Greece celebrates the 13th Hellenic Science on Stage Fair

On November 6 and 7, 2025, the Greek national  Science on Stage event took place at the Eugenides Foundation in Athens, which co-organised the festival. The "13th Hellenic Science on Stage Fair" included laboratory constructions and educational material on the theme of the programme: STEAM Education: Innovation Meets Creativity and Responsibility.

The main purpose of the contest was the selection of the participants for the European Science on Stage Festival in Klaipėda, Lithuania. Teams of teachers and students from all Greek schools were invited to participate, and the call for participation was announced to all Greek primary and high schools in a document of the Greek National Steering Comittee officially sent to schools by the Ministry of Education. 

During the two-day event, all selected projects were presented to around 500 students from 9 schools, 40 teachers and the general public. In total, more than 700 visitors attended.

The teachers and projects awarded (in alphabetical order in Greek) for participating in the European festival are:

• Louiza Dimitriou with "An ancient siphon today - Aquaponics"
• Nektarios Kourakis with "A Labyrinth and Its Solution (with an Electric Circuit and Infrared Radiation)"
• Panagiotis (Takis) Lazos with "The sound from A to Z (or at least from S to D)"
• Ioannis Mindis, Angeliki Samanta, Evangelia Samanta with "Cleaning up the 'geographical' mess"
• Vasilis Nousis with "Van de Graaff Generator: Construction and Educational Use"
• Nikolaos Papazoglou Papazoglakis, Eleni Paloumpa with "A Big Metal Box in Our Kitchen: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Refrigeration Cycle Using P.L.C. and Reusable Components"
• Spyridon Chortis with "Storing what's left over! A 'natural battery'"

Four projects were also awarded and eight commendations were given.

In a small celebration, at the end of the event, the Greek NSC awarded the title of Greek ambassador of Science on Stage – Greece to Dionysios Karounias, Physicist, for his ethos and his twenty-five-year participation with his projects in all the Panhellenic Science Construction and Experiment Competitions from 2000 to the present day.

 Find more information (in Greek) about the event 2025 on the Greek website and gain insights into the programme and presentations in this video on YouTube.

Report: Eugenia Tsitopoulou - Christodoulides