WHO WE ARE

The Greek-Chinese Institute of Development, EKINA, was established on February 25, 2013, as a nonprofit association, aiming at cultivating, developing and spherically enhancing the relationships between Greece and China in various fields and activities.

The founding goal of EKINA is the acquaintance, meeting and understanding among people, companies, bodies and organizations, as well as the exchange of knowledge and experiences and the cooperation with each other at an entrepreneurial, cultural and scientific level.

The main goal of EKINA, as an institute of development, is to assist the existing bodies through its activities and move in parallel paths, as a fellow traveler towards a common effort.

Through the actions it develops, EKINA contributes to the exposure and promotion of the Greek culture as a whole to the Chinese people. Art, literature, commerce, entrepreneurship, scientific research are presented through various activities, by means of which the two nations are encouraged to communicate with each other.

The institute's ultimate goal is to identify the common meeting point shared by the two nations, the Greek and the Chinese one, to establish contact between them, to understand their diversity and to establish their well-developed cooperation for their joint benefit.