Sivitanideios School of Arts and Crafts

Sivitanideios School of Arts and Crafts is a public school in Athens, Greece. It is run jointly by the Ministry of Education (Greece) and the Greek Ministry of Labour's Manpower Employment Organisation of Greece (OAED).[1]

Front exterior of Sivitanideios School of Arts and Crafts in 2014

The school first opened in 1926, and works on the building began after 1921, with money donated to the Greek state by Vassilis Sivitanidis, a Greek Cypriot merchant living in Alexandria, Egypt.[2] It was meant to be a school comparable to France's École nationale supérieure d'arts et métiers (today called Arts et Métiers ParisTech), as its benefactor, Mr Sivitanidis, had stated in his will.[3]

References edit

  1. ^ Papakitsos, Evangelos C.; Theologis, Evangelos; Makrygiannis, Panagiotis S. (2019). "The Challenges of Work-Based Learning via Systemic Modelling in the European Union: The Potential Failure of Dual Education Due to Social Expectations in Greece". In Okolie, Ugochukwu Chinonso (ed.). Socio-Economic Perspectives on Vocational Skill Development: Emerging Research and Development. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. pp. 191–192.
  2. ^ Tomara-Sideris, Matoula (2003). "Egypsian Hellenism and Benefaction". Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora. 29 (1): 110.
  3. ^ Margolin, Victor (2017). World History of Design. 2. London: Bloomsbury. p. 196. ISBN 9781350012738.

37°57′38″N 23°41′47″E / 37.9606°N 23.6963°E / 37.9606; 23.6963