Ionian University a founding member of Greek section of Scholars at Risk (SAR)
Ionian University
06 Oct 2021
/ 16:32
CORFU. With a mission to protect threatened academics and researchers and promote academic freedom.
The Greek Section of the International Network of Scholars at Risk - SAR Greece, in which higher education institutes and organisations with a mission to protect threatened academics and researchers and promote academic freedom participate, was formed today at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the signing of the founding declaration.
SAR Greece's founding members are the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Ionian University and the Universities of the Aegean and Thessaly, which have appointed their representatives, who will define actions to protect researchers at risk who either remain in their country and are at risk due to discrimination, persecution, violence or other afflictions, or have recently found or are seeking a safe haven in Europe, as well as to promote their integration, thus defending academic values.
The national section of the International Network of Scholars at Risk (SAR) in Greek higher education institutes aims to strengthen and coordinate different actions in order to support threatened/persecuted academics wherever they come from, in collaboration with the International Network.
Scholars at Risk (SAR) includes more than 540 higher education institutes from 42 countries, while in Europe there are already 11 national sections of the Network coordinated by the Network’s European section (SAR Europe).
It is a powerful global network of higher education institutes and organisations that are working to protect threatened researchers, prevent attacks on higher education communities and promote academic freedom.
In Greece, efforts to create a national SAR section – the 12th in Europe – began in 2018, when the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki became the first Greek university to join SAR, followed by the Ionian University, the University of the Aegean and the University of Thessaly.
Supporting threatened academics is fundamental to defending academic values and is always relevant – especially today, when the persecuted academics from Turkey, Syria, Belarus, etc. have been joined by a large number of academics from Afghanistan. Through SAR Greece, academics can seek safety, find shelter and receive the basic knowledge to allow them to be employed on academic terms and possibly even protect their own lives.
The founding declaration signed by the Rectors of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Ionian University, the University of the Aegean and the University of Thessaly was drafted by the representatives of the four universities of SAR Greece: Prof. Alexandros Triantafyllis of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the representative of the Ionian University Prof. Stavros Katsios, Deputy Head of the Department of Foreign Languages Translation and Interpreting, the Dean of the School of Social Sciences of the University of the Aegean, Prof. Nikolas Nagopoulos and the associate professor of the University of Thessaly Penelope Papailias.
SAR Greece is under the aegis of the Ministry of Education and Religions.
SAR Greece's founding members are the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Ionian University and the Universities of the Aegean and Thessaly, which have appointed their representatives, who will define actions to protect researchers at risk who either remain in their country and are at risk due to discrimination, persecution, violence or other afflictions, or have recently found or are seeking a safe haven in Europe, as well as to promote their integration, thus defending academic values.
The national section of the International Network of Scholars at Risk (SAR) in Greek higher education institutes aims to strengthen and coordinate different actions in order to support threatened/persecuted academics wherever they come from, in collaboration with the International Network.
Scholars at Risk (SAR) includes more than 540 higher education institutes from 42 countries, while in Europe there are already 11 national sections of the Network coordinated by the Network’s European section (SAR Europe).
It is a powerful global network of higher education institutes and organisations that are working to protect threatened researchers, prevent attacks on higher education communities and promote academic freedom.
In Greece, efforts to create a national SAR section – the 12th in Europe – began in 2018, when the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki became the first Greek university to join SAR, followed by the Ionian University, the University of the Aegean and the University of Thessaly.
Supporting threatened academics is fundamental to defending academic values and is always relevant – especially today, when the persecuted academics from Turkey, Syria, Belarus, etc. have been joined by a large number of academics from Afghanistan. Through SAR Greece, academics can seek safety, find shelter and receive the basic knowledge to allow them to be employed on academic terms and possibly even protect their own lives.
The founding declaration signed by the Rectors of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Ionian University, the University of the Aegean and the University of Thessaly was drafted by the representatives of the four universities of SAR Greece: Prof. Alexandros Triantafyllis of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the representative of the Ionian University Prof. Stavros Katsios, Deputy Head of the Department of Foreign Languages Translation and Interpreting, the Dean of the School of Social Sciences of the University of the Aegean, Prof. Nikolas Nagopoulos and the associate professor of the University of Thessaly Penelope Papailias.
SAR Greece is under the aegis of the Ministry of Education and Religions.
