Ambassador Pyatt: "2021 is a really special year, for both Fulbright and for Greece. Its the 75th anniversary of Fulbright, the oldest Fulbright program in Europe and the second oldest in the world. And I will point out, Artemis, that I’m now on track to celebrate both Fulbright’s 70th Anniversary in Greece and it’s 75th, ...
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By U.S. Embassy in Athens | 26 February, 2021 | Topics: Ambassador, Featured Event, Speeches, U.S. & Greece | Tags: #USGreece2021, American Philhellenes, Black History Month, Fulbright Greece
Ambassador Pyatt: "Education has been for many decades one of the real bright spots of the U.S.-Greece relationship. We celebrated a major anniversary of the Fulbright program relatively early in my tenure. Minister Kerameus was part of Prime Minister Mitsotakis’s delegation to the White House when he went there last year. That was a reflection ...
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By U.S. Embassy in Athens | 25 February, 2021 | Topics: Ambassador, Education, Featured Event, Speeches, U.S. & Greece | Tags: #USGreece2021
Ambassador Pyatt’s Remarks at 2021 New Year’s Reception Καλησπέρα σας! Thank you, Niko. I want to begin my remarks this evening by expressing my heartfelt appreciation to Minister Georgiadis for bringing us together tonight. While I miss seeing this ballroom filled with friends and colleagues like in years past, I want to thank you all for connecting to us virtually ...
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By U.S. Consulate in Thessaloniki | 9 February, 2021 | Topics: Ambassador, Events, News | Tags: #USGreece2021
Ambassador Pyatt: "The Greek diaspora and especially grassroots organizations like AHEPA help to put our democratic principles into practice, forming a vital bridge between the peoples of our two countries. You are one of the secret ingredients of our bilateral relationship, helping to advance our great work."
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By U.S. Embassy in Athens | 20 January, 2021 | Topics: Ambassador, Featured Event, Speeches, U.S. & Greece | Tags: #USGreece2021, AHEPA, DIASPORA
Ambassador Pyatt: "Inspired by ancient Greece’s greatest thinkers and the experience of Athenian democracy, our nation’s founders drafted a Constitution seeking to create a “more perfect union.” They understood that every democracy is a work in progress, that the American experiment would follow a winding path, and that our citizens would be tested. But they ...
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By U.S. Embassy in Athens | 20 January, 2021 | Topics: Ambassador, Featured Event, Speeches, U.S. & Greece | Tags: #USGreece2021, Inauguration
Ambassador Pyatt: "We know from history books that this is when the Greek people proclaimed their independence, and many gave their lives in the fight for democratic self-governance. What is less well-known is that this was also the start of an important relationship between the United States and Greece, whose histories have been intertwined from ...
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By U.S. Embassy in Athens | 19 January, 2021 | Topics: Ambassador, Featured Event, Speeches, U.S. & Greece | Tags: #USGreece2021, 2021 bicentennial
Updated February 3, 2021 Athens – On January 14, 2021, U.S. Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt announced in an interview with the Greek national broadcaster ERT the launch of U.S. Mission Greece’s year-long campaign to commemorate Greece’s Bicentennial entitled “USA & Greece: Celebrating 200 Years of Friendship.” The campaign will include educational and cultural events ...
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By U.S. Consulate in Thessaloniki | 14 January, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Press Releases, U.S. & Greece | Tags: #USGreece2021, Greek Independence
Ambassador Pyatt: "So I think I’m very, very optimistic about where the relationship is going. I’m excited about the Greek bicentennial as an opportunity to remind Americans about what Greece stands for, and in particular what Athenian democracy stands for. I think this is a wonderful opportunity for Greece to tell some of these stories ...
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By U.S. Embassy in Athens | 14 January, 2021 | Topics: Ambassador, Featured Event, Speeches, U.S. & Greece | Tags: #USGreece2021, 2021 bicentennial, American Philhellenes, American Revolution, Greek War of Independence 1821
Athens – On March 25, 2020, U.S. Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey R. Pyatt unveiled the #USGreece2021 logo that the U.S. government will use for all its programming in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Greece’s independence and the unbreakable bonds of friendship between our countries.
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By U.S. Embassy in Athens | 1 April, 2020 | Topics: Press Releases, U.S. & Greece | Tags: #USGreece2021, logo
U.S. Embassy Athens is pleased to announce the 2018-19 competition for the Humphrey Fellowship program. Applications are due by midnight on Friday June 9, 2017.
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By U.S. Embassy in Athens | 19 April, 2017 | Topics: Education, News | Tags: #USGreece2021, fellowship, scholarships, U.S. society and culture
Athens, November 29, 2016 – The U.S. Embassy Athens, in partnership with the Benaki Museum and the British Council, is organizing the conference “Museums and Tourism: A Working Relationship.” The event is taking place on December 8, 2016, 09:30 – 17:00, at The Benaki Museum, Pireos 138. The sixth annual Museum Conference invites museum and ...
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By U.S. Embassy in Athens | 29 November, 2016 | Topics: Art & Culture, Culture, Events, News, Press Releases | Tags: #USGreece2021, Benaki, Museums Conference, Tourism
Friday, October 21 was the first night of
#HackTheCamp – the hackathon on refugee and integration issues.
Ambassador Pyatt addressed the gathered crowd of 130 coders, creative professionals, designers, NGO representatives, and refugees, urging them to help find concrete solutions to the real problems faced by the migrants living in the camps. Teams will have six weeks to develop ...
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By U.S. Embassy in Athens | 25 October, 2016 | Topics: Events, News | Tags: #USGreece2021, Entrepreunership, Hackathon, HackTheCamp, refugees
