Dr Evangelos Kyriakidis, Senior Lecturer in Classical & Archaeological Studies, has been interviewed by the Italian website Controversosud, run by the Associazione di Promozione Sociale (Association of Social Promotions), a non-profit collective to promote social change.

Evangelos, who is the Director of the MA in Heritage Management at Kent’s Athens location, argues that education and research are the solution to the Greek financial crisis. ‘We don’t understand that to invest in education, especially in those fields that relate to economics, is crucial to foster change and can even give very short-term results’ he argues in the interview.

Evangelos also argues that Athens needs to promote its heritage, ‘not only for the immense cultural heritage that the city has to offer, but also to show solidarity to the country… I think that it is our duty to protect not only the stones but everything that these stones stand for, popularise the values of cultural heritage, tell them to our fellow citizens and to our children. To make the stones live again in the people’s imagination is very positive.’

To read the full article, in Italian, please see the Controversosud website.