Global Greek Influence
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I am Panagiota Pimenidou (PhD- hydrogen production, MEng- Chemical Engineering), with over 15 years in international academia. The Global Greek Influence podcast brings together technology through research, innovation, the economy, geopolitics, entrepreneurship and (yes) history, which define and address our current and future challenges on earth and (possibly) in space. Inspiring views, unchartered perspectives, that make the difference.
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Energy outlooks of a hybrid future
December 19, 2021 06:00 - 45 minutes - 62.2 MBConstantinos Papalucas an Energy Policy expert (as well as one in Negotiations, Oil and Gas Business, Geopolitics of Energy), and now the Coordinator of the National Hydrogen Committee at the Ministry of Environment and Energy, discusses · Greece's and EU's sustainable energy approach with a focus on hydrogen economy, · how hybrid alliances affect the EU’s, Greece’s and Cyprus' energy and strategy geopolitics, · transitioning from a fossil fuels economy to a renewables' one, · how and if...
We will always have Chaos
December 12, 2021 06:00 - 41 minutes - 56.5 MBStavros Papagianneas is a multifaceted strategic communicator with over 20 years of experience in PR, strategic communications, public affairs, digital communication, social media and media relations at the European Commission and various diplomatic missions in Brussels. Stavros unveils in this episode the synergies for European integration, foreign affairs and geostrategy, democracy, and the great opportunity in the post-pandemic era. Also: · Could the EU be rebranded and become a strong ...
Communication and the shift of the energy future
December 05, 2021 06:00 - 11 minutes - 16.2 MBWe see the irreversible effects of insufficient scientific and political communication during the pandemic. We should not forget that all means, including those of communication in our lives, are outcomes- results- products of science and policies. Could we rebrand a Union and the future research leaders? Why does Greece choose its national public consultation to be technology-agnostic regarding hydrogen technologies? Stay tuned for the podcast episodes "We will always have Chaos" and "En...
The future of innovation and fostering young talents in STEM research
November 28, 2021 06:00 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBWhy should businesses invest in empowering young talents beyond their current structures and strategies? What is missing between research and innovation and entrepreneurship? How a researcher becomes an entrepreneur without previous business experience? Is it necessary for a researcher becoming an entrepreneur? Why synthesis research surpasses multidisciplinary research? and Inspiration as a constant motivation of a diversified professional path. With features opinions of Dr Chris Ky...
The future of research
November 21, 2021 06:00 - 10 minutes - 14.3 MBThe void of the pandemic as our transition from an old world to a new one gives us unique opportunities: a holistic review of our perception and lenses of the past, enriching the perceptions that make us now and define our future, uncloak the freedom of talent, skills and cutting edge innovation, mobilise talented individuals and visionaries, versatile and independent small islands of innovation, and a new model of smart research. Music: "Fortitude" by Lance Conrad Source: Storyblock...
Cross-cultural affairs in global politics and geopolitics
November 14, 2021 06:00 - 44 minutes - 61.7 MBDr George Tassiopoulos, Political Scientist & Cross-Cultural Consultant, is an empirical and theoretical expert in French and European politics, including Greek politics and geopolitics, founder of a business consultancy with academic experience at the European Business School in Paris. We discuss under the prism of cross-cultural affairs: · the French political scene and foreign affairs including in the Eastern Mediterranean and leadership to strengthen the European Union security collabo...
Future geostrategic leadership through hybrid alliances- a transition?
November 07, 2021 06:00 - 48 minutes - 66.6 MBDr Marios Efthymiopoulos (Dean of the College of Security and Global Studies, AUE), CEO of Strategy International and I discuss: · the role of hybrid alliances and their effects on established ones, as well as on the EU, · the decisive parameters in forecasting the future of hybrid alliances, · the Republic of Cyprus security resilience, · the ultimate changes in leadership and decision making in the 21st century, · actors and technologies of global security, and, · the interaction of ...
Building tomorrow's healthcare and funding future leaders
October 31, 2021 06:00 - 52 minutes - 48.7 MBDr Chris Kyriakidis is co-founder of gMendel, which provides the diagnosis of genetic disorders for better disease management. Chris has over 25 years of experience in general management and business development in more than 70 countries on all continents by running a multimillions international business; a founder of two biosciences start-up companies, a social enterprise and a foundation. We talk about: · catalytic innovation giving solutions to social problems, · rebranding companies a...
Greeks in Africa- The torch and the beacon series
October 24, 2021 05:00 - 35 minutes - 49.4 MBDr Antonis Chaldeos (PhD in History, University of Johannesburg) is an independent researcher and currently affiliated with the University of Johannesburg as a Research Associate. Antonis studied and published his research on the Greek presence in the horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia), Zambia, Tanzania, South Africa, Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Burundi and Ruanda, as well as the effects of the French and British colonialism and post-colonialism to the Greek populations in th...
The digital cosmos and the integration innovation
October 17, 2021 05:00 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBProfessor Kyriakos Kouveliotis (Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Berlin School of Business and Innovation) is a multifaceted expert and my guest in this episode. Professor Kouveliotis contributes in seemingly divergent areas: European integration, international relations, diplomacy, decision and policy-making, conflict resolution and crisis management, new curricula, programs syllabi and building new global educational networks and partnerships. We discuss: The Global degree as a great ...
The power of negotiations- Special episode
October 10, 2021 10:21 - 42 minutes - 57.7 MBIn this special episode, my guests are Orestis Omran (DLA Piper partner at the Brussels Office), Maria Andrielou (Head of Marketing and Corporate Communications at Plankton First S.A., Head of Marketing and Communication as Advisor to the Danish gMendel) and Dr Vassilis Inglezakis (Reader in Chemical Engineering, Research Director at the University of Strathclyde). We talk about · keeping your goals through several rounds of negotiations, · the importance of communication, · keeping cons...
Challenges in bridging scientific research and businesses
October 03, 2021 05:00 - 20 minutes - 28.6 MBInnovation is publically seen through the eyes of businesses. Research is crucial to the creation of ideas, products and services. Engineering and scientific research are the pillars of our current and future lives. We now emphasize the synergies or the synthesis of innovation through researchers, research institutes and their spin-offs, and funding research programmes experts. Featured opinions: Dr Maria Kitsara (Lead Research Manager, BioG3D – New 3D), Dr Emmanuel Stratakis (Research D...
The past defines us: The end of philosophy and the beginning of the middle ages- The Byzantines
September 26, 2021 05:00 - 43 minutes - 60 MBMarios Koutsoukos, a fiction author and PhD candidate in History of Religions in the Late Antiquity at the University of Liverpool, discusses the links of #populism with popular opinion and #governance in the late Roman early Byzantine Empire. Does popular demand and aggression dictate governance or vice versa? Do politicians follow the crowd to maintain unity or coherence within a society, and then in the distant future, we see in history political decisions as corrupt by the governance? ...
Nurturing future entrepreneurship
September 12, 2021 05:00 - 35 minutes - 49 MBMarina Hatsopoulos, an entrepreneur in technologies, a director and author of articles, essays, and stories (windystreet.com), discusses: · if more funding for startups in an ecosystem equates success, · the initial, critical decisions a startup needs to make, · the importance of having a diverse team, · why pivoting is the right word in times of crisis, · the gap in the academia between fundamental research funding and venture funding, · where startups can find funding before getting ...
Connecting the dots in science and engineering
August 29, 2021 14:06 - 16 minutes - 23 MBIn this episode, I share my thoughts with you on the contributions to various current and future topics personalities have and affect the influences we have, how we translate such impact our professional and personal life, what matters to us today, how these contributions could better inform our future and lead to the future world. Don't forget to subscribe and review the Global Greek Influence podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Anchor, the podcast's Facebook and Twitt...
Wind energy challenges: from Greece to Kenya
August 15, 2021 05:00 - 43 minutes - 40.5 MBDr Ioannis Tsipouridis (PhD, University of Leeds), a chemical engineer in renewables since 1978 and I discuss his wind energy journey from Greece to Kenya through his roles as: C.E.O. of P.P.C. Renewables (100% subsidiary of P.P.C.) from 2010 to 2013, president of the board of directors of the Hellenic Wind Energy Association (2013- 2017), the owner and General Manager of REDPro Consultants - Renewable Energy Development Professionals (Greece) since 2014, since 2018 in Kenya as the Direct...
Bonus episode of “Beyond catalysis and into space exploration: the new chemical engineering”
August 01, 2021 08:25 - 18 minutes - 25.5 MBIn this special episode, Professor Konstantinos Giapis (Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, CalTech) talks about: · how experiments and proving the Eley–Rideal reaction mechanism theoretically describe large scale reaction mechanisms such as those on the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko for the production of molecular oxygen and methanol and · if glycine formation, another biomarker met on the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko could be pro...
Beyond catalysis and into space exploration: the new chemical engineering
July 25, 2021 05:00 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBIn this episode, Professor Konstantinos Giapis (Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, CalTech) discusses chemical engineering contributions to renewable energy, utilising CO2 to produce oxygen, cosmology by enriching astrophysics, through surfaces' dynamics studies: · plasma processing and · electrospinning hybrid nanomaterials. Global Greek Influence podcast releases episodes this summer every two Sundays. From September, we will resume...
Youth's future vision, inclusion and resilience
July 11, 2021 05:00 - 33 minutes - 31 MBProfessor Michalis Kontopodis, the Chair in Global Childhood and Youth Studies and the Director of the ICY: Inclusion, Childhood & Youth Research Centre at the University of Leeds, U.K., in his research and international collaborations addresses the key post-pandemic challenges in #education, namely #global #debt #digitalliteracy #inclusion #marginalisation. We discuss: - how digital literacy can overcome marginalisation, - why promoting digital literacy in education is critical, - how yo...
Populism inhibiting progress- Part 2
June 26, 2021 23:00 - 29 minutes - 40.2 MBIn the second part of the interview with Dr Vasileios Adamidis, Principal Lecturer in Law and the International Manager of the School of Law at Nottingham Trent University, you will listen to: - the challenges of collaboration among legal systems and laws development despite their divergence, - the future of democracy and the legal system - progress as a collective effort - how one could be prepared to spot populism, given the vast influence of social media on society. Summer episodes ...
Populism inhibiting progress- Part 1
June 20, 2021 05:00 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBIn this episode, Dr Vasileios Adamidis, Principal Lecturer in Law and the International Manager of the School of Law at Nottingham Trent University, is my guest. We discuss: the commonalities of populism across the aeons and as an inhibitor to achieving democracy, the role and impact of populism on the rule of recognition, the synergy and the antagonism between the will of people and the rule of law, how historical figures should be treated in today’s context as the psychology and persp...
Building towards the future medical nanobiotechnology and 3D printing
June 13, 2021 05:00 - 27 minutes - 38.1 MBIn this episode, Dr Maria Kitsara, Lead Research Manager on biomedical applications at BioG3D – New 3D printing technologies, and I discuss: utilising nanotechnology, micro-fabrication and microfluidics to advance tissue engineering and regenerative medicine for faster and more economical drug development through in-vitro diagnostics as well as for reducing the risk of drug withdrawal after reaching the market, the benefits of diverse working environments and background experts in developi...
Challenges to lead the future environment
June 06, 2021 09:45 - 9 minutes - 12.5 MBHumanity's most significant challenges in the next 30 years will be on the environment, water- food, energy, and health. How could technology, aka engineering and science research and innovation, support them? Should engineers and scientists lead research and innovation beyond geopolitics and businesses? How so? Music: "Reel" by Adrian Berenguer Source: Storyblocks --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/panagiota-pimenidou/message
Biomimicking physics in nanomaterials innovation
May 30, 2021 05:00 - 38 minutes - 53.2 MBIn this episode, I am with Dr Emmanuel Stratakis, Greece’s Ambassador to the European Innovation Council, the Research Director at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL) of the Foundation for Research and Technology—Hellas (FORTH), also, leader of the “Ultrafast Laser Micro- and Nano- processing” laboratory and founder and CEO of Biomimetic. We discuss: · What links #nano- #biomimetics with better #engineering solutions? · Graphene oxide place in the #renewables energy futu...
The internationalisation of the Pontic Greeks' genocide
May 23, 2021 05:00 - 46 minutes - 63.9 MBDr Kyriaki Sonidou (President and co-founder of the Pontian Society of the United Kingdom. President of the Hellenic Medical Society and the Vice- President of the Greek Society of professionals and scientists in the UK), Kleanthis Kriakidis (Policy Advisor – Negotiator – Public Relations Expert - Political Analyst), George Meneshian (the Middle East and Caucasus Studies. International affairs consultant. Research co-ordinator of the Centre for Russia, Eurasia and Southeastern Europe (Pantei...
The chemical engineering big- scale nanoworld and future business
May 16, 2021 05:00 - 34 minutes - 46.7 MBIn this episode, Dr Stephanos Nitodas, a chemical engineer, entrepreneur, now member of the Faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering (Stony Brook University, NY), and a specialist in nanomaterial hybrids (carbon nanotubes (CNTs), graphene, polymers) discusses: · vital aspects of carbon-based novel materials at the nanoscale and their hybridisation, · nanomaterials importance to the renewables ecosystem by providing superior properties to energy systems, · en...
Hydrogen and renewables regional hub in Greece?
May 09, 2021 06:00 - 12 minutes - 17.3 MBHaving a particular personal interest in hydrogen, I wondered how ready Greece is for the hydrogen and renewables future through the LinkedIn articles, Greece: 2050 Hydrogen and renewables roadmap opportunity, and the focused 4- parts, “Why the answer to the delignification of Western Macedonia (Greece) is hydrogen?”. Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, in the episode “The future and leadership of the hydrogen economy in Europe”, and Orestis Omran, in “Law, Energy and Connecting the Future- Part 1”, ta...
Combating climate change in an urban environment
May 02, 2021 06:00 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBMat Santamouris, the Anita Lawrence Professor of High-Performance Architecture at the University of New South Wales in Australia, is my guest this week. Professor Santamouris discusses combating urban climate change through the synergy of research and perceptions, science and politics: Enhancing communication of fragmented urban policies and activities between the different sectors. The measures to overcome energy poverty, a problem for developing and developed countries. The positive in...
The future of hydropower
April 25, 2021 05:00 - 42 minutes - 57.8 MBProfessor Michael Bernitsas, the Mortimer Cooley Chair of Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is Director of the Marine Renewable Energy Laboratory and Chief Technology Officer of a start-up engineering company, Vortex Hydro Energy. Professor Bernitsas and I discuss how the vortex-induced vibrations, mostly known for damaging structures, but less known as part of the mechanism of propulsion of schools of fish, can be utilised in a bladeless technology to produce hydropower...
Engineering future entrepreneurs and leaders
April 18, 2021 05:00 - 38 minutes - 52.6 MBDr Celia Hadjichristodoulou, a specialist in Entrepreneurship and Management of SMEs, both from a practical and an academic perspective, founder and general director of GrantXpert, discusses vital aspects of fostering entrepreneurship and leadership across education, innovation and businesses: Through the emphasis on sustainable practices and becoming more humane. How consultants and trainers could help businesses, organisations, and individuals identify the most appropriate funding scheme...
Strategy and policies of the emerging East Asia markets
April 11, 2021 16:46 - 52 minutes - 72.4 MBProfessor Andrew Delios of the Department of Strategy & Policy and the Vice-Dean of MSc Programs of the NUS Business School, National University of Singapore (NUS) discusses: the interaction of the society needs and government policies in East Asia as a result of culture affecting politics and consequently geopolitics, the synergy and direct investments of Japan to the first steps of the economic growth of China, the APEC dependence of the Belt and Road and TransPacific initiatives, the ...
The future of education and learning
April 04, 2021 05:00 - 6 minutes - 9.09 MBWhy are education and learning so important? Education is a lifelong experience defined by society's changes, the economy, science and politics. Education should remain current to foresee changes and shape humanity. Do we need futurists in education? How will the barriers of the established mechanisms that made education the sleeping giant be lifted? Coming guests announced at the end of the episode. Contact the Global Greek Influence through the podcast's website globalgreekinfluence.com...
Success: the future of the present
March 28, 2021 13:46 - 13 minutes - 18.2 MBFinding the courage to lead is through the human nature attached to specific thoughts and neural pathways. Success is all about changing our perspective, ourselves and part of our evolution to sustaining our continuation, remaining current, dreaming, hard work and having a vision. Featured opinions at the Global Greek Influence podcast: Orestis Omran (DLA Piper): Law, Energy and Connecting the Future- Part 2. Jorgo Chatzimarkakis (Hydrogen Europe): The future and leadership of the hydro...
The future and leadership of the hydrogen economy in Europe
March 21, 2021 07:00 - 42 minutes - 58.7 MBJorgo Chatzimarkakis, the permanent Secretary-General of Hydrogen Europe, who has also been an active German politician and ambassador-at-large for the Greek government, talks about: · Hydrogen becoming an enabler of other technologies. · 2x40 Gigawatts Green Hydrogen Initiative. · Europe’s advantage to lead the global hydrogen economy. · Overcoming the “electrification religion”. · Bringing together the industries and governments towards an integral hydrogen economy. · Engineering pol...
Energy meets Equality and building the Future
March 14, 2021 06:00 - 41 minutes - 57.4 MBDr Valentini Pappa, the Assistant Director for Education in the Texas A&M Energy Institute, leads Texas A&M on the Clean Energy Education and Empowerment Initiative. We discuss: · the synergistic strategies aimed at the water-energy nexus as part of the circular economy, · the effect of the pandemic on redesigning undergraduate studies, · the post-pandemic post-graduate studies, · the sex bias in research and post-graduate studies, · Equal opportunities, Equal Pay, Equal Leadership (3E...
Redefining our future
March 07, 2021 13:15 - 52 minutes - 71.9 MBDr Memnia Theodorou talks us through the lessons of her journey from dentistry through sailing to psychology and gives us a taste of how to live our lives. We also discuss: · the importance of mentorship and networking · the pandemic as a collective trauma · being “rich” as the people who surround us · why we don’t follow our dreams · the human nature attached to specific thoughts and neural pathways · overnight success · entrepreneurship and making smart decisions #internationalwom...
The big picture
February 28, 2021 07:00 - 5 minutes - 7.11 MBOver a year ago, I started the Global Greek Influence podcast. The podcast explores the fragmental notions glued together by my guests' personalities and the solo episodes, along with the guests’ synthesise what this podcast is about and what it represents. Why Aristotle brings together education, politics, history, technology, engineering, science and business through the Global Greeks? Amazing guests are coming, and a surprise that will connect us further will be revealed soon! Music: "F...
Constructive disruption at the Eastern Mediterranean
February 21, 2021 15:31 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBDr Spyros Plakoudas, Assistant Professor at Rabdan Academy in Abu Dhabi, and I discuss the constructive disruption Greece, Cyprus, the EU, and NATO could bring to the Eastern Mediterranean, where existing and new hydrocarbon resources that largely contribute to the global economy are at play and stake. Are global foreign affairs' players still playing in the field of the past century? Self-destructive EU foreign affairs with Turkey, Russia and China and their impact on EU integration. Why...
200 years (from the 1821 War of Independence of the Hellenes)
February 14, 2021 10:34 - 48 minutes - 67 MBMarios Koutsoukos discusses the roots of the War of Independence of the Hellenes marked in 1821, about individual antiquarians binging the national heritage of Greeks in an occupied by Ottomans land, the role of the Philhellenes and the Big Powers of those times, the impact of classicism and that of philhellenism of the 19th century to the post War of Independence Greece. Marios latest publication is translated in English from a Greek book about his Great- grandfather’s, Panagiotis Koutsouk...
200 years (from the 1821 of the War of Independence of the Hellenes)
February 14, 2021 10:34 - 48 minutes - 67 MBMarios Koutsoukos discusses the roots of the War of Independence of the Hellenes marked in 1821, about individual antiquarians binging the national heritage of Greeks in an occupied by Ottomans land, the role of the Philhellenes and the Big Powers of those times, the impact of classicism and that of philhellenism of the 19th century to the post War of Independence Greece. Marios latest publication is translated in English from a Greek book about his Great- grandfather’s, Panagiotis Koutsouk...
Entrepreneurship: from governments to international businesses through super-connectors
February 07, 2021 19:21 - 24 minutes - 34.2 MBEntrepreneurship is a multi-faceted aspect of the world today but not new to it. The terms and conditions under which entrepreneurship happens now, compared to the past, have only started to take structures and formats stemming from the governments, business and capital ventures. Is an entrepreneur born or made? What makes a great idea and a business plan of a startup to get to the stage of reaching out to venture capital firms? What does it take to turn scientific talent into entrepreneu...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data meet Agriculture and Climate Change
January 31, 2021 16:13 - 36 minutes - 50.4 MBIn this episode, Professor Ioannis Athanasiadis, Personal Chair of Artificial Intelligence & Data Science at Wageningen University (Netherlands). talks about: . how automation and machine learning help big data, · why Artificial Intelligence and Big Data alone can not bring more food and avert climate change but can help us make more informed decisions, · how farmers can benefit from Artificial Intelligence and how these products will look like, · Artificial Intelligence and Greek agricu...
Past and future perceptions of a sustainable technology
January 24, 2021 17:06 - 4 minutes - 6.64 MBHow ready are we to produce groundbreaking technology beyond the nature that surrounds us and what our planet offers? · Is our space exploration going to give us a better outlook on what is out there? · Are we missing out on some of the mechanisms of physics? · Are we doomed to fail as long as we are bombarded with technology that already surrounds us? · How easy is it to energy transition or shape future technology on a blank canvas? Music: "Fortitude" by Lance Conrad Source: Storyblo...
Law, Energy and Connecting the Future- Part 2
January 17, 2021 18:07 - 22 minutes - 30.3 MBIn the second part of this two parts' episode, Orestis Omran, Partner in the Brussels Office of DLA Piper and the Head of EU- Greek Practice, an expert in EU regulatory matters in the energy, banking and infrastructure sectors and co-founder of the initiatives Brain Gain and Consensus, joins me to discuss: · How reviewing the industry legislation with the direct involvement of the industry and launching market development programs can boost and sustain the energy economy in Greece. · Orest...
Law, Energy and Connecting the Future- Part 1
January 10, 2021 14:31 - 22 minutes - 30.8 MBIn the first part of this two parts' episode, Orestis Omran, Partner in the Brussels Office of DLA Piper and the Head of EU- Greek Practice, an expert in EU regulatory matters in the energy, banking and infrastructure sectors and co-founder of the initiatives Brain Gain and Consensus, discusses: · The current status of renewables in Greece · the oil and gas industries future in the EU, · the feasibility of the EU Green Deal to the eyes of the investors, · the delignification of the Weste...
The past defines us- the Romans and propaganda vs the Hellenes (Part 2)
January 03, 2021 16:58 - 31 minutes - 43.4 MBIn the second and last part of the episode “The past defines us”I am with Marios Koutsoukos, a PhD candidate in History of Religions in the Late Antiquity at the University of Liverpool. Marios talks briefly about how we perceive religion and faith. Is it in the same as our ancestors did? If Romans manipulated philosophy and history as we read it today. How Plotinus, a famous Roman philosopher marked the end of logos and the beginning of faith, as we understand today. What unique events ...
The past defines us- the Romans and propaganda vs the Hellenes (Part 1)
December 28, 2020 19:38 - 28 minutes - 39 MBIn this two parts episode, I am with Marios Koutsoukos, a PhD candidate in History of Religions in the Late Antiquity at the University of Liverpool (School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology). In the first part of this episode Marios and I discuss the crucial role of the Roman Empire where today’s misconceptions of reality, everyday life find their roots, Roman manipulation of the Greek (Hellenic) culture, how principles of the ancient Greek culture are used and applied today and were...
The torch and the beacon
December 20, 2020 19:40 - 8 minutes - 11.6 MBWhy an engineer is not defined only by technology, today? Why are we privileged now? Why is this the era of self-actualisation and not just of the 4th and soon to be, the 5th industrial revolution? Why are we both students and teachers in life? Music: "Fortitude" by Lance Conrad Source: Storyblocks --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/panagiota-pimenidou/message
Sustainable Energy, Innovation and Policy transcending Climate Change
December 13, 2020 18:55 - 20 minutes - 19.3 MBSustainability coupled with Climate change is a topic that transcends sectors of the economy, the society and continents. We might wonder what it should take to reach a sustainable environment and technologies in our everyday lives. What could bring together communicators, policymakers, politicians and academics to deliver a sustainable environment and technologies, benefiting the society and the economy? Featured opinions at the Global Greek Influence podcast episodes: Maria Andrielou (H...
Selling and Achilles' heel points of the Chinese strategic culture
December 06, 2020 18:36 - 15 minutes - 21.8 MBThis episode showcases some of the views of the Global Greek Influence guests based on their specialisation and what they see as key to China’s strategic plan globally. Featured opinions at the Global Greek Influence podcast: Themis Zanidis (political analyst, international affairs): “Strategic changes in global affairs- Culture and history in diplomacy” Dr John Nomikos (Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS)): “Academic- intelligence, national security and the coron...