Onassis Foundation Scholarships Call for the academic year 2025–26

From 1978 until today, the Onassis Foundation has placed its faith in the grand dreams of 7,808 people through its Scholarship Program. With the support of the Onassis Foundation, which celebrates its fifty years of operation in 2025, thousands of young scientists and researchers have managed to surpass the obstacles they faced and provide groundbreaking work in their respective fields. From physics to medicine and from engineering to energy, the Onassis Foundation has invested in the knowledge, innovation, and creativity that shape the future. Supporting their work not only frames the lives of scholars but also positively impacts society by countering global challenges with concrete solutions.

Some people didn’t believe you could overcome darkness or harness the elements of nature by the sheer power of your mind or anticipate the future with your thinking alone. Ingrained in each grand dream and idea is a slight pinch of doubt. The Onassis Foundation enters the picture to shatter this doubt by believing in and supporting the vision of thousands of scholars who work systematically towards a better society.

The protagonists of the campaign are scholars who surpassed themselves. Through perseverance and effort, they made the impossible feasible across a marathon of research and studies. Because, after all, every achievement, every discovery, is not a singular ‘eureka!’ moment but a distillation of collective effort through time. Charalampos Antoniades changed the lives of thousands of people by discovering a pioneering heart-attack prediction method. Dimitra Pouli cast her gaze beyond the limits of knowledge to suggest a new skin cancer diagnostic method. Kostas Nikolopoulos shed light in the darkness and discovered, together with his group, the Higgs particle. Themis Sapsis developed an algorithm to predict natural calamities protecting thousands of people and properties from disastrous floods. Anna-Maria Kypraiou animated a more sustainable world through her research on energy saving.

For further information on the Scholarship Program, the relevant terms, and supporting documents, please refer to the Scholarship Call, the Frequently Asked Questions, and the Scholarship Regulation or contact the Scholarship Department through e-mail at scholarship.applications@onassis.org or via phone: (+30) 2103713054, –055, and –057.