Melina is a resident of our City of Onassis Scholars and a resident of Paris
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Applications for the 2024-25 academic year are now open. You too can become a resident of the City of Onassis Scholars, where innovative ideas and bright minds gather every year.
Melina M. is pursuing her doctorate on the poetic works of C. P. Cavafy, at Sorbonne University. She is one of the 7.668 residents of the City of Tomorrow. This city cannot be found on a map, and yet it is everywhere. It was started in 1978 and it has been growing ever since. Its residents are people who aspire, create, innovate and ensure that our society moves forward, step by step.
The City of Tomorrow keeps growing thanks to you.
Meet a few of the thousands of residents who live in the City of Tomorrow for the past decade:
Ioannis Katsantonis – 2021 Scholar
He was honored with the 2023 Doctoral Student Rising Star Award from the Faculty of Education of the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on exploring human agency in academic achievement and discovering the underlying mechanisms through which students can become agents in their academic achievement and empowered in their learning.
Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos – 2019 Scholar
He is included in the Forbes Greece’s “30 under 30” list for 2022 for his research and contribution to highlighting the importance of Technology Parks in Greece and other countries worldwide. He was honored with a Study UK Alumni Award in 2022 in the Business and Innovation category by the British Council. For two consecutive years, he received the Excellence in Research award from the Adam Smith Business School of the University of Glasgow. His research focuses on Technology Parks, the internationalization of micro-multinational enterprises, global entrepreneurship, and global business strategy.
Leonidas Romanos Ntavranoglou – 2016 Scholar
He is a member of the team of researchers at Oxford University who discovered in November 2023, during a research trip in the jungles of Papua, that the rare mammal named Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna is not extinct.
Maria Rousou – 2018 Scholar
She was honored in 2023 by the National Horticultural Society of France for her thesis in the field of archaeobotany entitled “Evolution of the paleoenvironment and exploitation of plant resources in the Preceramic Neolithic of Cyprus.”
Eugenia Arsenis – 2004 Scholar
She was honored with the Study UK Alumni Award in 2023 in the Culture and Creativity category by the British Council.
