EVENTS FUNDED, WHOLLY OR PARTLY, BY THE EUROPEAN INTEGRATION JOURNALISM JEAN MONNET CHAIR AT THE DEPARTMENT OF JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATIONS (ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI).
November 8 2016: Speaker, MEDIA, CRISES AND CIVIL – MILITARY COOPERATION (Hellenic School of Civil – Military Cooperation).
November 14 2016: Lecture, MEDIA AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION (Nato Rapid Deployment Corps, Greece).
Lecture by YANNIS BEHRAKIS, war reporter-photographer of REUTERS on the European Refugee Crisis, 23 November 2016
Lecture by YANNIS KOTSIFOS, journalist, director of the Macedonian-Thrace Press Association and member of the governing board European Association for European Journalists, 6 December 2016
EDUCATIONAL TRIP OF 21 MA STUDENTS (European Journalism, Risk Communication) to the European Union, Brussels (European Parliament, European Commission) co-organized with the Office of the European Parliament in Athens, 6-8 December 2016
See: https://www.facebook.com/100013686304434/videos/182447092221500/
Award of the Rector of Aristotle University for the Jean Monnet Chair, 30 January 207
Guest Speaker (The Communication and Democratic Challenges of the European Union) at the simulation of the town council meeting (60 participants) of the non-governmental organisation “The Youth of Xanthi”, 24-26 March 2017 
On Tuesday 28/03/2017, Roger Woo, Senior Journalist of the Finance Channel, www.huanqiu.com – China, gave a lecture at the School of Journalism and Mass Communications (undergraduate and postgraduate students), on the topic China and Europe, How Europe is being reported and seen from the Chinese media
Guest Speaker to the Media Awareness Programme of the Multinational Peace Support Operations Training Centre, Kilkis, Greece, 28 March 2017
JEAN MONNET CHAIR WORKSHOP EUROPEAN JOURNALISM: ASPECTS AND CONCEPTS, May 4-5, 2017
Workshop presentations: PPT_Dimitrakopoulou, Sophocles-Geroulis-Παρουσίαση-ΕΣΗΕΜΘ-5-5-2017-Ευρωπαϊκή-Δημοσιογραφία, Presentation- Fake news2
Speaker at Book Presentation/Debate on the subject of Terrorism, Security and the European Union, 14th International Book Exhibition Thessaloniki, 13 May 2017
SEMINAR OF THE JEAN MONNET CHAIR, THE GREEK DELEGATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, AND THE JOURNALISTS’ UNION OF MACEDONIA AND THRACE, 19 MAY 2017.
Summer School on “International Journalism and media organizations in a turbulent age: European and Asian Perspectives” (16-23 July), in cooperation with the Deutche Welle Academie, and Beijing University of Foreign Studies. 30 participants, from China, Brazil, Chile, Germany, Holland and Greece.
https://www.instagram.com/jour_school/
September 17, 2017, Speaker at the Open Days of the Hellenic Open University, Thessaloniki, International Trade Fair, on the Aspects and Concepts of European Integration Journalism
November 8, 2017, Speaker at the annual seminar of the Greek French Institute on the European Union
1st Media Literacy Week (2017), with parallel activities in Athens and Thessaloniki, in cooperation with the MEDIA LITERACY INSTITUTE (MLI), Journalists About Journalism (JAJ) and the Journalism Lab (Department of Media and Mass Communications, Aristotle University), supported and communicated by Athens 9.84, Fm100 and TV100.
2nd Media Literacy Week (2018), with parallel activities in Athens and Thessaloniki, in cooperation with the MEDIA LITERACY INSTITUTE (MLI), Journalists About Journalism (JAJ) and the Journalism Lab (Department of Media and Mass Communications, Aristotle University), supported and communicated by Athens 9.84, Fm100 and TV100,
Speaker European Commission Office, March 27 2018, “Fake News Europe”, https://ec.europa.eu/greece/NEWS/20182303_Fake_news_EKDILOSI_el
Workshop, April 19 2018, The world of European and Greek News, Innovathens, Technopolis, Athens
Presentantion http://booksjournal.gr/γνώμες/item/2709-ta-mme-as-anoixoun-parathyro and Videos of the workshop/Speeches of the journalists (CNN World, Euronews, Ethnos, Kathimerini, Liberal, 9,84FM, Ta NEA) and academics invited:
Lecture by Irene Lioumi, a Greek journalist and reporter of the TIME magazine. She participated in the year long Finding Home project, charting the path of three Syrian families seeking sanctuary in Europe, starting with the birth of their children in the bleak refugee camps of northern Greece. Continued reporting for this project is supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
http://time.com/5068549/finding-home-crisis/ https://youtu.be/-QVIZtjXkoA , 10 May 2018
Lecture by Sophia Pappaioannou, Investigative Reporter of ALPHA TV, on the Prospects of Investigative Journalism in Greece and Europe, 14 May 2018
Presentantion and Discussion of my book on the European Union and the Crisis of Legitimacy, 15th Annual Book Affair Thessaloniki, 3 May 2018
Jean Monnet Chair European Integration Journalism – Independent Daily Reporters’ Newspaper, Discussion on “Fake News, European Integration and Global Politics”, 15th Annual Book Affair Thessaloniki, 5 May 2018, http://www.efsyn.gr/arthro/i-mastiga-ton-pseydon-eidiseon
Jean Monnet Chair – Europe Direct Thessaloniki, What do Citizens Know and ask from the European Union, video on May 9th 2018
Speaker at European Parliament Office (in cooperation with La Republique En March – Acropole, on the “Future of the EU”, 18 June 2018. Presentantion published by The Books’ Journal, http://booksjournal.gr/γνώμες/item/2758-se-anazhthsh-enos-neou-patadeigmatos-gia-thn-eu
Summer School (July 13-20, 2018) “New Trends in Media and Journalism: Disinformation, Verification of News and Constructive Journalism in a Changing World”, with 46 participants from 15 countries (!) that was organised for the second consecutive year by the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communications of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Jean Monet Chair for European Integration Journalism with participating partners Deutsche Welle Akademie (DW Akademie), University of Zagreb Croatia, University of Novi-Sad Serbia, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Center for Media and Information Literacy at Temple University USA, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Media Literacy Institute, Proof organization and supported by established organizations, companies and think tanks (European Commission Representation Office Athens, Aegean Airlines, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Journalists Union of Macedonia and Thrace Daily Newspapers)
EVALUATION REPORT OF THE SUMMER SCHOOL, ThISAM 2018 – Assessment Report 2018 (w.n)
Videos on the communication challenges of the EU and NATO, https://m.facebook.com/jour.summer.school/videos/?mt_nav=1
Photographs of the students and staff, https://m.facebook.com/jour.summer.school/photos/?ref=page_internal&mt_nav=1
Photographs of event, schoolhttp://picgrace.com/jour_school
Award Ceremony, Mobile Uploads
Staff, speakers and programme of the event, https://m.facebook.com/jour.summer.school/posts/?ref=page_internal&mt_nav=1
Supporter of the ETJA’s Teachers Conference on “Crisis Reporting”, held in association with the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Aristotle University, 18-19 October 2018, http://www.ejta2018.com/theme_
Europe Direct Greece-European Parliament Delegation Seminar for Journalists on the European Elections of May 2019, presentation on the “Media and the European Parliament”, October 30, 2018, https://www.life-events.gr/parousiaseis/epitychimeni-i-ekdilosi-tou-europe-direct-kedith-gia-tis-evroekloges-vinteo-foto/
2nd Thessaloniki Academy on Security, 5–9 November, 2018, presentation on “Contemporary European Security Challenges”, Center for Security Studies, http://www.kemea.gr/el/nea-prokirykseis/teleftaia-nea/687-2-3
Presentation on “Democracy and Disinformation”, Seminar of the Greek Association for Atlantic and European Cooperation, Thessaloniki, 23 November 2018, https://www.gaaec.org/gr/news/120-roadshow, http://www.thestival.gr/culture/actions/item/419118-imerida-sti-thessaloniki-gia-ti-thesi-tis-elladas-se-ena-metaballomeno-diethnes-periballon