OTE – COSMOTE Scholarships Awarded to young people from the Greek Region

This year’s 15 scholarship recipients who are coming from the prefectures of Beotia, the Dodecanese, Elia, Karditsa, Kastoria, Keffalonia, Lasithi, Messinia, Xanthi, Pella, Pieria, Trikala, Florina, Phocis, and Chios, were each awarded the amount of EUR 15,280*. Furthermore, 27 honorary distinctions worth EUR 1,518* each were awarded by COSMOTE to applicants from the same regions who distinguished themselves for their curricular and extracurricular performance.

The long-established event which this year was conducted in a particularly festive atmosphere due to the ten-year anniversary of the programme, took place at the OTE Headquarters in Marousi, in the presence of the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of OTE Mr Michael Tsamaz and the Special Secretary for Primary and Secondary Education Mr Michalis Kontogiannis.

Addressing the audience at the event, Mr Tsamaz, stated among others: “During this difficult period we need to retain our optimism and the hope for a better future for our children, the young people in Greece. It is our responsibility to provide for them schooling and education. To this end, OTE Group further expands its support and strengthens its Scholarship Programme this year.” Addressing the young Scholars and on the point of personal responsibility, Mr Tsamaz said: “You must cherish responsibility. Do not indulge yourselves when things come your way easily. Do not fear difficulty. Your course from now on must be the best answer to all those who doubt us.”

“To be able to offer to a person close to you is very important, but to a certain degree natural. But to be able to offer and care about people that you do not know is of particular importance”, said Panayiota Salla Iliopoulos, current student of Athens Law School, who was awarded by COSMOTE in 2007.

Except for the monetary award, Scholarship and Distinction Recipients for 2011-2012 were also awarded a free Conn-x connection, mobile phones with COSMOTE Cost Control Plans free of monthly fees as well as netbooks.

Ever since the Scholarship programme was established in 2002, 106 scholarships and 231 Honorary Distinctions have been awarded in total, worth more than EUR 1.6 million, and have already covered Greek regions twice.

This initiative that is part of the Corporate Responsibility programmes of OTE and COSMOTE contributes towards creating a better future for young people also in accordance with the OTE Group’s policy for decentralised corporate responsibility programmes.

*The total gross value of each Scholarship amounts to twenty thousand Euros (EUR 20,000). The net value following subtraction of the corresponding tax and stamp duty amounts to fifteen thousand two hundred eighty-five Euros (EUR 15,280). This amount will be disbursed to every scholarship recipient in two (2) equal installments.
*The total gross value of each Honorary Distinction amounts to two thousand Euros (EUR 2,000). The net value following subtraction of the corresponding tax and stamp duty amounts to one thousand five hundred twenty-eight Euros (EUR 1,528). This amount will be disbursed in a lump sum payment.

ΟΤΕ-COSMOTE Scholarship Recipients for the academic year 2011-2012 are the following:

1. Maria Ioanna Tzini – Department of Beotia
2. Petranta Kotorou – Department of the Dodecanese
3. Dionysios Diamantopoulos – Department of Elia
4. Kyriaki Kaminioti – Department of Karditsa
5. Georgios Zeibekakis – Department of Kastoria
6. Stefanos Stouraitis – Department of Keffalonia
7. Foteinos Gaitanakis – Department of Lasithi
8. Panayiotis Eystathios Papadopoulos – Department of Messinia
9. Konstantina Kaffe – Department of Xanthi
10. Maria Ioanna Tsipa – Department of Pella
11. Eleftherios Chatzichidiroglou – Department of Pieria
12. Areti Chachami – Department of Trikala
13. Christos Kastanias – Department of Florina
14. Anna-Lisa Skariba – Department of Phocis
15. Ourania Tsirli – Department of Chios

COSMOTE Distinctions for the academic year 2011-2012 have been awarded to the following:

1. Eleni Gastouniotou – Department of Beotia
2. Marietta-Eleni Kolokytha – Department of the Dodecanese
3. Eleni Zogogianni – Department of Elia
4. Sotirios Koukios Panopoulos – Department of Elia
5. Foteini Tasouli – Department of Elia
6. Nikolaos Lolis – Department of Karditsa
7. Konstantinos Tsekouras – Department of Karditsa
8. Evaggelia Moschidou – Department of Kastoria
9. Stavroula Beropouli – Department of Kastoria
10. Maria Dortsi – Department of Kastoria
11. Vasiliki Garbi – Department of Keffalonia
12. Theodora Moschou – Department of Lasithi
13. Michael Pytharoulis – Department of Lasithi
14. Ioanna Mitropoulou – Department of Messinia
15. Christos Nektarios Vogiatzis – Department of Xanthi
16. Symeon Xenidis – Department of Pella
17. Georgios Papadopoulos – Department of Pella
18. Athanasios Rodiftsis – Department of Pella
19. Chrysoula Kaza – Department of Pieria
20. Marianna Bakou – Department of Pieria
21. Christos Panayiotis Stragalis – Department of Trikala
22. Dimitrios Tzalas – Department of Trikala
23. Leandros Araviadis – Department of Florina
24. Georgios Lavasidis – Department of Florina
25. Milena Siranidou – Department of Florina
26. Dimitrios Stafanos Kazaglis – Department of Phocis
27. Panteleimonas Charitos Fragkakis – Department of Chios

For further information about the OTE-COSMOTE SCHOLARSHIP programme, please visit the website: www.ote-cosmote-scholarships.gr/.