On 22 October 2025, the School of Architecture of the Technical University of Crete, with the support of the Embassy of China and the Center for Language Education and Cooperation of China, successfully hosted the thematic exhibition “City and Countryside.”
Approached from an architectural perspective, the exhibition highlighted the timeless heritage of ancient Chinese construction traditions as…
Congratulations to Maria Razou, a student at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, for winning a scholarship for summer language courses from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
Maria Razou attended intensive courses in German language and engineering terminology at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover in the summer of 2025 with a scholarship for summer…
Congratulations KYRIAKI-LYDIA CHATZOPOULOU（李德华) from this year’s Chinese 4 class, who has been selected by the Chinese Embassy to go to China to attend the Global Finals of the 24th Chinese Bridge Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students* as an observer in August 2025. The Technical University of Crete is one of only two universities in Greece to receive the honour of having a selected…
Our Chinese language teacher Ms. Zhu Shiheng through the Chinese Embassy in Greece, Chinese Universities and a Publishing House in China has procured a generous Donation of Chinese Textbooks.
We would like to thank the following people for their help:
Ms. Wang Ying, Education Specialist of Chinese Embassy in Greece who facilitated contact with the Chinese University-Beijing Language and…
Our visiting Chinese language teacher, Ms. Shiheng Zhu, today presented a gift to our Rector, Michael Zervakis and our Vice-Rector of Academic Affairs, Lifelong Learning and Outreach, Fotios Kanellos. The 12-metre scroll, seen here, is a copy of the painting “A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains” by Wang Ximeng (1096-1119), which is currently displayed in the Palace Museum, Beijing, China.
On Wednesday 11.20.2024 the first of the «English Talks Series» for the Academic Year 2024-2025 took place at the Language Centre, by Dr. Maria Papadomanolaki, under the topic "Acoustic Commons".
On Thursday 17 and Friday 18 October, an Open Chinese Language Course was held at the Language Center by the instructor Ms. Shiheng Zhu with the aim of informing interested undergraduate students about the Chinese language course. Ms. Zhu spoke both on issues related to the language such as symbols and pronunciation as well as on issues related to Chinese culture.
Mrs Wenjia Zhang introduced the tea culture and tradition in the Chinese class. Students enjoyed the full leaves of traditional Chinese tea and learned the tea ceremony. Tea culture is called ChaDao or the art of drinking tea in China. It has held great cultural significance in China for over a thousand years.
In continuation of the musical events (TUC Open Mic) organized by the Language Center since 2018 as well as many other activities (see here), during the academic year 2022-2023, the Language Center had the pleasure of hosting and supporting a music group, which was formed after an open call to the Polytechnic community on the initiative of Ms McKay. During this time, the music group (choir and…
