Athens Institute for Education and Research

“τήν τε γὰρ πόλιν κοινὴν παρέχομεν, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ὅτε ξενηλασίαις ἀπείργομέν τινά ἢ μαθήματος ἢ θεάματος”

“Our city is open to the world, we never expel a foreigner from learning or seeing”

Pericles' Funeral Oration

from Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War

Spectacular view of the Parthenon, Pericles’ masterpiece, from the Institute’s place of social meetings

Welcome to ATINER

This is the official website of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER). The Institute was established in 1995 as an independent world association of academics and researchers. Its mission is to become a forum where academics and researchers from all over the world could meet and exchange ideas on their research and discuss the future developments of their discipline. Athens was chosen as the meeting place because of its long history and culture.

International symposiums and conferences, publications and research are the basic activities of ATINER. Since 1995, ATINER has organized more than 200 international conferences and other events, and has published close to 150 books. Also in 2012 the Association has started a series of conference paper publications (click here).

Academically, the Association is organized into five research divisions and twenty-three research units. Each research unit organizes at least an annual international conference and undertakes various small and large research projects.

In 2012, the Institute has launched the organization of small events such as roundtable discussions and public speeches (click here for details). For press releases on these events and other activities please click here.

Membership is open to all academics and researchers from all over the world. The list of the current membership is available on: academic members. The members of the Institute can undertake a number of academic activities. If you want to become a member please download the form (membership form). For more information on how to become a member, please send an email to: info@atiner.gr.