On the occasion of 10th Anniversary of Confucius Institute Celebration
Day of Business Confucius Institute in Athens
September 27, 2014, Athens

Dear all BCI friends,

We 're happy to inform you that On the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of Confucius Institute Celebration, and in order to help everybody warm up for the new semester of Chinese language learning and make acquainted with more friends, we are going to hold an event as follows:

Venue: First Floor, No. 46, Kefallinias Street.

Time: Saturday, 27th, September, from 12.00 till 15.00

Activities: Focusing on Chinese culture elements such as experiencing Chinese Calligraphy, Art of Paper Cut, Tasting Chinese cuisines and Chinese Tea, Chinese books exhibition, art and handcrafts exhibition and so on!

We believe you will get a lot of better knowledge about Chinese culture. You, your family and your friends are all welcome to join us!

Look forward to meeting with you!

Business Confucius Institute
Athens University of Business and Economics, Greece

Business Confucius Institute of Athens(BCI) held the cultural lecture of “Chinese Traditional Music and Chinese Folk Musical Instruments” on May 31th, 2014. We invited Eley Yuan and Kevin Miao to be our guest lecturers. About traditional instruments in China, we introduced wind instruments, plucked strings instruments, bowed strings instruments, percussion instruments. Through talking about the classification and the evolvement of the traditional instrument, participants knew more about background of the music development in ancient China. During the introduction, the lecturers played a few very famous traditional Chinese music of Dong Xiao (a kind flute) and Gu Zheng. The attendants also had the chance to try playing and it was a feast both to the eyes and to the ears.

Business Confucius Institute in Athens/AUEB has jointly organized with IOBE the 3rd Hellenic Chinese Business Partnering Business Conference 2014 on April 28 at Evgenides Foundation with great success.

Giannis Stounaras, Minister of Finance of Greece, Zou Xiaoli, Chinese Ambassador to Greece and groups of Chinese business delegation and Chinese governmental officials showed a great deal of support and attended this event. The rector of AUEB Prof. Gatsios Konstantinos and vice president, Prof. Liu Ya from UIBE, representing two collaborating universities, had given very instructive and informative speeches on current economic and financial situation in Greece and China. Both people have conducted very fruitful discussion in their speeches and in the afternoon a signing ceremony between Greek Chinese Trade and Culture Association and one Greek company Group was held under the audience eyewitnesses. A B2B meeting was organized in the wake of the conference and BCI teachers and some students participated in the event and served as assistants and interpreters for the conference during the day.