Rhodes Model Regional Cooperation (MRC) was conceived in 2010 as an ideal bridging between the practice of Model United Nations and the continuous emergence of strong regional international organizations. Each of its sessions lies under the general theme towards effective peacebuilding and sustainable development on a regional level.

This year’s ACT Delegation consisted of 7 delegates, all from different years and majors who took the initiative to apply as a group.

The names of the students representing ACT are the following, from left to right:

Konstantinidou Laura
Chatzitheodorou Efstathia
Lynagh-Petersen Faber
Agarici Sylvia
Schmidt Drew
Dhamo Fiona
Grylli Ioanna

In the closing ceremony of RhodesMRC 2018 the ACT delegation managed to achieve two honorable achievements:

Fiona Dhamo, a first-timer in Model United Nations conferences managed to receive a verbal mention for her contribution to the Council of Europe as the delegate of the Czech Republic. Furthermore, Sylvia Agarici earned her place as one of the Board Members for Rhodes MRC 2019!

In a crowded hall, on October 8th, the launch event of ACT’s Lifelong Learning Center (LLC), Digitizing Creativity: The art and science of digital marketing, brought together distinguished professionals from the US and Greece who shared their experience and insights on digital marketing developments. The purpose of the conference was to chart any changes in the creative process in the digital era and showcase how to develop ‘big ideas with small budgets.’

In his opening remarks, Dr. Panos Vlachos, the President of Anatolia College, highlighted the Life Long Learning Center’s goal to monitor developments and become the hub for knowledge acquisition and skills upgrading. Aligned with Anatolia’s mission and ACT’s central message Embrace change, LLC intends to become the point of reference for those who wish to advance professionally, or seek an opportunity for self-improvement, noted Dr. Sevasti Kessapidou, ACT’s Associate Dean of Academic Affairs who also serves as the Lifelong Learning Center’s Director.

In their keynote address, echoing the conference’s main message, Fred Senn, founding partner of Fallon, and Rocky Novak, Fallon’s Managing Director, spoke of ‘big ideas and small budgets’ and encouraged the audience ‘to outthink rather than outspend the competition.’ In doing so, the keynote speakers highlighted the need for marketers to build strong relationships. ‘We should treat brands the same way we treat people’, they argued, and gave a three-pronged advice: find an idea, find your humanity and let technology do the rest. Fallon, as Fred Senn announced, is endorsing the upcoming Digital Marketing Certificate that will be offered by ACT’s Lifelong Learning Center.

George Levitikos, Chief Integration Officer of MullenLowe Athens, emphasized the need to be agile, ‘to adapt or die,’ as he distinctively noted. Creative ideas should come from integrated teams and be applicable to various channels of communication. Mr. Levitikos also noted that the new talents need to multitask and use their collective creativity not only to ‘unstereotype’ but also to help stop ‘thumb scrolling’ which the digital media allow.

Μarianna Lappou, Account Director of DDB, TRIBAL WORLDWIDE ATHENS, presented the role of brands as publishers and addressed the transition from interruption marketing to permission marketing. Emphasizing that ‘content is the king,’ Ms. Lappou argued that marketers need not only to attract the attention but also to maintain it, particularly in the noisy environment that the multiple stimuli create.

Finally, Petros Lytrivis, Digital Director of BGM OMD Greece, prompted marketers to maximize the value of the promotional message, stressing the need for more personalized messages that eloquently capture experiences rather than mass messages. Mr. Lytrivis highlighted the need for precision marketing and presented the new trend in digital communication, programmatic marketing.

The Digitizing Creativity Conference was made possible thanks to the generous support of Helen Electra Lindsay & Dan Lindsay.

Air Carrier Sponsor: AEGEAN Airlines
Supporter:The MET Hotel

Νέο Πρόγραμμα Επιχειρηματικότητας του ACT σε συνεργασία με το Northeastern University

To ACT – The American College of Thessaloniki βρίσκεται στην ευχάριστη θέση να ανακοινώσει την έναρξη του προγράμματος επιχειρηματικότητας Experiential Network (XN) σε συνεργασία με το Northeastern University των ΗΠΑ.

Μέσα από το συγκεκριμένο πρόγραμμα, το οποίο προσφέρεται δωρεάν, γίνεται η σύνδεση ελληνικών επιχειρήσεων με τους φοιτητές του εξειδικευμένου προγράμματος του Northeastern University για την ανάθεση εργασιών / projects διάρκειας έως έξι εβδομάδων.

Μερικά από τα βασικά στοιχεία του προγράμματος:

• Ανάθεση εργασίας χωρίς κόστος για τις επιχειρήσεις
• Οι επιχειρήσεις ορίζουν το project στο οποίο θα εργαστούν οι φοιτητές εξ αποστάσεως
• Η γλώσσα εργασίας είναι τα αγγλικά
• Παρέχεται συνεχής υποστήριξη από τον συντονιστή και επιβλέποντα του προγράμματος.

Είναι ιδιαίτερα σημαντικό να αναφερθεί πως η συνεργασία αυτή παρέχει τη δυνατότητα στις επιχειρήσεις να έχουν πρόσβαση στο επιχειρηματικό δίκτυο του Northeastern University μέσα από το Center of Entrepreneurship Education καθώς και το Center for Research Innovation.

Επισκόπηση Προγράμματος

Το πρόγραμμα Experiential Network (XN) απευθύνεται σε όλες τις επιχειρήσεις ανεξαιρέτως μεγέθους και κλάδου δραστηριότητας που επιθυμούν να αναθέσουν projects μικρής διάρκειας σε φοιτητές υψηλού εκπαιδευτικού επιπέδου προσφέροντάς τους πολύτιμη επαγγελματική εμπειρία σε τομείς όπως: Business Strategy/Development, Data Analysis, Fundraising Strategy, Software Analysis, Social Media Strategy, Marketing Strategy, Stakeholder Analysis, Cost Analysis, κλπ.

Το πρόγραμμα θα παρουσιαστεί στις ελληνικές επιχειρήσεις από το Northeastern University και το ACT μέσω webinar την Τετάρτη 24 Οκτωβρίου, 5μμ ώρα Ελλάδας (10πμ Boston time).

Δήλωση Συμμετοχής

Για να εκδηλώσετε το ενδιαφέρον σας για συμμετοχή στο πρόγραμμα Experiential Network και να παρακολουθήσετε το webinar παρακαλούμε συμπληρώστε την ηλεκτρονική φόρμα που θα βρείτε εδώ  μέχρι τις 22 Οκτωβρίου.

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Brief Description

For non-Psychology majors only.

Minor Requirements

• Psychology 101: Introduction to psychology
• Psychology 204: Introduction to Social psychology
• Psychology 205: Research methods and Statistics

And three of the following:

• Psychology 170: Personal Development and Employability
• Psychology 202: Personality theories
• Psychology 206: Research Methods and Qualitative Analysis
• Psychology 215: Positive psychology
• Psychology 240: Forensic psychology
• Psychology 310: Organizational psychology
• Psychology 340: Psychology of Addiction

Το σεμινάριο Business Strategy είναι μια εξαιρετική ευκαιρία για όσους θέλουν να κατανοήσουν σε βάθος την έννοια της στρατηγικής στις επιχειρήσεις και να αξιοποιήσουν την πολύτιμη αυτή γνώση στη δική τους. Είναι ιδιαίτερα ενδιαφέρον καθώς ο βασικός εισηγητής αλλά και οι καλεσμένοι είναι επιτυχημένοι επιχειρηματίες που μπορούν να προσφέρουν πραγματικά χρήσιμη γνώση.

Τέλος, η γνωριμία και συναναστροφή με τους συμμετέχοντες που ήταν επίσης επιχειρηματίες από διάφορους κλάδους είναι επίσης πολύ εποικοδομητική.

[Ο κ. Φλωρεντίν] το ανέλυσε με τέτοιο τρόπο που πιστεύω μας άλλαξε τον τρόπο που σκεφτόμασταν και αποφασίζαμε για θέματα ανταγωνισμού.

Reading a good book is like borrowing a brain better than yours

Jeffrey Eugenides, the American author of Greek descent and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, visited Anatolia College on Tuesday, September 25, where he talked to High School students and American and Greek students of ACT – American College of Thessaloniki. Jeffrey Eugenides visited Greece on the occasion of “Athens 2018 – World Book Capital”, organized by the Municipality of Athens, with the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center and the Embassy of the United States of America. Thessaloniki was the author’s first stop in Greece. He was also invited at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, under the aegis of the American Consulate General in Thessaloniki and the AUTH, where he engaged in a lively dialogue with the audience.

During his visit at Anatolia College the writer of Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides, The Marriage Plot and Fresh Complaint came across an audience in which, as he explained, he specializes, “the adolescents”. “As I’m looking at you all together here, you remind me a lot of my own school. I never forget it and I always write about it.” Eugenides himself was not a good student. When he has a child he wanted to be an actor and, as he mentioned, this is the reason why he always identifies with his characters. When he was 16 years old, he read the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and he decided to become an author. “I remember my parents’ stunned expression when I told them that I wanted to become an actor. So, when I, later, announced that I’m becoming an author, their reaction was more collected. I advise you to follow the same strategy with your parents”, he said to the students.   

While discussing the role of inspiration and the way he works and “constructs” his texts, he emphasized: “I don’t believe in inspiration. I don’t believe in the nicely-made studios. In fact, the smaller and the more uncomfortable the place where you’re writing is, the better the book will be. The only things that I need are isolation and great quantities of coffee”. He also advised the students that are interested in writing to read and write as much as possible “because reading a good book is like borrowing a brain better than yours”.

Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit, on the 8th of March, 1960. His grandfather migrated to America from Asia Minor and his mother is of Irish ancestry. He studied at Brown and Stanford Universities. He received a Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex, which was also on the shortlist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Prix Médicis. His novel The Marriage Plot(2011) was a runner-up for the National Book Critics Circle Award and received the Prix Fitzgerald and the Grand Prix de l’ héroïne Madame Figaro. In 2014, Eugenides was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books Middlesex, The Marriage Plot, and Fresh Complaint: Stories, have been published in Greek by Patakis Publishers. His novel, The Virgin Suicides, was adapted into the big screen by Sofia Coppola.

The Dukakis Center and Transparency International Greece will co-host a panel discussion on the theme "Corruption, Transparency, and Whistle-blowing," on Friday, September 28, 7 pm, in the Bissell Library, ACT.

Featured speakers will include CIA whistleblower John Kyriakou, investigative journalist Tasos Telloglou (SKAI & Kathimerini), Professor Vassilis Barkoukis (Sports Faculty - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Dr. Anna Damaskou (Chair of the Board, Transparency International Greece and Anatolia College alumna), and Dr. Suelette Dreyfus (Executive Director, Blueprint for Free Speech).

The panel will discuss instances of transparency and whistle-blowing in various domains of public life, from international sport to national security and beyond.

ACT Professor Lambrini Nassis will moderate the discussion.

John Kyriakou is a former CIA analyst and case officer, and the author of Doing Time Like A Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison (2017). The book is an account of his trial and incarceration for publicly acknowledging in 2007 that the CIA had been using torture in the war on terror and that its use was actually official policy under the administration of President George W Bush.

Australian scholar and activist Suelette Dreyfus has research and teaching expertise in cybersecurity, hacking, digital privacy and anonymity, and integrity systems (including whistle-blowing). She works with civil society not-for-profit NGOs internationally which seek to improve the whistle-blower protection structures in their society, both in law and via the use of technology.

Vassilis Barkouki, of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, is an esteemed expert in doping in sport. The lead editor of The Psychology of Doping in Sport (Routledge, is the author of numerous publications on the topic. He has collaborated with WADA, the IOC, and the European Commission, and is currently also a track and field coach and physical education teacher at all levels of the sport.

The event will be in English and is open to the general public. A reception will follow.