Our blog posts are based on the research conducted by our talented teaching teams. They summarise the main points of their presentations during our research-based Action Learning sets.
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Our Mission
To connect learners, peers, and instructors to a world of global life skills via globalised language learning and practice.
2019 was our Diamond Anniversary, celebrating sixty years of innovation in foreign language education and multicultural awareness.
Global and Strategic Partnerships
An integral part of our programmes is cooperation with schools abroad; these can be curriculum or language schools, with which we establish exchanges within the framework of our ‘Cosmopolitan Competences-Citizens of the World ©’ programme. During 2019 and 2020, we collaborated with schools and educational experts in Korea, Russia, Nepal, India, Canada and Kenya.
In 2020 NIKOLOPOULEIO became a Certified Member of the Global Schools Programme and a signatory to the commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
In 2019, NIKOLOPOULEIO signed an MOU and became a Strategic Partner of the UNESCO Chair for Futures Literacy and an active member of their Transforming the Future platform.
Our Services
Classes in English, German, French, Spanish & Italian
NIKOLOPOULEIO offers modern, immersive language teaching for 5 European languages (English, French, German, Spanish and Italian), with an interactive, cosmopolitan orientation.
In addition to offering courses leading to language learning certifications- with an excellent track record for results, we aim to raise cultural awareness towards a globalized work and learning environment. Our priority is practicing languages in real world situations, giving our students the confidence to go on to study, work and live in countries where those languages are spoken, globally.
Our Services include:
English
University of Cambridge
University of Michigan
Learning Resource Network
Educational Testing Service
British Council; IDP; IELTS Australia and Cambridge Assessment English
French
Ministere de l’Education nationale; Sorbonne Université
German
Goethe Institut
Italian
Instituto Italiano di Cultura
Spanish
Instituto Cervantes
These extracurricular programmes aim to develop a wide range of life and employability skills for our students, through a series of activities and methodologies that make use of globalised languages
This programme aims to cultivate a natural feel for the English language as it is used in the contemporary globalised environment on a day-to-day basis. It is specifically designed to target the needs of adult learners.
A week-long programme focused on creative labs, cosmopolitan competences, project-based learning and innovative language teaching methods
Classes preparing students for the foreign language exam component as part of the requirements of the University entrance exams.
About Us
NIKOLOPOULEIO was founded in Larissa, Greece in 1959 by two cosmopolitan world travellers and language educators, Dionysios and Despina Nikolopoulou.
Their mission was to connect learners, peers, and instructors to a world of global life skills, as pioneers in interactive language learning and vocational education in Greece.
Today, NIKOLOPOULEIO is proud to have in its team a global community of experts, teachers, educators, advisors and entrepreneurs, excited about helping us create a unique learning experience in our schools.
Our Locations
A Central (‘A Kentriko’):
Our iconic first school is located at 29 Lambrou Katsoni Street.
29 Lambrou Katsoni Street, 41223, Larissa, Greece
(+30) 2410285355
B Central (‘B Kentriko’):
Our second school is located at the intersection of Koumoundourou and Tagmatarchou Velissariou streets
18 Tagmatarchou Velissariou -Koumoundourou Street, 41222, Larissa, Greece
(+30) 2410535732
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