The HSK Excellence Grant Award, introduced and funded by the Athens Business Confucius Institute, is in recognition of the individuals who earned the highest scores (100% success rate in HSK 1 and HSK 2 and above 90% success rate in HSK 3, 4, 5 and 6) of all the candidates who wrote the exam and equals to the cost of the HSK examination fees paid at registration.

In particular, the HSK participants who achieve the following overall scores will be awarded with a Gift Voucher which enables them to claim a tuition fee deduction at the time of the registration in the next academic year-long Chinese language courses:

The Confucius Institute of Athens announces the names of the winners of the annual Excellence Scholarships 2021-2022, sponsored by the Institute, to support, encourage, and praise the learners’ efforts to learn and to promote and support Chinese language learning in Greece.

The full-tuition scholarship recipients are:

Elisavet Kopalidou, Charalampia Agi, Sofia Trousa, Rayane-Vasiliki Taprantzi, Panagiota Doufexi, Eleni Katalagarianou and Matthaios Kapetanios

The Full Annual Tuition Waiver Scholarships cover the full tuition fees on any Chinese language learning course at the Business Confucius Institute of Athens for the 2022-2023 academic year. Under the Scholarship Rules, a scholarship for outstanding academic achievement is awarded to students who achieved excellent academic results in the current academic year of study. The scholarship for outstanding academic achievement is awarded in each programme of study to 10% of students who have the best academic results. The number of students representing the 10% is rounded up to the nearest integer.

In recent years, the exchanges between China and Greece have been increasing, and Chinese language teaching in Greece as a field thus has also flourished. In order to gain an in-depth understanding of the current situation and development opportunities of Chinese language teaching in Greece, to enhance communication among Chinese language teachers in Greece, to enhance local teachers’ teaching ability and broaden their academic horizon, Athens Business Confucius Institute at the AUEB plans to hold the "Chinese Language Teaching in Greece Conference " on June 26, 2022.

The seminar will invite Associate Professor Yan Hongwei, Director of the Confucius Institute for Business in Athens; Associate Professor Roula Tsokalidou Director of the Confucius Institute at Aristotle University, Professor Wang Xiaohong, Director of the Confucius Institute at Thessaly University along with other leaders and educators in the field of international Chinese teaching in Greece to conduct in-depth discussions on the current situation and to exchange experiences. At the same time, the conference will also introduce the CTCSOL exam and preparation guideline, which is believed to be of great help to the front-line teachers to further improve their teaching ability and knowledge in Chinese teaching education!