Speech given on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Swiss School of Archeology in Greece (ESAG)

09.05.2025

Adress given on 09 May 2025 by Ambassador Stefan Estermann on the occasion of the Annual Open Meeting of the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece (ESAG). 

 

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Speech given by Ambassador Stefan Estermann during the Swiss Residence Side-Event of the Panathenea 2025

08.05.2025

On Thursday, 8 May, a side-event to the first edition of the Panathenea Festival for Innovation took place at the Swiss Residence. Lars Rasmussen, a mentor to the festival, angel investor and co-founder of Google Maps - with its well-known roots in Switzerland - was the main speaker of  the event.

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Video Message on the occasion of the Screening of the Documentary "Tamaro. Pietre e angeli. Mario Botta Enzo Cucchi"

27.11.2024

On the occasion of the Settimana della Lingua Italiana Nel Mondo, the documentary film Tamaro. Pietre e Angeli. Mario Botta, Enzo Cucchi by Villi Hermann was screened in the auditorium of the Faculty of Architecture of the Athens Polytechnic Institute, filled with students and teachers. Ambassador Stefan Estermann, who could not attend the event in person, sent a video message recorded prior to the event.

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Vernissage of the Retrospective Exhibition «Shut your Eyes and See» by the Greek-Swiss Artist Nakis Panayotidis

26.11.2024

Adress given by Ambassador Stefan Estermann on the occasion of the vernissage of the Retrospective Exhibition «Shut your Eyes and See», by the Greek-Swiss Artist Nakis Panayotidis at  Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Athens.

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Speech given at the EHL Alumni Event in Athens

10.10.2024

Ambassador Stefan Estermann gave the speech below at the annual reunion of the Greek alumni chapter of the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL),  the world’s leading hospitality management school, on October 10, 2024, in Glyphada, Athens.

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Speech given at the Soirée Suisse 2024

13.06.2024

Speech given by Ambassador Stefan Estermann at the Soirée Suisse 2024, the anticipated Swiss National Day, at the Swiss Residence in Chalandri, Athens, on June 13, 2024.

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Speech given at the Press Conference and Project Presentation of The Olympic Cypher

04.04.2024

Speech given by Ambassador Stefan Estermann during the presentation of The Olympic Cypher project, a series of dance performances by Ilias Chatzigeorgiou, to celebrate break, the new Olympic discipline at the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games (JOP 2024), organised by the French Institute in Greece and Flux Laboratory, on Thursday 4 April at 12h00 at 5 Palaiologou Benizelou str. 105 56 - the future location of the Embassy of Switzerland in Athens.

 

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Speech on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Olympos

04.08.2023

Speech given by Ambassador Stefan Estermann on the occasion of the celebration of the first ascent of Mount Olympos by Swiss photographer Frédéric Boissonas, Swiss art historian Daniel Baud-Bovy and their Greek guide Christos Kakalos. 

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Speech Soirée Suisse, celebrating the Swiss National Day 2023

15.06.2023

Speech given by Stefan Estermann on the occasion of the early celebration of the Swiss National Day, traditionally August 1, on June 15, 2023, at his Residence.

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Speech given on the occasion of the Annual Open Meeting of the Swiss School of Archeology in Greece (ESAG)

24.03.2023

Speech given by Ambassador Stefan Estermann on the occasion of the Annual Open Meeting of the Swiss School of Archeology in Greece (ESAG), taking place at the Cotsen Hall, Athens, on Friday, 24 March 2023.

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Speech at the National Emergency Response Mechanism Conference (NERM) in Athens

07.03.2023

Speech given by Ambassador Stefan Estermann at the conference “National Emergency Response Mechanism for the protection of unaccompanied children in precarious living conditions (NERM): from needs assessment to response”, at the Ministry of Digital Governance, Athens, on Tuesday, March 7, 2023.