According to a recent report by The National Herald, the story told about the latest phase of the centuries-old Greek diaspora, in the wake of the country’s economic crisis, is one of “brain drain.”
Yet, in Canada, an intern from Greece puts the finishing touches on an animated video for Greek language learners in which Athena and Poseidon fight for control of the new city of Athens. Across the globe in Greece, a researcher from Canada will team up with colleagues to fight cancer through a collaborative international research program in molecular oncology.
For centuries, the Greek diaspora has sustained networks—formal and informal—of knowledge exchange, collaboration, and culture sharing. The narrative of the latest phase of that diaspora, in the wake of the severe and prolonged economic crisis that aggravated the country, has tended to focus on Greece’s brain drain, a one-way flow of skilled and educated Greeks pursuing opportunities abroad.
A suite of ongoing major grants by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) is working to flip the script on the brain drain, helping redirect the one-directional outward flow back into a mutually productive international exchange.
The Institute of International Education’s Greek Diaspora Fellowship Program gives scholars working in any discipline the opportunity to travel to Greece to collaborate with colleagues at universities around the country. Through the Rebooting, the Greek Language program, talented interns from Greece engage in creating innovative language-learning tools through Canada’s Simon Fraser University.
Read the full report at thenationalherald.com
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