Online Presentation | Panhellenic Student Competition “Wikipedia Challenge: Become A Contemporary Encyclopedist” | Adults

The 200-year anniversary of the Greek Revolution of 1821 and Wikipedia’s twentieth birthday are a double inspiration for the Panhellenic School Competition for Encyclopedia Entry Writing. The Competition is organized by Onassis Foundation and Onassis Library in the context of Protovoulia 1821-2021 and in collaboration with Open Technologies Alliance (GFOSS), PostScriptum, the General State Archives, supported by the National Documentation Centre and under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs.

Secondary-education students from various types of schools from Greece and abroad come into contact with the historical period of 1821 and the history of their country. In collaboration with a wide range of experts, they will write new entries or enrich existing ones about the Greek Revolution of 1821 in the Greek-language edition of Wikipedia. Participants can be students of secondary-education state schools (from gymnasiums and lyceums including vocational, church, evening, art, ecclesiastical, and special ones) as well as private ones. They will also include students from Greek schools abroad.

Through this process, students and the teachers leading the teams will familiarize themselves with the notion of contemporary encyclopedia as this has developed throughout the centuries. They will also benefit from collaborative writing, leaving their digital footprint and making use of important artifacts of our cultural heritage.

In this context, we would like to invite you to the online presentation of the Panhellenic Student Competition: “Wikipedia Challenge: Become a Contemporary Encyclopedist”.

To find out more about the Panhellenic Competition, register for the encyclopedia entry writing, and to prepare along with your team for victory, click here

Program

18:30-18:45 | Welcome

Professor Anastassios Emvalotis, Department of Primary Education of University of Ioannina, Member of the Administration Board of Institute of Educational Policy

Efi Tsiotsiou, Executive Director and Director of Education of the Onassis Foundation

Amalia Pappa, Deputy General Director of the General State Archives

Alexandros Melidis, General Director of Open Technologies Alliance (GFOSS)

Georgia Aggelaki, Europeana projects Coordinator at the National Documentation Centre and member of Europeana’s Advisory Board

18:45-18:55 | Contemporary Issues and Trends in Education: The Value of Open Access Content

Dr. Prodromos Tsiavos, Head of Digital and Innovation, Onassis Foundation

18:55-19.05 | The Value of Open Content Accessible to All

Professor Chariton Polatoglou, Department of Physics, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Coordinator of the work group Open Design, Open Hardware, and Open Wifi – Open Technologies Alliance (GFOSS)

19:05-19:15 | Digital footprint & documentation, establishing active communities around cultural organizations in Wikipedia

Kostas Konstantinidis, CEO of PostScriptum

19:15-19:25 | The Culture and Values of Wikipedia

Manos Kefalas, President and Founder of the Wikipedia Society Schools Association in Greece

19:25-19:35 | Mapping Wikipedia on the Topic of the Greek Revolution of 1821

Aris Katopodis, Historian-Researcher

19:35-19:45 | The Challenge of the Panhellenic Student Competition: “Become a Contemporary Encyclopedist!”

Vicky Gerontopoulou, Onassis Library Coordinator

19:45-20:00 | Discussion / Q & A

Information

Τ. 210 3713000

E-mail: education@onassis.org

The competition is realized by Onassis Foundation and Onassis Library in the context of the Protovoulia 1821–2021, in collaboration with the General State Archives, Open Technologies Alliance, PostScriptum and Wikipedia Community Schools Association, Greece, with the support of National Documentation Centre (EKT), with the approval of Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs and under the auspices of General Secretariat for Greeks Abroad and Public Diplomacy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Collaboration Partners

National Historical Museum, Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, Gennadius Library, The Library of the Hellenic Parliament, National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, National Bank of Greece Historical Archive, Benaki Museum, V & M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music, Faltaits Museum