Seminar-based Programs

Every year, CHS Greece organizes and/or co-organizes with other Harvard units a number of seminar-based programs in Greece.

Harvard Summer School's Summer Program in Greece is one of the oldest and most successful study abroad programs of the University, running continuously since 2002, whereas the highly innovative High School Summer Program, started in 2012 and since 2017 is co-organized with Harvard’s Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, and supported by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, since 2019 and 2024 respectively.

In 2024, the first-ever "Sport and Education Program: from Ancient Olympia to the Present" took place, organized by CHS Greece and US, the International Olympic Academy, and the Region of Western Greece, in cooperation with the University of Patras and the Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sport at the University of Texas at Austin and with the support of the AEGEAS Non-Profit Civil Company. The 2024 Sport and Education Program is the successor initiative of the multiyear International Scholars' Symposium on "Sports, Society, and Culture" co-organized by Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC, and in Greece, and the International Olympic Academy between 2012-2023.

From 2022 to 2024, CHS Greece supported another seminar-based program in Greece, the Summer Course on Migration and Refugee Studies, a joint initiative of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and the Refugee and Migration Studies Hub at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). As Harvard's local-global office, CHS Greece will once again join forces with Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights for the new program “Global Community Organizing and Advocacy for Climate and Health (Global COACH) Scholars,” set to take place in 2026.