The Onassis Foundation undertakes the relocation of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology services

Having got the messages of the new era early on, the Onassis Foundation supports innovation, science and cutting-edge technology, through its actions in the fields of education, culture and health. We invest in the exchange of expertise, digital education and sustainable development, we promote educational workshops at schools about the ways in which technology can be our ally in addressing climate change, while we participate in a dynamic dialogue forum about art and science, from Athens to Los Angeles and from London to Beirut. At the Onassis National Transplant Center, which is currently under construction, and the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, innovation is at the service of medicine, aiming at the creation of an integrated “digital hospital”.

The Onassis Foundation, for over 40 years, has been supporting the best of Greece, through an integrated scholarships program, releasing the potential of Greek society, assisting the institutions of Greek Studies abroad, as well as investing in synergies and human networks. The relocation of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology services to the main building of the Equestrian Olympic Complex in Goudi is yet another initiative of this kind, in which technological innovation meets the increasing needs of Greek society, with regard to the standards of the new digital age.

According to the President of the Onassis Foundation, Anthony S. Papadimitriou, “For the Onassis Foundation, the relocation of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology services to the main building of the Equestrian Olympic Complex in Goudi is an important initiative that aims at creating the ‘House of Technology’ in Greece. After the invitation of Deputy Minister for Research and Technology, Mr. Christos Dimas, we are undertaking the planning as well as the implementation of the project. We are supporting the new General Secretariat in its effort to transform into a cell of digital development, a catalyst of excellence and extroversion. The future of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology coincides with the present and future of the principles of the Onassis Foundation. Looking towards 2021, we believe that our objective is to envision how we want our country to be in ten, twenty or a hundred years from now. Because, even at the highest level of technological development, man is still the measure of all things.”

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis added that, “It is of high significance that an absolutely crucial state structure, the General Secretariat for Research and Technology, in a time that the country is about to transition to the new digital age, secures a permanent home in a building with very special characteristics, which will become, from what I’ve seen, a real ornament. And I am also happy, because I saw that a hall will be named after Alexander Onassis, which has great symbolic value. So, we are thanking the Foundation for yet another important donation and we are anticipating the swift implementation of the project. After all, you are very experienced in such projects, so that we will be able to have the inauguration and the relocation of the General Secretariat staff to their new home within 2021.”

With the contribution of the Onassis Foundation, the new site will provide the appropriate structure for research and technology to find their digital, open and interconnected ‘house’ in 21st-century Greece. Looking towards 2021, we believe that our objective is to envision how we want our country to be in ten, twenty or a hundred years from now.