Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos”, gate 9, VIP lounge: a private meeting between Pope Francis and the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Nikos Dendias, has just been completed, in the presence of their two interpreters alone. The brief farewell ceremony for Pope Francis is in progress. A few minutes later, an Aegean Airlines plane…
Podium also provided interpreting services from Greek into English and the reverse, as well as audiovisual equipment for the proceedings and actions of the #MeRA25 political party. Specifically, we were at the 1st MeRA25 Congress and the party’s press conference for “The Athens Declaration for a New Non-Aligned Movement”, with Yanis Varoufakis, Jeremy Corbyn and…
Podium provided interpreting services at the press conference held by the World Human Forum, ARTE and the “Megaron” Athens Concert Hall as part of the formal announcement of the ALPHA MISSION – DELOS international initiative. This new, international cross-sectoral initiative, based in Greece, combines mythology with art, technology and space and aims to raise awareness…
We were at the 1st Real Estate Forum 2022, put on as part of the only Real Estate trade show in Greece – the 2nd Premium Real Estate Expo, by RM International (known for the successful staging of EXPOTROF: The Greek Fine Food Exhibition). The panels included speakers from all over Greece and from abroad,…
We at Podium had the pleasure of travelling to Crete, where the Municipality of Platanias and the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Systems Lab of the Technical University of Crete’s School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering welcomed the partners of the European project “SUMP-PLUS: Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning: Pathways and Links to Urban Systems”. As part…
What do the television studios in Liosia, the OSE (Hellenic Railways Organisation) Railway Museum in Piraeus, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and luxury hotels in Chalkidiki and the southern suburbs of Attica all have in common? What “invisible” thread binds Ms Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice President of the European Commission, Mr Margaritis Schinas, Vice-President of the…
It was our pleasure to provide interpreting services at the 8th Travel Trade Athens event. The City of Athens’ landmark event, implemented by the Athens Development and Destination Management Agency (EATA) in collaboration with the European Tour Operators Association (ETOA), hosted more than 160 representatives of major companies from the Greek and foreign tourism industry,…
At Athens City Hall, we provided interpreting services from Greek into English and the reverse as part of the event on “The Restoration of the Holy Canopy of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem”. In the photo: Antonia Moropoulou, professor at the National Technical University of Athens and the project’s scientific officer, with Kouneli Maria, Managing…
At Podium we experienced firsthand the return of the Francophone Film Festival, screening at cinemas both in Athens and in Thessaloniki. During the Festival, held for the first time after a two-year hiatus, we provided interpreting services, conveying, through very interesting debates, the artistic view of exceptionally talented auteurs who have made french-speaking movies. C’était…
The mission and purpose of live events (conferences, meetings, seminars, etc.) has always been to allow the participants to exchange views and opinions; perhaps the most important element, however, was that participants had the opportunity to experience these unique events in person. Interpersonal contact is, after all, irreplaceable by definition. Given the global pandemic that…