Bulletin

Issue: August/September 2006

News

Research grant from Greece

The Greek government has awarded an $850,000 research grant to the National Centre for Hellenic Studies and Research.

The award was announced during a visit to the University in September by Greece’s Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Theodore Kassimis, accompanied by the newly appointed Greek Ambassador to Australia, Mr George Zois.

Professor Tamis said the grant, in ten annual instalments of $85,000, will be used to carry out research projects on the Greek language, history and Greek migration and settlement in Australia and the wider Australasian region.

La Trobe University Deputy Vice- Chancellor (Research), Professor Erich Weigold, said the University was extremely grateful for this latest support from the Greek Government.

‘The award highlights the excellent work of the National Centre for Hellenic Studies and Research. The National Centre is one of the distinctive features of La Trobe University and forms an important bridge between academic work and one of the key community groups in Australia and elsewhere,’ Professor Weigold said.

The University’s Greek Studies Program, in the School of Historical and European Studies, also provides one of the most diverse and dynamic programs of its kind, in a city claimed to be the largest Greek-speaking polis outside of Greece and Cyprus.

It offers units in Greek language, culture and history from antiquity to the present day, at undergraduate, honours and postgraduate levels.

Its undergraduate program in Modern Greek is offered both on the Bundoora Campus for La Trobe students, and at Parkville for students of the University of Melbourne.