized as part of the Panathenea 2026 festival. The event will take place on Thursday, May 28 2026, from 17:00 to 20:00, at the Athens University History Museum (5 Tholou Street, Plaka, 105 56 Athens).

The edited volume Animal Cognition and Consciousness, edited by Alkis Gounaris, has been published and is now available from The NKUA Applied Philosophy Research Lab Press and the National Documentation Centre (EKT). The volume includes essays by 25 graduates and final-year students of the MA Animal Welfare, Ethics and the Law.

In this publication, the documentation framework and the practical value of the EPR digital philosophical tool are presented. The tool is designed to enhance collaboration across heterogeneous scientific disciplines operating under interdisciplinary conditions, and is particularly beneficial for early-career researchers, doctoral candidates, and postgraduate students, insofar as it identifies points of convergence or divergence in the participants’ initial epistemological and metaphysical assumptions they bring to team research. [PLOGOS, 2026]

2025 was the year we stopped asking «what’s going on with artificial intelligence?» and started learning how to live with it. This is a look back at a pivotal year, one in which AI captured the spotlight across politics, education, and industry, and, above all, made its first, still experimental, move into the workplace. [ATHENS VOICE, 2025]

Why might a degree in philosophy be worth more in the future than a degree in computer science? As artificial intelligence advances towards the «automation of automation», the capacity to write and refine its own code, the distinctly human advantage will lie in the ability to pose the right questions, to define the appropriate parameters, and to assess the meaning and purpose of any given process. [ATHENS VOICE, 2025]

This paper explores the application of Aristotelian virtue, as a quality of excellence and as a key notion in ethics, to AI systems as classified in the EU AI Act. It suggests that the Aristotelian concept of virtue can be effectively applied to the design, training, operation, and use of AI systems, and proposes an ‘AI Seal of Excellence’ certification process for “Virtuous Agents” [CONATUS, 2025]

Homo Ludens is a Non-Profit Organization founded to link digital technology and culture via games. The triad Games – Art and Culture in the City constitutes the core axis of the ecosystem's development, which is gradually being formed within Homo Ludens by researchers, artists, scientists, and, more broadly, by academics, educators, technology experts, and institutional stakeholders.

Developed by the "Philosophy-Politics-Economics" Laboratory at the Department of Philosophy, of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Sophia at School is the outcome of a two-year research project. This groundbreaking project was funded by the Hellenic Foundation of Research and Innovation and is dedicated to introducing philosophy into primary education.