The award ceremony for the 2018-2019 Student Painting Competition was held with great success and with the participation of dozens of students from schools across the country, at the NJV Athens Plaza hotel, on Monday, 22 April 2019.

The competition, organised for the fourth consecutive year by the Marianna V. Vardinoyannis Foundation in cooperation with the Children’s Gallery of Greece, was dedicated this year to Human Rights and the 70th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Universal Proclamation on Human Rights, which was celebrated throughout the world in 2018.

A resounding message on the need to protect our cultural heritage was sent during the event for the Greek World Heritage Monuments organised by the Marianna V. Vardinoyannis Foundation and attended by His Excellency the President of the Hellenic Republic, Mr Prokopios Pavlopoulos, on Wednesday 17 April 2019, in the Amphitheatre of the Acropolis Museum.

In the context of the event, which was organised on the occasion of the World Day of Monuments and Sites, the Marianna V. Vardinoyannis Foundation presented a publication on the 18 Greek monuments included in the UNESCO World Heritage list.